Known for:	Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, East of Eden
Birth name:	Burle Icle Ivanhoe Ives
Birthday:	14 June 1909, Hunt, Illinois, USA
Height:	6' 1" (1.85 m)

Frequent benefits for Indian reservations, peace academies, Boy Scouts, environmental groups, arts foundations, children's medicine Interred at Mound Cemetery, Jasper County, Illinois, USA. Burl Ives was the voice of Sam the Eagle, the narrator of the classic Disneyland attraction "American Sings" (1974-1988) in Tomorrowland. Was inducted into the DeMolay Hall of Fame on June 24th, 1994. Received the DeMolay Legion of Honor in 1986. Was initiated into DeMolay at the George N. Todd Chapter in Charleston Illinois, in 1927. He was a 33rd Degree Mason. Was a licensed amateur (ham) radio with the call sign KA6HVA. When he passed away, he became, in ham radio parlance, a "silent key." The Ren and Stimpy Show's first season episode "Stimpy's Invention" featured a record, "Happy Happy Joy Joy," which contained a variety of spoken-word segments meant to parody some of Ives' albums from the 1960s. When Ives saw the episode, he contacted Ren and Stimpy Show creator John K. and said that he would have been willing to do the voice over work for it.

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