Burl Ives, the Academy Award-winning actor who performed the voice of the narrator Sam the Snowman, lived in Anacortes in Skagit County on Fidalgo Island from 1989 until he passed away in 1995 ...

For Burl Ives has been singing in America, and around the world, for nearly 80 years. It all began in the early 1900s in Illinois, where Ives lived as a boy.

FBI files: Burl Ives, who sang in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer cartoon, was quizzed about being a ‘red’ The folk singer and actor, who hailed from Illinois, was long a subject of interest ...