Burgess Meredith

Burgess Meredith

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Birthday: 
16 November 1907, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birth Name: 
Oliver Burgess Meredith
Height: 
166 cm
One of the truly great and gifted performers of the century who often suffered lesser roles, Burgess Meredith was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1907 and educated in Amherst College in Massachusetts before joining Eva Le Gallienne's stage company in New York City in 1933. He became a favorite of dramatist Maxwell Anderson, premiering on film in th... Show more »
One of the truly great and gifted performers of the century who often suffered lesser roles, Burgess Meredith was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1907 and educated in Amherst College in Massachusetts before joining Eva Le Gallienne's stage company in New York City in 1933. He became a favorite of dramatist Maxwell Anderson, premiering on film in the playwright's Winterset (1936). Meredith served in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II, reaching the rank of captain. He continued in a variety of dramatic and comedic roles until being named an unfriendly witness by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the early 1950s, whereupon studio work disappeared. His career picked up again, especially with television roles, in the 1960s, although younger audiences know him best for either the Rocky (1976) or Grumpy Old Men (1993) films. Meredith also did a large amount of commercial work, serving as the voice for Skippy Peanut Butter and United Air Lines, among others. He was also an ardent environmentalist who believed pollution one of the greatest tragedies of the time, and an opponent of the Vietnam War. Burgess Meredith died at age 89 of Alzheimer's disease and melanoma in his home in Malibu, California on September 9, 1997. Show less «

Burgess Meredith's FILMOGRAPHY

40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic

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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

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Rocky Balboa

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Grumpier Old Men

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Tall Tale

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Camp Nowhere

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In the Heat of the Night - Season 7

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Grumpy Old Men

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In the Heat of the Night - Season 6

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In the Heat of the Night - Season 5

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In the Heat of the Night - Season 4

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State of Grace

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Rocky V

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In the Heat of the Night - Season 3

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Batmania from Comics to Screen

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In the Heat of the Night - Season 1

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In the Heat of the Night - Season 2

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Hot to Trot

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G.I. Joe: The Movie

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Santa Claus The Making of the Movie

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Rocky IV

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Santa Claus

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Faerie Tale Theatre - Season 3

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Burgess Meredith'S roles

Grandpa Gustafson
Grandpa Gustafson
Mickey Goldmill
Mickey Goldmill
Fein
Fein
Ammon
Ammon
Penguin
Penguin
Henry Bemis
Henry Bemis