Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith | |
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Born | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | November 16, 1907
Died | September 9, 1997 (aged 89) Malibu, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Amherst College |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1929–1997 |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouses |
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Children | 2 |
Military career | |
Allegiance | World War II Victory Medal |
Acting President of the Actors' Equity Association | |
In office 1937–1938 | |
Preceded by | Frank Gillmore |
Succeeded by | Arthur Byron |
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997)[1][2] was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed radio, theater, film, and television.
Active for more than six decades, Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor" and "one of the most accomplished actors of the century".[3][4][1] A lifetime member of the Actors Studio,[5][6] he won several Emmys,[7] was the first male actor to win the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, and was nominated for two Academy Awards.[7]
Meredith established himself as a leading man in Hollywood with critically acclaimed performances as Mio Romagna in Winterset (1936), George Milton in Of Mice and Men (1939), and Ernie Pyle in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945).
Meredith was known later in his career for his appearances on
"Although those performances renewed his popularity," observed Mel Gussow in The New York Times (referring to the Penguin and Mickey Goldmill roles), "they represented only a small part of a richly varied career in which he played many of the more demanding roles in classical and contemporary theater—in plays by Shakespeare, O'Neill, Beckett and others."[1]
Early life
Meredith was born in 1907 in
Career
Theatre
In 1929, he became a member of
He garnered critical acclaim in the 1935 Broadway revival of The Barretts of Wimpole Street starring Katharine Cornell.[citation needed] She subsequently cast him in several of her later productions. Other Broadway roles included Van van Dorn in High Tor (1937), Liliom in Liliom (1940), Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World (1946), and Adolphus Cusins in Major Barbara (1956). He created the role of Erie Smith in the English-language premiere of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie at the Theater Royal in Bath, England in 1963. He played Hamlet in avant garde theatrical and radio productions of the play.[14]
A distinguished theatre director, he earned a
Film
Early in his career, Meredith attracted favorable attention, especially for playing George in a 1939 adaptation of
Meredith was a favorite of director
Meredith played an old Korean War veteran Captain J. G. Williams in The Last Chase (1981) with Lee Majors.[25] He appeared in Ray Harryhausen's last stop-motion feature Clash of the Titans (also 1981) in a supporting role.[26] Meredith appeared in Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)[27] and was the voice of Golobulus in G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987). In his last years, he played Jack Lemmon's character's sex-crazed 95-year-old father in Grumpy Old Men (1993) and its sequel, Grumpier Old Men (1995).[19]
Meredith directed the movie The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) starring Charles Laughton, which was produced by Irving Allen. Meredith also was billed in a supporting role in this film.[28] In 1970, he directed (as well as co-wrote and played a supporting role in) The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go, an espionage caper starring James Mason and Jeff Bridges.[29]
Television
Meredith appeared in four different starring roles in the anthology TV series The Twilight Zone, tying him with Jack Klugman for the most appearances on the show in a starring role.[30]
In his first appearance in 1959, "Time Enough at Last", he portrayed a henpecked bookworm who finds himself the sole survivor of an unspecified apocalypse which leads him to contemplate suicide until he discovers the ruins of the library.[31] In 1961's "Mr. Dingle, the Strong", Meredith played the title character, a timid weakling who receives superhuman strength from an extraterrestrial experiment in human nature.[32] Also that year in "The Obsolete Man", Meredith portrayed a librarian sentenced to death in a dystopic totalitarian society.[33] Lastly, in 1963's "Printer's Devil", Meredith portrayed the Devil himself.[34] He later played two additional roles in Rod Serling's other anthology series, Night Gallery.[35] Meredith was the narrator for Twilight Zone: The Movie in 1983.[36]
Meredith appeared in various western series, such as Rawhide (four times), The Virginian (twice), Wagon Train, Branded, The Wild Wild West, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Laredo, Bonanza, and Daniel Boone. In 1963, he appeared as Vincent Marion in a five-part episode of the last season of the Warner Bros. ABC detective series 77 Sunset Strip.[19] He appeared three times in Burke's Law (1963–1964), starring Gene Barry.
Meredith was also well known for his portrayal of
From 1972 to 1973, Meredith played V. C. R. Cameron, director of Probe Control, in the television movie/pilot ).
Meredith won an
In 1992, Meredith narrated The Chaplin Puzzle, a television documentary that provides a rare insight into
Military service
In 1942, Meredith enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, reaching the rank of captain.[39] After transferring to the Office of War Information, he made training and education films for the U.S. armed forces.
In 1943 he performed in the USAAF's recruiting short
Other work
Meredith also performed
He supplied the narration for the 1974–75 ABC Saturday morning series
He acted in the Kenny G music video of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", which was released in 1994. He played the main character, a projectionist at a movie theater.[47]
His last role before his death was the portrayal of both the Hamilton Wofford and Covington Wofford characters in the 1996 video game
Personal life
Meredith was married four times. His first wife, Helen Derby Berrien Meredith—the daughter of American Cyanamid president Harry L. Derby—committed suicide in 1940, nearly five years after their divorce.[50] His next two wives, Margaret Perry and Paulette Goddard, were actresses; Goddard suffered a miscarriage in 1944. Meredith's last marriage, to Kaja Sundsten, lasted 46 years and produced two children, Jonathan (a musician) and Tala (a painter).[1]
Meredith was a lifelong Democrat and frequent donor to the party.[51] He wrote in his 1994 autobiography So Far, So Good that he had violent mood swings caused by cyclothymia, a form of bipolar disorder.[9]
On September 9, 1997, Meredith died at age 89 from complications of Alzheimer's disease and melanoma, and his remains were cremated.[2]
Awards and honors
Meredith was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, in 1976 for
Meredith won a Primetime Emmy Award for Supporting Actor in 1977 for Tail Gunner Joe,[52] and was nominated for the same award the next year for The Last Hurrah, a remake of the film starring Spencer Tracy.[53] He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films three times, in 1978, 1979, and 1982, and won the last two times, for Magic and Clash of the Titans.
In 1962, Meredith won a Best Supporting Actor award from the
Meredith received a Special Tony Award in 1960 for directing A Thurber Carnival.[55]
For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Meredith has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[56] For his onstage contributions, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[57]
A 21-acre (8.5 ha) park was named after him in Pomona, New York, and he provided the funding to incorporate the village.[58]
In 1977, he received an honorary doctorate degree from Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa.[59][60][61]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1935 | The Scoundrel | Flop House Bum | Uncredited |
1936 | Winterset | Mio Romagna | |
1937 | There Goes the Groom | Dick Matthews | |
1938 | Spring Madness | The Lippencott | |
1939 | Idiot's Delight | Quillery | |
1939 | Of Mice and Men | George Milton | |
1940 | Castle on the Hudson | Steven Rockford | |
1940 | Second Chorus | Hank Taylor | |
1940 | The San Francisco Docks | Johnny Barnes | |
1941 | That Uncertain Feeling | Alexander Sebastian | |
1941 | Tom, Dick and Harry | Harry | |
1941 | The Forgotten Village | Narrator | Voice |
1942 | Street of Chance | Frank Thompson / Danny Nearing | |
1943 | A Welcome to Britain | Himself | Army Service Forces training film, 1943; uncredited |
1943 | The Rear Gunner | Pvt. L.A. Pee Wee Williams | |
1944 | Our Country | Himself | |
1944 | Hymn of the Nations | Narrator | Voice, uncredited |
1944 | Salute to France | the American soldier | |
1944 | Tunisian Victory | American soldier | Voice |
1944 | Attack! Battle of New Britain
|
Narrator | Voice |
1945 | The Story of G.I. Joe | Ernie Pyle | |
1945 | A Walk in the Sun | Narrator | Voice, uncredited |
1946 | The Diary of a Chambermaid | Captain Mauger | |
1946 | Magnificent Doll | James Madison | |
1947 | Mine Own Executioner | Felix Milne | |
1948 | On Our Merry Way | Oliver M Pease | |
1949 | Jigsaw | Jack / Bartender | Uncredited |
1949 | A Yank Comes Back | Unknown role | Also writer |
1949 | Golden Arrow | Dick | |
1949 | The Man on the Eiffel Tower | Joseph Heurtin | |
1950 | Works of Calder | Narrator | Voice |
1954 | Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Invisible Man | Himself | |
1957 | Joe Butterfly | Joe Butterfly | |
1957 | Albert Schweitzer | Narrator | Voice |
1958 | The Kidnappers | Louis Halliburton | |
1958 | Sorcerer's Village | Narrator | Voice |
1959 | America Pauses for Springtime | Himself | |
1959 | America Pauses for the Merry Month of May | Himself | |
1962 | Advise and Consent
|
Herbert Gelman | |
1963 | The Cardinal | Father Ned Halley | |
1965 | In Harm's Way | Commander Egan Powell | |
1966 | Madame X | Dan Sullivan | |
1966 | Batman | Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin | |
1966 | The Crazy Quilt | Narrator | Voice |
1966 | A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Doc Scully | As Burgess Meridith |
1967 | Torture Garden | Dr. Diablo | |
1967 | Hurry Sundown | Judge Purcell | Framework Story |
1968 | Stay Away, Joe | Charlie Lightcloud | |
1968 | Skidoo | The Warden | |
1968 | Dear Mr. Gable | Narrator | Voice |
1968 | Debrief: Apollo 8 | Narrator | Voice |
1969 | The Father | Captain Ned | |
1969 | Mackenna's Gold | The Store Keeper | |
1969 | Hard Contract | Ramsey Williams | |
1969 | The Reivers | Lucious / Narrator | Voice |
1970 | There Was a Crooked Man... | The Missouri Kid | |
1970 | The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go | The Dolphin | Also director |
1971 | Clay Pigeon | Freedom Lovelace | |
1971 | Such Good Friends | Kalman | |
1972 | A Fan's Notes | Mr. Blue | |
1972 | Beware! The Blob | Old Hobo | Uncredited |
1972 | Mineral King | Narrator | Voice |
1972 | The Man | Senator Watson | |
1974 | Hay que matar a B. | Hector | |
1974 | Golden Needles | Winters | |
1975 | The Day of the Locust | Harry Greener | |
1975 | 92 in the Shade | Goldsboro | |
1975 | The Master Gunfighter | Narrator | Voice |
1975 | The Hindenburg | Emilio Pajetta | |
1976 | Circasia | Clown | |
1976 | Burnt Offerings | Arnold Allardyce | |
1976 | Rocky | Mickey Goldmill | |
1977 | The Sentinel | Charles Chazen | |
1977 | Golden Rendezvous | Van Heurden | |
1978 | The Manitou | Dr. Snow | |
1978 | Foul Play | Mr. Hennessey | |
1978 | The Great Bank Hoax | Jack Stutz | |
1978 | Magic | Ben Greene | |
1979 | Rocky II | Mickey Goldmill | |
1980 | When Time Ran Out | Rene Valdez | |
1980 | Final Assignment | Zak | |
1981 | The Last Chase | Captain J.G. Williams | |
1981 | Clash of the Titans | Ammon | |
1981 | True Confessions | Msgr. Seamus Fargo | |
1982 | Rocky III | Mickey Goldmill | |
1983 | Twilight Zone: The Movie | Narrator | Voice, uncredited |
1984 | Wet Gold | Sampson | Made for TV |
1985 | Santa Claus: The Movie | Ancient Elf | |
1985 | Rocky IV | Mickey Goldmill | Archival footage, uncredited |
1987 | G.I. Joe: The Movie | Golobulus
|
Voice |
1987 | King Lear | Don Learo | Uncredited |
1988 | Hot to Trot | Don's Dad | Voice, uncredited |
1988 | Full Moon in Blue Water | The General | |
1990 | Oddball Hall | Ingersol | |
1990 | State of Grace | Finn | |
1990 | Rocky V | Mickey Goldmill | Flashback (new footage) |
1993 | Grumpy Old Men | Grandpa Gustafson | |
1994 | Camp Nowhere | Fein | |
1995 | Tall Tale | Old Man | Uncredited |
1995 | Across the Moon | Barney | |
1995 | Grumpier Old Men | Grandpa Gustafson | Last role |
2006 | Rocky Balboa | Mickey Goldmill | Archival footage, uncredited |
2020 | 40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic | Mickey Goldmill | Archival footage |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1950 | Texaco Star Theatre
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Himself | 1 episode |
1950 | Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | Himself | 1 episode |
1950 | Your Show of Shows | Himself | 2 episodes |
1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents | Himself/Frank Hugo | Episode: "Ride the Pink Horse" |
1952 | The Name's the Same | Himself | 1 episode |
1952 | Tales of Tomorrow | Paul | Episode: "The Great Silence" |
1953–1954 | Excursion | Himself | 3 episodes |
1956 | What's My Line
|
Himself | 1 episode |
1955–1958 | The Big Story
|
Narrator (voice) | 38 episodes |
1958 | The Ben Hecht Show | Himself | 1 episode |
1959 | The Jack Paar Tonight Show
|
Himself | 1 episode |
1959 | The Arthur Murray Party | Himself | 2 episodes |
1959–1963 | The Twilight Zone | Henry Bemis, Luther Dingle, Romney Wordsworth, Mr. Smith | 4 episodes |
1961 | The Play of the Week | Vladimir | Episode: "Waiting for Godot" |
1961 | Rawhide | Tom Gwynn | S4:E9, "The Little Fishes" |
1962 | Naked City | Duncan Kleist | Episode: "Hold for Gloria Christmas" |
1963 | Rawhide | Matthew Higgins | S6:E5, "Incident at Paradise" |
1964 | Rawhide | Hannibal H. Plew | S6:26, "Incident at Deadhorse: Part I" |
1964 | Rawhide | Hannibal H. Plew | S6:27, "Incident at Deadhorse: Part II" |
1964 | Wagon Train | Grover Allen | Episode: "The Grover Allen Story" |
1965 | Mr. Novak | Principal Martin Woodridge | 15 episodes |
1965 | Laredo | Grubby Sully | Episode: "Lazyfoot, Where Are You?" |
1965 | The Loner | Siedry | Episode: "Hunt the Man Down" |
1965 | The Wild Wild West | Orkney Cadwallader | Episode: "The Night of the Human Trigger" |
1965 | The Trials of O'Brien | Judge Benjamin Vincent | Episode: "No Justice for the Judge" |
1966–1968 | Batman | Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin | 21 episodes |
1966 | Twelve O'Clock High
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Radar Expert | Episode: "Back to the Drawing Board" |
1967 | The Invaders | Theodore Booth | Episode: "Wall of Crystal" |
1968–1971 | Ironside
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Harry Grenadine, Alfred Carney | 2 episodes |
1967 | Bonanza
|
Owney Duggan | Episode: "Six Black Horses" |
1968 | The Monkees | The Penguin | Uncredited Episode: "Monkees Blow Their Minds" |
1968 | The Virginian | Tim Bradbury | 2 episodes |
1969 | Daniel Boone | Alex Hemming | Episode: "Three Score and Ten" |
1970–1972 | Night Gallery | Charlie Finnegan, Dr. William Fall | 2 episodes |
1971 | The Bill Cosby Special, or? | Himself | Television special |
1971 | The Bold Ones: The Senator | George P. Mallon | Episode: "Power Play" |
1971 | Room 222 | Morris Henry | Episode: "KWWH" |
1971 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
|
Henry Meade | 2 episodes |
1972 | Mannix | Noah Otway | Episode: "The Crimson Halo" |
1972 | McCloud | Marvin Sloan | Episode: "A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley" |
1972–1973 | Search | V. C. R. Cameron | 23 episodes |
1974–1975 | Korg: 70,000 B.C. | Narrator (voice) | 19 episodes |
1976 | Dinah! | Himself | 1 episode |
1976 | The 48th Annual Academy Awards
|
Himself | |
1977 | SST: Death Flight | Willy Basset | Television film |
1977 | Tail Gunner Joe | Joseph N. Welch | Television film |
1977 | The 49th Annual Academy Awards
|
Himself | |
1978 | The Return of Captain Nemo | Prof. Waldo Cunningham | Television film |
1978–1979, 1982 | Puff the Magic Dragon
|
Puff (voice) | Television special |
1980–1981 | Those Amazing Animals
|
Himself/co-host | 2 episodes |
1982–1983 | Gloria | Dr. Adams, Gloria Bunker Stivic's boss | 22 episodes |
1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Mr. Mortimer Mole (voice) | Episode: " Thumbelina "
|
1991 | Night of the Hunter | Birdy | Television film |
1992 | Lincoln
|
Winfield Scott (voice) | Television film |
1993 | In the Heat of the Night | Judge Cully | 3 episodes |
1994 | The Great Battles of the Civil War | Gettysburg Star, Banner Columnist (voices) | Television series documentary |
Video games
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1996 | Ripper | Hamilton Wofford, Covington Wooford |
Theatre
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1930 | Romeo and Juliet | Peter | [62] |
1930 | The Green Cockatoo | Grain | [62] |
1930 | Siegfried | Olderly | [62] |
1931 | People on the Hill | Packy Davis | [62] |
1932 | Liliom | Young Hollunder | [62] |
1932 | Alice in Wonderland
|
Duck, Dormouse, Tweedledee | [62] |
1933 | The Threepenny Opera | Cook-Finger Jack | [62] |
1933 | Little Ol' Boy | Red Barry | [62] |
1933 | She Loves Me Not | Buzz Jones | [62] |
1934 | Hipper's Holiday | Jim Hipper | [62] |
1935 | Battieship Gertie | Seaman Jones | [62] |
1935 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Octavius Moulton-Barrett | [62] |
1935 | Flowers of the Forest | Leonard Dobie | [62] |
1935 | Winterset | Milo | [62] |
1936 | High Tor | Van Van Dorn | [62] |
1937 | The Star-Wagon | Stephen Minch | [62] |
1940 | Liliom | Liliom | [62] |
1946 | The Playboy of the Western World | Christy Mahon | [62] |
1950 | Happy as Larry
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Larry | [62] |
1951 | The Little Blue Light | Gandersheim | [62] |
1951 | The Fourposter | Michael | [62] |
1953 | The Teahouse of the August Moon | Sakini | [62] |
1953 | The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker | Pa Pennypacker | [62] |
1956 | Major Barbra | Adolphus Cusins | [62] |
1961 | Kicks and Co. | Mr. Kicks | [62] |
1964 | I Was Dancing | Performer | [62] |
1967 | Of Love Remembered | Performer | [62] |
1974 | Ulysses in Nighttown | Performer | [62] |
Radio appearances
Program | Episode | Date | Notes |
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Philip Morris Playhouse | Night Must Fall | October 24, 1941 | Maureen O'Sullivan co-starred.[63] |
Philip Morris Playhouse | My Favorite Wife | October 31, 1941 | Madeleine Carroll co-starred[64] |
Philip Morris Playhouse | You Only Live Once | November 28, 1941 | [65] |
Cavalcade of America | Rain Fakers | December 30, 1946 | [66] |
Theatre Guild on the Air | The Sea Wolf |
April 27, 1952 | [67] |
Theatre Guild on the Air | Black Chiffon | May 10, 1953 | [68] |
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Aside from the original Robert Lewis group and those who came in with Mann and Meisner and were asked to remain, such individuals as Roscoe Lee Browne, Dane Clark, Tamra Daykarhanova, Rita Gam, Burgess Meredith, Sidney Poitier, Paula Strasberg, Anna Mizrahi Strasberg, and Franchot Tone have been voted directly into membership by the Studio's directorate or by Strasberg himself. In the early sixties, several actors who performed with The Actors Studio Theatre were similarly admitted
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External links
- Burgess Meredith at IMDb
- Burgess Meredith at the TCM Movie Database
- Burgess Meredith at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Burgess Meredith discography at Discogs
- Burgess Meredith as the Penguin
- Burgess Meredith Park
- Photos of Burgess Meredith in Story of G.I. Joe, 1944 (Archived February 16, 2017, at the Wayback Machine) by Ned Scott