Burgess Meredith played in 28 and created 1 movies in the Crime, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Music, Documentary, War, Action, Adventure, Family, Western, Horror, Thriller, History, Mystery, Sport, Fantasy genres.
Burgess Meredith got succeed with average imdb rating 12.2.
From the beginning a newspaper reporter, Burgess Meredith came to the vet in 1936, repeating his stage role in Winterset, a part written for him by Maxwell Anderson. Meredith has had a desire and heterogeneous film life's work, playing the whole shooting match from George in Of Mice and Men (1939) to Sylvester Stallone)'s trainer in {#Staunch (1976). He received Oscar nominations recompense The Day of the Locust (1975) and Rocky.
As comfortable with comedy as with drama, Mer
... edith also appeared in Idiot's Fascinate enjoy (1939); Chorus (1940), with Fred Astaire; Date-book of a Chambermaid (1942), which he also wrote and produced; The Story of G.I. Joe (1945); and Extract Own Executioner (1947). He also directed Cuffs on the Eiffel Citadel (1949). On television, he made countless roomer appearances in dozens of dramatic and selection productions, including one of the first episodes of The Crepuscular Province, the touching Eventually Plenty at Pattern, and as host on the to begin episode of Your Show of Shows. He was a rhythmical on Mr. Novak (1963-64) and Search (1972-73), hosted Those Amazing Animals (1981), co-starred with Sally Struthers in Gloria (1982-83), and made classic appearances as the Penguin on Batman (1966-68). He won an Emmy in 1977 on account of Tailgunner Joe and has done voiceover work for the purpose innumerable commercials, shockingly Volkswagen.
Meredith made his finishing feature steam appearance playing crusty Grandpa Gustafson in Grumpier Familiar Men (1995), the sequel to Grumpy Old Men (1993) in which he also appeared. In 1996, he played a role in the CD-rom video plot Ripper. He was for a few moments married to Paulette Goddard in the 1940s. Meredith died in his Malibu home at the age of 88 on September 9, 1997.
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