Burgess Meredith

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-11-16 (90 years old)

Deathday

1997-09-09

Place of Birth

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Burgess Meredith

Biography

Oliver Burgess Meredith, or Burgess Meredith, was an American movie, television, stage, radio, voice actor, and director. He was known for his roles as The Penguin in the 1960s TV version of Batman, as Mickey Goldmill in Rocky, Rocky II and Rocky III, and as Grandpa Gustafson in Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men. He won two Saturn Awards (in 1978 and in 1981), Tony Awards, and many Emmy Awards.

Acting

1976

Rocky

as Mickey Goldmill

1979

Rocky II

as Mickey Goldmill

1982

Rocky III

as Mickey Goldmill

1990

Rocky V

as Mickey Goldmill

2019

1990

1988

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

as Prologue Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1978

The Amazing Captain Nemo

as Prof. Waldo Cunningham

1966

Batman

as The Penguin

1975

The Day of the Locust

as Harry Greener

1993

Grumpy Old Men

as Grandpa Gustafson

1949

Jigsaw

as Jack - Bartender (uncredited)

1981

True Confessions

as Msgr. Seamus Fargo

1940

Castle on the Hudson

as Steve Rockford

1968

Skidoo

as The Warden

1970

There Was a Crooked Man...

as The Missouri Kid

1978

Magic

as Ben Greene

1976

Burnt Offerings

as Arnold Allardyce

1978

The Manitou

as Dr. Snow

1981

The Last Chase

as Captain J.G. Williams

1985

1988

1967

Torture Garden

as Dr. Diabolo (Framing Story)

1942

Street of Chance

as Frank Thompson

1966

Madame X

as Dan Sullivan

1941

That Uncertain Feeling

as Alexander Sebastian

1939

Idiot's Delight

as Quillary

1978

Foul Play

as Mr. Hennessey

1965

In Harm's Way

as Commander Egan Powell

1946

1975

92 in the Shade

as Goldsboro

1949

1945

Story of G.I. Joe

as Ernie Pyle

1975

The Hindenburg

as Emilio Pajetta

1980

When Time Ran Out...

as Rene Valdez

1962

Advise & Consent

as Herbert Gelman

1977

Golden Rendezvous

as Van Heurden

1969

Hard Contract

as Ramsey Williams

1994

1984

Wet Gold

as Sampson

1969

Mackenna's Gold

as The Storekeeper

1977

The Sentinel

as Charles Chazen

1968

Stay Away, Joe

as Charlie Lightcloud

1988

King Lear

as Don Learo

1987

G.I. Joe: The Movie

as Golobulus (voice)

1939

1948

On Our Merry Way

as Oliver M. Pease

1947

Mine Own Executioner

as Felix Milne

1940

San Francisco Docks

as Johnny Barnes

1936

Winterset

as Mio Romagna

1943

The Rear Gunner

as Pvt. L.A. Pee Wee Williams

1978

The Great Bank Hoax

as Jack Stutz

1964

Fanfare for a Death Scene

as Prof. George Bannerman

1957

Albert Schweitzer

as Narrator (voice)

2006

Rocky Balboa

as Micky Goldmill (Archive Footage) (uncredited)

1974

Golden Needles

as Winters

1967

Hurry Sundown

as Judge Purcell

1971

1975

B. Must Die

as Hector

1972

Probe

as V.C.R. Cameron

2020

1972

The Man

as Senator Watson

1990

Oddball Hall

as Ingersol

1946

Magnificent Doll

as James Madison

1972

We the People

as Narrator

1972

The New Healers

as Dr. Simmons

1986

Outrage!

as Judge Aaron Klein

1937

There Goes the Groom

as Derek "Dick" Matthews

1957

Joe Butterfly

as Joe Butterfly

1944

Tunisian Victory

as American soldier (voice)

1978

The Living Sands of Namib

as Narrator (voice)

1977

SST: Death Flight

as Willy Basset

1977

Tail Gunner Joe

as Joseph Welch

1966

The Crazy-Quilt

as Narrator (voice)

1963

The Cardinal

as Father Halley

1995

Grumpier Old Men

as Grandpa Gustafson

2006

The Opponents

as Self (archive footage) / Mickey Goldmill

1969

1950

Works of Calder

as Narrator

1969

The Reivers

as Lucius / Narrator (voice)

1944

A Salute to France

as Joe - the American Soldier

1992

The Chaplin Puzzle

as Narrator (voice)

2023

Sly

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1985

Answers

as Chas Potter (Segment "The Constituent")

1938

Spring Madness

as The Lippencott

1992

Lincoln

as Winfield Scott (voice)

1941

1935

The Scoundrel

as Flop House Bum

1977

The Last Hurrah

as Cardinal Burke

1945

A Walk in the Sun

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

2024

Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1978

1941

Second Chorus

as Hank Taylor

1971

Clay Pigeon

as Freedom Lovelace

1944

1943

A Welcome to Britain

as Self (uncredited)

1985

Broken Rainbow

as Historical Voice (voice)

1949

1944

1975

The Master Gunfighter

as Narrator (voice)

1989

The Wickedest Witch

as Narrator (voice)

1984

Thumbelina

as Mr. Mole

1987

1972

Beware! The Blob

as Old Hobo

1994

1944

Hymn of the Nations

as Narrator(voice)

1992

Mastergate

as Wiley Slaughter

1961

Waiting for Godot

as Vladimir / Didi

1995

1958

1991

1971

Lock, Stock and Barrel

as Rev. Willie Pursle

1943

The United States Service Bands

as footage from 'The Rear Gunner' (uncredited)

1973

2006

Tribute To Burgess Meredith

as Self (archive footage)

1976

Circasia

as Clown

1969

The Father

as Captain Ned

1993

La Classe américaine

as The Helicopter Man (archive footage)

1958

The Kidnappers

as Louis Halliburton

1982

Puff the Magic Dragon: The Incredible Mr. Nobody

as Puff the Magic Dragon (voice)

1978

Puff, the Magic Dragon

as Puff (voice)

1979

1968

Dear Mr. Gable

as Narrator

1981

Mr. Griffin and Me

as Kenneth Griffin

1972

Getting Away from It All

as Capt. Frank Coffin

1988

Hot to Trot

as Don's Dad

1977

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

as John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald

1972

A Fan's Notes

as Mr. Blue

1952

Mr. Lincoln

as Avon Horsley Jr.

Production

1950

Works of Calder

as Producer

1948

1948

On Our Merry Way

as Producer

1944

A Salute to France

as Screenplay

1943

1976

Circasia

as Producer

-

Third Eye

as Director

-

Third Eye

as Writer

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