Burgess Meredith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Burgess Meredith

American film and television actor

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1907

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1997

Profession: screenwriter, character actor, journalist, stage actor, film producer, theater director, director, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Burgess Meredith

  • Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American actor, director, producer, and writer.
  • Active for more than six decades, Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor" and "one of the most accomplished actors of the century".
  • A lifetime member of the Actors Studio by invitation, he won several Emmys, was the first male actor to win the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, and was nominated for two Academy Awards.He established himself as a leading man in Hollywood with critically acclaimed performances as George Milton in Of Mice and Men (1939), Ernie Pyle in The Story of G.I.
  • Joe (1945), and the narrator of A Walk in the Sun (1945). Meredith was known later in his career for his appearances on The Twilight Zone and for portraying arch-villain The Penguin on the 1960s TV series Batman and boxing trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky film series.
  • For his performances in The Day of the Locust (1975) and Rocky (1976), he received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
  • He later starred in the comedy Foul Play (1978) and the fantasy film Clash of the Titans (1981).
  • He narrated numerous films and documentaries during his long career, including Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)."Although those performances renewed his popularity," observed Mel Gussow in The New York Times, "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."

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