Burgess Meredith
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 befor ...Show More
[on Otto Preminger]: I haven't done anything of importance with Preminger - I just go in with him be Show more
[on Otto Preminger]: I haven't done anything of importance with Preminger - I just go in with him because he's a friend of mine, and he astonishes me, always. I play cameo roles, which is always a mistake. He's an amazing man - a kind of Jekyll and Hyde. In his life, he's one of the most charming, articulate and kind, loving of men, and on the set he gets foam-flecked, you know? He doesn't bother me, he won't yell at - we'll say - Fonda or Wayne, but then I was never in his films for very long. Hide
I did Batman (1966) for two reasons, one of which was the salary. The other was that, after the firs Show more
I did Batman (1966) for two reasons, one of which was the salary. The other was that, after the first few episodes, Batman became the in-thing to do. Everybody... would either play a villain or appear as himself in that cameo showcase where a celebrity would poke his head through the window of a building that Batman and Robin were climbing. Actually, we didn't get as much money from the show as you might think, although we were paid decent money for the feature film version. The main impetus to continue appearing on Batman - beyond the desire to get some TV work - was that it was fashionable. Hide
[on his childhood] All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. Show more
[on his childhood] All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and fear. In those early years, I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from within myself whatever emotional resources I needed to go wherever I was headed. As a result, for years, I became a boy who lived almost totally within himself. Hide
I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.
I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.
I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.
I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.
Burgess Meredith's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (152)
Burgess Meredith'S roles
Grandpa Gustafson
Henry Bemis
Ammon
Penguin
Mickey Goldmill
Fein
