Person Details

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Aliases: Oliver Burgess Meredith

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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Movie Involvements: 107

TV Involvements: 30


Most Famous Work

Biography

Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997), known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director. Active for more than six decades, Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor" who was "one of the most accomplished actors of the century." Meredith won several Emmys and was nominated for Academy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Burgess Meredith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Most Famous Work

What's My Line?
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7

What's My Line?

(1950) Self - Panelist
The Invaders
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7

The Invaders

(1967) Theodore Booth
Robert Montgomery Presents
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4

Robert Montgomery Presents

(1950) Stage Manager
Daniel Boone
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7

Daniel Boone

(1964) Alex Hemming
Lux Video Theatre
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6

Lux Video Theatre

(1950) David
Rawhide
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7

Rawhide

(1959) Hannibal H. Plew
The Twilight Zone
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8

The Twilight Zone

(1959) Romney Wordsworth
Studio One
Average
4

Studio One

(1948) Gulley Jimson

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020 Self (archive footage)
2019 Henry Bemis (archive footage)
2006 Micky Goldmill (Archive Footage)
Self (archive footage) / Mickey Goldmill
N/A
Himself (archive footage)
1995 Grandpa Gustafson
Barney
Old Man (uncredited)
1994 Fein
1993 The Helicopter Man (archive footage)
Grandpa Gustafson
1992 Guest
Winfield Scott (voice)
Wiley Slaughter
Narrator
1991 Narrator (voice)
Birdy
1990 Mickey Goldmill
Finn
Ingersol
1989 Narrator (voice)
Prologue Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1988 The General
Don's Dad
Judge Cully
1987 Mad Tom
Don Learo (uncredited)
Golobulus (voice)
1986 Mr. Ben the Owl
Judge Aaron Klein
1985 Self
Ancient Elf
Self
Chas Potter (Segment "The Constituent")
1984 Sampson
Mr. Mole
1982 Dr. Willard Adams
Mr. Mole
Mickey Goldmill
Puff the Magic Dragon
1981 Msgr. Seamus Fargo
Ammon
Captain J.G. Williams
Kenneth Griffin
1980 Zak
Rene Valdez
1979 Puff the Magic Dragon
Mickey Goldmill
N/A
1978 Ben Greene
Jack Stutz
Puff
Mr. Hennessey
William Blackstone
Prof. Waldo Cunningham
Dr. Snow
Narrator (voice)
1977 Van Heurden
Cardinal Burke
Willy Basset
Joseph Welch
John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald
Charles Chazen
1976 Mickey Goldmill
Arnold Allardyce
Clown
1975 Emilio Pajetta
Narrator (voice)
Goldsboro
Hector
Harry Greener
1974 N/A
Winters
1973 Himself
1972 V.C.R. Cameron
Senator Watson
Mr. Blue
Old Hobo
Dr. Simmons
V.C.R. Cameron
Capt. Frank Coffin
Narrator
1971 Kalman
Henry Meade
N/A
Freedom Lovelace
1970 Charlie Finnegan
The Missouri Kid
The Dolphin
1969 Lucius / Narrator (voice)
Narrator
Harrison Merriweather
N/A
Ramsey Williams
Captain Ned
The Storekeeper
1968 The Warden
Charlie Lightcloud
Narrator
1967 Dr. Diabolo (Framing Story)
N/A
N/A
Judge Purcell
Theodore Booth
1966 Narrator (voice)
N/A
The Penguin
Doc Scully
Dan Sullivan
The Penguin
1965 N/A
N/A
Commander Egan Powell
N/A
1964 John Peter Altgeld
Alex Hemming
Dr. Michael Rink
Prof. George Bannerman
1963 Father Halley
N/A
Principal Martin Woodridge
Sidney Wilde
Burton Reese
Harold Harold
1962 N/A
Herbert Gelman
1961 N/A
Vladimir
1959 Henry Bemis
Mr. Smith
Luther Dingle
Romney Wordsworth
Owney Duggan
Tom Gwynn
Matthew Higgins
Hannibal H. Plew
1958 Duncan Kleist
Narrator
Louis Halliburton
1957 Narrator (voice)
Ramskill
Joe Butterfly
1953 Thomas A. Edison
Velvet Pants
1951 Sid Davis
Cardinal Burke
N/A
1950 Narrator
David
N/A
Self - Panelist
Self - Guest Host / Frank Hugo
Stage Manager
1949 Dick
Joseph Heurtin
N/A
Narrator
Jack - Bartender (uncredited)
1948 Narrator (voice)
Gulley Jimson
N/A
Oliver M. Pease
Self
1947 Felix Milne
1946 James Madison
N/A
Captain Mauger
1945 N/A
Ernie Pyle
1944 Narrator (voice)
American soldier (voice)
Narrator(voice)
Himself
Joe - the American Soldier
1943 Pvt. L.A. Pee Wee Williams
Self (uncredited)
footage from 'The Rear Gunner' (uncredited)
1942 Frank Thompson
1941 Harry
Alexander Sebastian
Hank Taylor
1940 Johnny Barnes
Steve Rockford
1939 George
Quillary
1938 The Lippencott
1937 Derek "Dick" Matthews
1936 Mio Romagna
1935 Flop House Bum
Year Character Movie/Tv

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