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The Twilight Zone. 1963. Naked City. 1962. Mister Corbett's Ghost. Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of Living Lies. Puff the Magic Dragon. Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody. The Rear Gunner.
Sep 11, 1997 · Burgess Meredith, who played a crusty old pug in “Rocky” and waddled with aristocratic elan as the Penguin on TV’s “Batman,” is dead at 89. The actor, who died on Tuesday at his home in ...
May 4, 2021 · 4. Burgess Meredith was highly respected among his acting peers. He received Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor for The Day of the Locust (1975) and Rocky (1976). He won an Emmy as attorney Joseph Welch in Tail Gunner Joe, a 1977 TV movie about Joseph McCarthy. (Interestingly, the real Joseph Welch played the judge in Anatomy of a Murder.)
Sep 11, 1997 · Dick Vosburgh. George Burgess Meredith, actor, director, writer, producer: born Cleveland, Ohio 16 November 1908; married 1932 Helen Derby (marriage dissolved 1935), 1936 Margaret Perry (marriage ...
Died Sept. 9, 1997 of Alzheimer's and melanoma in Malibu, CA. B urgess Meredith displayed his versatile acting skills in a series of always refreshing but generally eccentric roles that kept him before cameras or on stage for more than 70 years. Meredith, whose early credits included "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," found an entire new career late in ...
Burgess Meredith portrayed the Penguin in William Dozier's ABC television series, as well as the 1966 spinoff film. Meredith's portrayal of the Penguin tied with Cesar Romero's Joker as the most frequent appearance of a villain on the show, and was in fact so popular that the writers always had an episode script featuring the Penguin ready whenever Meredith was available. Meredith also ...
With the help of industry friend including Otto Preminger, Meredith came back to the screen with a vengeance appearing in more than eighty roles after the end of his working exile, most memorably perhaps as 'The Penguin' on the television series "Batman". In 1960, he received a special Tony Award for 'A Thurber Carnival'.
