Burgess Meredith
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in February 1938
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| Born |
Oliver Burgess Meredith November 16, 1907 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | September 9, 1997 (aged 89) Malibu, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Melanoma and Alzheimer's disease |
| Alma mater | Amherst College |
| Occupation | Actor, producer, director, writer |
| Years active | 1929–1996 |
| Spouse(s) |
Helen Derby (m. 1933; div. 1935) Margaret Perry (m. 1936; div. 1938) Paulette Goddard (m. 1944; div. 1949) Kaja Sundsten (m. 1950; his death 1997) |
| Children | 2 |
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American actor, director, producer, and writer in theater, film, and television. Active for more than six decades, Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor" and "one of the most accomplished actors of the century". A life 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), and Ernie Pyle in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), and the narrator of A Day in the Sun (1945).
Meredith was known later in his career for his appearances on The Twilight Zone, portraying arch-villain The Penguin on the 1960s TV series Batman, and boxing trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky film series. "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."
Meredith was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Ida Beth (née Burgess) and Dr. William George Meredith, a Canadian-born physician, of English descent.
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