Burgess Meredith
| Burgess Meredith | |
|---|---|
 Meredith in a publicity photo (1954) | |
| Born | Oliver Burgess Meredith (1907-11-16)November 16, 1907 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | September 9, 1997(1997-09-09) (aged 89) Malibu, California, U.S. |
| 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) |
| Children | 2 |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United States of America |
| Service/branch |  United States Army Air Forces |
| Years of service | 1942–45 |
| Rank |  Captain[1] |
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907[2][3] – September 9, 1997)[4] was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. Active for more than six decades,[5] Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor"[2] and "one of the most accomplished actors of the century".[6] A life member of the Actors Studio[7] by invitation,[8] he won several Emmys,[9] was the first male actor to win the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, and was nominated for two Academy Awards.[9]
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).[10]
"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."[2]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Acting career
2.1 Theatre
2.2 Cinema
2.3 Television
3 Other work
4 Personal life and death
5 Awards and honors
6 Select filmography
6.1 Film
6.2 Television
7 Radio appearances
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Early life
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.[2][3][11] His mother came from a long line of Methodist revivalists, a religion to which he adhered throughout his lifetime.[2]
Meredith graduated from Hoosac School in 1926 and then attended Amherst College (class of 1931). He left Amherst, and became a reporter for the Stamford Advocate.[12] In 1942, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, reaching the rank of captain.[1] After transferring to the Office of War Information, he made training and education films for America's armed forces.
In 1943 he performed in the USAAF's recruiting short The Rear Gunner and the U.S. Army training film A Welcome to Britain for troops heading to the UK in preparation for the liberation of Europe.[13]
He was released from duty in 1944 to work on the movie The Story of G.I. Joe, in which he played the war correspondent Ernie Pyle.[14] He was discharged from the USAAF in 1945.[1]
Acting career
Theatre
In The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1951)
In 1929, he became a member of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre company in New York City. Although best known to the larger world audience for his film and television work, Meredith was an influential actor and director for the stage. He made his Broadway debut as Peter in Le Gallienne's production of Romeo and Juliet (1930) and became a star in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset (1935), which became his film debut the following year. His early life and theatre work were the subject of a New Yorker profile.[15]
He garnered critical acclaim in the 1935 Broadway revival of The Barretts of Wimpole Street starring Katharine Cornell. She subsequently cast him in several of her later productions. Other Broadway roles included Van van Dorn in High Tor (1937), Liliom in Liliom (1940), Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World (1946), and Adolphus Cusins Major Barbara (1957). He created the role of Erie Smith in the English-language premiere of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie at the Theater Royal in Bath, England in 1963. He played Hamlet in avant garde theatrical and radio productions of the play.[16]
A distinguished theatre director, he won a Tony Award nomination for his 1974 Broadway staging of Ulysses in Nighttown, a theatrical adaptation of the "Nighttown" section of James Joyce's Ulysses. Meredith also shared a Special Tony Award with James Thurber for their collaboration on A Thurber Carnival (1960).[17] In the late seventies, he directed Fionnula Flanagan's one-woman multi-role play "James Joyce's Women," which toured for several years.
Cinema
Meredith in Second Chorus
Play mediaBurgess Meredith is The Rear Gunner (1943).
Early in his career, Meredith attracted favorable attention, especially for playing George in a 1939 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and as war correspondent Ernie Pyle in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945). He was featured in many 1940s films, including three — Second Chorus (1940), Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), and On Our Merry Way (1948) — co-starring his then-wife Paulette Goddard. As a result of the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation, Meredith was placed on the Hollywood blacklist, and was largely absent from film for the next decade, though he remained involved in stage plays and radio during this time.[18]
Meredith was a favorite of director Otto Preminger, who cast him in Advise and Consent (1962), The Cardinal (1963), In Harm's Way (1965), Hurry Sundown (1967), Skidoo (1968), and Such Good Friends (1971). He was in Madame X (with Lana Turner, 1966) and Stay Away Joe (1968), appearing as the father of Elvis Presley's character. He was acclaimed by critics for his performance as Harry Greene in The Day of the Locust (1975) and received nominations for the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Academy Award for best supporting actor. Meredith then played Rocky Balboa's trainer Mickey Goldmill in the first three Rocky films (1976, 1979, and 1982). Though his character died in the third Rocky film, he returned briefly in a flashback in the fifth film, Rocky V (1990). His portrayal in the first film earned him his second consecutive nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Meredith played an old Korean War veteran Captain J.G. Williams in The Last Chase (1981) with Lee Majors. He appeared in Ray Harryhausen's last stop-motion feature Clash of the Titans (also 1981) in a supporting role. Meredith appeared in Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) and was a voice actor in G.I. Joe: The Movie (1989). In his last years, he played Jack Lemmon's character's sex-crazed 95-year-old father in Grumpy Old Men (1993) and its sequel, Grumpier Old Men (1995).
Meredith directed the movie The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) starring Charles Laughton, which was produced by Irving Allen. Meredith also was billed in a supporting role in this film. In 1970, he directed (as well as co-wrote and played a supporting role in) The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go, an espionage caper starring James Mason and Jeff Bridges.
Television
Meredith as Henry Bemis in The Twilight Zone episode, "Time Enough at Last"
Meredith appeared in four different starring roles in the anthology TV series The Twilight Zone, tying him with Jack Klugman for the most appearances on the show in a starring role.
In his first appearance in 1959, "Time Enough at Last", he portrayed a henpecked bookworm who finds himself the sole survivor of an unspecified apocalypse which leads him to contemplate suicide until he discovers the ruins of the library. In 1961's "Mr. Dingle, the Strong", Meredith played the title character, a timid weakling who receives superhuman strength from an extraterrestrial experiment in human nature. Also that year in "The Obsolete Man", Meredith portrayed a librarian sentenced to death in a dystopic totalitarian society. Lastly, in 1963's "Printer's Devil", Meredith portrayed the Devil himself. He would later play two more roles in Rod Serling's other anthology series, Night Gallery. Meredith was the narrator for Twilight Zone: The Movie in 1983.
The actor appeared in various other television programs, including the role of Christopher Norbert III, in the 1962 episode "Hooray, Hooray, the Circus Is Coming to Town" of the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. He also guest starred in the ABC drama about psychiatry, Breaking Point in the 1963 episode titled "Heart of Marble, Body of Stone".
Meredith appeared in various western series, such as Rawhide (four times), The Virginian (twice), Wagon Train, Branded, The Wild Wild West, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Laredo, Bonanza, and Daniel Boone. In 1963, he appeared as Vincent Marion in a five-part episode of the last season of the Warner Bros. ABC detective series 77 Sunset Strip. He starred three times in Burke's Law (1963–1964), starring Gene Barry.
Meredith as the Penguin on the classic '60s TV show Batman
Meredith also played the Penguin in the television series Batman from 1966 to 1968, and in the 1966 film based on the TV series. His role as the Penguin was so well-received, the show's writers always had a script featuring the Penguin ready whenever Meredith was available. He and Cesar Romero (the Joker) are tied for number of appearances on the show.[citation needed] He also made a brief cameo appearance as the Penguin in the 1968 episode of The Monkees titled "Monkees Blow Their Minds".
From 1972 to 1973, Meredith played V. C. R. Cameron, director of Probe Control, in the television movie/pilot Probe and then in Search, the subsequent TV series (the name was changed to avoid conflict with a program on PBS).
Meredith won an Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special for the 1977 television film Tail Gunner Joe, a fictitious study of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, the anticommunist politician active in the 1950s. He was cast as crusading lawyer Joseph Welch.[19]
In 1992, Meredith narrated The Chaplin Puzzle, a television documentary that provides a rare insight into Charles Chaplin's work, circa 1914, at Keystone Studios and Essanay, where Chaplin developed his Tramp character.[20] Coincidentally, Meredith married actress Paulette Goddard in 1943 following her divorce from Chaplin.
Other work
Meredith also performed voice-over work. He provided the narration for the war film A Walk in the Sun (1945). As a nod to his longtime association with original Twilight Zone series, he served as narrator for the 1983 film based on the series. He was the TV commercial voice for Bulova watches, Honda, Stokely-Van Camp, United Airlines, and Freakies breakfast cereal. He also provided the narration for the short film Works Of Calder, a 1949-50 film by Herbert Matter which featured a musical soundtrack by the composer John Cage.
He supplied the narration for the 1974–75 ABC Saturday morning series Korg: 70,000 B.C. and was the voice of Puff in the series of animated adaptations of the Peter, Paul, and Mary song Puff, the Magic Dragon. In the mid-1950s, he was one of four narrators of the NBC and syndicated public affairs program, The Big Story (1949–58), which focused on courageous journalists. In 1991, he narrated a track on The Chieftains' album of traditional Christmas music and carols, The Bells of Dublin.
He acted in the Kenny G music video of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", which was released in 1994. He played the main character, a projectionist at a movie theater.[21]
His last role before his death was the portrayal of both Hamilton Wofford and Covington Wofford characters in the 1996 video game Ripper by Take-Two Interactive.[citation needed] Meredith was considered to play the Penguin's father in the 1992 Tim Burton film Batman Returns, but illness prevented him from appearing and the role was taken by Paul Reubens.[22]
Personal life and death
Meredith was married four times. His first wife, Helen Derby Merrien Burgess, was the daughter of Harry L. Derby, president of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Corporation; she took her life after their divorce.[23] His next two wives were actresses, Margaret Perry and Paulette Goddard. Goddard had a miscarriage in 1944. His last marriage, to Kaja Sundsten, lasted 46 years and produced two children—Jonathon (a musician) and Tala (a painter).
Meredith was a lifelong Democrat who often donated $200 and more to the party during his lifetime.[24] His autobiography, So Far, So Good, was published in 1994. In the book he wrote that he suffered from violent mood swings caused by cyclothymia, a form of bipolar disorder.[3]
Meredith died from complications of Alzheimer's disease and melanoma on September 9, 1997, aged 89, at his Malibu home.[25] Friend Adam West spoke briefly at his memorial service. His remains were cremated.
Awards and honors
Meredith was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, in 1976 for Rocky, and in 1975 for The Day of the Locust, for which he also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. That performance brought him a BAFTA Award nomination.
Meredith won a Primetime Emmy Award for Supporting Actor in 1977 for Tail Gunner Joe, and was nominated for the same award the next year for The Last Hurrah, a remake of the film starring Spencer Tracy. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films three times, in 1978, 1979, and 1982, and won the last two times, for Magic and Clash of the Titans.
In 1962, Meredith won a Best Supporting Actor award from the National Board of Review, for Advise & Consent, and in 1985 he was nominated for a CableAce Award for his performance in Answers.
For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Meredith has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For his onstage contributions, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[26]
Meredith has a 21-acre park named for him in Pomona, New York. He provided the funding to incorporate the village.[27]
On May 14, 1977 - Meredith received his honorary doctorate degree from Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa.
[28][29][30]
Select filmography
Film
The Scoundrel (1935) as Flop House Bum (uncredited)
Winterset (1936) as Mio Romagna
There Goes the Groom (1937) as Dick Matthews
Spring Madness (1938) as The Lippencott
Idiot's Delight (1939) as Quillery
Of Mice and Men (1939) as George Milton
Castle on the Hudson (1940) as Steven Rockford
Second Chorus (1940) as Hank Taylor
The San Francisco Docks (1940) as Johnny Barnes
That Uncertain Feeling (1941) as Alexander Sebastian
Tom, Dick and Harry (1941) as Harry
The Forgotten Village (1941) as Narrator
Street of Chance (1942) as Frank Thompson / Danny Nearing
A Welcome to Britain (1943) as Himself (uncredited)
The Rear Gunner (1943) as Pvt. L.A. Pee Wee Williams
Our Country (1944) as Himself
Hymn of the Nations (1944) as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Salute to France (1944) as Joe – the American soldier
Tunisian Victory (1944) as American soldier (voice)
Attack! Battle of New Britain (1944) as Narrator
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) as Ernie Pyle
A Walk in the Sun (1945) as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) as Captain Mauger
Magnificent Doll (1946) as James Madison
Mine Own Executioner (1947) as Felix Milne
On Our Merry Way (1948) as Oliver M Pease
Jigsaw (1949) as Jack / Bartender (uncredited)
A Yank Comes Back (1949)
Golden Arrow (1949) as Dick
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) as Joseph Heurtin
Works of Calder (1950) as Narrator
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Invisible Man (1954) as Himself
Joe Butterfly (1957) as Joe Butterfly
Albert Schweitzer (1957) as Narrator (voice)
The Kidnappers (1958) as Louis Halliburton
Sorcerer's Village (1958) as Narrator (voice)
America Pauses for Springtime (1959) as Himself
America Pauses for the Merry Month of May (1959) as Himself
Advise and Consent (1962) as Herbert Gelman
The Cardinal (1963) as Father Ned Halley
In Harm's Way (1965) as Commander Egan Powell
Madame X (1966) as Dan Sullivan
Batman (1966) as The Penguin
The Crazy Quilt (1966) as Narrator (voice)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) as Doc Scully (as Burgess Meridith)
Torture Garden (1967) as Dr. Diablo
Hurry Sundown (1967) as Judge Purcell (Framework Story)
Stay Away, Joe (1968) as Charlie Lightcloud
Skidoo (1968) as The Warden
Dear Mr. Gable (1968) as Narrator
Debrief: Apollo 8 (1968) as Narrator
The Father (1969) as Captain Ned
Mackenna's Gold (1969) as The Store Keeper
Hard Contract (1969) as Ramsey Williams
The Reivers (1969) as Lucious / Narrator (voice)
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) as The Missouri Kid
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970) as The Dolphin (also director)
Clay Pigeon (1971) as Freedom Lovelace
Such Good Friends (1971) as Kalman
A Fan's Notes (1972) as Mr. Blue
Beware! The Blob (1972) as Old Hobo (uncredited)
Mineral King (1972) as Narrator
The Man (1972) as Senator Watson
Hay que matar a B. (1974) as Hector
Garden Needles (1974) as Winters
The Day of the Locust (1975) as Harry Greener
92 in the Shade (1975) as Goldsboro
The Master Gunfighter (1975) as Narrator (voice)
The Hindenburg (1975) as Emilio Pajetta
Circasia (1976) as Clown
Burnt Offerings (1976) as Arnold Allardyce
Rocky (1976) as Mickey Goldmill
The Sentinel (1977) as Charles Chazen
Golden Rendezvous (1977) as Van Heurden
The Manitou (1978) as Dr. Snow
Foul Play (1978) as Mr. Hennessey
The Great Bank Hoax (1978) as Jack Stutz
Magic (1978) as Ben Greene
Rocky II (1979) as Mickey Goldmill
When Time Ran Out (1980) as Rene Valdez
Final Assignment (1980) as Zak
The Last Chase (1981) as Captain J.G. Williams
Clash of the Titans (1981) as Ammon
True Confessions (1981) as Msgr. Seamus Fargo
Rocky III (1982) as Mickey Goldmill
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Wet Gold (1984, Made for TV) as Sampson
Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) as Ancient Elf
Rocky IV (1985) as Mickey Goldmill (archival footage) (uncredited)
G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987) as Golobulus (voice)
King Lear (1987) as Don Learo (uncredited)
Hot to Trot (1988) as Don's Dad (voice, uncredited)
Full Moon in Blue Water (1988) as The General
Oddball Hall (1990) as Ingersol
State of Grace (1990) as Finn
Rocky V (1990) as Mickey Goldmill (Flashback)
Grumpy Old Men (1993) as Grandpa Gustafson
Camp Nowhere (1994) as Fein
Tall Tale (1995) as Old Man (uncredited)
Across the Moon (1995) as Barney
Grumpier Old Men (1995) as Grandpa Gustafson
Rocky Balboa (2006) as Mickey Goldmill (archival footage) (uncredited)
Television
Texaco Star Theatre – episode – #2.18 – Himself (1950)
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall – episode – #2.56 – Himself (1950)- Your Show of Shows – 2 episodes – Himself (1950)
Robert Montgomery Presents – episode – Ride the Pink Horse – Himself/Frank Hugo (1950)
The Name's the Same – episode – August 20, 1952 – Himself (1952)
Excursion – 2 episodes – Opportunities for Youth & The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Himself (1953)
What's My Line – episode – November 25, 1956 – Himself (1956)
The Big Story – 38 episodes – Narrator (1955–1958)
The Ben Hecht Show – episode – #1.56 – Himself – 1958
The Jack Paar Tonight Show – episode – #2.244 – Himself (1959)
The Arthur Murray Party – episode – 9.14 – Himself (1959)
Wagon Train – episode – The Grover Allen Story – Grover Allen (1964)
Wagon Train – episode – Incident at Deadhorse, Parts 1 and 2 – Hannibal H. Plew (1964)
Laredo – episode – Lazyfoot, Where Are You? – Grubby Sully (1965)
The Wild Wild West – episode – The Night of the Human Trigger (1965)
Batman – 19 episodes – The Penguin – (1966–1968)
Bonanza – episode – Six Black Horses – Owney Duggan (1967)
The Monkees – episode – Monkees Blow Their Minds – The Penguin (Cameo) (uncredited) (1968)
The Virginian – episode – The Orchard – Tim Bradbury (1968)
Daniel Boone – episode – Three Score and Ten – Alex Hemming (1969)
The Bill Cosby Special, or? – TV Movie – Himself (1971)
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color – episodes – Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove: Parts 1 & 2 – Henry Meade (1971)
The Virginian – episode – Flight from Memory – Muley (1971)
Mannix – episode – The Crimson Halo – Noah Otway (1972)
McCloud – episode – A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley – Marvin Sloan (1972)
Korg: 70,000 B.C. – 16 episodes – Narrator (voice) (1974–1975)
Dinah! – Episode #2.111 – Himself (1976)
The 48th Annual Academy Awards – TV Special – Himself (Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role) (1976)
The 49th Annual Academy Awards – TV Special – Himself (Best Actor in a Supporting Role) (1977)
Lincoln – TV Movie – Winfield Scott (voice) (1992)
In the Heat of the Night – episodes – Even Nice People, Lake Winahatchie, & Hatton's Turn: Part 2 – Judge Cully (1993)
The Great Battles of the Civil War – TV Mini-Series documentary – episode 6 – Gettysburg Star and Banner Columnist (voice) (1994)
Search as V. C. R. Cameron (1972–1973)
Those Amazing Animals (co-host with Jim Stafford and Priscilla Presley)- Faerie Tale Theatre: Thumbelina
The Twilight Zone (four episodes)
Tales of Tomorrow "The Great Silence" (1953)
Rawhide "The Little Fishes" (1961)
Naked City "Hold for Gloria Christmas" (as Duncan Kleist, 1962)
Twelve O'Clock High as (Radar Expert, 1966)
The Invaders – "Wall of Crystal" (1967)
Ironside "S2-E11 The Macabre Mr. Micawber" (as Carney, 1968)
Night Gallery (as Dr. Fall, 1970)
The Return of Captain Nemo (as Prof. Waldo Cunningham 1976)
Puff the Magic Dragon (voice of Puff, 1978–79, 1982)
Gloria (as Dr. Adams, Gloria Bunker Stivic's boss, 1982–1983)
Radio appearances
| Program | Episode | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Morris Playhouse | Night Must Fall | October 24, 1941 | Maureen O'Sullivan co-starred.[31] |
| Philip Morris Playhouse | My Favorite Wife | October 31, 1941 | Madeleine Carroll co-starred[32] |
| Philip Morris Playhouse | You Only Live Once | November 28, 1941 | [33] |
| Cavalcade of America | Rain Fakers | December 30, 1946 | [34] |
| Theatre Guild on the Air | The Sea Wolf | April 27, 1952 | [35] |
| Theatre Guild on the Air | Black Chiffon | May 10, 1953 | [36] |
See also
References
Notes
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^ abc "Burgess Meredith obituary". CNN. September 10, 1997.
^ "Burgess Meredith dies at 89". CNN. 1997-09-10. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
^ "24 X 7". Infoplease.com. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
^ "Lakewood Lore – Burgess Meredith". Lkwdpl.org. 1997-09-10. Archived from the original on 2006-09-30. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
^ Garfield, David (1980). "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 279. ISBN 0-02-542650-8.
^ Garfield, David (1980). "Strasberg Takes Over: 1951–1955". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 278. ISBN 0-02-542650-8.Aside from the original Robert Lewis group and those who came in with Mann and Meisner and were asked to remain, such individuals as Roscoe Lee Browne, Dane Clark, Tamra Daykarhanova, Rita Gam, Burgess Meredith, Sidney Poitier, Paula Strasberg, Anna Mizrahi Strasberg, and Franchot Tone have been voted directly into membership by the Studio's directorate or by Strasberg himself. In the early sixties, several actors who performed with The Actors Studio Theatre were similarly admitted
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^ Burgess Meredith genealogy by Robert Battle, hosted at freepages.rootsweb
^ Meredith's Lakewood memories are mostly unhappy Lakewood Sun Post December 7, 1995, by Dan Chabek
^ "WW2 Training Film for US Soldiers | How to Behave in Britain | 1943". Ministry of Information (United Kingdom) and US Office of War Information. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
^ "The Story of G.I. Joe". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
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^ A full copy of the 1992 documentary The Chaplin Puzzle narrated by Burgess Meredith is available for viewing on YouTube. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
^ "Working Miracles". Billboard. December 10, 1994. Retrieved 2013-02-22.
^ "Batman Returns". TCM. Retrieved 2013-02-22.
^ "MRS. H.D. MEREDITH ENDS LIFE WITH GAS - Divorced Wife of Actor and Daughter of H.L. Derby Had Sent Child to New Jersey LAID TO BROKEN ROMANCE Letters Found in Washington Sq. Apartment Said to Tell of Row Over Ideologies" (PDF). The new York Times. 14 April 1940. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
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^ "Radio's Golden Age". Nostalgia Digest. 40 (1): 40–41. Winter 2014.
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Burgess Meredith on IMDb
Burgess Meredith at the TCM Movie Database
Burgess Meredith at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
Burgess Meredith at Find a Grave- Burgess Meredith as the Penguin
- Burgess Meredith Park
Photos of Burgess Meredith in "Story of G.I. Joe", 1944 by Ned Scott
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