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Meredith was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Ida Beth (née Burgess; 1861–1933) and William George Meredith (1861–1938), a Canadian-born physician of English descent. [ 1 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] His mother came from a long line of Methodist revivalists, [ 1 ] a religion to which he adhered throughout his lifetime.
"The Obsolete Man" is episode 65 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, starring Burgess Meredith as Romney Wordsworth, the accused, and Fritz Weaver as the Chancellor (and prosecutor). It originally aired on June 2, 1961, on CBS. [1]
Magnificent Doll is a 1946 American historical drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Ginger Rogers as Dolley Madison and David Niven as Aaron Burr.The supporting cast features Burgess Meredith as James Madison and Grandon Rhodes as Thomas Jefferson.
Of Mice and Men is a 1939 American drama film based on the 1937 play of the same name, which itself was based on the novella of the same name by author John Steinbeck.The film stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, and Lon Chaney Jr., and features Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele, and Noah Beery Jr. [2] The film tells the story of two men, George and his intellectually disabled partner ...
A Welcome To Britain (retitled How to Behave in Britain) is a 1943 training film for the United States Armed Forces which was narrated (and co-written and co-directed) by Burgess Meredith and Anthony Asquith.
UFOs: Past, Present, and Future is a 1974 documentary film that examines several prominent UFO sightings from the post-war to contemporary era. It was re-released in 1976 and 1979 under the title UFOs: It Has Begun to coincide with renewed interest in the subject due to the release of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. [1]
Dance for Burgess is a fragmentary composition that has a duration of under two minutes. It is score for a chamber orchestra consisting of a piccolo, a clarinet in E-flat, a clarinet in B-flat, a bass clarinet in B, a French horn in F, two trumpets in C, a trombone, a tuba, an optional string section consisting of an unspecified number of first and second violins, violas, celli, and double ...
Actor Burgess Meredith made his credited film debut as the avenging son Mio Romagna. [ 4 ] The film greatly changes the ending of the play, in which the lovers Mio and Miriamne are shot to death by gangsters.