Burgess Meredith
Acting • Born 1907-11-16 – Died 1997-09-09
Biography
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American movie, television, stage, radio, voice actor, and director. He was known for his roles as The Penguin in the 1960s TV version of Batman, as Mickey Goldmill in Rocky, Rocky II and Rocky III, and as Grandpa Gustafson in Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men. He won two Saturn Awards (in 1978 and in 1981), Tony Awards, and many Emmy Awards.
Filmography
200 credits
Rocky II
Movie • 1979
Mickey Goldmill
Rocky
Movie • 1976
Mickey Goldmill
Rocky III
Movie • 1982
Mickey Goldmill
Rocky V
Movie • 1990
Mickey Goldmill
State of Grace
Movie • 1990
Finn
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Movie • 2019
Henry Bemis (archive footage)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Movie • 1988
Prologue Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Amazing Captain Nemo
Movie • 1978
Prof. Waldo Cunningham
Clash of the Titans
Movie • 1981
Ammon
Batman
Movie • 1966
The Penguin
The Day of the Locust
Movie • 1975
Harry Greener
Grumpy Old Men
Movie • 1993
Grandpa Gustafson
Jigsaw
Movie • 1949
Jack - Bartender (uncredited)
True Confessions
Movie • 1981
Msgr. Seamus Fargo
Castle on the Hudson
Movie • 1940
Steve Rockford
Skidoo
Movie • 1968
The Warden
There Was a Crooked Man...
Movie • 1970
The Missouri Kid
Magic
Movie • 1978
Ben Greene
Burnt Offerings
Movie • 1976
Arnold Allardyce
The Manitou
Movie • 1978
Dr. Snow
The Last Chase
Movie • 1981
Captain J.G. Williams
Santa Claus: The Movie
Movie • 1985
Ancient Elf
Full Moon in Blue Water
Movie • 1988
The General
Torture Garden
Movie • 1967
Dr. Diabolo (Framing Story)
Street of Chance
Movie • 1942
Frank Thompson
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
Movie • 1992
Guest
Madame X
Movie • 1966
Dan Sullivan
A Yank Comes Back
Movie • 1948
Self
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Movie • 1966
Doc Scully
That Uncertain Feeling
Movie • 1941
Alexander Sebastian
Idiot's Delight
Movie • 1939
Quillary
Foul Play
Movie • 1978
Mr. Hennessey
In Harm's Way
Movie • 1965
Commander Egan Powell
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Movie • 1946
Captain Mauger
92 in the Shade
Movie • 1975
Goldsboro
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Movie • 1949
Joseph Heurtin
Story of G.I. Joe
Movie • 1945
Ernie Pyle
The Hindenburg
Movie • 1975
Emilio Pajetta
When Time Ran Out...
Movie • 1980
Rene Valdez
Advise & Consent
Movie • 1962
Herbert Gelman
Golden Rendezvous
Movie • 1977
Van Heurden
Hard Contract
Movie • 1969
Ramsey Williams
Camp Nowhere
Movie • 1994
Fein
Wet Gold
Movie • 1984
Sampson
Mackenna's Gold
Movie • 1969
The Storekeeper
The Sentinel
Movie • 1977
Charles Chazen
Stay Away, Joe
Movie • 1968
Charlie Lightcloud
King Lear
Movie • 1988
Don Learo
G.I. Joe: The Movie
Movie • 1987
Golobulus (voice)
Of Mice and Men
Movie • 1939
George Milton
On Our Merry Way
Movie • 1948
Oliver M. Pease
Mine Own Executioner
Movie • 1947
Felix Milne
San Francisco Docks
Movie • 1940
Johnny Barnes
Tom, Dick and Harry
Movie • 1941
Harry
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
Movie • 1970
The Dolphin
Winterset
Movie • 1936
Mio Romagna
The Rear Gunner
Movie • 1943
Pvt. L.A. Pee Wee Williams
The Great Bank Hoax
Movie • 1978
Jack Stutz
Fanfare for a Death Scene
Movie • 1964
Prof. George Bannerman
Albert Schweitzer
Movie • 1957
Narrator (voice)
Rocky Balboa
Movie • 2006
Micky Goldmill (Archive Footage) (uncredited)
Golden Needles
Movie • 1974
Winters
Such Good Friends
Movie • 1971
Kalman
Hurry Sundown
Movie • 1967
Judge Purcell
B. Must Die
Movie • 1975
Hector
Probe
Movie • 1972
V.C.R. Cameron
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
The Man
Movie • 1972
Senator Watson
Oddball Hall
Movie • 1990
Ingersol
Magnificent Doll
Movie • 1946
James Madison
We the People
Movie • 1972
Narrator
The New Healers
Movie • 1972
Dr. Simmons
Outrage!
Movie • 1986
Judge Aaron Klein
There Goes the Groom
Movie • 1937
Derek "Dick" Matthews
Joe Butterfly
Movie • 1957
Joe Butterfly
Tunisian Victory
Movie • 1944
American soldier (voice)
The Living Sands of Namib
Movie • 1978
Narrator (voice)
SST: Death Flight
Movie • 1978
Willy Basset
Tail Gunner Joe
Movie • 1977
Joseph Welch
The Crazy-Quilt
Movie • 1966
Narrator (voice)
The Cardinal
Movie • 1963
Father Halley
Grumpier Old Men
Movie • 1995
Grandpa Gustafson
Winter of the Witch
Movie • 1969
Narrator
Works of Calder
Movie • 1950
Narrator
The Reivers
Movie • 1969
Lucius / Narrator (voice)
A Salute to France
Movie • 1944
Joe - the American Soldier
The Chaplin Puzzle
Movie • 1992
Narrator (voice)
Answers
Movie • 1985
Chas Potter (Segment "The Constituent")
Final Assignment
Movie • 1980
Zak
Spring Madness
Movie • 1938
The Lippencott
Lincoln
Movie • 1992
Winfield Scott (voice)
The Forgotten Village
Movie • 1941
Narrator
The Scoundrel
Movie • 1935
Flop House Bum
The Last Hurrah
Movie • 1977
Cardinal Burke
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie • 1985
Self
A Walk in the Sun
Movie • 1945
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
UFOs: It Has Begun
Movie • 1979
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Movie • 1978
William Blackstone
Second Chorus
Movie • 1941
Hank Taylor
Clay Pigeon
Movie • 1971
Freedom Lovelace
Our Country
Movie • 1944
Self
A Welcome to Britain
Movie • 1943
Self (uncredited)
Broken Rainbow
Movie • 1985
Historical Voice (voice)
Golden Arrow
Movie • 1949
Dick
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Movie • 1995
Self
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Movie • 1944
Narrator (voice)
The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard
Movie • 1986
Mr. Ben the Owl
The Master Gunfighter
Movie • 1975
Narrator (voice)
The Wickedest Witch
Movie • 1989
Narrator (voice)
Thumbelina
Movie • 1984
Mr. Mole
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
Movie • 1987
Mad Tom
Night of the Hunter
Movie • 1991
Birdy
Beware! The Blob
Movie • 1972
Old Hobo
Across the Moon
Movie • 1994
Barney
Hymn of the Nations
Movie • 1944
Narrator (voice)
Mastergate
Movie • 1992
Wiley Slaughter
Waiting for Godot
Movie • 1961
Vladimir / Didi
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
Movie • 1995
Old Man (uncredited)
Sorcerers' Village
Movie • 1958
Narrator
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
Movie • 1985
Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie • 1991
Narrator (voice)
The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove
Movie • 1971
Henry Meade
Lock, Stock and Barrel
Movie • 1971
Rev. Willie Pursle
The United States Service Bands
Movie • 1943
footage from 'The Rear Gunner' (uncredited)
Old Faithful
Movie • 1973
Chief Ranger
Circasia
Movie • 1976
Clown
The Father
Movie • 1969
Captain Ned
La Classe américaine
Movie • 1993
The Helicopter Man (archive footage)
The Kidnappers
Movie • 1958
Louis Halliburton
Puff, the Magic Dragon
Movie • 1978
Puff (voice)
Puff the Magic Dragon: The Land of the Living Lies
Movie • 1979
Puff the Magic Dragon (voice)
Puff the Magic Dragon: The Incredible Mr. Nobody
Movie • 1982
Puff the Magic Dragon (voice)
Dear Mr. Gable
Movie • 1968
Narrator
Mr. Griffin and Me
Movie • 1981
Kenneth Griffin
Getting Away from It All
Movie • 1972
Capt. Frank Coffin
Hot to Trot
Movie • 1988
Don's Dad
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Movie • 1977
John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald
A Fan's Notes
Movie • 1972
Mr. Blue
Time Enough at Last
Movie
Henry Bemis
The Blinkins: The Magic Flower
Movie • 1986
Rocky Special: Burning Youth
Movie • 1990
Mickey Goldmill (archive footage)
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Sidney Wilde
Batman
TV • 1966
The Penguin
Naked City
TV • 1958
Duncan Kleist
Room 222
TV • 1969
Mannix
TV • 1967
Studio One
TV • 1948
Gulley Jimson
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Charlie Finnegan
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Thomas A. Edison
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Sid Davis
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Henry Bemis
Ironside
TV • 1967
Gloria
TV • 1982
Dr. Willard Adams
Laredo
TV • 1965
The Monkees
TV • 1966
Sam Benedict
TV • 1962
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Tom Gwynn
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Alex Hemming
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
David
Search
TV • 1972
V.C.R. Cameron
Your Show of Shows
TV • 1950
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
The Loner
TV • 1965
Profiles in Courage
TV • 1964
John Peter Altgeld
Korg: 70,000 B.C.
TV • 1974
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Branded
TV • 1965
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
Principal Martin Woodridge
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Self - Guest Host / Frank Hugo
Tales of Tomorrow
TV • 1951
Lights Out
TV • 1949
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Mr. Smith
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Luther Dingle
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Romney Wordsworth
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Harrison Merriweather
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Matthew Higgins
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Hannibal H. Plew
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Velvet Pants
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Burton Reese
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Harold Harold
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Stage Manager
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
Mr. Mole
Lamp Unto My Feet
TV • 1948
Narrator (voice)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Cardinal Burke
In the Heat of the Night
TV • 1988
Judge Cully
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Owney Duggan
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Theodore Booth
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV • 1959
Self
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Dr. Michael Rink
The Big Story
TV • 1949
Narrator
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Panelist
Suspicion
TV • 1957
Ramskill
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
The Big Story
TV • 1949
Self - Narrator
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Tim Bradbury
The Bold Ones: The Senator
TV • 1970
State Party Chairman Mallon
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Orkney Cadwallader