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- NAME: Burgess Meredith
- OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
- BIRTH DATE: November 16, 1907
- DEATH DATE: September 09, 1997
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Lakewood, Ohio
- PLACE OF DEATH: Malibu, California
- Originally: Oliver Burgess Meredith
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Actor, director. Born Oliver Burgess Meredith in Cleveland, Ohio. After holding a variety of jobs and attending college sporadically during the 1920, Meredith became determined to break into show business. He began an unpaid apprenticeship in 1929 with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Company in New York City. After making his Broadway debut in 1933's Little Ol' Boy, Meredith achieved great success in 1935 as Mio in the Maxwell Anderson play Winterset. He was a founder of the New Stage Society in 1937and served as vice president of the Actors' Equity in 1938. Meredith also played memorable stage roles in High Tor(1937), Liliom (1940), Playboy of the Western World (1946), and Major Barbara(1956). His notable film performances include roles in Of Mice and Men(1939), Advise and Consent(1962), and Rocky (1976). He was a character actor in television and also directed motion pictures (The Man in the Eiffel Tower, 1950) and plays including Macbeth and the Broadway production of James Baldwin's play Blues for Mr. Charlie. In the 1990s, he was noted for his role in Grumpy Old Men.
Meredith died September 9, 1997 of Alzheimer's disease and melanoma.
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