Burgess Meredith Collection: Best known for his portrayal of trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky pictures and The Penguin on TV's Batman, Burgess Meredith was a favored actor of both Arch Oboler and Norman Corwin.
45 old time radio show recordings
(total playtime 28 hours, 55 min)
available in the following formats:
2 MP3 CDs
or
30 Audio CDs
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Burgess Meredith
(1907 – 1997)
No matter what character he was playing, from the quick-witted George in Of Mice and Men (1939) to correspondent Ernie Pyle in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) to the delightfully evil supervillain Penguin in the campy 1960s TV hit Batman to the irascible boxing trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky series to the bookish banker left alone "With Time Enough at Last" to read in the classic episode of The Twilight Zone, the audience only had to glimpse that sympathetic face and hear a few words in that distinctively raspy voice to know it was Burgess Meredith before they were as lost in the character as he was. That same voice served him well on the radio, where he was a favored player for Norman Corwin, Arch Oboler, and Orson Welles.
In Hollywood, he was known for violent mood swings, which he later revealed were related to cyclothymia, a form of bipolar disorder. His liberal politics brought Meredith to the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which led to his blacklisting and a seven-year break in his movie career. Otto Preminger was instrumental in helping to restore Meredith's film career, casting him in Advise and Consent (1962), In Harm's Way (1965), Hurry Sundown (1967), Skidoo (1968), and Such Good Friends (1971).
Meredith got a small measure of revenge on the HUAC in the 1977 made-for-television movie Tail Gunner Joe. He won an Emmy for his portrayal of attorney Joseph Welch, the lawyer who brought down Senator Joseph McCarthy ("Have you no sense of decency, sir?")
Burgess Meredith published his autobiography, titled So Far, So Good, in 1994. He died in 1997 at his Malibu home of Alzheimer's Disease and melanoma. He was 89.
A Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6904 Hollywood Blvd honors Burgess Meredith's contributions to Motion Pictures.
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