Cast: Burgess Meredith

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Burgess Meredith. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Plot TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end...

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Advise & Consent

1962 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Don Murray · Charles Laughton · Henry Fonda

Plot Robert Leffingwell is the president's candidate for Secretary of State. Prior to his approval, he must first go through a Senate investigation to determine if he's qualified. Leading the Senate...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

There Was a Crooked Man

1970 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Henry Fonda · Warren Oates · Hume Cronyn

Plot Following the tradition of 1960s and '70s Westerns in which the criminals are the heroes, THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN takes devilish pride in the antics of armed robber and...

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last (TV)

1959 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jacqueline deWit · Lela Bliss

Plot Henry Bemis loves to read. The only problem is that he can find neither the time nor the place to enjoy his pastime. At work, his boss has let him...

7.3

317 votes

7.3

317 votes

Rocky

1976 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Talia Shire · Burt Young · Carl Weathers

Plot Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a down-on-his-luck Philadelphia southpaw who works at a meat-packing factory while fighting at a local club. Hes given the chance of a lifetime when the...

7.1

89K votes

7.1

89K votes

It's a Good Life (S)

1983 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Joe Dante

Cast Burgess Meredith · Kathleen Quinlan · Jeremy Licht · Kevin McCarthy

Plot After seeing how he's bothered by a group of men, a teacher gives a lift to a little boy. Once they arrive to his house, she discovers that his family...

7.0

28 votes

7.0

28 votes

State of Grace

1990 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Phil Joanou

Cast Sean Penn · Robin Wright · Gary Oldman · Ed Harris

Plot Terry Noonan (Sean Penn) returns to New York's Hell's Kitchen after twelve years to find that his old neighborhood of seedy bars and Irish-American mobsters has been taken over by...

7.0

12K votes

7.0

12K votes

Night Gallery (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc · Jeff Corey · Gene R. Kearney

Cast Rod Serling · John Astin · Geraldine Page · Vincent Price

Plot Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories. Night Gallery...

6.9

166 votes

6.9

166 votes

The Cardinal

1963 · Movie · 175 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Tom Tryon · John Huston · Romy Schneider · Patrick O'Neal

Plot An Irish American priest whose strong commitment to social issues leads him through a labyrinth of church politics and eventually to the upper echelons of Catholic hierarchy as Cardinal. Crossing...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

That Uncertain Feeling

1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Merle Oberon · Melvyn Douglas · Burgess Meredith · Alan Mowbray

Plot Larry Baker (Melvyn Douglas) loves his job and married life, not realizing that his wife, Jill (Merle Oberon), is bored to tears and wishes that he would pay more attention...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Of Mice and Men

1939 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Burgess Meredith · Betty Field · Lon Chaney Jr. · Charles Bickford

Plot George Milton and Lennie Small are migrant workers in the 1930s Depression. Lennie is mentally retarded and George looks after him. While working as hands on a Western ranch, they...

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6.8

276 votes

6.8

276 votes

A Big Hand For the Little Lady

1966 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast Henry Fonda · Joanne Woodward · Jason Robards · Charles Bickford

Plot A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Day of the Locust

1975 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Donald Sutherland · Karen Black · William Atherton · Burgess Meredith

Plot Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930's Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye,...

6.6

467 votes

6.6

467 votes

The Diary of a Chambermaid

1946 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Paulette Goddard · Hurd Hatfield · Francis Lederer · Burgess Meredith

Plot Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not...

6.6

768 votes

6.6

768 votes

In Harm's Way

1965 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast John Wayne · Kirk Douglas · Patricia Neal · Tom Tryon

Plot This all-star epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor details the devastating sneak attack on the naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories. A navy man goes...

6.6

805 votes

6.6

805 votes

The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man (TV)

1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Elliot Silverstein

Cast Burgess Meredith · Fritz Weaver · Josip Elic · Harry Fleer

Plot In a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and sentenced to death.

6.6

111 votes

6.6

111 votes

Story of G.I. Joe

1945 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Robert Mitchum · Burgess Meredith · Freddie Steele · Wally Cassell

Plot War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers...

6.6

440 votes

6.6

440 votes

The Twilight Zone: Printer's Devil (TV)

1963 · Movie · 51 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Senensky

Cast Robert Sterling · Burgess Meredith · Pat Crowley · Ray Teal

Plot A man sells his soul to the Devil to save his failing newspaper and gets more than he bargained for.

6.6

53 votes

6.6

53 votes

Clash of the Titans

1981 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Desmond Davis

Cast Harry Hamlin · Laurence Olivier · Judi Bowker · Claire Bloom

Plot The classic Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda re-told with an all-star cast. To win the right to marry his love (Andromeda) and fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various...

6.6

8K votes

6.6

8K votes

Madame X

1966 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction David Lowell Rich

Cast Lana Turner · John Forsythe · Ricardo Montalban · Burgess Meredith

Plot A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her mother-in-law to assume...

6.6

383 votes

6.6

383 votes