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...
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