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Burgess Meredith
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Burgess Meredith - what members say
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CLEAN FUN 1 August 2004
Burgess Meredith - filmography
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Grumpy Old Men
(1993)
Starring: Ann-Margret, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
Director: Donald Petrie, Donald M. Petrie
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Academy Award-winners Lemmon and Matthau portray lifelong feuding neighbours with nothing better to do than make each day a hilarious game of revenge. But then voluptuous Ariel (Ann-Margret) moves in across the street and their dormant hormones reignite in an all-out competition to win her favour.
 
75%
from 687 members
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Mister Corbett's Ghost
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Burgess Meredith, John Huston, Paul Scofield
Director: Danny Huston
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Made-for-TV fantasy drama starring John Huston in one of his final screen roles. The feature, directed by Huston's son, Danny, is set in England on New Year's Eve 1767. Being forced to work on what should be a night of celebration is the final straw for Benjamin Partridge (Mark Farmer), the long-..read more »
56%
from 13 members
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Broken Rainbow
(1985)
Starring: Martin Sheen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Burgess Meredith
Director: Victoria Mudd
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Examines the history leading to the passage of P.L. 93-531, in 1974, to force the relocation of 10,000 Diné (Navajo) from Hopi land. Behind the scenes, argues the film, it was all about mining rights as Peabody Coal used the Hopi tribal council through its attorney, John Boyden, to evict Diné ..read more »
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Santa Claus - The Movie
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Dudley Moore, Burgess Meredith, John Lithgow
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
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After introducing how Santa and Mrs. Claus came to the North Pole and began their work delivering toys at Christmas time, this routine children's film segues into a story about an evil corporate magnate (John Lithgow). One of Santa's elves (Dudley Moore) goes to work for the nasty tycoon and ..read more »
69%
from 3,252 members
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Clash of the Titans
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Claire Bloom
Director: Desmond Davis
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In this star-studded film, the Greek gods on Mount Olympus watch Perseus (Harry Hamlin) and his love, Andromeda (Judi Bowker), in clashes against various mythological monsters. The special effects bring these monsters to life and even enable Pegasus to fly.
71%
from 4,501 members
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Clash of the Titans - Blu-ray
(1981)
Starring: Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Claire Bloom
Director: Desmond Davis
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In this star-studded film, the Greek gods on Mount Olympus watch Perseus (Harry Hamlin) and his love, Andromeda (Judi Bowker), in clashes against various mythological monsters. The special effects bring these monsters to life and even enable Pegasus to fly.
66%
from 1,048 member
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The Manitou
(1978)
Starring: Jon Cedar, Burgess Meredith, Tony Curtis
Director: William Girdler
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Horror starring Tony Curtis and Burgess Meredith. Karen (Susan Strasberg) seeks medical attention when she discovers a tumour growing on her back. When the doctors begin to suspect that there is a living creature inside the tumour, and when Karen kills herself after being plagued by strange voices ..read more »
54%
from 380 members
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Foul Play
(1978)
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith
Director: Colin Higgins
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Gloria is propelled into a world of wild chases, bizarre attempts on her life and deadly encounters with as assortment of weird underworld characters.
When a handsome San Francisco detective Tony Carlson, also becomes personally and professionally involved with all the odd things happening to Gloria.
73%
from 121 members
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Magic
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Ed Lauter, Anthony Hopkins, Burgess Meredith
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Corky (Anthony Hopkins) is a nightclub entertainer whose act combines magic with ventriloquism. His dummy, Fats, accompanies him everywhere, and gives voice to all of Corky's repressed fears and desires. With Corky verging on the edge of the big time, Fats begins to take over his personality, ..read more »
67%
from 683 members
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The Amazing Captain Nemo
(1978)
Starring: Jose Ferrer, José Ferrer, Burgess Meredith
Director: Alex March
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Typical 1970's lightweight pseudo-science-fictional fare, this movie was the pilot for a very brief action series. Modern-day US Navy scientists discover the legendary Nemo (an apparently underemployed Jose Ferrer) in suspended animation aboard his Nautilus at the bottom of the ocean. He is revived ..read more »
35%
from 9 members
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Burnt Offerings
(1976)
Starring: Eileen Heckart, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith
Director: Dan Curtis
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A haunted-house thriller which tells the story of Ben and Marion Rolf (Oliver Reed and Karen Black) who rent a house one summer then find themselves slowly succumbing to its creepy powers.
51%
from 245 members
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Rocky - Blu-ray
(1976)
Starring: Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Sylvester Stallone
Director: John G. Avildsen
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Sylvester Stallone's rags-to-riches boxing drama won the Oscar for Best Film of 1976. Club fighter Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) has hit rock bottom. Having turned thirty, his boxing career is virtually over and he now makes a living collecting payments for a loan shark. Things start to look up ..read more »
77%
from 2,424 members
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Rocky
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Sylvester Stallone
Director: John G. Avildsen
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Sylvester Stallone's rags-to-riches boxing drama won the Oscar for Best Film of 1976. Club fighter Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) has hit rock bottom. Having turned thirty, his boxing career is virtually over and he now makes a living collecting payments for a loan shark. Things start to look up ..read more »
70%
from 20,960 members
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The Hindenburg
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Burgess Meredith, George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft
Director: Robert Wise
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Based on the novel by Michael M. Mooney, this Seventies disaster movie posits a sabotage theory to explain the infamous conclusion to the 1937 Atlantic crossing of the Hindenburg, Germany's famous 'Titanic' of the skies. The notorious Zeppelin's crew include a variety of suspicious characters, from ..read more »
66%
from 66 members
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Day Of The Locust
(1974)
Starring: Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Karen Black
Director: John Schlesinger
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John Schlesinger directs this Oscar-winning screen adaptation of Nathaniel West's novel about the underside of 1930s Hollywood. The film stars Donald Sutherland as Homer Simpson, a wealthy and ambitious accountant with no illusions about showiz, and Karen Black as Faye Greener, a talentless would-..read more »
59%
from 467 members
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MacKenna's Gold
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Edward G. Robinson, Raymond Massey
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Arizona sheriff Sam MacKenna (Gregory Peck) thinks his luck is in when he is given a map to a mythical 'Valley of Gold'. But the news of the map travels fast, and soon everyone wants a piece of the action, including the brutal bandit Colorado (Omar Sharif). Colorado captures MacKenna and forces him ..read more »
63%
from 459 members
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Torture Garden
(1967)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Burgess Meredith, Jack Palance
Director: Freddie Francis
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Horror portmanteau with four chilling tales spun by a creepy sideshow soothsayer (Burgess Meredith). The tales are: 'Dr Diablo', 'Enoch', 'Terror Over Hollywood' and 'The Man Who Collected Poe'. The final story stars Jack Palance.
58%
from 425 members
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Madame X
(1966)
Starring: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban
Director: David Lowell Rich
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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 a new identity to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak ..read more »
70%
from 15 members
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Batman - The Movie
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Alan Napier, Neil Hamilton
Director: Leslie Martinson
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Tongue-in-cheek humor prevails in Batman, a witty homage to the Dynamic Duo's exaggerated exploits. The Caped Crusaders (Adam West and Burt Ward) are called in as a last resort when the criminal masterminds of the millennium team up to conquer Gotham City by turning the U.N. Security Council into ..read more »
66%
from 1,662 member
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In Harm's Way
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Paula Prentiss, Kirk Douglas, Dana Andrews
Director: Otto Preminger
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In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell ..read more »
65%
from 412 members
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The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Blu-ray
(4 discs)
(1961)
Starring: Sydney Pollack, John Carradine, William Shatner
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The complete second season of the classic American television sci-fi series by Rod Serling. In each of these 29 stand alone episodes, an ordinary person finds himself in an extraordinary situation, where the laws of reality are suspended. In this series, a Second World War pilot finds himself alone ..read more »
75%
from 100 members
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The Man On The Eiffel Tower
(1949)
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Jean Wallace, Robert Hutton
Director: Burgess Meredith
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Burgess Meredith directs and stars in this adaptation of Georges Simenon's mystery novel. In postwar Paris, Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) is overheard wishing his aunt dead by an enigmatic yet dangerous medical student named Radek (Franchot Tone). With a large inheritance at stake, Radek carries out ..read more »
57%
from 52 members
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On Our Merry Way
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: James Stewart, Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard
Director: King Vidor
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Three-part anthology featuring vignettes that are connected by a question from feature reporter Oliver Pease (Burgess Meredith): 'Has a child ever changed your life?' In the first episode Henry Fonda and James Stewart star as Lank and Slim, a pair of squabbling jazz musicians who try to pick up ..read more »
51%
from 68 members
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The Forgotten Village
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Burgess Meredith, burgess meredith (narr)
Director: Herbert Kline
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Explores the conflicts between modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village. Looks at the lives of the members of a small pueblo in Santiago, in the remote mountains of Mexico, who have not caught up with modern civilization, viewed through the eyes of young boy, Juan Diego, ..read more »
43%
from 17 members
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Tom, Dick and Harry
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal
Director: Garson Kanin
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Ginger Rogers, a telephone operator, is pursued by George Murphy (a down-to earth fellow), Alan Marshal (a rich man) and Burgess Meredith (a noncomformist). She dreams what life would be like married to each of them.
54%
from 37 members
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Battle For New Britain
on DVD
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Anthony Veiller, Walter Krueger
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Documentary propaganda film, using real war footage, depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the South Pacific theatre of the Second World War in 1943.
51%
from 7 members
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Final Assignment
on DVD
Starring: Michael York, Colleen Dewhurst, Burgess Meredith
Director: Paul Almond
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Journalist Nicole Thomson (Genevieve Bujold) uncovers a shocking conspiracy in this thriller. Covering an arms limitation treaty in Russia, Nicole stumbles onto a sinister plot to use young children as guinea pigs in a series of pharmaceutical experiments. Rescuing one of the children and trying to ..read more »
31%
from 19 members
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The Story of GI Joe
on DVD
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele
Director: William A Wellman
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Burgess Meredith plays Ernie Pyle, a real life War correspondant, to screen legends Robert Mitchum's Lt. Captain Bill Walker, an officer leading his men through war-torn Europe. Meredith narrates the Pulitzer prize-winning story of the GI, portraying the everyday trials and tribulations of warriors ..read more »
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from 86 members
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