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He was featured in many 1940s films, including three- Second Chorus (1940), Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), and On Our Merry Way (1948) - co-starring his then-wife Paulette Goddard. Cinema īurgess Meredith is The Rear Gunner (1943).Įarly in his career, Meredith attracted favorable attention, especially for playing George in a 1939 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and as war correspondent Ernie Pyle in The Story of G.I. In the late seventies, he directed Fionnula Flanagan's one-woman multi-role play James Joyce's Women, which toured for several years. Meredith also shared a Special Tony Award with James Thurber for their collaboration on A Thurber Carnival (1960). Ī distinguished theatre director, he earned a Tony Award nomination for his 1974 Broadway staging of Ulysses in Nighttown, a theatrical adaptation of the 'Nighttown' section of James Joyce's Ulysses. He played Hamlet in avant garde theatrical and radio productions of the play. He created the role of Erie Smith in the English-language premiere of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie at the Theater Royal in Bath, England in 1963. Other Broadway roles included Van van Dorn in High Tor (1937), Liliom in Liliom (1940), Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World (1946), and Adolphus Cusins in Major Barbara (1956). She subsequently cast him in several of her later productions. He garnered critical acclaim in the 1935 Broadway revival of The Barretts of Wimpole Street starring Katharine Cornell. In 1935, he starred along with Hugh Williams at the Martin Beck Theatre in John Van Druten's Flowers of the Forest. His early life and theatre work were the subject of a New Yorker profile. He made his Broadway debut as Peter in Le Gallienne's production of Romeo and Juliet (1930) and became a star in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset (1935), which became his film debut the following year. Although best known to the larger world audience for his film and television work, Meredith was an influential actor and director for the stage. In 1929, he became a member of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre company in New York City. 'Although those performances renewed his popularity,' observed Mel Gussow in The New York Times, 'they represented only a small part of a richly varied career in which he played many of the more demanding roles in classical and contemporary theater-in plays by Shakespeare, O'Neill, Beckett and others.' He narrated numerous films and documentaries during his long career. He later appeared in the comedy Foul Play (1978) and the fantasy film Clash of the Titans (1981). For his performances in The Day of the Locust (1975) and Rocky (1976), he received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Meredith was known later in his career for his appearances on The Twilight Zone and for portraying The Penguin in the 1960s TV series Batman and boxing trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky film series. He established himself as a leading man in Hollywood with critically acclaimed performances as Mio Romagna in Winterset (1936), George Milton in Of Mice and Men (1939), and Ernie Pyle in The Story of G.I.

A lifetime member of the Actors Studio, he won several Emmys, was the first male actor to win the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, and was nominated for two Academy Awards. Oliver Burgess Meredith (Novem– September 9, 1997) was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed theater, film, and television.Īctive for more than six decades, Meredith has been called 'a virtuosic actor' and 'one of the most accomplished actors of the century'.