Burgess Meredith
Director, Actor
- Of Mice and Men (1939)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Burgess Meredith, Betty Field…
- A mentally–challenged giant and his level–headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in this adaptation of John Steinbeck's…
- Man on the Eiffel Tower, The (1949)
- Dir. Burgess Meredith
Feat. Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith…
- Solid early outing for Inspector Maigret has Laughton in the iconic role pursuing a murderer against some splendid Parisian locales.
- Twilight Zone, The (Original TV Series) (1959-1964)
- Dir. Robert Parrish, Jack Smight, John Brahm
Feat. Agnes Moorehead, Ed Wynn, Jack Warden…
- Iconic and influential cult TV series with self–contained episodes telling sci–fi tinged tales of the unexpected and mysterious,…
- Advise and Consent (1962)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray…
- Political thriller–fable set in the corridors and committee rooms of Washington DC, where the fundamentally decent Senator, Henry Fonda, learns…
- In Harm's Way (1965)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal…
- Epic and stately treatment of the aftermath of Japan's WW2 attack on Pearl Harbour, with Wayne playing a sidelined Admiral who tries to claw back…
- Batman (TV Series) (1966-1968)
- Feat. Adam West, Burt Ward, Burgess Meredith…
- Batman and Robin, as many would best remember them, take on a succession of colourful Gotham City villains – Catwoman, The Joker, The Penguin,…
- Madame X (1966)
- Dir. David Lowell Rich
Feat. Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban…
- Sudsy melodrama with Turner as a woman with a past who's dalliance with a wealthy politician leads to murder. Superior weepie, lushly mounted and…
- Batman: The Movie (1966)
- Dir. Leslie Martinson
Feat. Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether…
- Spawned from the original sixties TV series, this feature–length adventure pitting the caper crusader against his fiercest adversaries was the…
- Torture Garden (1967)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams…
- Grisly, well–acted omnibus of four horror stories by PSYCHO–scribe Robert Bloch, framed by the fiendish hype of Burgess Meredith's…
- Beware the Blob (Son of the Blob) (1972)
- Dir. Larry Hagman
Feat. Burgess Meredith, Dick Van Patten, Robert Walker Jnr
- A light, spoofish sequel to the 50s sci–fi–er in the best Z–grade traditions. And yes, this was directed by DALLAS–star…