Burgess Meredith — Actor (52)
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Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
director: Burt Kennedy actor: Suzanne Pleshette / Tony Randall …
other title: In Texas ist der Teufel los
A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to capture a gang of outlaws led by a charming "Robin Hood of the plains," leading a band of dispossessed ranchers against a stuffy English land baron who has cheated them out of their property.
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Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Santa Claus: The Movie
director: Jeannot Szwarc actor: Dudley Moore / John Lithgow …
other title: La storia di Babbo Natale / Julemanden i Knibe …
In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-making elf, Patch, in the North Pole. In the present day, Santa Claus has become overwhelmed by his workload, and the disgruntled Patch flees the workshop to New York City. There, Patch unknowingly threatens the fate of Christmas by taking a job at a failing toy company run by a scheming businessman.
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The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard
director: Sunao Katabuchi / Keiko Namba … actor: Burgess Meredith / Henry Gibson …
A little girl, Molly, loses her doll, Belinda, in the Blinkin wood and the Blinkins find it and make it their mission to return her to the owner. In the process, Flashy gets kidnapped by Mr Bear and the Blinkins are given a ransom from Mr Bear and Mr Grogg in the form of food from their winter store in exchange for Flashy's safe return.
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Full Moon in Blue Water (1988) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Full Moon in Blue Water
director: Peter Masterson actor: Gene Hackman / Teri Garr …
other title: L'ultima luna d'agosto / Die Trottel vom Texas-Grill …
Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senile father-in-law "The General" and is helped by Jimmy, a former asylum inmate, and the good-natured Louise. The bar is rapidly losing money and Charlie wants to buy it cheaply before it becomes publicly known that a nearby bridge is to be built. Louise offers her savings to go into partnership with Floyd, but Floyd decides to sell when he is forced to pay his back taxes.
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The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Diary of a Chambermaid
director: Jean Renoir actor: Paulette Goddard / Burgess Meredith …
other title: Il diario di una cameriera / Segredos de Alcova …
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 a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
director: Valerie A. Robins actor: Otto Preminger / Burgess Meredith …
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
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Such Good Friends (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Such Good Friends
director: Otto Preminger actor: Dyan Cannon / James Coco …
other title: Ma che razza di amici! / So gute Freunde …
Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit for her husband, Richard, spirals into chaos. As secrets unravel, her quest for authenticity clashes with societal expectations.
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Camp Nowhere (1994) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Camp Nowhere
director: Jonathan Prince actor: Jonathan Jackson / Andrew Keegan …
other title: Vacanze a modo nostro / Ferien total verrückt …
Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of their own design.
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Foul Play (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Foul Play
director: Colin Higgins actor: Goldie Hawn / Chevy Chase …
other title: Gioco sleale / Pigen der vidste for meget …
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
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Street of Chance (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Street of Chance
director: Jack Hively actor: Burgess Meredith / Claire Trevor …
other title: Vida contra vida / Rue de la chance
In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a lot of mysterious happenings.
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On Our Merry Way (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
On Our Merry Way
director: Leslie Fenton / King Vidor actor: Paulette Goddard / Burgess Meredith …
other title: La strada della felicità / Når enden er god …
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
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Madame X (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Madame X
director: David Lowell Rich actor: Lana Turner / John Forsythe …
other title: La mujer X
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her. She is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity in order to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men. Eventually returning to the city of her downfall, she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, Holly is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who has become a public defender. In the hope of protecting her family, she refuses to reveal her real name and is known to the court as "Madame X".
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Story of G.I. Joe (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Story of G.I. Joe
director: William A. Wellman actor: Burgess Meredith / Robert Mitchum …
other title: I forzati della gloria / Schlachtgewitter am Monte Cassino …
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 and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.
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Golden Needles (1974) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Golden Needles
director: Robert Clouse actor: Joe Don Baker / Elizabeth Ashley …
other title: I sette aghi d'oro / Das Geheimnis der 7 goldenen Nadeln …
An ancient Asian statue with the power to grant health and long life via secret acupuncture points is being pursued by a wealthy criminal, but his plans are put in peril when a slovenly detective is tasked with protecting the relic.