Burgess Meredith — Actor (29)
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Torture Garden (1967) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Torture Garden
director: Freddie Francis actor: Burgess Meredith / Jack Palance …
other title: Il giardino delle torture / Der Foltergarten des Dr. Diabolo …
A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman Dr Diabolo, to warn people of foreseeable evil. One by one, skeptics stand before the Fate Atropos to preview the greed and violence hiding behind their respectable façades.
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Skidoo (1968) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Skidoo
director: Otto Preminger actor: Jackie Gleason / Carol Channing …
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
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State of Grace (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
State of Grace
director: Phil Joanou actor: Sean Penn / Ed Harris …
other title: Stato di grazia / Anjos Caídos …
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
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SST: Death Flight (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
SST: Death Flight
director: David Lowell Rich actor: Barbara Anderson / Bert Convy …
other title: New York Parigi air sabotage '78 / Todesflug …
On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
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UFOs: It Has Begun (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
UFOs: It Has Begun
director: Ray Rivas actor: Rod Serling / Burgess Meredith …
A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and extra-terrestrial beings. Hosted by the LEGENDARY Rod Serling. This was considered his "coming out the closet" in regards to his deep belief in UFOs just before his death from cancer.
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The Forgotten Village (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Forgotten Village
director: Herbert Kline / Alexander Hammid actor: Burgess Meredith
other title: Den glemte landsby
Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.
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The Man (1972) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Man
director: Joseph Sargent actor: James Earl Jones / Martin Balsam …
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
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92 in the Shade (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
92 in the Shade
director: Thomas McGuane actor: Peter Fonda / Warren Oates …
other title: 92 gradi all'ombra / 33 Grad im Schatten …
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
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The Last Chase (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Last Chase
director: Martyn Burke actor: Lee Majors / Burgess Meredith …
other title: La Course à la mort / Carrera a muerte …
Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.
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The Hindenburg (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Hindenburg
director: Robert Wise actor: George C. Scott / Anne Bancroft …
other title: Hindenburg / Die Hindenburg …
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
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Hard Contract (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hard Contract
director: S. Lee Pogostin actor: James Coburn / Lee Remick …
other title: Uno sporco contratto / Der Killer und die Dirne …
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract.
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Beware! The Blob (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Beware! The Blob
director: Larry Hagman actor: Robert Walker Jr. / Gwynne Gilford …
other title: Attention au Blob ! / Blob. Masa mortal …
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace-- the local hippies, cops, drunks and bowlers must all face the Blob!
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Winter of the Witch (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Winter of the Witch
director: Gerald Herman actor: Hermione Gingold / Anna Strasberg …
The life of a witch is disrupted by the arrival of a boy and his mother. The intruders' presence makes her struggle to adjust to the modern world, and to change from bad to good witch. Based on the book "Old Black Witch" by Wende and Harry Devlin.
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The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
director: Burgess Meredith actor: James Mason / Jack MacGowran …
other title: Le Troisième œil / El tercer ojo
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go, an organized crime mastermind. They conspire to blackmail an American weapons scientist into providing secrets to Mr. Go's organization for resale to the highest bidder. "The Dolphin" then arrives, who is an American CIA agent and James Joyce scholar, and is charged with recovering the scientist and his work by whatever means necessary.
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The Manitou (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Manitou
director: William Girdler actor: Tony Curtis / Michael Ansara …
other title: Manitù, lo spirito del male / Manitú …
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
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Advise & Consent (1962) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
Advise & Consent
director: Otto Preminger actor: Henry Fonda / Charles Laughton …
other title: Tempesta su Washington / Storm over Washington …
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
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Burnt Offerings (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Burnt Offerings
director: Dan Curtis actor: Karen Black / Oliver Reed …
other title: Ballata macabra / A Mansão Macabra …
A couple and their twelve-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer where things aren’t quite what they seem. Every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself…
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Broken Rainbow (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Broken Rainbow
director: Victoria Mudd actor: Peter MacDonald / Dennis DeConcini …
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
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Grumpier Old Men (1995) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Grumpier Old Men
director: Howard Deutch actor: Walter Matthau / Jack Lemmon …
other title: That's Amore - Due improbabili seduttori / Gnavne gamle mænd 2 …
A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. But she's less interested in seafood than she is in cooking up a hot time with Max.