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Burgess Meredith
(Oliver Burgess Meredith)
* 16. November 1907 (in Cleveland, Ohio)
+ 09. September 1997 (in Malibu, California)
Oscarnominee
1976 as Harry Greener in "The Day of the Locust"
1977 as Mickey Goldwill in "Rocky"
My Personal Comments
- I received his autograph 6 days after his death, on 15. September 1997, and as letters always take about a week from the USA to Germany, this must have been one of the last autographs he wrote, and itīs for sure authentic, because he was known for being a very good through the mail signer, and often quoted, he always takes the time to answer all his fanmail himself
- I always check the important dates of the persons life, when I receive their autographs and was very sad, when I discovered, he died a week ago, because didnīt already know it on the day, I received his autograph
- he didnīt send a photo along with the autograph, so I put in this little photo of him
- I liked him most as Mickey Goldwill in "Rocky" (1976) and as Grandpa Gustafson in the "Grumpy Old Men" - movies (1993 and 1995)
- Burgess was the youngest of three children (sister: Virginia, brother: George)
- the name of his father, a physician, was William George Meredith, and his motherīs name was Ida Beth
- he was married four times: with Helen Berrian Darby (1933 - 1935, divorced), Margaret Perry (1936 - 1938, divorced), Paulette Goddard (1944 - 1950, divorced) and Kaja Sundsten (1950 - 1997, his death)
- there are two children from his marriage with Kaja, son Jonathan, a musician, and daughter Tala, a painter
- he served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II reaching the rank of Captain
- because of his very liberal political views, he was blacklisted from films in the late 1950s