Burgess Meredith
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Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997)<ref name="date"/><ref name="CNN 2011">Template:Cite news</ref> was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed radio, theater, film, and television.
Active for more than six decades, Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor" and "one of the most accomplished actors of the century".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="date" /> A lifetime member of the Actors Studio,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> he won a Primetime Emmy Award,<ref name="Turner Classic Movies">Template:Cite web</ref> was the first male actor to win the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor twice, and was nominated for two Academy Awards.<ref name="Turner Classic Movies" />
Meredith 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. Joe (1945).
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. For his performances in The Day of the Locust (1975) and Rocky (1976), he received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He later appeared in the comedy Foul Play (1978) and the fantasy film Clash of the Titans (1981). Meredith also narrated numerous films and documentaries during his long career.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
"Although those performances renewed his popularity," observed Mel Gussow in The New York Times (referring to the Penguin and Mickey Goldmill roles), "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."<ref name="date" />
Early life
Meredith was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Ida Beth (née Burgess; 1861–1933) and William George Meredith (1861–1938), a Canadian-born physician of English descent.<ref name="date">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="date2">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="place">Burgess Meredith genealogy Template:Webarchive by Robert Battle, hosted at freepages.rootsweb</ref> His mother came from a long line of Methodist revivalists,<ref name="date" /> a religion to which he adhered throughout his lifetime.
Known informally to his friends as "Buzz", Burgess Meredith graduated from Hoosac School in 1926 and then attended Amherst College (class of 1931). He left Amherst and became a reporter for the Stamford Advocate.<ref>Meredith's Lakewood memories are mostly unhappy Template:Webarchive Lakewood Sun Post December 7, 1995, by Dan Chabek</ref>
Career
Theatre
In 1929, he became a member of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre company in New York City. Although best known to the larger world audience for his film and television work, Meredith was an influential actor and director for the stage. 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. His early life and theatre work were the subject of a New Yorker profile.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In 1935, he starred along with Hugh Williams at the Martin Beck Theatre in John Van Druten's Flowers of the Forest.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Meredith's performance in the 1935 Broadway revival of The Barretts of Wimpole Street starring Katharine Cornell generated enthusiastic positive reviews from a number of critics.Template:Citation needed Cornell subsequently cast him in several of her later productions. Some of Meredith's 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). He created the role of Erie Smith in the English-language premiere of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie at the Theatre Royal in Bath, England in 1963. He played Hamlet in avant garde theatrical and radio productions of the play.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
A distinguished theater director, Meredith 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. Meredith also shared a Special Tony Award with James Thurber for their collaboration on A Thurber Carnival (1960).<ref name="ibdb">Template:IBDB name</ref> In the late 1970s, he directed Fionnula Flanagan's one-woman multi-role play James Joyce's Women, which toured for several years.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Film
File:The Rear Gunner.ogv Burgess Meredith's stage performances attracted the attention of several Hollywood film producers. Unlike most other movie actors, Meredith never signed a long-term contract with a single studio, preferring to work on individual film projects. Also, unlike some other former stage actors, Meredith successfully adjusted his performances to the film medium. Instead of playing to the audience in the balcony, Meredith now played to the camera, with his performances more controlled and intimate.Template:CN This gave his screen characters great sensitivity, as he demonstrated in three bravura performances for which he is remembered: as Mio Romagna in Winterset (1936); as George Milton in Of Mice and Men (1939); and as Ernie Pyle in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945). He starred only occasionally in pictures, as in San Francisco Docks (1940, as a longshoreman accused of murder) and Street of Chance (1942, as an amnesiac who may have been a killer). Meredith was featured in many 1940s films, including three co-starring his then-wife Paulette Goddard: Second Chorus (1940), Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), and On Our Merry Way (1948).
As a result of the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation, Meredith was placed on the Hollywood blacklist and was largely absent from film for the next decade, though he remained involved in stage plays and radio during this time.<ref name="obit">Template:Cite news</ref>
Meredith was a favorite of director Otto Preminger, who cast him in Advise and Consent (1962), The Cardinal (1963), In Harm's Way (1965), Hurry Sundown (1967), Skidoo (1968), and Such Good Friends (1971).<ref name="date" /> He was in Madame X (with Lana Turner, 1966) and Stay Away Joe (1968), appearing as the father of Elvis Presley's character.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was acclaimed by critics for his performance as Harry Greener in The Day of the Locust (1975) and received nominations for the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Academy Award for best supporting actor.<ref name="Gunderman nydailynews">Template:Cite news</ref> Meredith then played Rocky Balboa's trainer Mickey Goldmill in the first three Rocky films (1976, 1979, and 1982).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Though his character died in the third Rocky film,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Meredith returned briefly in a flashback in the fifth film, Rocky V (1990).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His portrayal in the first film earned him his second consecutive nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Meredith had a role in Foul Play (1978) with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn.<ref>Maslin, Janet (July 19, 1978). "Screen: Goldie Hawn in 'Foul Play'". The New York Times.</ref> He played an old Korean War veteran Captain J. G. Williams in The Last Chase (1981) with Lee Majors.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He appeared in Ray Harryhausen's last stop-motion feature Clash of the Titans (also 1981) in a supporting role.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Meredith appeared in Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and was the voice of Golobulus in G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987). In his last years, he played Jack Lemmon's character's sex-crazed 95-year-old father in Grumpy Old Men (1993) and its sequel, Grumpier Old Men (1995).<ref name="Gunderman nydailynews" />
Meredith directed the movie The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) starring Charles Laughton, which was produced by Irving Allen. Meredith also was billed in a supporting role in this film.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1970, he directed, co-wrote, and played a supporting role in) The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go, an espionage caper starring James Mason and Jeff Bridges.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Television
Meredith appeared in four episodes of the anthology TV series The Twilight Zone, tying him with Jack Klugman for the most appearances on the show in a starring role.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In his first appearance in 1959 in "Time Enough at Last", Meredith portrayed a henpecked bookworm who finds himself the sole survivor of an unspecified apocalypse that leads him to contemplate suicide until he discovers the ruins of the library.Template:Sfn In 1961's "Mr. Dingle, the Strong", Meredith played the title character, a timid weakling who receives superhuman strength from an extraterrestrial experiment in human nature.Template:Sfn Also that year in "The Obsolete Man", Meredith portrayed a librarian sentenced to death in a dystopic totalitarian society.Template:Sfn Lastly, in 1963's "Printer's Devil", Meredith portrayed the Devil himself.Template:Sfn Meredith later played two additional roles in Rod Serling's other anthology series, Night Gallery.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Meredith was the narrator for Twilight Zone: The Movie in 1983.<ref name="Stanyard 2007">Template:Cite book</ref>
Meredith also appeared in various western series, such as Rawhide (four times), The Virginian (twice), Wagon Train, Branded, The Wild Wild West, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Laredo, Bonanza, and Daniel Boone. In 1963, he appeared as Vincent Marion in a five-part episode of the last season of the Warner Bros. ABC detective series 77 Sunset Strip.<ref name="Gunderman nydailynews" /> He appeared three times in Burke's Law (1963–1964), starring Gene Barry.
Meredith was also well known for his portrayal of the Penguin in the television series Batman from 1966 to 1968 and in the 1966 film based on the TV series.<ref name="Gunderman nydailynews" /> His role as the Penguin was so well-received that the show's writers always had a script featuring the Penguin ready whenever Meredith was available.Template:Citation needed Meredith made 21 appearances on the series as the Penguin. He also made a brief cameo appearance as the Penguin in the 1968 episode of The Monkees titled "Monkees Blow Their Minds".
From 1972 to 1973, Meredith played V. C. R. Cameron, director of Probe Control, in the television movie/pilot Probe and then in Search, the subsequent TV series (the name was changed to avoid conflict with a program on PBS).
Meredith won an Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special for portraying crusading lawyer Joseph Welch in the 1977 television film Tail Gunner Joe, a fictionalized study of the career of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, the controversial anticommunist politician active in the 1950s.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In 1992, Meredith narrated The Chaplin Puzzle, a television documentary that provides a rare insight into Charles Chaplin's work circa 1914 at Keystone Studios and Essanay, where Chaplin developed his Tramp character. Coincidentally, Meredith married actress Paulette Goddard in 1944 following her divorce from Chaplin.<ref name="obit" />
Military service
In 1942, Meredith enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, reaching the rank of captain.<ref name="Burgess">Template:Cite web</ref> After transferring to the Office of War Information, he made training and education films for the U.S. armed forces. In 1943 he performed in the USAAF's recruiting short The Rear Gunner and the U.S. Army training film A Welcome to Britain for troops heading to the UK in preparation for the liberation of Europe.<ref>Archived at GhostarchiveTemplate:Cbignore and the Wayback MachineTemplate:Cbignore: Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref> He was released from duty in 1944 to work on the movie The Story of G.I. Joe, in which he played the war correspondent Ernie Pyle.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was discharged from the USAAF in 1945.<ref name="Burgess" />
Other work
Meredith also performed voice-over work. He provided the narration for the war film A Walk in the Sun (1945).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> As a nod to his longtime association with the original Twilight Zone series, he served as narrator for the 1983 film based on the series.<ref name="Stanyard 2007" /> He was a TV commercial voice for such clients as Bulova, Honda, Pioneer, Stokely-Van Camp, United Airlines, and Freakies breakfast cereal.Template:Citation needed He also produced and narrated Works Of Calder, a 1950 film directed by Herbert Matter with a soundtrack by the composer John Cage.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He supplied the narration for the 1974–75 ABC Saturday morning series Korg: 70,000 B.C.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and was the voice of Puff in the series of animated adaptations of the Peter, Paul, and Mary song Puff, the Magic Dragon.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the mid-1950s, he was one of four narrators of the NBC and syndicated public affairs program, The Big Story (1949–58), which focused on courageous journalists. In 1991, he narrated a track on The Chieftains' album of traditional Christmas music and carols, The Bells of Dublin.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
He acted in the Kenny G music video of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", which was released in 1994. He played the main character, a projectionist at a movie theater.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In 1994, he published his autobiography, So Far, So Good.
His last role before his death was the portrayal of both the Hamilton Wofford and Covington Wofford characters in the 1996 video game Ripper by Take-Two Interactive.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Meredith was considered to play the Penguin's father in the 1992 Tim Burton film Batman Returns, but illness prevented him from appearing<ref name="Gunderman nydailynews" /> and the role was taken by Paul Reubens.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Personal life
Meredith was married four times. His first wife, Helen Derby Berrien Meredith—the daughter of American Cyanamid president Harry L. Derby—died by suicide in 1940, nearly five years after their divorce.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His next two wives, Margaret Perry (actress) and Paulette Goddard, were actresses; Goddard suffered a miscarriage in 1944. Meredith's last marriage, to Kaja Sundsten, lasted 46 years and produced two children, Jonathan (a musician) and Tala (a painter).<ref name="date" />
Meredith was a lifelong DemocratTemplate:Cn and donor to the party.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> He wrote in his 1994 autobiography So Far, So Good that he had violent mood swings caused by cyclothymia, a form of bipolar disorder.<ref name="date2" />
In 1937, Meredith moved to Rockland County, New York where he bought land named High Tor Ranch.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He would sponsor popular horse shows, the funds from the first were used as seed money to pay for legal fees to incorporate the area into the village of Pomona.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His shows were popular enough that he would entertain guests dressed in his Penguin costume and invite fellow actors and celebrities to join him.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
On September 9, 1997, Meredith died at age 89 from complications of Alzheimer's disease and melanoma in his home in Malibu, California, and his remains were cremated.<ref name="CNN 2011" />
Awards and nominations
Honors
- For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Meredith has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- For his onstage contributions, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- A Template:Convert park was named after him in Pomona, New York, and he provided the funding to incorporate the village.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- In 1977, he received an honorary doctorate degree from Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | The Scoundrel | Flop House Bum | Uncredited |
| 1936 | Winterset | Mio Romagna | |
| 1937 | There Goes the Groom | Dick Matthews | |
| 1938 | Spring Madness | The Lippencott | |
| 1939 | Idiot's Delight | Quillery | |
| Of Mice and Men | George Milton | ||
| 1940 | Castle on the Hudson | Steven Rockford | |
| Second Chorus | Hank Taylor | ||
| The San Francisco Docks | Johnny Barnes | ||
| 1941 | That Uncertain Feeling | Alexander Sebastian | |
| Tom, Dick and Harry | Harry | ||
| The Forgotten Village | Narrator | Voice | |
| 1942 | Street of Chance | Frank Thompson / Danny Nearing | |
| 1943 | A Welcome to Britain | Himself | Army Service Forces training film, 1943; uncredited |
| The Rear Gunner | Pvt. L.A. Pee Wee Williams | ||
| 1944 | Our Country | Himself | |
| Hymn of the Nations | Narrator | Voice, uncredited | |
| Salute to France | the American soldier | ||
| Tunisian Victory | American soldier | Voice | |
| Attack! Battle of New Britain | Narrator | Voice | |
| 1945 | The Story of G.I. Joe | Ernie Pyle | |
| A Walk in the Sun | Narrator | Voice, uncredited | |
| 1946 | The Diary of a Chambermaid | Captain Mauger | |
| Magnificent Doll | James Madison | ||
| 1947 | Mine Own Executioner | Felix Milne | |
| 1948 | On Our Merry Way | Oliver M Pease | |
| 1949 | Jigsaw | Jack / Bartender | Uncredited |
| A Yank Comes Back | Unknown role | Also writer | |
| Golden Arrow | Dick | ||
| The Man on the Eiffel Tower | Joseph Heurtin | Also director | |
| 1950 | Works of Calder | Narrator | Voice |
| 1954 | Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Invisible Man | Himself | |
| 1957 | Joe Butterfly | Joe Butterfly | |
| Albert Schweitzer | Narrator | Voice | |
| 1958 | The Kidnappers | Louis Halliburton | |
| Sorcerer's Village | Narrator | Voice | |
| 1959 | America Pauses for Springtime | Himself | |
| America Pauses for the Merry Month of May | Himself | ||
| 1962 | Advise and Consent | Herbert Gelman | |
| 1963 | The Cardinal | Father Ned Halley | |
| 1965 | In Harm's Way | Commander Egan Powell | |
| 1966 | Madame X | Dan Sullivan | |
| Batman | Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin | ||
| The Crazy Quilt | Narrator | Voice | |
| A Big Hand for the Little Lady | Doc Scully | As Burgess Meridith | |
| 1967 | Torture Garden | Dr. Diablo | |
| Hurry Sundown | Judge Purcell | Framework Story | |
| 1968 | Stay Away, Joe | Charlie Lightcloud | |
| Skidoo | The Warden | ||
| Dear Mr. Gable | Narrator | Voice | |
| Debrief: Apollo 8 | Narrator | Voice | |
| 1969 | The Father | Captain Ned | |
| Mackenna's Gold | The Store Keeper | ||
| Hard Contract | Ramsey Williams | ||
| The Reivers | Lucious / Narrator | Voice | |
| 1970 | There Was a Crooked Man... | The Missouri Kid | |
| The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go | The Dolphin | Also director | |
| 1971 | Clay Pigeon | Freedom Lovelace | |
| Such Good Friends | Kalman | ||
| 1972 | A Fan's Notes | Mr. Blue | |
| Beware! The Blob | Old Hobo | Uncredited | |
| Mineral King | Narrator | Voice | |
| The Man | Senator Watson | ||
| 1974 | Hay que matar a B. | Hector | |
| Golden Needles | Winters | ||
| 1975 | The Day of the Locust | Harry Greener | |
| 92 in the Shade | Goldsboro | ||
| The Master Gunfighter | Narrator | Voice | |
| The Hindenburg | Emilio Pajetta | ||
| 1976 | Circasia | Clown | |
| Burnt Offerings | Arnold Allardyce | ||
| Rocky | Mickey Goldmill | ||
| 1977 | The Sentinel | Charles Chazen | |
| Golden Rendezvous | Van Heurden | ||
| 1978 | The Manitou | Dr. Snow | |
| 1978 | Foul Play | Mr. Hennessey | |
| The Great Bank Hoax | Jack Stutz | ||
| Magic | Ben Greene | ||
| 1979 | Rocky II | Mickey Goldmill | |
| 1980 | When Time Ran Out | Rene Valdez | |
| Final Assignment | Zak | ||
| 1981 | The Last Chase | Captain J.G. Williams | |
| Clash of the Titans | Ammon | ||
| True Confessions | Msgr. Seamus Fargo | ||
| 1982 | Rocky III | Mickey Goldmill | |
| 1983 | Twilight Zone: The Movie | Narrator | Voice, uncredited |
| 1984 | Wet Gold | Sampson | Made for TV |
| 1985 | Santa Claus: The Movie | Ancient Elf | |
| Rocky IV | Mickey Goldmill | Archival footage, uncredited | |
| 1987 | G.I. Joe: The Movie | Golobulus | Voice |
| King Lear | Don Learo | Uncredited | |
| 1988 | Hot to Trot | Don's Dad | Voice, uncredited |
| Full Moon in Blue Water | The General | ||
| 1990 | Oddball Hall | Ingersol | |
| State of Grace | Finn | ||
| Rocky V | Mickey Goldmill | Flashback (new footage) | |
| 1993 | Grumpy Old Men | Grandpa Gustafson | |
| 1994 | Camp Nowhere | Fein | |
| 1995 | Tall Tale | Old Man | Uncredited |
| Across the Moon | Barney | ||
| Grumpier Old Men | Grandpa Gustafson | Last role | |
| 2006 | Rocky Balboa | Mickey Goldmill | Archival footage, uncredited |
| 2020 | 40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic | Mickey Goldmill | Archival footage |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Texaco Star Theatre | Himself | 1 episode |
| 1950 | Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | Himself | 1 episode |
| 1950 | Your Show of Shows | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents | Himself/Frank Hugo | Episode: "Ride the Pink Horse" |
| 1952 | The Name's the Same | Himself | 1 episode |
| 1952 | Tales of Tomorrow | Paul | Episode: "The Great Silence" |
| 1953–1954 | Excursion | Himself | 3 episodes |
| 1956 | What's My Line | Himself | 1 episode |
| 1955–1958 | The Big Story | Narrator (voice) | 38 episodes |
| 1958 | The Ben Hecht Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| 1959 | The Jack Paar Tonight Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| 1959 | The Arthur Murray Party | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 1959–1963 | The Twilight Zone | Henry Bemis, Luther Dingle, Romney Wordsworth, Mr. Smith | 4 episodes |
| 1961 | The Play of the Week | Vladimir | Episode: "Waiting for Godot" |
| 1961 | Rawhide | Tom Gwynn | S4:E9, "The Little Fishes" |
| 1962 | Naked City | Duncan Kleist | Episode: "Hold for Gloria Christmas" |
| 1963 | Rawhide | Matthew Higgins | S6:E5, "Incident at Paradise" |
| 1964 | Rawhide | Hannibal H. Plew | S6:26, "Incident at Deadhorse: Part I" |
| 1964 | Rawhide | Hannibal H. Plew | S6:27, "Incident at Deadhorse: Part II" |
| 1964 | Wagon Train | Grover Allen | Episode: "The Grover Allen Story" |
| 1965 | Mr. Novak | Principal Martin Woodridge | 15 episodes |
| 1965 | Laredo | Grubby Sully | Episode: "Lazyfoot, Where Are You?" |
| 1965 | The Loner | Siedry | Episode: "Hunt the Man Down" |
| 1965 | The Wild Wild West | Orkney Cadwallader | Episode: "The Night of the Human Trigger" |
| 1965 | The Trials of O'Brien | Judge Benjamin Vincent | Episode: "No Justice for the Judge" |
| 1966–1968 | Batman | The Penguin | 21 episodes |
| 1966 | Twelve O'Clock High | Radar Expert | Episode: "Back to the Drawing Board" |
| 1967 | The Invaders | Theodore Booth | Episode: "Wall of Crystal" |
| 1968–1971 | Ironside | Harry Grenadine, Alfred Carney | 2 episodes |
| 1967 | Bonanza | Owney Duggan | Episode: "Six Black Horses" |
| 1968 | The Monkees | The Penguin | Uncredited Episode: "Monkees Blow Their Minds" |
| 1968 | The Virginian | Tim Bradbury | 2 episodes |
| 1969 | Daniel Boone | Alex Hemming | Episode: "Three Score and Ten" |
| 1970–1972 | Night Gallery | Charlie Finnegan, Dr. William Fall | 2 episodes |
| 1971 | The Virginian | Muley | Episode: "Flight From Memory" |
| 1971 | The Bill Cosby Special | Himself | Television special |
| 1971 | The Bold Ones: The Senator | George P. Mallon | Episode: "Power Play" |
| 1971 | Room 222 | Morris Henry | Episode: "KWWH" |
| 1971 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | Henry Meade | 2 episodes |
| 1972 | Mannix | Noah Otway | Episode: "The Crimson Halo" |
| 1972 | McCloud | Marvin Sloan | Episode: "A Little Plot at Tranquil Valley" |
| 1972–1973 | Search | V. C. R. Cameron | 23 episodes |
| 1974–1975 | Korg: 70,000 B.C. | Narrator (voice) | 19 episodes |
| 1975 | The Time Of Apollo | Narrator (voice) | Documentary by NASA <ref name="NatArc649447">Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1976 | Dinah! | Himself | 1 episode |
| 1976 | The 48th Annual Academy Awards | Himself | |
| 1977 | SST: Death Flight | Willy Basset | Television film |
| 1977 | Tail Gunner Joe | Joseph N. Welch | Television film |
| 1977 | The 49th Annual Academy Awards | Himself | |
| 1978 | The Return of Captain Nemo | Prof. Waldo Cunningham | Television film |
| 1978–1979, 1982 | Puff the Magic Dragon | Puff (voice) | Television special |
| 1980–1981 | Those Amazing Animals | Himself/co-host | 2 episodes |
| 1982–1983 | Gloria | Dr. Adams, Gloria Bunker Stivic's boss | 22 episodes |
| 1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Mr. Mortimer Mole (voice) | Episode: "Thumbelina" |
| 1987 | Mister Corbett's Ghost | Mad Tom | Television film |
| 1991 | Night of the Hunter | Birdy | Television film |
| 1992 | Lincoln | Winfield Scott (voice) | Television film |
| 1993 | In the Heat of the Night | Judge Cully | 3 episodes |
| 1994 | The Great Battles of the Civil War | Gettysburg Star, Banner Columnist (voice) | Television series documentary |
Video games
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Ripper | Hamilton Wofford, Covington Wofford |
Theatre
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Romeo and Juliet | Peter | <ref name=IBDB>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1930 | The Green Cockatoo | Grain | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1930 | Siegfried | Olderly | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1931 | People on the Hill | Packy Davis | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1932 | Liliom | Young Hollunder | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1932 | Alice in Wonderland | Duck, Dormouse, Tweedledee | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1933 | The Threepenny Opera | Cook-Finger Jack | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1933 | Little Ol' Boy | Red Barry | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1933 | She Loves Me Not | Buzz Jones | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1934 | Hipper's Holiday | Jim Hipper | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1935 | Battieship Gertie | Seaman Jones | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1935 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Octavius Moulton-Barrett | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1935 | Flowers of the Forest | Leonard Dobie | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1935 | Winterset | Milo | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1936 | High Tor | Van Van Dorn | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1937 | The Star-Wagon | Stephen Minch | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1940 | Liliom | Liliom | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1946 | The Playboy of the Western World | Christy Mahon | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1950 | Happy as Larry | Larry | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1951 | The Little Blue Light | Gandersheim | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1951 | The Fourposter | Michael | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1953 | The Teahouse of the August Moon | Sakini | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1953 | The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker | Pa Pennypacker | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1956 | Major Barbra | Adolphus Cusins | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1961 | Kicks and Co. | Mr. Kicks | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1964 | I Was Dancing | Performer | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1967 | Of Love Remembered | Performer | <ref name=IBDB/> |
| 1974 | Ulysses in Nighttown | Performer | <ref name=IBDB/> |
Radio appearances
| Program | Episode | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Morris Playhouse | Night Must Fall | October 24, 1941 | Maureen O'Sullivan co-starred.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Philip Morris Playhouse | My Favorite Wife | October 31, 1941 | Madeleine Carroll co-starred<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Philip Morris Playhouse | You Only Live Once | November 28, 1941 | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Cavalcade of America | Rain Fakers | December 30, 1946 | <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> |
| Theatre Guild on the Air | The Sea Wolf | April 27, 1952 | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Theatre Guild on the Air | Black Chiffon | May 10, 1953 | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
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- 20th-century American male journalists