1909 - 1997 (87 years)
Has 3 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.
1909 - 1997 (87 years)
Birth |
16 Nov 1909 |
Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Died |
9 Sep 1997 |
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Father |
Dr. William George Meredith |
Mother |
Ida Beth Burgess, b. Fitchville, Ohio, USA |
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Family 1 |
Helen Derby |
Married |
1933 |
Divorced |
1935 |
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Family 2 |
Margaret Perry, b. 23 Feb 1913, Denver, Denver Co, Colorado, USA |
Married |
10 Jan 1936 |
Divorced |
Jul 1938 |
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Family 3 |
Paulette Goddard, b. 3 Jun 1911, Whitestone Landing, New York, USA |
Married |
21 May 1944 |
Divorced |
1950 |
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Family 4 |
Kaja Sundsten |
Married |
1950 |
Children |
| 1. Johnathon Meredith |
| 2. Tala Meredith |
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Family |
Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Married |
1933 |
Divorced |
1935 |
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1913 - Yes, date unknown
Birth |
23 Feb 1913 |
Denver, Denver Co, Colorado, USA |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Family |
Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Married |
10 Jan 1936 |
Divorced |
Jul 1938 |
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1911 - 1990 (78 years)
Birth |
3 Jun 1911 |
Whitestone Landing, New York, USA |
Died |
23 Apr 1990 |
Ronco, Confoederatio Helvetica |
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Family 1 |
Edgar James |
Married |
1927 |
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Family 2 |
Charles Spencer Chaplin, b. 16 Apr 1889, Walworth, London |
Married |
1936 |
Divorced |
1942 |
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Family 3 |
Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Married |
21 May 1944 |
Divorced |
1950 |
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Family 4 |
Erich Maria Remarque, b. 22 Jun 1898, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Deutschland |
Married |
25 Feb 1958 |
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Family |
Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Married |
1950 |
Children |
| 1. Johnathon Meredith |
| 2. Tala Meredith |
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Father |
Dr. William George Meredith |
Mother |
Ida Beth Burgess, b. Fitchville, Ohio, USA |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Family |
Ida Beth Burgess, b. Fitchville, Ohio, USA |
Children |
+ | 1. Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
| 2. Virginia Meredith |
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- Yes, date unknown
Birth |
Fitchville, Ohio, USA |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Rev. Oliver Burgess |
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Family |
Dr. William George Meredith |
Children |
+ | 1. Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
| 2. Virginia Meredith |
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Family |
Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Married |
1933 |
Divorced |
1935 |
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1913 - Yes, date unknown
Birth |
23 Feb 1913 |
Denver, Denver Co, Colorado, USA |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Family |
Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Married |
10 Jan 1936 |
Divorced |
Jul 1938 |
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1911 - 1990 (78 years)
Birth |
3 Jun 1911 |
Whitestone Landing, New York, USA |
Died |
23 Apr 1990 |
Ronco, Confoederatio Helvetica |
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Family 1 |
Edgar James |
Married |
1927 |
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Family 2 |
Charles Spencer Chaplin, b. 16 Apr 1889, Walworth, London |
Married |
1936 |
Divorced |
1942 |
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Family 3 |
Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Married |
21 May 1944 |
Divorced |
1950 |
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Family 4 |
Erich Maria Remarque, b. 22 Jun 1898, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Deutschland |
Married |
25 Feb 1958 |
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Family |
Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Married |
1950 |
Children |
| 1. Johnathon Meredith |
| 2. Tala Meredith |
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Father |
Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Mother |
Kaja Sundsten |
Married |
1950 |
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Father |
Oliver Burgess Meredith, b. 16 Nov 1909, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Mother |
Kaja Sundsten |
Married |
1950 |
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Name |
Oliver Burgess Meredith |
Birth |
16 Nov 1909 |
Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, USA |
Gender |
Male |
Prominent People |
USA |
actor |
Death |
9 Sep 1997 |
Siblings |
1 Sibling |
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Person ID |
I372642 |
Geneagraphie |
Last Modified |
1 Apr 2002 |
Family 2 |
Margaret Perry, b. 23 Feb 1913, Denver, Denver Co, Colorado, USA d. Yes, date unknown |
Marriage |
10 Jan 1936 |
Divorce |
Jul 1938 |
Family ID |
F147649 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
1 Apr 2002 |
Family 3 |
Paulette Goddard, b. 3 Jun 1911, Whitestone Landing, New York, USA d. 23 Apr 1990, Ronco, Confoederatio Helvetica (Age 78 years) |
Marriage |
21 May 1944 |
Divorce |
1950 |
Family ID |
F147647 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
1 Apr 2002 |
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Notes |
- former child soprano
One of the truly great and gifted performers of the century who often suffered lesser roles, Meredith was educated in Amherst College in Massachusetts before joining Eva Le Gallienne's stage company in New York City in 1933. He bcame a favorite of dramatist Maxwell Anderson, premiering on film in the playwright's Winterset (1936). Served in the Air Force in WWII. He continued in a variety of dramatic and comedic roles until being named an unfriendly witness by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the early 1950s, whereupon studio work disappeared. His career picked up again, especially with television roles, in the 1960s, although younger audiences know him best for either the Rocky (1976) or 0107050 film series. Meredith also did a large amount of commercial work, serving as the voice for Skippy Peanut Butter and United Air Lines, among others. He was also an ardent environmentalist who believed pollution one of the greatest tragedies of the time, and an opponent of the Vietnam War.
A veteran of stage and film whose numerous accomplishments in dramatic roles will, alas, probably be forever overshadowed by his portrayal of "The Penguin" on the 1960s TV series "Batman" (and the 1966 theatrical feature of the same name). After toiling in many odd jobs during the 1920s, Meredith joined Eva LeGallienne's Student Repertory Group and became a prominent Broadway actor in the 1930s. He made his film debut in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset (1936), recreating his own acclaimed stage performance, and followed with memorable work in Of Mice and Men (as George), Idiots Delight (both 1939), Second Chorus (1940, with wife-to-be Paulette Goddard), Tom, Dick and Harry (1941), The Story of G.I. Joe (1945, as fabled war correspondent Ernie Pyle), Diary of a Chambermaid (1946, with Goddard, which he also produced and wrote), Mine Own Executioner (1947), and On Our Merry Way (1948, which he also coproduced).
Meredith, whose lively countenance and intensity of performance compensated for his "shortcomings" as a Hollywood leading man (i.e., his lack of matinee-idol looks), enjoyed two early starring roles in the B melodramas San Francisco Docks (1940) and Street of Chance (1942, as an amnesiac murder suspect in an early exercise in film noir based on a Cornell Woolrich novel). He directed and performed in The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949), a fascinating, seldom-seen thriller based on one of the popular "Maigret" novels by Georges Simenon. Meredith's film roles thinned out during the 1950s after he was considered an unfriendly witness during the McCarthy era, but he continued to do stage work (winning a Tony for directing "The Thurber Carnival"), returned to films in Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent (1962) and The Cardinal (1963), and thereafter never let up.
He snared Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations for The Day of the Locust (1975) and for his most popular latter-day characterization, that of the trainer Mickey in the first Rocky (1976), a role he repeated in the 1979, 1982, and 1990 sequels. He has appeared in scores of TV shows (winning an Emmy for his performance in 1977's Tail Gunner Joe) and has lent his distinctive voice to innumerable commercials, documentaries, and feature films (including, memorably, 1969's The Reivers). He published his autobiography, "So Far, So Good," in 1994.
OTHER FILMS INCLUDE:
1938: Spring Madness
1940: Castle on the Hudson
1941: That Uncertain Feeling
1946: Magnificent Doll (as President James Madison);
1957: Joe Butterfly
1966: Madame X, A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1967:Hurry Sundown
1970:There Was a Crooked Man
1975:92 in the Shade
1978:Foul Play, Magic
1981:True Confessions
1987:King Lear
1988:Full Moon in Blue Water
1990:State of Grace
1993: Grumpy Old Men
1995: Tall Tale.
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