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In the tradition of his wartime "special services" filmmaking activities, actor Burgess Meredith is director, author and star of the 48-minute documentary The Yank Comes Back. The film is conceived as a tribute to WW II England from the viewpoint of an average GI (Meredith). The point is that, despite wartime deprivations and postwar financial travails, England can still "take it." Occasionally, Meredith breaks down the fourth wall and addresses the camera as though it were another character. He ... finds time to deliver a Shakespearean soliloquy on the stage at Stratford-on-Avon. These self-conscious touches aside, The Yank Comes Back is a worthwhile bouquet to one of America's staunchest allies.
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In his first Twilight Zone appearance, Burgess Meredith stars as Henry Bemis, a miopic bank clerk who wants nothing more out of life than to be left alone to read his precious books. He unexpectedly gets his wish when, while hiding in a bank vault with a book in his hands, a hydrogen bomb devastates the city around him.
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Burgess Meredith, the raspy-voiced character actor best known for his portrayal of the gruff boxing manager in the "Rocky" movies, has died at his home in Malibu, California. He was 89.
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A key work in modern theater and acknowledged throughout the world as a classic, Samuel Beckett's most famous play is shown here in a definitive film version starring Zero Mostel and Burgess Meredith as the two remarkable tramps, Vladimir and Estragon. They wait for the perhaps mythical personage, Godot, and through their suffering, patience and often hilarious wit, transcend themselves to become a portrait of the suffering of mankind itself. This Waiting for Godot is a remarkable performance of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century. With an introduction by Barney Rosset.
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Mr. Meredith was ... acclaimed as a director. He staged the dramatization of James Joyce's ''Ulysses in Nighttown'' with Zero Mostel (and later played opposite Mr. Mostel in a television version of ''Waiting for Godot''). Later, he directed James Baldwin's ''Blues for Mr. Charlie'' for the Actors Studio Theater. Together with Jean Renoir, he wrote and produced the film ''The Diary of a Chambermaid'' (starring Paulette Goddard, Mr. Meredith's third wife).
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