Best movies of Burgess Meredith

Grumpy Old Men(1993)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.



Santa Claus: The Movie(1985)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A peasant woodcutter becomes Santa Claus and later foils an evil toy manufacturer's scheme to take over Christmas.



Magic(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.



The Day of the Locust(1975)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 19

An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.



Burnt Offerings(1976)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A family moves into an old, haunted house that regenerates itself by feeding off of the life forces of its injured occupants.



Foul Play(1978)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.



Madame X(1966)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 4

When her lover is killed, the wife of a wealthy man is convinced to fake her own death, which leads her into greater depths of depravity until fate reunites her with her long-lost son, who is unaware of her real identity.



Full Moon in Blue Water(1988)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 9

In Texas, Floyd is the owner of a decadent bar nearby the coast. He misses his wife Dorothy, who disappeared one year ago, and does not pay attention to the business, giving credit to ...



Torture Garden(1967)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An anthology of four short horror stories about people who visit Dr. Diabolo's fairground haunted-house attraction show.



Stay Away, Joe(1968)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Half-breed rodeo champ returns to the reservation to help his people prove they can be responsible.



The Last Chase(1981)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a future United States, the only transport available to an individual is public transportation. Predicated on an assertion that "the oil has run out", an increasingly totalitarian ...



Hard Contract(1969)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



The Man(1972)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An African-American senator becomes the designated survivor of a tragic accident that kills the President of the United States. Now the first black President, he attempts to end the bigotry and divide standing in his way.



Hay que matar a B.(1974)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. ...



92 in the Shade(1975)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.



The Great Bank Hoax(1978)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves.



A Fan's Notes(1972)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A writer has a mental breakdown, unable to deal with the society around him. Based on Frederick Exley's novel.



Final Assignment(1980)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Nicole is a broadcast journalist in Canada who is working on an assignment in the U.S.S.R. She is to oversee a visit by the prime minister but she finds a unethical experiment on children using the use of steroids.



Oddball Hall(1990)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A gang of thieves has pulled a huge jewel heist, but has had to hide out in a tiny South African village posing as members of a fraternal order called The Oddballs. As they wait for their ...