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Burgess Meredith... OK. I'd say of his early films, you have to see the first and best version of Of Mice and Men in which he plays George opposite Lon Chaney, Jr.'s Lennie, and also watch the Garson Kanin screwball classic Tom Dick and Harry where Meredith is a hoot. One of his other early major roles was as WWII journalist Ernie Pyle in Story of G.I. Joe. He even directed his own crazy murder mystery in 1949, The Man on the Eiffel Tower! He was in some other major films (working with Ernst Lubitsch, Jean Renoir and Otto Preminger, among others) and a million famous TV series until Rocky, and then he was also very funny in Foul Play and very good in Magic (didn't you see and review that one?), so those are two keepers. One other thing I'd mention is that if you want to just laugh at some stupid stuff with terrific casts, you could do a lot worse than see Grumpy and Grumpier Old Men. With everybody in it, Meredith still stands out as filthy old Grandpa.