Delroy Lindo

He continues to work on screen, most recently in Wondrous Oblivion (2003). Meredith died of Alzheimer's disease in 1997. Among the films he has starred in have been Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty, Clockers, Feeling Minnesota, and as the baseball player Satchel Paige in Black and White (1996). Meredith served in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II reaching the rank of Captain. It was director Spike Lee who provided the boost Lindo's career needed, even though he had turned down a role in Do the Right Thing to act alongside Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen in the cult sci-fi movie Salute of the Jugger (1990), and cast him as Woody Carmichael in the comedy Crooklyn (1994). A somewhat more mixed (comedic/dramatic) role was his portrayal of the philosophical (yet hapless) tramp, Vladimir, in a notable production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In 1982, he debuted on Broadway in Master Harold and the Boys directed by the play's author Athol Fugard and by 1988, Lindo earned a Tony nomination for his portayal of Harald Loomis in Joe Turner's Come and Gone. He uses it only to win bets and show off, and hilarity ensues.

His movie debut came in 1976 with the British comedy Find the Lady (1976) followed by two other roles in films such as that of an Army sergeant in More American Graffitti (1979) when he quit acting for 10 years to concentrate on theatre production. Dingle, a small, weak man, suddenly acquires superhuman strength. where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Mr. As a teenager he and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada and by the 1970s they had moved to the U.S. Dingle, the Strong", Meredith plays a comedic role as the subject of a space alien's experiment on human nature. The son of Jamaican immigrant parents, Lindo was born and raised in Lewisham, England, where at age 5 on the strength of the nativity plays he appeared in became a stage actor. In a 1961 episode, "Mr.

Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK) is a British born, American actor. However, he becomes the tragic victim of one of The Twilight Zone 's trademark twist endings - he breaks his glasses and cannot read the books. Wondrous Oblivion (2003). When he takes a lunch break to read in the bank vault, he is saved from a nuclear war that destroys the world. The Core (2003). In the famous "Time Enough at Last", a 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone, Meredith plays a henpecked bank teller who only wants to be left alone with his books. Cider House Rules (1999). Burgess Meredith was adept playing both dramatic and comedic roles.

A Life Less Ordinary (1997). Meredith played Rocky Balboa's trainer Mickey in the Rocky film series, and in his twilight years was Jack Lemmon's character's father in Grumpy Old Men. Black and White (1996). He admitted in an interview it sounded more like a duck than a penguin. Get Shorty (1996). The Penguin's trademark quacking laugh was actually Meredith's attempt to cover up coughing fits, as his part required him to smoke, something he had not done in years. Malcolm X (1992). Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1909 - September 9, 1997) was an American actor, perhaps best known for playing the Penguin on the television series Batman.

Salute of the Jugger (1990). The 1966 Batman TV Villains - Burgess Meredith (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/7537/Penguin.htm). More American Graffitti (1979). Find the Lady (1976).