Donald Meek

Donald Meek

Birthday: 1878-07-13

Deathday: 1946-11-18

Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Also known as: Thomas Donald Meek

imdb_id: nm0576083

Biography:

Thomas Donald Meek (14 July 1878 – 18 November 1946) was a Scottish-American actor. He first performed publicly at the age of eight and began appearing on Broadway in 1903. Meek is perhaps best known for his roles in the films You Can't Take It with You (1938) and Stagecoach (1939). He posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Meek was born in Glasgow to Matthew and Annie Meek. In the 1890s, the Meek family emigrated to Canada and then to the United States. By 1900, they were living in Philadelphia where Meek was employed as a dry goods salesman, according to the United States census of that year with Meek later working on stage. After years on the stage, Meek became a film actor, appearing memorably in several movies including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little Miss Broadway, and State Fair. Before becoming an actor, he fought in the Spanish–American War in the United States Army and contracted yellow fever which caused him to lose his hair. He was cast as timid, worried characters in many of his films, and is perhaps best known for his roles as Mr. Poppins in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You and as whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock in John Ford's Stagecoach. From 1931 through 1932, Meek was featured as criminologist Dr. Crabtree in a series of 12 Warner Brothers two-reel short subjects written by S.S. Van Dine. Meek and Isabella "Belle" Walken married in Boston in a Methodist church on January 3, 1909. By this marriage, the American-born Belle Meek lost her United States citizenship by taking her husband's British nationality. Donald Meek died of leukaemia on 18 November 1946 in Los Angeles, while filming the role of Mr. Twiddle in Magic Town. A prolific film actor in over 100 Hollywood movies during its Golden Age, he received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was entombed in the Fairmount Mausoleum at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.

Played in movies:

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Score: 10.0

Romance in Manhattan

Score: 7.8

Barnacle Bill

Score: 7.7

Stagecoach

Score: 7.6

Lost Angel

Score: 7.5

You Can't Take It with You

Score: 7.5

Captain Blood

Score: 7.2

Young Mr. Lincoln

Score: 7.2

Air Raid Wardens

Score: 7.1

The Thin Man Goes Home

Score: 7.1

What Every Woman Knows

Score: 7.0

The Omaha Trail

Score: 7.0

The Defense Rests

Score: 7.0

Come Live with Me

Score: 7.0

A Woman's Face

Score: 6.9

Pennies from Heaven

Score: 6.9

Peter Ibbetson

Score: 6.9

The Merry Widow

Score: 6.8

The Whole Town's Talking

Score: 6.8

Third Finger, Left Hand

Score: 6.8

The Informer

Score: 6.7

Magic Town

Score: 6.7

Kind Lady

Score: 6.6

Little Miss Broadway

Score: 6.6

State Fair

Score: 6.6

Keeper of the Flame

Score: 6.6

Barbary Coast

Score: 6.6

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Score: 6.5

Double Wedding

Score: 6.5

The Captain Hates the Sea

Score: 6.5

Hi, Nellie!

Score: 6.5

Double Danger

Score: 6.5

The Wild Man of Borneo

Score: 6.5

Maisie Gets Her Man

Score: 6.5

My Little Chickadee

Score: 6.4

The Gilded Lily

Score: 6.4

Love on the Run

Score: 6.4

Jesse James

Score: 6.4

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Score: 6.4

Babes on Broadway

Score: 6.4

Hold That Co-ed

Score: 6.3

China Seas

Score: 6.3

Old Man Rhythm

Score: 6.3

Society Doctor

Score: 6.3

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

Score: 6.3

Sky Murder

Score: 6.3

The Return of Frank James

Score: 6.3

Maisie Goes to Reno

Score: 6.2

Because of Him

Score: 6.2

Behind The Headlines

Score: 6.2

Blondie Takes a Vacation

Score: 6.2

Mark of the Vampire

Score: 6.1

Phantom Raiders

Score: 6.1

Du Barry Was a Lady

Score: 6.1

Seven Sweethearts

Score: 6.0

Rise and Shine

Score: 6.0

Wayward

Score: 6.0

Artists & Models

Score: 6.0

The Wall Street Mystery

Score: 6.0

The Studio Murder Mystery

Score: 6.0

Make a Wish

Score: 6.0

Happiness C.O.D.

Score: 6.0

Janie Gets Married

Score: 6.0

Turnabout

Score: 6.0

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Score: 6.0

Maid of Salem

Score: 5.9

They Got Me Covered

Score: 5.9

Breakfast for Two

Score: 5.9

The Fabulous Joe

Score: 5.8

And So They Were Married

Score: 5.8

The Toast of New York

Score: 5.8

Bathing Beauty

Score: 5.8

Colonel Effingham's Raid

Score: 5.7

Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!

Score: 5.7

Two Girls and a Sailor

Score: 5.7

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Score: 5.7

Bedside

Score: 5.6

Blonde Inspiration

Score: 5.4

Murder at the Vanities

Score: 5.4

Tortilla Flat

Score: 5.4

The Man from Dakota

Score: 5.3

The Return Of Peter Grimm

Score: 5.2

The Hole in the Wall

Score: 5.2

The Feminine Touch

Score: 5.1

Hollywood Cavalcade

Score: 5.1

Murder in the Pullman

Score: 5.0

The Ghost Comes Home

Score: 5.0

Having Wonderful Time

Score: 4.9

Baby Face Harrington

Score: 4.8

The Bride Comes Home

Score: 4.8

The Skull Murder Mystery

Score: 4.7

Star Dust

Score: 4.7

Barbary Coast Gent

Score: 4.6

Parnell

Score: 4.6

One Rainy Afternoon

Score: 4.6

Village Tale

Score: 4.5

She Couldn't Take It

Score: 4.5

The Trans-Atlantic Mystery

Score: 4.3

College Coach

Score: 4.2

You're a Sweetheart

Score: 4.2

Hullabaloo

Score: 4.0

The Housekeeper's Daughter

Score: 3.5

Personal Maid

Score: 3.0

Rationing

Score: 3.0

The Last Gentleman

Score: 3.0

Everybody's Old Man

Score: 0.0

The Symphony Murder Mystery

Score: 0.0

The Girl Habit

Score: 0.0

The Cole Case

Score: 0.0

The Week End Mystery

Score: 0.0

Three Legionnaires

Score: 0.0

Affairs of Geraldine

Score: 0.0

Two in a Crowd

Score: 0.0

Old Hutch

Score: 0.0

Three Married Men

Score: 0.0

Goodbye Broadway

Score: 0.0

Six Cylinder Love

Score: 0.0

The Crane Poison Case

Score: 0.0

The Side Show Mystery

Score: 0.0

The Clyde Mystery

Score: 0.0

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