Donald Meek
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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.
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Stagecoach
Samuel Peacock
Jesse James
McCoy
Vive como quieras
Mr. Poppins
Captain Blood
Dr. Whacker
Young Mr. Lincoln
Prosecutor John Felder
Mark of the Vampire
Dr. Doskil
El regreso de Frank James
McCoy
A Woman's Face
Herman Rundvik
The Merry Widow
Valet
State Fair
Hippenstahl
My Little Chickadee
Amos Budge
The Omaha Trail
Engineer Jonah McCleod
Bathing Beauty
Chester Klazenfrantz
Having Wonderful Time
P.U. Rogers
Blonde Inspiration
'Dusty' King
The Gilded Lily
Hankerson
El regreso de aquel hombre
Willie Crump
El delator
Peter Mulligan
Keeper of the Flame
Mr Arbuthnot
What Every Woman Knows
Snibby the Jeweler (uncredited)
Mares de China
Chess Player (uncredited)
One Rainy Afternoon
Judge
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Sunday School Superintendent
Artists & Models
Dr. Zimmer
The Whole Town's Talking
Hoyt
Peter Ibbetson
Mr. Slade
She Couldn't Take It
Uncle Wyndersham
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
The Toast of New York
Daniel Drew
Phantom Raiders
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