Donald Meek

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 1878-07-13

Died: 1946-11-18

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1923	Six Cylinder Love	Richard Burton	0
2	1929	The Hole in the Wall	Goofy	52
3	1931	The Girl Habit	Jonesy	0
4	1931	Personal Maid	Pa Ryan	30
5	1931	The Clyde Mystery	Dr. Amos Crabtree	0
6	1931	The Wall Street Mystery	Doctor Crabtree	60
7	1931	The Week End Mystery	Dr. Amos Crabtree	0
8	1932	The Symphony Murder Mystery	Dr. Crabtree	0
9	1932	The Studio Murder Mystery	Dr. Crabtree	60
10	1932	Wayward	Hotel Clerk (uncredited)	60
11	1932	The Skull Murder Mystery	Dr. Crabtree	48
12	1932	The Cole Case	Dr. Crabtree	0
13	1932	Murder in the Pullman	Dr. Amos Crabtree	50
14	1932	The Side Show Mystery	Dr. Amos Crabtree	0
15	1932	The Crane Poison Case	Dr. Amos Crabtree	0
16	1932	The Trans-Atlantic Mystery	Dr. Crabtree - Criminologist	43
17	1933	College Coach	Spencer Trask	42
18	1934	Hi, Nellie!	Durkin	65
19	1934	Bedside	Dr. George Wiley	56
20	1934	The Last Gentleman	Judd Barr, Cabot's son	30
21	1934	Murder at the Vanities	Dr. Saunders	55
22	1934	The Defense Rests	Fogg	70
23	1934	What Every Woman Knows	Snibby the Jeweler (uncredited)	70
24	1934	Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch	Mr. Wiggs	60
25	1934	The Captain Hates the Sea	Josephus Bushmills	65
26	1934	The Merry Widow	Valet	68
27	1935	Biography of a Bachelor Girl	Mr. Irish, Moose Village General Store	63
28	1935	Romance in Manhattan	Minister	78
29	1935	The Gilded Lily	Hankerson	65
30	1935	Society Doctor	Moxley	63
31	1935	The Whole Town's Talking	Hoyt	68
32	1935	Baby Face Harrington	Skinner	48
33	1935	Mark of the Vampire	Dr. Doskil	61
34	1935	The Informer	Peter Mulligan	67
35	1935	Village Tale	Charlie	45
36	1935	Old Man Rhythm	Paul Parker	63
37	1935	China Seas	Chess Player (uncredited)	63
38	1935	The Return Of Peter Grimm	Mayor Everett Bartholomew	52
39	1935	She Couldn't Take It	Uncle Wyndersham	45
40	1935	Barbary Coast	Sawbuck McTavish	66
41	1935	Happiness C.O.D.	Thomas Sherridan	60
42	1935	Peter Ibbetson	Mr. Slade	68
43	1935	Kind Lady	Mr. Foster	66
44	1935	The Bride Comes Home	The Judge	48
45	1935	Captain Blood	Dr. Whacker	72
46	1936	Everybody's Old Man	Finney	0
47	1936	And So They Were Married	Hotel Manager	58
48	1936	One Rainy Afternoon	Judge	48
49	1936	Three Married Men	Mr. Frisbee	0
50	1936	Old Hutch	Mr. Gunnison	0
51	1936	Two in a Crowd	Bennett	0
52	1936	Love on the Run	Caretaker	64
53	1936	Pennies from Heaven	Gramp Smith	69
54	1937	Maid of Salem	Ezra Cheeves	59
55	1937	Behind The Headlines	Potter	62
56	1937	Parnell	Nicholas Daniel Murphy	46
57	1937	Three Legionnaires	Uriah S. Grant	0
58	1937	The Toast of New York	Daniel Drew	58
59	1937	Artists & Models	Dr. Zimmer	60
60	1937	Make a Wish	Joseph	55
61	1937	Double Wedding	Judge Blynn (uncredited)	66
62	1937	Breakfast for Two	Justice of the Peace	59
63	1937	You're a Sweetheart	Conway Jeeters	42
64	1938	Double Danger	Gordon Ainsley, aka Henry Robinson	65
65	1938	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Sunday School Superintendent	65
66	1938	Goodbye Broadway	Iradius P. Oglethorpe	0
67	1938	Having Wonderful Time	P.U. Rogers	49
68	1938	Little Miss Broadway	Willoughby Wendling	65
69	1938	You Can't Take It with You	Mr. Poppins	75
70	1938	Hold That Co-ed	Dean Thatcher	63
71	1939	Jesse James	McCoy	64
72	1939	Stagecoach	Samuel Peacock	76
73	1939	Young Mr. Lincoln	Prosecutor John Felder	72
74	1939	Blondie Takes a Vacation	Jonathan N. Gillis	62
75	1939	Hollywood Cavalcade	Lyle P. Stout	51
76	1939	The Housekeeper's Daughter	Editor Wilson	35
77	1939	Nick Carter, Master Detective	Bartholomew, the bee man	57
78	1940	Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!	Adelbert Thistlebottom	57
79	1940	My Little Chickadee	Amos Budge	64
80	1940	The Man from Dakota	Mr. Vestry	53
81	1940	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet	Mittelmeyer	64
82	1940	The Ghost Comes Home	Mortimer Hopkins, Sr.	50
83	1940	Star Dust	Sam Wellman	47
84	1940	Turnabout	Henry, the Valet	60
85	1940	Phantom Raiders	Bartholomew	61
86	1940	The Return of Frank James	McCoy	63
87	1940	Sky Murder	Bartholomew	63
88	1940	Third Finger, Left Hand	Mr. Flandrin	68
89	1940	Hullabaloo	Mr. Clyde Perkins	40
90	1941	The Wild Man of Borneo	Professor Charles W. Birdo	65
91	1941	Come Live with Me	Joe Darsie	70
92	1941	Blonde Inspiration	'Dusty' King	54
93	1941	Barnacle Bill	"Pop" Cavendish	77
94	1941	A Woman's Face	Herman Rundvik	69
95	1941	The Feminine Touch	Captain Makepeace Liveright	51
96	1941	Rise and Shine	Professor Philip Murray	60
97	1941	Babes on Broadway	Mr. Stone	64
98	1942	Tortilla Flat	Paul D. Cummings	54
99	1942	Maisie Gets Her Man	Mr. Stickwell	65
100	1942	The Omaha Trail	Engineer Jonah McCleod	70
101	1942	Seven Sweethearts	Reverend Howgan, the Minister	60
102	1943	They Got Me Covered	Little Old Man	59
103	1943	Keeper of the Flame	Mr Arbuthnot	66
104	1943	Air Raid Wardens	Eustace Middling	71
105	1943	Du Barry Was a Lady	Mr. Jones / Duc de Choiseul	61
106	1943	Lost Angel	Professor Catty	75
107	1944	Rationing	Wilfred Ball	30
108	1944	Two Girls and a Sailor	Mr. Nizby	57
109	1944	Bathing Beauty	Chester Klazenfrantz	58
110	1944	Maisie Goes to Reno	Parsons	62
111	1944	Barbary Coast Gent	Bradford Bellamy I	46
112	1944	The Thin Man Goes Home	Willie Crump	71
113	1945	State Fair	Hippenstahl	66
114	1946	Because of Him	Martin	62
115	1946	Colonel Effingham's Raid	Doc Buden	57
116	1946	Janie Gets Married	Harley P. Stowers	60
117	1946	Affairs of Geraldine	Casper Millhouse	0
118	1947	The Fabulous Joe	Henry Cadwallader, Lawyer	58
119	1947	Magic Town	Mr. Twiddle	67
120	1984	Going Hollywood: The '30s	(archive footage)	100

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