Donald Meek

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1878-07-13 (68 years old)

Deathday

1946-11-18

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Donald Meek

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 wor...

Acting

1939

Stagecoach

as Samuel Peacock

1939

Blondie Takes a Vacation

as Jonathan N. Gillis

1938

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

as Sunday School Superintendent

1941

Come Live with Me

as Joe Darsie

1943

Keeper of the Flame

as Mr Arbuthnot

1938

1941

A Woman's Face

as Herman Rundvik

1945

State Fair

as Hippenstahl

1931

The Clyde Mystery

as Dr. Amos Crabtree

1932

The Crane Poison Case

as Dr. Amos Crabtree

1932

The Side Show Mystery

as Dr. Amos Crabtree

1935

Mark of the Vampire

as Dr. Doskil

1923

Six Cylinder Love

as Richard Burton

1940

My Little Chickadee

as Amos Budge

1944

The Thin Man Goes Home

as Willie Crump

1943

Du Barry Was a Lady

as Mr. Jones / Duc de Choiseul

1944

Bathing Beauty

as Chester Klazenfrantz

1939

Jesse James

as McCoy

1939

Young Mr. Lincoln

as Prosecutor John Felder

1943

Air Raid Wardens

as Eustace Middling

1935

Captain Blood

as Dr. Whacker

1938

Having Wonderful Time

as P.U. Rogers

1940

Phantom Raiders

as Bartholomew

1940

Sky Murder

as Bartholomew

1939

Nick Carter, Master Detective

as Bartholomew, the bee man

1940

1937

The Toast of New York

as Daniel Drew

1944

1939

Hollywood Cavalcade

as Lyle P. Stout

1934

Murder at the Vanities

as Dr. Saunders

1937

Breakfast for Two

as Justice of the Peace

1935

Peter Ibbetson

as Mr. Slade

1941

The Feminine Touch

as Captain Makepeace Liveright

1942

Tortilla Flat

as Paul D. Cummings

1940

1942

Maisie Gets Her Man

as Mr. Stickwell

1940

The Ghost Comes Home

as Mortimer Hopkins, Sr.

1940

Turnabout

as Henry, the Valet

1934

Bedside

as Dr. George Wiley

1941

The Wild Man of Borneo

as Professor Charles W. Birdo

1935

The Return Of Peter Grimm

as Mayor Everett Bartholomew

1938

Double Danger

as Gordon Ainsley, aka Henry Robinson

1933

College Coach

as Spencer Trask

1943

Lost Angel

as Professor Catty

1935

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

as Mr. Irish, Moose Village General Store

1934

The Last Gentleman

as Judd Barr, Cabot's son

1936

And So They Were Married

as Hotel Manager

1940

The Man from Dakota

as Mr. Vestry

1941

Barnacle Bill

as "Pop" Cavendish

1941

Blonde Inspiration

as 'Dusty' King

1935

1936

Pennies from Heaven

as Gramp Smith

1939

1944

Rationing

as Wilfred Ball

1946

Janie Gets Married

as Harley P. Stowers

1935

Happiness C.O.D.

as Thomas Sherridan

1937

Make a Wish

as Joseph

1938

Goodbye Broadway

as Iradius P. Oglethorpe

1936

Three Married Men

as Mr. Frisbee

1938

Hold That Co-ed

as Dean Thatcher

1935

She Couldn't Take It

as Uncle Wyndersham

1937

Parnell

as Nicholas Daniel Murphy

1938

Little Miss Broadway

as Willoughby Wendling

1935

Village Tale

as Charlie

1935

The Gilded Lily

as Hankerson

1947

Magic Town

as Mr. Twiddle

1935

1934

Hi, Nellie!

as Durkin

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

1935

1932

1936

Love on the Run

as Caretaker

1934

The Captain Hates the Sea

as Josephus Bushmills

1935

Barbary Coast

as Sawbuck McTavish

1944

Barbary Coast Gent

as Bradford Bellamy I

1943

They Got Me Covered

as Little Old Man

1936

Old Hutch

as Mr. Gunnison

1935

Kind Lady

as Mr. Foster

1935

1936

Two in a Crowd

as Bennett

1931

The Wall Street Mystery

as Doctor Crabtree

1932

The Trans-Atlantic Mystery

as Dr. Crabtree - Criminologist

1940

Star Dust

as Sam Wellman

1935

Old Man Rhythm

as Paul Parker

1935

China Seas

as Chess Player (uncredited)

1946

Affairs of Geraldine

as Casper Millhouse

1937

Three Legionnaires

as Uriah S. Grant

1937

Artists & Models

as Dr. Zimmer

1937

Maid of Salem

as Ezra Cheeves

1931

Personal Maid

as Pa Ryan

1942

The Omaha Trail

as Engineer Jonah McCleod

1940

Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!

as Adelbert Thistlebottom

1946

1941

Babes on Broadway

as Mr. Stone

1935

The Informer

as Peter Mulligan

1932

Wayward

as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

1940

Hullabaloo

as Mr. Clyde Perkins

1937

You're a Sweetheart

as Conway Jeeters

1934

1946

1944

1934

What Every Woman Knows

as Snibby the Jeweler (uncredited)

1932

1931

The Week End Mystery

as Dr. Amos Crabtree

1941

Rise and Shine

as Professor Philip Murray

1937

Double Wedding

as Judge Blynn (uncredited)

1932

The Cole Case

as Dr. Crabtree

1942

Seven Sweethearts

as Reverend Howgan, the Minister

1932

Murder in the Pullman

as Dr. Amos Crabtree

1931

1947

The Fabulous Joe

as Henry Cadwallader, Lawyer

1932

1936

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