Donald Meek
- Recitazione
- 13 luglio 1878 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- 18 novembre 1946
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Going Hollywood: The '30s · (archive footage)
- La città magica · Mr. Twiddle
- The Fabulous Joe · Henry Cadwallader, Lawyer
- Affairs of Geraldine · Casper Millhouse
- Janie Gets Married · Harley P. Stowers
- Colonel Effingham's Raid · Doc Buden
- La commedia è finita · Martin
- State Fair · Hippenstahl
- L'uomo ombra torna a casa · Willie Crump
- Barbary Coast Gent · Bradford Bellamy I
- Maisie Goes to Reno · Parsons
- Bellezze al bagno · Chester Klazenfrantz
- Two Girls and a Sailor · Mr. Nizby
- Rationing · Wilfred Ball
- Lost Angel · Professor Catty
- Mademoiselle du Barry · Mr. Jones / Duc de Choiseul
- Il nemico ci ascolta · Eustace Middling
- Prigioniera di un segreto · Mr Arbuthnot
- Ho salvato l'America · Little Old Man
- Sette ragazze innamorate · Reverend Howgan, the Minister
- The Omaha Trail · Engineer Jonah McCleod
- Maisie Gets Her Man · Mr. Stickwell
- Gente allegra · Paul D. Cummings
- I ragazzi di Broadway · Mr. Stone
- Rise and Shine · Professor Philip Murray
- Chi dice donna... · Captain Makepeace Liveright
- Volto di donna · Herman Rundvik
- Barnacle Bill · "Pop" Cavendish
- Blonde Inspiration · 'Dusty' King
- Vieni a vivere con me · Joe Darsie
- The Wild Man of Borneo · Professor Charles W. Birdo
- Hullabaloo · Mr. Clyde Perkins
- Wapakoneta · Mr. Flandrin
- Sky Murder · Bartholomew
- Il vendicatore di Jess il bandito · McCoy
- Phantom Raiders · Bartholomew
- L'errore del dio Chang · Henry, the Valet
- Star Dust · Sam Wellman
- The Ghost Comes Home · Mortimer Hopkins, Sr.
- Un uomo contro la morte · Mittelmeyer
- The Man from Dakota · Mr. Vestry
- My Little Chickadee · Amos Budge
- Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! · Adelbert Thistlebottom
- Nick Carter, Master Detective · Bartholomew, the bee man
- La casa delle fanciulle · Editor Wilson
- Hollywood Cavalcade · Lyle P. Stout
- Blondie Takes a Vacation · Jonathan N. Gillis
- Alba di gloria · Prosecutor John Felder
- Ombre rosse · Samuel Peacock
- Jess il bandito · McCoy
- Hold That Co-ed · Dean Thatcher
- L'eterna illusione · Poppins
- L'idolo di Broadway · Willoughby Wendling
- Vacanze d'amore · P.U. Rogers
- Goodbye Broadway · Iradius P. Oglethorpe
- Le avventure di Tom Sawyer · Sunday School Superintendent
- Double Danger · Gordon Ainsley, aka Henry Robinson
- You're a Sweetheart · Conway Jeeters
- Breakfast for Two · Justice of the Peace
- Sposiamoci in quattro · Judge Blynn (uncredited)
- Make a Wish · Joseph
- Artists & Models · Dr. Zimmer
- Alla conquista dei dollari · Daniel Drew
- Three Legionnaires · Uriah S. Grant
- Parnell · Nicholas Daniel Murphy
- Behind The Headlines · Potter
- La vergine di Salem · Ezra Cheeves
- Pennies from Heaven · Gramp Smith
- Amore in corsa · Caretaker
- Due nella folla · Bennett
- Old Hutch · Mr. Gunnison
- Three Married Men · Mr. Frisbee
- One Rainy Afternoon · Judge
- And So They Were Married · Hotel Manager
- Everybody's Old Man · Finney
- Capitan Blood · Dr. Whacker
- The Bride Comes Home · The Judge
- Kind Lady · Mr. Foster
- Sogno di prigioniero · Mr. Slade
- Happiness C.O.D. · Thomas Sherridan