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.
Donald Meek Biography / Wiki
| Name | Donald Meek |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1878-07-13 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 68 |
| Deathday | 1946-11-18 |
Donald Meek Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Studio Murder Mystery | Dr. Crabtree | 1932-02-17 | When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree are called in to investigate…. |
| The Wall Street Mystery | Doctor Crabtree | 1931-11-01 | When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Inspector Crane summons forensic expert Dr. Crabtree t… |
| The Trans-Atlantic Mystery | Dr. Crabtree – Criminologist | 1932-08-31 | A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they’re double-crossed and killed before reaching New York…. |
| The Skull Murder Mystery | Dr. Crabtree | 1932-03-01 | When the skeleton of a young man is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion. The tea… |
| The Week End Mystery | Dr. Amos Crabtree | 1931-12-01 | During a rainstorm at a remote manor house, Richard Crayell plays host to several guests. At nine o’clock sharp, he excuses himself from the card tabl… |
| The Cole Case | Dr. Crabtree | 1932-04-01 | Dr. Crabtree (Donald Meek) and Insp. Carr (John Hamilton) are visited by a man who has been receiving notes threatening to kill him. The latest note s… |
| Murder In The Pullman | Dr. Amos Crabtree | 1932-01-01 | Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on the train on which they are travelling…. |
| The Symphony Murder Mystery | Dr. Crabtree | 1932-01-01 | A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?… |
| Sky Murder | Bartholomew | 1940-09-27 | This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US en… |
| Phantom Raiders | Bartholomew | 1940-06-07 | In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter a… |
| Happiness C.O.D. | Thomas Sherridan | 1935-10-14 | A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he’ll get money any way he can–honestly or otherwise…. |
| The Hole in the Wall | Goofy | 1929-04-27 | Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her in… |
| Rationing | Wilfred Ball | 1944-03-24 | A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing…. |
| Six Cylinder Love | Richard Burton | 1923-11-04 | After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends…. |
| The Return Of Peter Grimm | Mayor Everett Bartholomew | 1935-09-13 | The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong…. |
| The Wild Man of Borneo | Professor Charles W. Birdo | 1941-01-24 | A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he’s a legitimate stage actor…. |
| The Man from Dakota | Mr. Vestry | 1940-02-16 | A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates…. |
| Make a Wish | Joseph | 1937-09-01 | Canary-voiced boy wonder Bobby Breen once more croons his way into our hearts in Make a Wish. While vacationing at a boys’ camp, the rambunctious Bree… |
| Affairs of Geraldine | Casper Millhouse | 1946-11-18 | When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine…. |
| Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! | Adelbert Thistlebottom | 1940-01-01 | In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two… |
| The Fabulous Joe | Henry Cadwallader, Lawyer | 1947-08-28 | Milo Terkel’s life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he retu… |
| Come Live with Me | Joe Darsie | 1941-01-31 | Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer…. |
| Nick Carter, Master Detective | Bartholomew, the bee man | 1939-12-13 | Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture…. |
| The Toast of New York | Daniel Drew | 1937-07-22 | After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he str… |
| Breakfast for Two | Justice of the Peace | 1937-10-22 | After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and set… |
| The Feminine Touch | Captain Makepeace Liveright | 1941-10-01 | A professor and his wife move to New York and confuse a publisher’s romance with his assistant…. |
| Maisie Gets Her Man | Mr. Stickwell | 1942-06-01 | Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton’s lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton … |
| And So They Were Married | Hotel Manager | 1936-05-10 | A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention … |
| Barnacle Bill | “Pop” Cavendish | 1941-04-07 | Director Richard Thorpe’s 1941 film stars Wallace Beery as a crusty old San Pedro fisherman, Virginia Weidler as his precocious and motherless daughte… |
| Blonde Inspiration | ‘Dusty’ King | 1941-02-07 | A writer (John Shelton) of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher (Albert Dekker) want to pay for…. |
| Pennies from Heaven | Gramp Smith | 1936-11-25 | Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a… |
| Behind The Headlines | Potter | 1937-05-14 | A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters…. |
| The Bride Comes Home | The Judge | 1935-12-25 | A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in h… |
| Three Legionnaires | Uriah S. Grant | 1937-07-10 | Set in the post-WWI days in the Siberian tank town of Skzavoskanoff, U. S. Army Sergeant Chuck Connors and Private Jiimy Barton are charged with uphol… |
| Blondie Takes a Vacation | Jonathan N. Gillis | 1939-07-20 | Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life saving… |
| The Ghost Comes Home | Mortimer Hopkins, Sr. | 1940-03-08 | Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive. Director William Thi… |
| Double Danger | Gordon Ainsley, aka Henry Robinson | 1938-01-28 | A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable “Konjer Diamonds”. Director Lew Landers’ 1938 B-film stars Preston Fo… |
| Lost Angel | Professor Catty | 1943-12-23 | Alpha’s been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts A… |
| Baby Face Harrington | Seriah Skinner | 1935-04-12 | Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as “Public Enemy No…. |
| The Omaha Trail | Engineer Jonah McCleod | 1942-09-01 | The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war…. |
| Because of Him | Martin | 1946-01-18 | A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star…. |
| Colonel Effingham’s Raid | Doc Buden | 1946-01-01 | The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America’s entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there i… |
| The Girl Habit | Jonesy | 1931-06-27 | … |
| State Fair | Hippenstahl | 1945-08-29 | During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine B… |
| Mark of the Vampire | Dr. Doskil | 1935-04-26 | Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire who prowled around his castle. One year later, Irena, Karell’s daughter, is ha… |
| My Little Chickadee | Amos Budge | 1940-02-09 | While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach’s shipment of gold… |
| Du Barry Was a Lady | Mr. Jones / Duc de Choiseul | 1943-08-13 | Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Loui… |
| Air Raid Wardens | Eustace Middling | 1943-04-04 | Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant…. |
| The Return of Frank James | McCoy | 1940-08-10 | Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse’s killers, the back-shooting Fords…. |
| The Gilded Lily | Hankerson | 1935-01-25 | Secretary Marilyn “Lynn” David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray Granville, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Pete Dawes, wh… |
| Third Finger, Left Hand | Mr. Flandrin | 1940-10-11 | Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don’t go to plan when Jef… |
| The Whole Town’s Talking | Hoyt | 1935-02-22 | Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He’s never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to h… |
| Turnabout | Henry – the Valet | 1940-05-17 | Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other’s life…. |
| Bedside | Dr. George Wiley | 1934-01-31 | Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses…. |
| The Housekeeper’s Daughter | Editor Wilson | 1939-10-26 | A mobster’s moll (Joan Bennett) leads a newsman (Adolphe Menjou), cub reporter (John Hubbard) and photographer to a scoop…. |
| Hold That Co-ed | Dean Thatcher | 1938-09-16 | An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college’s hapless football squad into a championship team…. |
| Old Hutch | Mr. Gunnison | 1936-09-25 | Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash…. |
| Babes on Broadway | Mr. Stone | 1941-12-31 | Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up th… |
| Hullabaloo | Mr. Clyde Perkins | 1940-10-25 | A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic…. |
| Rise and Shine | Professor Philip Murray | 1941-11-21 | The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game… |
| Stagecoach | Samuel Peacock | 1939-03-03 | A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the proc… |
| A Woman’s Face | Herman Rundvik | 1941-05-09 | A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman…. |
| Young Mr. Lincoln | Prosecutor John Felder | 1939-06-09 | In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first l… |
| Hollywood Cavalcade | Lyle P. Stout | 1939-10-13 | Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for … |
| Tortilla Flat | Paul D. Cummings | 1942-05-21 | Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friend… |
| Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet | Mittelmeyer | 1940-02-23 | True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis…. |
| Janie Gets Married | Harley P. Stowers | 1946-06-22 | Newlywed Janie’s (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father’s (Edward Arnold) newspaper…. |
| Goodbye Broadway | Iradius P. Oglethorpe | 1938-04-01 | Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singer… |
| Magic Town | Mr. Twiddle | 1947-10-07 | Rip Smith’s opinion-poll business is a failure…until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country…. |
| They Got Me Covered | Little Old Man | 1943-03-04 | Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn’t all he’s botched up: his girlfriend Chris is … |
| Star Dust | Sam Wellman | 1940-04-06 | When the studios reject her because she”s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own…. |
| Village Tale | Charlie | 1935-06-15 | The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy…. |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Sunday School Superintendent | 1938-02-11 | Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witn… |
| You Can’t Take It with You | Mr. Poppins | 1938-09-01 | Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish m… |
| The Thin Man Goes Home | Willie Crump | 1944-12-24 | On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation…. |
| Having Wonderful Time | P.U. Rogers | 1938-07-01 | Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland…. |
| Biography of a Bachelor Girl | Mr. Irish, Moose Village General Store | 1935-01-04 | Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeki… |
| The Last Gentleman | Judd Barr, Cabot’s son | 1934-04-27 | In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for… |
| Romance in Manhattan | Minister | 1935-01-11 | Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop… |
| Parnell | Nicholas Daniel Murphy | 1937-06-04 | Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O’Shea t… |
| Love on the Run | Caretaker | 1936-11-20 | A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot…. |
| Two in a Crowd | Bennett | 1936-10-03 | When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress… |
| The Merry Widow | Valet | 1934-11-02 | A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country…. |
| What Every Woman Knows | Snibby the Jeweler (uncredited) | 1934-10-18 | Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family — if they fund his education, he must ma… |
| Jesse James | Mc Coy | 1939-01-14 | After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge…. |
| Captain Blood | Dr. Whacker | 1935-12-26 | Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate…. |
| Murder at the Vanities | Dr. Saunders | 1934-05-18 | Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll’s Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading la… |
| Peter Ibbetson | Mr. Slade | 1935-11-07 | When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter i… |
| She Couldn’t Take It | Uncle Wyndersham | 1935-10-08 | The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-cent… |
| Little Miss Broadway | Willoughby Wendling | 1938-07-29 | An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel’s owner doesn’t like the entertainers and wa… |
| The Defense Rests | Fogg | 1934-07-15 | A sleazy lawyer’s female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways…. |
| Barbary Coast | Sawbuck McTavish | 1935-10-13 | Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis’ Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling ho… |
| Old Man Rhythm | Paul Parker | 1935-08-02 | Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college…. |
| Personal Maid | Pa Ryan | 1931-09-12 | Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family…. |
| The Informer | Peter Mulligan | 1935-05-09 | Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He’s desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over i… |
| Keeper of the Flame | Mr Arbuthnot | 1943-04-01 | Famed reporter Stephen O’Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero…. |
| Two Girls and a Sailor | Mr. Nizby | 1944-06-14 | A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also… |
| Hi, Nellie! | Durkin | 1934-01-20 | Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a s… |
| Barbary Coast Gent | Bradford Bellamy I | 1944-09-01 | Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He disc… |
| Society Doctor | Moxley | 1935-01-25 | Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room…. |
| Maid of Salem | Ezra Cheeves | 1937-02-12 | When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachuse… |
| You’re a Sweetheart | Conway Jeeters | 1937-12-26 | A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He … |
| Maisie Goes to Reno | Parsons | 1944-08-15 | A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife…. |
| Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch | Mr. Wiggs | 1934-10-28 | The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never be… |
| College Coach | Spencer Trask | 1933-11-13 | Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a g… |
| Three Married Men | Mr. Frisbee | 1936-09-24 | Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have … |
| Kind Lady | Mr. Foster | 1935-12-06 | Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gr… |
| Artists & Models | Dr. Zimmer | 1937-08-04 | An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign…. |
| Bathing Beauty | Chester Klazenfrantz | 1944-06-27 | After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women’s college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her studen… |
| The Captain Hates the Sea | Josephus Bushmills | 1934-11-02 | Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are … |
| Wayward | Hotel Clerk (uncredited) | 1932-02-19 | Story of mother’s antagonism to her son’s wife. From the novel “Wild Beauty” by Matsel Farnham…. |
| One Rainy Afternoon | Judge | 1936-05-13 | Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to ki… |
| Seven Sweethearts | Reverend Howgan, the Minister | 1942-11-13 | Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven dau… |
| China Seas | Chess Player (uncredited) | 1935-08-09 | Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That’s not the only ris… |
| Double Wedding | Judge Blynn (uncredited) | 1937-10-15 | A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process…. |
| Going Hollywood: The ’30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 | Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get… |
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