
123 فیلم
1878-07-13, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1946-11-18
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.
123 عنوان

9.0
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1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
0.0
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1976
Bob Hope's World of Comed...

6.7
فیلم
1947
Magic Town

5.5
فیلم
1947
The Fabulous Joe

7.3
فیلم
1946
Janie Gets Married

7.0
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1946
Affairs of Geraldine

6.3
فیلم
1946
Because of Him

6.0
فیلم
1946
Colonel Effingham's Raid

6.6
فیلم
1945
State Fair

7.1
فیلم
1944
The Thin Man Goes Home

5.9
فیلم
1944
Bathing Beauty

5.8
فیلم
1944
Two Girls and a Sailor

4.0
فیلم
1944
Rationing

5.5
فیلم
1944
Barbary Coast Gent

6.6
فیلم
1944
Maisie Goes to Reno

6.6
فیلم
1943
Keeper of the Flame

6.5
فیلم
1943
Du Barry Was a Lady

7.2
فیلم
1943
Air Raid Wardens

8.0
فیلم
1943
Lost Angel

6.2
فیلم
1943
They Got Me Covered