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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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09 February 1940
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.
02 November 1934
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
15 October 1937
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
11 February 1938
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
14 January 1939
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
09 May 1941
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
11 January 1935
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia.
07 October 1947
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.
31 January 1941
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
11 October 1940
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues.
21 November 1941
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football e
23 February 1940
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
01 April 1943
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
27 January 1934
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
01 July 1938
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
28 January 1938
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 Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S.
15 June 1935
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
07 April 1941
A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
04 January 1935
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine.
20 July 1939
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 savings.
13 October 1935
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 house in San Francisco in the 1850s.
29 July 1938
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 wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
04 June 1937
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
15 August 1944
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
04 November 1923
After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends.
13 October 1939
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them.
10 May 1936
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm.
24 January 1941
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
12 September 1931
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.
13 December 1939
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
09 June 1939
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 love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law.
24 September 1936
Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship.
02 March 1939
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 process.
21 May 1942
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
25 November 1936
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.
22 July 1937
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 struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
07 February 1941
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
29 August 1945
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 Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest.
01 March 1932
When a skeleton is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion.
27 September 1940
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 entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway).
28 October 1934
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr.
13 September 1935
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.
06 April 1940
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
08 March 1940
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
09 August 1935
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold.
06 December 1935
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 gradually turns into more.
27 June 1944
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 students.
15 July 1934
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
16 February 1940
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
02 November 1934
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book.
31 December 1941
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform.
01 January 1984
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
16 September 1938
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
01 October 1941
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject.
23 December 1943
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper.
26 October 1939
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
01 September 1937
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden.
17 February 1932
When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr.
20 January 1934
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank.
20 November 1936
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.
