Donald Meek

    Donald Meek

    13. juuli 1878 (148 aastat), Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    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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    Stagecoach plakat 7.6

    Stagecoach

    1939
    Captain Blood plakat 7.2

    Captain Blood

    1935
    Bathing Beauty plakat 5.9

    Bathing Beauty

    1944
    You Can't Take It with You plakat 7.5

    You Can't Take It with You

    1938
    Young Mr. Lincoln plakat 7.2

    Young Mr. Lincoln

    1939
    Jesse James plakat 6.5

    Jesse James

    1939
    A Woman's Face plakat 6.8

    A Woman's Face

    1941
    China Seas plakat 6.3

    China Seas

    1935
    Peter Ibbetson plakat 7.0

    Peter Ibbetson

    1935
    The Informer plakat 6.8

    The Informer

    1935
    Mark of the Vampire plakat 6.2

    Mark of the Vampire

    1935
    The Return of Frank James plakat 6.3

    The Return of Frank James

    1940

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