Donald Meek

Actor

About

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Birth Place

United Kingdom

Born

July 14, 1878

Died

November 18, 1946

Filmography

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Magic Town (1947)

The Fabulous Joe (1947)

Henry Cadwallader

Janie Gets Married (1946)

Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)

Because of Him (1946)

Affairs of Geraldine (1946)

Casper Millhouse

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Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) How Can I Thank You?

Hi, Nellie! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Polish Children's Picnic Yarn

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Magic Town (1947)

The Fabulous Joe (1947)

Henry Cadwallader

Janie Gets Married (1946)

Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)

Because of Him (1946)

Affairs of Geraldine (1946)

Casper Millhouse

The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)

State Fair (1945)

Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)

Barbary Coast Gent (1944)

Bradford Bellamy I

Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)

Bathing Beauty (1944)

Chester Klazenfrantz

Lost Angel (1944)

Professor Catty

Rationing (1944)

They Got Me Covered (1943)

Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

Mr. Jones/Duc de Choiseul

Air Raid Wardens (1943)

Eustace Middling [also known as Mittlehause]

Keeper of the Flame (1942)

Her Cardboard Lover (1942)

Babes on Broadway (1942)

Tortilla Flat (1942)

Paul D. Cummings

The Omaha Trail (1942)

Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)

Seven Sweethearts (1942)

A Woman's Face (1941)

Rise and Shine (1941)

Professor [Philip] Murray

Barnacle Bill (1941)

"Pop" Cavendish

Come Live with Me (1941)

The Feminine Touch (1941)

Captain Makepeace Liveright

The Wild Man of Borneo (1941)

Professor [Charles] Birdo

Blonde Inspiration (1941)

Star Dust (1940)

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

My Little Chickadee (1940)

Hullabaloo (1940)

Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)

Turnabout (1940)

The Return of Frank James (1940)

The Ghost Comes Home (1940)

Mortimer Hopkins, Sr.

Phantom Raiders (1940)

Sky Murder (1940)

The Man from Dakota (1940)

Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love (1940)

Albert Thistlebottom

Jesse James (1939)

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

Stagecoach (1939)

The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939)

Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)

Jonathan Gillis

Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

Sunday school superintendent

Little Miss Broadway (1938)

Willoughby Wendling

You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Having Wonderful Time (1938)

Goodbye Broadway (1938)

Iradius P. Oglethorpe

Hold That Co-Ed (1938)

Dean Fletcher [i.e. Thatcher]

Double Danger (1938)

Gordon Ainsley, also known as Henry Robinson

Maid of Salem (1937)

You're a Sweetheart (1937)

Artists and Models (1937)

Make a Wish (1937)

Three Legionnaires (1937)

Uriah [S. Grant]

The Toast of New York (1937)

Breakfast for Two (1937)

Justice of the peace

Behind the Headlines (1937)

Double Wedding (1937)

Reverend Dr. Blynn

Old Hutch (1936)

Three Married Men (1936)

Two in a Crowd (1936)

Love on the Run (1936)

One Rainy Afternoon (1936)

Everybody's Old Man (1936)

Three Wise Guys (1936)

And So They Were Married (1936)

The Bride Comes Home (1936)

Pennies From Heaven (1936)

Society Doctor (1935)

Kind Lady (1935)

Barbary Coast (1935)

Sawbucks McTavish

Accent on Youth (1935)

Captain Blood (1935)

Old Man Rhythm (1935)

The Informer (1935)

Peter Ibbetson (1935)

She Couldn't Take It (1935)

Uncle [Wyndersham]

Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)

Romance in Manhattan (1935)

Village Tale (1935)

The Whole Town's Talking (1935)

Mark of the Vampire (1935)

The Gilded Lily (1935)

Baby Face Harrington (1935)

Happiness C.O.D. (1935)

Thomas E. Sherridan

The Return of Peter Grimm (1935)

Everett Bartholomew

China Seas (1935)

Hi Nellie! (1934)

Murder at the Vanities (1934)

The Defense Rests (1934)

The Last Gentleman (1934)

The Merry Widow (1934)

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)

Mr. [Hiram] Wiggs

The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)

Josephus Bushmills

What Every Woman Knows (1934)

The Mighty Barnum (1934)

College Coach (1933)

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! (1933)

Personal Maid (1931)

The Girl Habit (1931)

The Love Kiss (1930)

The Hole in the Wall (1929)

Six Cylinder Love (1923)

Cast (Short)

The Symphony Murder Mystery (1932)

The Studio Murder Mystery (1932)

The Trans-Atlantic Mystery (1932)

The Skull Murder Mystery (1932)

Murder In the Pullman (1932)

The Week End Mystery (1931)

The Cole Case (1931)

The Clyde Mystery (1931)

The Wall Street Mystery (1931)

Life Events

Photo Collections

You Can't Take It with You - Lobby Card Set

Here is a set of Lobby Cards from Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You (1938). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Because of Him - Publicity Stills

Here are a number of publicity stills from Universal's Because of Him (1946), starring Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, and Franchot Tone. Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.

Videos

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) How Can I Thank You? Shirley Temple relates to her new adoptive sister (Phyllis Brooks), who helps run the show-biz hotel, where Jimmy Durante is rehearsing his band, and the owner next door (Edna Mae Oliver, with brother Donald Meek) has a problem with noise, song by Harold Spina and Walter Bullock, in Little Miss Broadway, 1938.

Hi, Nellie! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Polish Children's Picnic Yarn First scene for Paul Muni in his first comedy, as big city news editor “Brad” Bradshaw, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, with George Chandler, Donald Meek, Douglas Dumbrille (as “Dawes”), and Paul Kaye in support, the picnic story having nothing to do with the Bob Dylan song, written about a similar (but not fictional) event almost 30-years later, in Hi, Nellie!, 1934.

Woman's Face, A -- (Movie Clip) A Most Generous Gesture Deep in the Swedish woods, waiter (Donald Meek) serving Vera (Osa Massen) and the party of playboy Barring (Conrad Veidt) who then meets "proprietor" Anna (Joan Crawford), early in George Cukor's A Woman's Face, 1941.

Whole Town's Talking, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) I've Got A Stamp From Shanghai Lowly ad-clerk Jones (Edward G. Robinson), fazed because he’s the look-alike of the major gangster identified in that day’s newspaper, is noticed in the cafe by Hoyt (Donald Meek), then joined by just-fired colleague “Bill” Clark (Jean Arthur), with whom he’s secretly smitten, trouble ensuing, in John Ford’s The Whole Town’s Talking, 1935.

You Can't Take It With You (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Home Sweet Home This ensemble scene featuring Donald Meek, Lionel Barrymore, Ann Miller, Dub Taylor, Spring Byington and others illuminates the Sycamore household in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You, 1938.

You Can't Take It With You (1938) -- (Movie Clip) My Father Makes Fireworks Taxman Henderson (Charles Lane) and Grandpa Sycamore (Lionel Barrymore) lead off this mayhem as Tony (James Stewart) collects Alice (Jean Arthur) for a date. with Ann Miller, Spring Byington, Dub Taylor, and Mischa Auer, in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You, 1938.

Mark Of The Vampire (1935) -- (Movie Clip) They Will Take Their Revenge Director Tod Browning opens big with gypsies, bats, an owl, smoke and more before jumping to the frightened innkeeper (Michael Visaroff) and wife (Rosemary Glosz) and timid doctor (Donald Meek), in his MGM Dracula spinoff, Mark Of The Vampire, 1935, starring Bela Lugosi.

Mark Of The Vampire (1935) -- (Movie Clip) A Certain Thorny Weed Lionel Barrymore (Professor Zelin) taking over treatment of vampire-bitten Irena (Elizabeth Allen), while her guardian the Baron (Jean Hersholt) tells the inspector (Lionel Atwill) that her dad may not be dead, then ensuing chatter, in director Tod Browning's Mark Of The Vampire, 1935.

Phantom Raiders (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Did Somebody Kidnap Congress? Leading man Walter Pidgeon as vacationing P-I Nick Carter, in Panama, with spicy Dolores (Steffi Duna) when Bartholomew (Donald Meek) appears, from L-A, pitching a job he’s accepted, posing as Nick’s partner, and getting thug Gunboat (Nat Pendleton) involved, in the programmer Phantom Raiders, 1940.

Phantom Raiders (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Ex-Heavyweight Champ Of The Pacific Tuna Fleet Goon Gunboat (Nat Pendleton), sort of overseeing the high-tech ship-sinking gadgetry in Panama, doesn’t realize detective Nick Carter (Walter Pidgeon), posing as the vacationer he was, is on his case, his ad-hoc partner “Beeswax” (Donald Meek) arriving just in time, in the MGM serial Phantom Raiders, 1940.

Magic Town (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Hunting For That Shortcut First scene for top-billed James Stewart as “Rip” Smith, independent Manhattan opinion pollster whose radical business model is failing, with assistants (Ned Sparks, Donald Meek) and his big shot office building neighbor (Selmer Jackson) dangling a job offer, in Magic Town, 1947, from producer Robert Riskin’s story and screenplay.

Captain Blood (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Heigh-Ho For The Governor's Foot Errol Flynn (title character), still a slave in colonial Jamaica but now favored by the ailing governor, working a trick on incompetent fellow doctors Bronson and Wacker (Hobart Cavanaugh, Donald Meek), in Captain Blood, 1935.

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