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name: "Donald Meek"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 July 1878"
died: "18 November 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T11:49:02.045938+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Donald Meek

Actor. Born 13 July 1878 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Died 18 November 1946.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 July 1878, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- **Died:** 18 November 1946
- **Also known as:** Thomas Donald Meek

## Biography

Donald Meek was a Scottish-American actor. He first performed publicly at the age of eight and began appearing on Broadway in 1903, after earlier work in stock theatre and other stage productions.

Meek appeared in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s onward, often in supporting roles as timid or worried characters. Notable credits include Samuel Peacock in *Stagecoach* (1939) and Mr. Poppins in *You Can't Take It with You* (1938). He also featured in *Captain Blood* (1935), *The Informer* (1935) and *Young Mr. Lincoln* (1939).

He received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Meek died in Los Angeles in 1946.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stagecoach* (1939), Fi1m 84, as Samuel Peacock — [page](https://film.one/film/stagecoach.md)

## Also known for

- *You Can't Take It with You* (1938), Poppins
- *Captain Blood* (1935), Dr. Whacker
- *Young Mr. Lincoln* (1939), Prosecutor John Felder
- *Mark of the Vampire* (1935), Dr. Doskil
- *The Return of Frank James* (1940), McCoy
- *The Informer* (1935), Peter Mulligan
- *Jesse James* (1939), McCoy
- *The Thin Man Goes Home* (1944), Willie Crump

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