---
name: "George Meader"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/george-meader"
fi1m_id: "george-meader"
imdb_id: "nm0574993"
tmdb_id: 217757
wikidata_id: "Q94382317"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 July 1888"
died: "17 December 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:48:00.260158+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."
---

# George Meader

## Identity

George Meader

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/george-meader
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** george-meader
- **IMDb ID:** nm0574993
- **TMDB ID:** 217757
- **Wikidata ID:** Q94382317
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94382317, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574993/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/217757

Actor. Born 6 July 1888 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Died 17 December 1963.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 July 1888, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- **Died:** 17 December 1963
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 acting, 3 other
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94382317, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574993/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/217757

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*On the Town*](https://film.one/film/on-the-town.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

George Meader was an American actor. Before his film career he was a leading character tenor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1921 to 1935, making his debut in Korngold's Die tote Stadt and performing major tenor roles in operas by Wagner, including David in Die Meistersinger and Mime in Siegfried.

Meader appeared in numerous films from the early 1940s onwards, often in uncredited or small parts. His credits include roles in Spellbound (1945), Mildred Pierce (1945), Scarlet Street (1945), On the Town (1949) as the Professor, The Enforcer (1951) and The Young Lions (1958). He died in 1963.

*Sources: imdb.com, playbill.com, commons.wikimedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *On the Town* (1949), Fi1m 84, as Professor — [page](https://film.one/film/on-the-town.md)

### Also credited (3) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Mildred Pierce* (1945), Fi1m 83, as Man (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/mildred-pierce-1945.md)
- *Spellbound* (1945), Fi1m 66, as Hallett - Railroad Clerk (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md)
- *Madame Curie* (1943), Fi1m 72, as Singing Professor (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/madame-curie.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Young Lions* (1958), as Milkman (uncredited)
- *A Sound of Different Drummers* (1957), as George
- *Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend* (1957), as Elliott (uncredited)
- *Frontier* (1955), series, as Station Master
- *Public Defender* (1954), series, as Mr. Becker
- *Four Star Playhouse* (1952), series, as Mr. Forsythe
- *The Groom Wore Spurs* (1951), as Bellboy
- *The Enforcer* (1951), Actor
- *The Toast of New Orleans* (1950), as Stage Door Man (uncredited)
- *Champagne for Caesar* (1950), as Mr. Brown
- *The Baron of Arizona* (1950), as Hank - Lansing's Father-in-Law (uncredited)
- *On the Town* (1949), as Professor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/on-the-town.md)
- *Champion* (1949), as Fight Doctor (uncredited)
- *Half Past Midnight* (1948), as Bascomb, Bondman
- *The Judge Steps Out* (1947), as Man on Train (uncredited)
- *Dangerous Years* (1947), as Oliver Hughes (uncredited)
- *The Unsuspected* (1947), as Fritz (uncredited)
- *Too Many Winners* (1947), as Clarence
- *For the Love of Rusty* (1947), as J. Cecil Rinehardt
- *It Happened on Fifth Avenue* (1947), as Music Store Manager (uncredited)
- *Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman* (1947), as Attorney (uncredited)
- *Betty Co-Ed* (1946), as Plimpton
- *Night and Day* (1946), as Minister (uncredited)
- *Young Widow* (1946), as Photographer (Uncredited)
- *Scarlet Street* (1945), as Holliday (uncredited)
- *Spellbound* (1945), as Hallett - Railroad Clerk (uncredited) — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md)
- *Mildred Pierce* (1945), as Man (uncredited) — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/mildred-pierce-1945.md)
- *Bewitched* (1945), as Juror (uncredited)
- *Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion* (1945), as Steven Cubaker
- *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* (1945), as Principal (uncredited)
- *Roughly Speaking* (1945), as The Professor (uncredited)
- *Uncertain Glory* (1944), Actor
- *Madame Curie* (1943), as Singing Professor (uncredited) — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/madame-curie.md)
- *Lucky Jordan* (1942), as Clarence
- *The Glass Key* (1942), as Claude Tuttle
- *New York Town* (1941), as (uncredited)
- *Father Takes a Wife* (1941), as Henderson (as George Meador)
- *The Smiling Ghost* (1941), as Dinwiddle
- *Bachelor Daddy* (1941), as Judge McGinnis
- *Man-Made Monster* (1941), as Dr. Bruno
- *The Monster and the Girl* (1941), as Dr. Knight
- *Life with Henry* (1941), as Mr. Allen (uncredited)
- *Gambling on the High Seas* (1940), as Hawkins, alias A. P. Smith
- *Edison, the Man* (1940), as Minister
- *And One Was Beautiful* (1940), as Waiter at Moroni's
- *The Courageous Dr. Christian* (1940), as Harry Johnson

## Gallery

- ![George Meader](https://film.one/media/person/1234088/gallery-3664be2be6c4.jpg) George Meader — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Meader_LCCN2014709942.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Title: Meader Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1915)](https://film.one/media/person/1234088/gallery-a90e34e4406d.jpg) Title: Meader Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1915) — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Meader_LCCN2014709944.jpg/1280px-Meader_LCCN2014709944.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Title: Meader Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1915)](https://film.one/media/person/1234088/gallery-23eda696a104.jpg) Title: Meader Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1915) — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Meader_LCCN2014709941.jpg/1280px-Meader_LCCN2014709941.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Title: Meader Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1900)](https://film.one/media/person/1234088/gallery-5cf13b37be73.jpg) Title: Meader Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1900) — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Meader_LCCN2014717753.jpg/1280px-Meader_LCCN2014717753.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![George Meader](https://film.one/media/person/1234088/gallery-7414429a57bd.jpg) George Meader — Image via TMDB
- ![Title: Meader Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1915)](https://film.one/media/person/1234088/gallery-7cc7bc7a5ec9.jpg) Title: Meader Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1915) — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Meader_LCCN2014709893.jpg/1280px-Meader_LCCN2014709893.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Title: Meader Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1915)](https://film.one/media/person/1234088/gallery-fba18424272e.jpg) Title: Meader Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1915) — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Meader_LCCN2014709943.jpg/1280px-Meader_LCCN2014709943.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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