Donald Meek
Donald Meek (* July 14, 1878 in Glasgow, Scotland, † November 18, 1946 in Woodland Hills, California ) was a Scottish, a naturalized American actor.
Life
Meek spent his childhood in Glasgow. Even as eight years old when he made his debut at the city's " Royal Theatre". As a theater actor tours have taken him to Australia. With an acrobat troupe he came to Canada. From 1894 he was based in the U.S.. As a stage performer he was there for 35 years, a widely unappreciated career. Like many other theater actor also, he moved to the advent of the talkies in Hollywood. There, the diminutive, frail and bald-headed actor quickly made career, with its " Characters " has become his trademark. He embodied mostly " mousy, lively, quarrelsome, cowardly or fearful - bustling official figures, sometimes funny, sometimes vicious " (Less ).
The years 1938/39, were the climax of his film career when he participated in four classic films: in the Western Ringo ( Stagecoach ) by John Ford, he embodied the anxious liquor rep Samuel Peacock; in another Western classic, Jesse James, man without law ( Jesse James ) by Henry King, he played the villainous railroad manager, the bounty exposed to the James brothers, in Young Mr. Lincoln (Young Mr. Lincoln) by John Ford Prosecutor John fields, and finally he put in Frank Capra's film Survivalist ( You Can not Take it with You) to Mr. Poppins, inventor of toys and party masks, dar.
Donald Meek received as honorable remembrance for his filmmaking a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (1752 Vine Street ).