George Meeker

Born: 1904-03-05

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Meeker (March 5, 1904 – August 19, 1984) was an American character movie and Broadway actor who became more of a legend off-camera than on. Meeker made several movies such as Crime, Inc. (1945) and Thief in the Dark (1928), and he played an uncredited part in All Through the Night (1941). Meeker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


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Gone with the Wind

as Poker-Playing Captain (uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-15

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical...

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Casablanca

as Rick's Friend (uncredited)
Released: 1943-01-15

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover,...

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The Roaring Twenties

as Masters
Released: 1939-10-28

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George...

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The Ox-Bow Incident

as Mr. Swanson (uncredited)
Released: 1943-03-11

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between...

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

as Henneberry (uncredited)
Released: 1936-04-09

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies...

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High Sierra

as Pfiffer
Released: 1941-01-23

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

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Angel on My Shoulder

as Mr. Bentley (uncredited)
Released: 1946-09-20

The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make...

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Words and Music

as Producer (uncredited)
Released: 1948-12-31

Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner,...

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Son of Dracula

as Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: 1943-11-05

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local...

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Song of Nevada

as Chris Calahan
Released: 1944-08-05

When John Barrabbee's plane makes an emergency landing, he wanders off and joins Roy's cattle...

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Superman

as Driller
Released: 1948-07-15

Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first...

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Marie Antoinette

as Robespierre
Released: 1938-08-26

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of...

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It's a Wonderful World

as Ned Brown (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-19

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he...

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All Through the Night

as Reporter
Released: 1942-01-10

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

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Broadway Bill

as Henry Early
Released: 1934-11-30

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his...

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History Is Made at Night

as Mr. Norton
Released: 1937-03-05

An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from...

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Just Before Dawn

as Walter Foster (uncredited)
Released: 1946-03-07

In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is...

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Road to Rio

as Sherman Mallory
Released: 1947-12-25

Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound...

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If You Could Only Cook

as Parker (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-30

An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

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Dark Hazard

as Pres Barrow
Released: 1934-01-31

Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His...

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Nick Carter, Master Detective

as Hartley
Released: 1939-12-13

Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new...

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Larceny, Inc.

as Mr. Jackson
Released: 1942-04-24

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they...

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The Life of Jimmy Dolan

as Charles Magee
Released: 1933-06-03

Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and...

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I Accuse My Parents

as Charles Blake
Released: 1944-10-27

Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters....

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Emma

as Bill
Released: 1932-01-02

When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's...

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The Famous Ferguson Case

as Jigger Bolton
Released: 1932-04-19

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by...

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Dead Man's Eyes

as Nick Phillips
Released: 1944-11-10

Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's...

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Murder in the Big House

as 'Scoop' Conner
Released: 1942-04-11

When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter...

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All Women Have Secrets

as Doc
Released: 1939-12-15

When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus...

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Love Crazy

as Lawyer DeWest
Released: 1941-05-23

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of...

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Blessed Event

as Cromwell Church
Released: 1932-09-10

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

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Murder by Television

as Police Chief Nelson
Released: 1935-10-01

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously...

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One Touch of Venus

as Mr. Crust
Released: 1948-08-01

A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.

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Back Street

as Kurt Shendler
Released: 1932-08-04

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back...

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The Crime Doctor's Warning

as Mrs. Lake's Attorney #1 (uncredited)
Released: 1945-09-27

A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.

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Small Town Girl

as Dr. Bill Underwood (uncredited)
Released: 1936-04-10

Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear....

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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

as Wolf (uncredited)
Released: 1947-03-01

A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

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Her Sister's Secret

as Guy
Released: 1946-09-23

A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier...

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Only Yesterday

as Dave Reynolds
Released: 1933-11-01

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide....

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The Wedding Night

as Gilly (uncredited)
Released: 1935-03-08

While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett...

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The Man Who Found Himself

as Howard Dennis
Released: 1937-04-02

Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his...

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Wedding Present

as Gordon Blaker
Released: 1936-10-09

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically...

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The Male Animal

as Reporter on Porch (uncredited)
Released: 1942-03-12

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being...

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Black Market Babies

as Anthony Marsden
Released: 1945-12-15

Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative...

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Up in Arms

as Ashley's Aide
Released: 1944-02-17

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his...

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Seven Doors to Death

as Charles Eaton
Released: 1944-08-16

An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a...

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Fireman, Save My Child

as Stevens
Released: 1932-02-20

Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to...

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The Match King

as Erickson (uncredited)
Released: 1932-12-31

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of...

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The Red Dragon

as Edmond Slade
Released: 1945-08-01

Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with...

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Wings of the Navy

as Steve Connors
Released: 1939-02-11

Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both...

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Double Harness

as Dennis Moore
Released: 1933-07-21

After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.

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The Richest Girl in the World

as Donald
Released: 1934-09-21

Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money,...

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Murder on a Honeymoon

as Tom Kelsey, alias Roswell T. Forrest
Released: 1935-02-22

A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets...

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The Country Doctor

as Dr. Wilson
Released: 1936-03-12

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he...

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Twilight in the Sierras

as Matt Brunner
Released: 1950-05-20

Roy is a United States Marshal tracking down a counterfeiting ring and hunting down a mountain...

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The Westland Case

as Richard Bolston
Released: 1937-10-30

A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows...

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Four Sons

as Andreas - Her Son
Released: 1928-02-13

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth...

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Smashing the Rackets

as District Attorney Aide
Released: 1938-08-08

Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a...

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Below the Deadline

as Jeffrey Hilton
Released: 1946-08-03

A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster,...

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The Dragon Murder Case

as Monty Montague
Released: 1934-08-25

Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone...

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Hips, Hips, Hooray!

as Armand Beauchamp
Released: 1934-02-02

Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth...

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Afraid to Talk

as Lenny Collins
Released: 1932-11-17

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them...

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Crime, Inc.

as Barry North
Released: 1945-04-15

A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on...

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The Denver Kid

as Dealer Andre
Released: 1948-09-30

When Border Patrol Lieutenant Roberts is killed, it appears that his brother Tim was the killer....

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Music for Madame

as Orchestra Leader (Uncredited)
Released: 1937-10-08

An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of...

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Melody in Spring

as Wesley Prebble
Released: 1934-04-07

It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is...

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Sky Liner

as Financier
Released: 1949-07-28

Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies,...

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The Singing Hill

as John R. Ramsey
Released: 1941-04-25

If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land.

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Apache Rose

as Reed Calhoun
Released: 1947-02-15

Roy is an oil prospector. His efforts to get drilling rights on an old Spanish land grant are...

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Come Out Fighting

as Silk Henley
Released: 1945-09-29

The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.

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Busses Roar

as Nick Stoddard
Released: 1942-09-19

A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.

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Swanee River

as Henry Foster
Released: 1939-12-29

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who...

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Tarzan's Revenge

as Nevin Potter
Released: 1938-01-07

Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance.

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A Child Is Born

as Mr. Harry Laverne (uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-07

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

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Everything's on Ice

as Harrison Gregg
Released: 1939-10-05

Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money.

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You're in the Army Now

as Captain Austin
Released: 1941-12-25

Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.

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Remember Last Night?

as Vic Huling
Released: 1935-10-28

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's...

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Danger on the Air

as Tuttle
Released: 1938-06-30

Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio...

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Chance at Heaven

as Sid Larrick
Released: 1933-10-27

A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.

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Marriage Is a Private Affair

as Jonesy (uncredited)
Released: 1944-08-23

Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been...

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Mr. Muggs Rides Again

as Dollar Davis
Released: 1945-07-15

After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no...

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Escape by Night

as Fred Peters
Released: 1937-09-01

Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.

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You Can't Escape Forever

as Cummings - Greer's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: 1942-10-10

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime...

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Michael Shayne: Private Detective

as Harry Grange
Released: 1940-12-19

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter...

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Strictly Dishonorable

as Henry Greene
Released: 1931-12-01

A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor,...

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I Believed in You

as Saracen Jones
Released: 1934-04-09

An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in...

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Oil for the Lamps of China

as Bill Kendall
Released: 1935-06-08

An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.

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The Misleading Lady

as Bob Tracy
Released: 1932-04-15

A scheming socialite meets her match in the out-of-touch wildlife explorer she ventures to ensnare.

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The Port of 40 Thieves

as Frederick St. Clair
Released: 1944-08-13

A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and...

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Career Woman

as Mr. Smith
Released: 1936-12-18

A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and...

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The Lady and the Mob

as George Watson
Released: 1939-04-03

Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.

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Brenda Starr, Reporter

as Frank Smith (uncredited)
Released: 1945-01-26

Reporter Brenda Starr and her photographer Chuck Allen get involved in a search for the loot...

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Murder Is My Business

as Carl Meldrum
Released: 1946-03-07

Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of...

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A Guy, a Gal and a Pal

as Granville Breckenridge
Released: 1945-03-08

A young woman devises a clever scheme to secure a train reservation by pretending to be married...

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King for a Night

as John Williams
Released: 1933-12-09

A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.

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Rough Riders' Round-up

as George Lanning
Released: 1939-03-13

Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a...

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Northwest Trail

as Whitey Yeager
Released: 1945-11-30

Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an...

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A Fool's Advice

as Harry Bayliss
Released: 1932-02-20

An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician...

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Free, Blonde and 21

as Drunk
Released: 1940-03-28

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a...

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Night of Terror

as Prof. Arthur Hornsby
Released: 1933-04-23

The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion....

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Chick Carter, Detective

as Nick Pollo
Released: 1946-07-11

Detective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot)finds himself on his most exciting case when Sherry Martin...

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Take It Big

as John Hankinson
Released: 1944-06-09

Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western...

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Sweepings

as Bert Pardway
Released: 1933-04-14

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest...

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Home in Oklahoma

as Steve McClory
Released: 1946-10-18

In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making...

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The Invisible Monster

as "Harry Long"
Released: 1950-05-10

Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an...

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Walking on Air

as Tom Quinlan
Released: 1936-09-11

A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him...

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Ranger of Cherokee Strip

as Eric Parsons
Released: 1949-11-04

Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail...

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Government Agents vs Phantom Legion

as Willard
Released: 1951-07-04

Two federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security...

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The Kid From Texas

as Henry Smith Harrington
Released: 1939-04-14

A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society...

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Ever Since Eve

as Philip Baxter
Released: 1934-03-25

Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and...

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Spoilers of the Plains

as Scientist
Released: 1951-02-02

An experimental weather satellite and a missile base are at stake when Roy discovers foreign...

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The Rainmakers

as Orville Parker
Released: 1935-10-25

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry...

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The Case of the Baby-Sitter

as Phil Russell, alias the Duke
Released: 1947-07-26

The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective,...

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The Jones Family in Hollywood

as Movie Studio Actor (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-02

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a...

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Tess of the Storm Country

as Dan Taylor
Released: 1932-11-20

When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to...

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Hi, Nellie!

as Sheldon
Released: 1934-01-20

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield...

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On Again—Off Again

as Tony Toler
Released: 1937-07-09

This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug...

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Spy Ship

as Paul
Released: 1942-06-06

A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position...

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Gentle Julia

as Crum
Released: 1936-04-10

A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till...

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Undercover Doctor

as Dapper Dan Barr
Released: 1939-06-09

Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh,...

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Omoo-Omoo the Shark God

as Dr. Godfrey Long
Released: 1949-06-09

The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol.

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The First Year

as Dick Loring
Released: 1932-07-30

Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being...

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Secret Enemies

as Rudolph Dietz
Released: 1942-09-17

FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate...

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Wells Fargo Gunmaster

as Roulette Croupier
Released: 1951-05-15

Rocky Lane, Special Investigator for Wells Fargo, shows up just in time to save the stage from...

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Silent Partner

as R.S. Treavor, Desk Clerk
Released: 1944-06-09

A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead...

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Slander House

as Dr. Herbert Stallings
Released: 1938-10-04

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger,...

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Change of Heart

as Richards
Released: 1938-01-14

While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all...

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The Long Shot

as Dell Baker
Released: 1939-01-06

A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a...

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Vanity Street

as Val French
Released: 1932-10-14

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to...

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The Gay Ranchero

as Vance Brados
Released: 1948-01-14

Manzanita Springs ia a combination small airline and spa and Vance Brados wants it. He pays...

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The Big Show-Off

as Wally Porter
Released: 1945-01-22

A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in...

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Against the Law

as Bert Andrews
Released: 1934-10-25

Steve Wayne, a daring young ambulance driver for a large hospital in Los Angeles, is a rival...

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Song of the Eagle

as August Hoffmann
Released: 1933-04-27

This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control...

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Chicken à la King

as Buck Taylor
Released: 1928-06-09

A married tightwad learns to loosen up by living the life of a playboy.

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Stunt Pilot

as Earl Martin
Released: 1939-06-30

The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest...

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Paris Interlude

as Rex
Released: 1934-07-27

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...

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Neighborhood House

as Adolph, Theatre Manager
Released: 1936-03-09

Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie...

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Escape to Paradise

as Harry Wilson
Released: 1939-12-22

An American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble.

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Docks of New York

as Mallet
Released: 1945-02-24

The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.

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Silver Trails

as Will Jackson
Released: 1948-08-21

Jimmy and Cannonball find the body of Don Muquel after he has been shot and robbed by henchmen...

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Welcome Home

as Edward Adams
Released: 1935-08-09

A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are...

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Racket Squad

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-06-07

Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock,...

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