George Meader

George Meader

Birth : 1888-07-06, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Death : 1963-12-17

History

George Meader (July 6, 1888 - December 17, 1963) was an American actor.

Profile

George Meader
George Meader

Movies

The Groom Wore Spurs
Bellboy
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
Champagne for Caesar
Mr. Brown
When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
On the Town
Professor
Three sailors - Gabey, Chip and Ozzie - let loose on a 24-hour pass in New York and the Big Apple will never be the same! Gabey falls head over heels for "Miss Turnstiles of the Month" (he thinks she's a high society deb when she's really a 'cooch dancer at Coney Island); innocent Chip gets highjacked (literally) by a lady cab driver; and Ozzie becomes the object of interest of a gorgeous anthropologist who thinks he's the perfect example of a "prehistoric man". Wonderful music and terrific shots of New York at its best.
Champion
Fight Doctor (uncredited)
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Half Past Midnight
Bascomb, Bondman
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
The Judge Steps Out
Man on Train (uncredited)
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Dangerous Years
Oliver Hughes (uncredited)
Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.
The Unsuspected
Fritz (uncredited)
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
Too Many Winners
Clarence
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
For the Love of Rusty
J. Cecil Rinehardt
Danny Mitchell, feeling that he has been misunderstood by his parents, takes his dog, Rusty, and leaves home, camping out near the trailer of veterinary Dr. Francis Xavier Ray. Gas escapes in the trailer during the night, and Rusty rescues the vet before he is overcome.
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Music Store Manager (uncredited)
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Young Widow
Photographer (Uncredited)
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
Scarlet Street
Holliday (uncredited)
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
Spellbound
Hallett - Railroad Clerk (uncredited)
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Mildred Pierce
Man (uncredited)
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Bewitched
Juror (uncredited)
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Steven Cubaker
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Principal (uncredited)
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Roughly Speaking
The Professor (uncredited)
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
Madame Curie
Singing Professor (uncredited)
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Lucky Jordan
Clarence
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
The Glass Key
Claude Tuttle
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
New York Town
(uncredited)
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Father Takes a Wife
Henderson (as George Meador)
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
The Smiling Ghost
Dinwiddle
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
Bachelor Daddy
Judge McGinnis
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
Man-Made Monster
Dr. Bruno
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
The Monster and the Girl
Dr. Knight
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Life with Henry
Mr. Allen
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
Gambling on the High Seas
Hawkins, alias A. P. Smith
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
Edison, the Man
Minister
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
And One Was Beautiful
Waiter at Moroni's
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
The Courageous Dr. Christian
Harry Johnson
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.