 By this marriage, the American-born Belle Meek lost her United States citizenship taking her husband's British nationality.Donald Meek died of leukaemia on Monday, 18 November 1946 in Los Angeles, while playing the role of Mr. Twiddle in William A. Wellman's comedy "Magic Town" with Jimmy Stewart and Jane Wyman, which premiered on 7 October 1947, just under a year after Meek's death.A prolific film actor in over 100 Hollywood movies during its Golden Age, he received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.