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. He was entombed in the Fairmount Mausoleum at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.