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Meunier – “The Bridge” Los Angeles Premiere – Arrivals – DGA Theater – Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2013 – Keywords: FX Network’s “The Bridge” Series Premiere Arrivals, Directors Guild Of America Theater Orientation: Portrait Face Count: 1 Headshot – False – Photo Credit: Andrew Evans / PR Photos
Birth Name: David John Miller
Place of Birth: Woodburn, Oregon, U.S.
Date of Birth: February 5, 1973
Ethnicity: German, one quarter Luxembourgish, English, some Scottish, more distant Swiss-German, French, and Dutch
David Meunier is an American actor. He also has Luxembourgian citizenship.
David’s paternal grandfather was Otto Peter Miller (the son of William Charles Emil Miller and Anna Marie Scharbach). Otto was born in Oregon. William was born in Minnesota, the son of George Miller and Margaret. Anna was born in Oregon, the daughter of Peter Joseph Scharbach, Jr., whose parents were German; and of Margaret Fleischmann, whose parents were also German.
David’s paternal grandmother was Margaret Madeline Cub/Beck (the daughter of Francix Xavier Beck and Margaret Kass). Margaret was born in either Oregon or Iowa. Francix was born in Iowa, the son of Luxembourgian parents, Michael Beck and Catherine Groff. Margaret was born in Iowa, also to Luxembourgian parents, John Nicholas Kass and Katherina Steimetz.
David’s maternal grandfather was Benjamin Paul Bates (the son of Paul Preston Bates and Lucretia Mary Fulton). Benjamin was born in Corvallis, Oregon. Paul was the son of Lewis Cassander Bates and Nellie Shepard, and had roots in the U.S. Lucretia was the daughter of Isaac Newton Fulton, whose parents were from New York; and of Augusta Johanna Walk, the daughter of German emigrants, her father from Grambow, Pomerania, and her mother from Nordsachsen.
David’s maternal grandmother was Vera Jane Getz (the daughter of Eugene LeRoy Getz and Vera Schloth Patterson). David’s grandmother Vera was born in Oregon. Eugene was the son of Phares Adams Getz and Mary Jane Buckwalter, and was of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. David’s great-grandmother Vera was the daughter of William Henry Patterson, who had deep roots in the U.S.; and of Agnes S. Schloth, whose parents were German, from Saxony.
Sources: Genealogy of David Meunier – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of David’s father – http://obits.oregonlive.com