Gus Meins (March 6, 1893 – August 1, 1940), born Gustave Peter Ludwig Luley, was an American film director. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
Career
Meins started out in the ‘teens as a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Evening Herald before becoming a comedy writer for Fox Film in 1919.
In the 1920s, Meins directed a number of silent short subjects film series for Universal Pictures, including the Buster Brown comedies. He is best known as senior director of Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies from 1934 to 1936, and also as director of Laurel and Hardy's Babes in Toyland (1934). Bizarrely, the circumstances of his death in a car from suffocation were reminiscent of the demise five years earlier of comedian Thelma Todd, whom he had frequently directed.
He was interred at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
He was generally remembered as 'a cheerful, convivial gentleman'.