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person_profile-Ralph Meeker

Ralph Meeker Died at age: 67

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Ralph Meeker

Date of Birth:

Nov 21, 1920

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Aug 05, 1988

Biography of

Ralph Meeker

    Ralph Meeker (born Ralph Rathgeber; November 21, 1920 – August 5, 1988) was an American actor. He first rose to prominence for his roles in the Broadway productions of Mister Roberts (1948–1951) and Picnic (1953), the former of which earned him a Theatre World Award for his performance. In film, Meeker is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mike Hammer in Robert Aldrich's 1955 Kiss Me Deadly.

    Meeker went on to play a series of roles that used his husky and macho screen presence, including a lead role in Stanley Kubrick's military courtroom drama Paths of Glory (1957), as a troubled mechanic opposite Carroll Baker in Something Wild (1961), as a World War II captain in The Dirty Dozen (1967), and in the gangster film The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967). Other credits include supporting roles in I Walk the Line (1970) and Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes (1971).

    He also had a prolific career in television, appearing as Sergeant Steve Dekker on the series Not for Hire (1959–1960), and in the television horror film The Night Stalker (1972). After suffering a stroke in 1980, Meeker was forced to retire from acting, and died eight years later of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California.

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Filmography of

Ralph Meeker

Found 47 Movies in total

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2004

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Lt. Driscoll (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2002

Without Warning

Dave ( Actor )

... 1980

Winter Kills

Gameboy Baker ( Actor )

... 1979

The Alpha Incident

Charlie ( Actor )

... 1978

Hi-Riders

Mike ( Actor )

... 1978

My Boys Are Good Boys

Bert Morton ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 1978

The Food of the Gods

Bensington ( Actor )

... 1976

Johnny Firecloud

Colby ( Actor )

... 1975

Brannigan

Capt. Moretti ( Actor )

... 1975

The Dead Don't Die

Lieutenant Reardon ( Actor )

... 1975

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

Inspector DeBiesse ( Actor )

... 1974

Night Games

Dutch Armbreck ( Actor )

... 1974

Cry Panic

Chuck Braswell ( Actor )

... 1974

Love Comes Quietly

Ben Hoeksema ( Actor )

... 1973

You'll Never See Me Again

Will Alden ( Actor )

... 1973

Birds of Prey

Jim McAndrew ( Actor )

... 1973

The Mind Snatchers

The Major ( Actor )

... 1972

The Night Stalker

Bernie Jenks ( Actor )

... 1972

The Reluctant Heroes

Capt. Luke Danvers ( Actor )

... 1971

The Anderson Tapes

Police Captain 'Iron Balls' Delaney ( Actor )

... 1971

I Walk the Line

Carl McCain ( Actor )

... 1970

Lost Flight

Glenn Walkup ( Actor )

... 1970

The Devil's Eight

Burl ( Actor )

... 1969

The Detective

Curran ( Actor )

... 1968

Gentle Giant

Fog Hanson ( Actor )

... 1967

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

George Clarence 'Bugs' Moran ( Actor )

... 1967

The Dirty Dozen

Captain Stuart Kinder ( Actor )

... 1967

Wall of Noise

Matt Rubio ( Actor )

... 1963

Something Wild

Mike ( Actor )

... 1961

A Holster Full Of Law

Frank Clell ( Actor )

... 1961

Ada

Colonel Yancey ( Actor )

... 1961

Paths of Glory

Cpl. Philippe Paris ( Actor )

... 1957

Run of the Arrow

Lieutenant Driscoll ( Actor )

... 1957

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

Mike Valla ( Actor )

... 1957

A Woman's Devotion

Trevor Stevenson ( Actor )

... 1956

Desert Sands

Capt. David Malcolm ( Actor )

... 1955

Kiss Me Deadly

Mike Hammer ( Actor )

... 1955

Big House, U.S.A

Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman ( Actor )

... 1955

Code Two

Chuck O'Flair ( Actor )

... 1953

Jeopardy

Lawson the Fugitive ( Actor )

... 1953

The Naked Spur

Roy Anderson ( Actor )

... 1953

Somebody Loves Me

Benny Fields ( Actor )

... 1952

Shadow in the Sky

Burt ( Actor )

... 1952

Glory Alley

Socks Barbarrosa ( Actor )

... 1952

Teresa

Sgt. Dobbs ( Actor )

... 1951

Four in a Jeep

Sergeant William Long ( Actor )

... 1951