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Ralph Meeker (born Ralph Rathgeber; November 21, 1920 – August 5, 1988) was an American film, stage, and television 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 film noir cult classic 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. contributors on Wikipedia.
Ralph Meeker Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ralph Meeker |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Date of Birth | 1920-11-21 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 67 |
| Deathday | 1988-08-05 |
Ralph Meeker Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| A Woman’s Devotion | Trevor Stevenson | 1956-11-16 | An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead i… |
| The Alpha Incident | Charlie | 1978-01-01 | A space probe brings back a micro-organism from Mars which terrorizes passengers at a railhead…. |
| Code Two | Chuck O’Flair | 1953-04-24 | Three young men train to become motorcycle cops…. |
| Kiss Me Deadly | Mike Hammer | 1955-04-28 | One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thug… |
| Shadow in the Sky | Burt | 1952-07-18 | Burt, a Marine suffering from Battle Fatigue, is deathly afraid of rain and confined to an asylum, but showing improvement. He wants to live with his … |
| Desert Sands | Capt. David Malcolm | 1955-11-18 | The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa…. |
| My Boys Are Good Boys | Bert Morton | 1978-01-01 | Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van…. |
| Glory Alley | Socks Barbarrosa | 1952-06-06 | A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea…. |
| Paths of Glory | Cpl. Philippe Paris | 1957-10-25 | A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916…. |
| Big House, U.S.A. | Geraldo ‘Jerry’ Barker aka Iceman | 1955-03-03 | A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate la… |
| Johnny Firecloud | Colby | 1975-08-01 | An American Indian war veteran avenges the hanging of his grandfather by local thugs…. |
| Something Wild | Mike | 1961-12-23 | A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer…. |
| Birds of Prey | Jim McAndrew | 1973-01-30 | Harry Walker, a former military pilot, works as a helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for a Salt Lake City radio station. One day while working he o… |
| Somebody Loves Me | Benny Fields | 1952-09-24 | Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields…. |
| Four in a Jeep | Sergeant William Long | 1951-03-30 | Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna…. |
| Jeopardy | Lawson the Fugitive | 1953-03-30 | A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him…. |
| The Food of the Gods | Bensington | 1976-06-18 | Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan st… |
| The Detective | Curran | 1968-05-28 | Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man…. |
| The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre | George Clarence ‘Bugs’ Moran | 1967-06-30 | Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city’s boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as … |
| The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown | Mike Valla | 1957-05-09 | When a movie star is kidnapped, everyone thinks it’s a publicity stunt. It’s not…. |
| You’ll Never See Me Again | Will Alden | 1973-03-01 | After a couple have an argument, the wife disappears. The husband searches for her, only to discover evidence that implicates him in her murder…. |
| Lost Flight | Glenn Walkup | 1970-08-13 | The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle – an adult ver… |
| Cry Panic | Chuck Braswell | 1974-02-06 | A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping sec… |
| Love Comes Quietly | Ben Hoeksema | 1973-06-22 | Love Comes Quietly (aka Angela) tells the story of a free-spirited girl who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the 1920s, even the some… |
| Gentle Giant | Fog Hanson | 1967-10-25 | The Story of a boy and his bear…. |
| The Naked Spur | Roy Anderson | 1953-01-30 | Howard Kemp has been tracking killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time. In the Colorado Rockies, he teams up with prospector Jesse Tate and former Union… |
| The Anderson Tapes | Police Captain ‘Iron Balls’ Delaney | 1971-06-17 | Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the … |
| Run of the Arrow | Lieutenant Driscoll | 1957-09-05 | When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O’Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a … |
| The Night Stalker | Bernie Jenks | 1972-01-11 | Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of gruesome murders in Las Vegas. It seems that each victim has been bitten in the neck and d… |
| I Walk the Line | Carl McCain | 1970-11-18 | Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his ma… |
| The Mind Snatchers | The Major | 1972-06-28 | A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the br… |
| Ada | Colonel Yancey | 1961-08-25 | A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine tha… |
| The Devil’s Eight | Burl | 1969-05-14 | The Devil’s 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust … |
| Hi-Riders | Mike | 1978-03-17 | Story of a group of drag races and the young boy and girl who join them…. |
| Wall of Noise | Matt Rubio | 1963-09-04 | The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hard… |
| The Dead Don’t Die | Lieutenant Reardon | 1975-01-14 | In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world…. |
| The Reluctant Heroes | Capt. Luke Danvers | 1971-11-23 | An army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from the history books to save his beleaguered squad on an … |
| The Girl on the Late, Late Show | Inspector DeBiesse | 1974-04-01 | A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiri… |
| Teresa | Sgt. Dobbs | 1951-04-05 | An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband’s possessive mother…. |
| Brannigan | Capt. Moretti | 1975-03-21 | Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which wa… |
| The Dirty Dozen | Captain Stuart Kinder | 1967-06-15 | 12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. T… |
| Winter Kills | Gameboy Baker | 1979-05-11 | 19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avo… |
| Night Games | Dutch Armbreck | 1974-03-16 | A Harvard-educated, big-city lawyer moves to a small Arizona town to set up practice. His first case is defending a beautiful socialite accused of mur… |
| The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Lt. Driscoll (archive footage) | 2002-07-02 | Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips…. |
| Without Warning | Dave | 1980-09-26 | An alien creature stalks human prey…. |
Ralph Meeker Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| My Boys Are Good Boys | Executive Producer | 1978-01-01 | Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van…. |
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