Ralph Meeker
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1920-11-21
Deathday 1988-08-05 (67 years old)
Place of Birth Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Also Known As Ralph Rathgeber
Ralph Meeker
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Meeker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly (archive footage)
as Lt. Driscoll (archive footage)
as Dave
as Gameboy Baker
as Charlie
as Mike
as Bert Morton
as Bensington
as Colby
as Capt. Moretti
as Lieutenant Reardon
as Big Lou Hobart
as Inspector DeBiesse
as Dutch Armbreck
as Chuck Braswell
as Ben Hoeksema
as Will Alden
as Jim McAndrew
as The Major
as Bernie Jenks
as Capt. Luke Danvers
as Police Captain 'Iron Balls' Delaney
as Carl McCain
as Glenn Walkup
as Burl
as Curran
as Senator Goddard
as Fog Hanson
as George Clarence 'Bugs' Moran
as Captain Stuart Kinder
as Tracy Conlin
as Earl Evans
as King Hogan
as Scott Martin
as Graham Newcomb
as Matt Rubio
as Harly Clay
as John Dexter
as Mike
as Frank Clell
as Colonel Yancey
as Floyd Cooper
as Martin Ash
as Cpl. Philippe Paris
as Lieutenant Driscoll
as Mike Valla
as Trevor Stevenson
as Steve Elkins
as Capt. David Malcolm
as Mike Hammer
as Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman
as Carl Spann
as Carl Borden
as Mel Reeves
as John Forbes
as Alex Hill
as 'Griff' Griffith
as Chuck O'Flair
as Lawson the Fugitive
as Roy Anderson
as Joe Martin
as Ed James
as Pilot Duke Cavanaugh
as Willis Cooper
as Benny Fields
as Burt
as Socks Barbarrosa
as Sgt. Dobbs
as Sergeant William Long
as Wally Walters
as Rich Adams
as Barry Brannon
as Nicky Hanks
as Mike
as Steve Windom
as Larry Sheridan
as Self - Guest Host
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
Producer
as Executive Producer