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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Meeker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 1920-11-21

Died: 1988-08-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Four in a Jeep	Sergeant William Long	54
2	1951	Teresa	Sgt. Dobbs	58
3	1952	Glory Alley	Socks Barbarrosa	58
4	1952	Shadow in the Sky	Burt	66
5	1952	Somebody Loves Me	Benny Fields	85
6	1953	The Naked Spur	Roy Anderson	69
7	1953	Jeopardy	Lawson the Fugitive	66
8	1953	Code Two	Chuck O'Flair	62
9	1955	Big House, U.S.A	Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman	65
10	1955	Kiss Me Deadly	Mike Hammer	72
11	1955	Desert Sands	Capt. David Malcolm	44
12	1956	A Woman's Devotion	Trevor Stevenson	45
13	1957	The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown	Mike Valla	60
14	1957	Run of the Arrow	Lieutenant Driscoll	62
15	1957	Paths of Glory	Cpl. Philippe Paris	83
16	1961	Ada	Colonel Yancey	64
17	1961	A Holster Full Of Law	Frank Clell	0
18	1961	Something Wild	Mike	62
19	1963	Wall of Noise	Matt Rubio	36
20	1967	The Dirty Dozen	Captain Stuart Kinder	76
21	1967	The St. Valentine's Day Massacre	George Clarence 'Bugs' Moran	63
22	1967	Gentle Giant	Fog Hanson	0
23	1968	The Detective	Curran	60
24	1969	The Devil's Eight	Burl	51
25	1970	Lost Flight	Glenn Walkup	37
26	1970	I Walk the Line	Carl McCain	58
27	1971	The Anderson Tapes	Police Captain 'Iron Balls' Delaney	62
28	1971	The Reluctant Heroes	Capt. Luke Danvers	0
29	1972	The Night Stalker	Bernie Jenks	68
30	1972	The Mind Snatchers	The Major	59
31	1973	Birds of Prey	Jim McAndrew	50
32	1973	You'll Never See Me Again	Will Alden	70
33	1973	Love Comes Quietly	Ben Hoeksema	52
34	1974	Cry Panic	Chuck Braswell	68
35	1974	Night Games	Dutch Armbreck	60
36	1974	The Girl on the Late, Late Show	Inspector DeBiesse	55
37	1975	The Dead Don't Die	Lieutenant Reardon	58
38	1975	Brannigan	Capt. Moretti	60
39	1975	Johnny Firecloud	Colby	54
40	1976	The Food of the Gods	Bensington	50
41	1978	My Boys Are Good Boys	Bert Morton	72
42	1978	Hi-Riders	Mike	51
43	1978	The Alpha Incident	Charlie	36
44	1979	Winter Kills	Gameboy Baker	59
45	1980	Without Warning	Dave	53
46	2002	The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller	Lt. Driscoll (archive footage)	58
47	2004	Los Angeles Plays Itself	Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly (archive footage)	76

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1948	Studio One	Steve Windom	50
3	1948	Studio One	Larry Sheridan	50
4	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Nicky Hanks	63
5	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Mike	63
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Rich Adams	73
7	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Barry Brannon	73
8	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Wally Walters	86
9	1953	Letter to Loretta	Joe Martin	65
10	1953	Letter to Loretta	Ed James	65
11	1953	Letter to Loretta	Pilot Duke Cavanaugh	65
12	1953	Letter to Loretta	Willis Cooper	65
13	1954	Climax!	Alex Hill	33
14	1954	Climax!	'Griff' Griffith	33
15	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Carl Spann	77
16	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Carl Borden	77
17	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Mel Reeves	77
18	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	John Forbes	77
19	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour		54
20	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Steve Elkins	55
21	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Martin Ash	69
22	1958	The Texan		55
23	1959	Not for Hire		0
24	1960	Route 66		63
25	1961	Tallahassee 7000		0
26	1961	The Defenders	Floyd Cooper	62
27	1962	Going My Way		57
28	1963	The Outer Limits	John Dexter	78
29	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Harly Clay	53
30	1965	The F.B.I.	King Hogan	55
31	1965	The F.B.I.	Scott Martin	55
32	1965	The F.B.I.	Graham Newcomb	55
33	1966	Tarzan		67
34	1966	The Green Hornet	Earl Evans	71
35	1967	Ironside		68
36	1967	Custer		60
37	1967	The High Chaparral	Tracy Conlin	65
38	1968	The Name of the Game	Senator Goddard	68
39	1969	Room 222		60
40	1971	Cannon		65
41	1971	Primus		50
42	1972	The Rookies		68
43	1973	Police Story		69
44	1973	Toma		78
45	1973	The Evil Touch		55
46	1974	Run, Joe, Run		63
47	1974	Harry O		46
48	1974	Police Woman		63
49	1975	Barbary Coast	Big Lou Hobart	50
50	1977	CHiPs		68
51	1978	The Eddie Capra Mysteries		50
52	1978	Kaz		50

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