Ralph Meeker

Ralph Meeker

Birthday: 1920-11-21

Deathday: 1988-08-05

Place of birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Also known as: Ralph Rathgeber

imdb_id: nm0576127

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.

Played in movies:

Somebody Loves Me

Score: 8.5

Paths of Glory

Score: 8.3

The Dirty Dozen

Score: 7.6

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Score: 7.6

My Boys Are Good Boys

Score: 7.2

Kiss Me Deadly

Score: 7.2

You'll Never See Me Again

Score: 7.0

The Naked Spur

Score: 6.9

Cry Panic

Score: 6.8

The Night Stalker

Score: 6.8

Shadow in the Sky

Score: 6.6

Jeopardy

Score: 6.6

Big House, U.S.A

Score: 6.5

Ada

Score: 6.4

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Score: 6.3

Something Wild

Score: 6.2

Code Two

Score: 6.2

Run of the Arrow

Score: 6.2

The Anderson Tapes

Score: 6.2

Night Games

Score: 6.0

Brannigan

Score: 6.0

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

Score: 6.0

The Detective

Score: 6.0

The Mind Snatchers

Score: 5.9

Winter Kills

Score: 5.9

Glory Alley

Score: 5.8

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Score: 5.8

Teresa

Score: 5.8

The Dead Don't Die

Score: 5.8

I Walk the Line

Score: 5.8

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

Score: 5.5

Four in a Jeep

Score: 5.4

Johnny Firecloud

Score: 5.4

Without Warning

Score: 5.3

Angela - Love Comes Quietly

Score: 5.2

Hi-Riders

Score: 5.1

The Devil's Eight

Score: 5.1

Birds of Prey

Score: 5.0

The Food of the Gods

Score: 4.9

A Woman's Devotion

Score: 4.5

Desert Sands

Score: 4.4

Lost Flight

Score: 3.7

Wall of Noise

Score: 3.6

The Alpha Incident

Score: 3.6

A Holster Full Of Law

Score: 0.0

The Reluctant Heroes

Score: 0.0

Gentle Giant

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.8

Toma

Score: 7.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

The Green Hornet

Score: 7.2

Police Story

Score: 6.9

Ironside

Score: 6.8

CHiPs

Score: 6.8

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

The Name of the Game

Score: 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.8

The Rookies

Score: 6.8

Tarzan

Score: 6.7

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

The High Chaparral

Score: 6.5

Cannon

Score: 6.5

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

Run, Joe, Run

Score: 6.3

Route 66

Score: 6.3

Police Woman

Score: 6.3

Custer

Score: 6.0

Room 222

Score: 6.0

The Defenders

Score: 5.9

Going My Way

Score: 5.7

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

The Evil Touch

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Score: 5.4

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Score: 5.3

Studio One

Score: 5.0

Primus

Score: 5.0

The Eddie Capra Mysteries

Score: 5.0

Barbary Coast

Score: 5.0

Studio One

Score: 5.0

Kaz

Score: 5.0

Harry O

Score: 4.6

Climax!

Score: 3.3

Climax!

Score: 3.3

Not for Hire

Score: 0.0

Tallahassee 7000

Score: 0.0