Ralph Meeker

Known For: Acting
Born: November 21, 1920
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Died: August 5, 1988

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 pro…

Filmography

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

2002 · Lt. Driscoll (archive footage)

Without Warning

1980 · Dave

Winter Kills

1979 · Gameboy Baker

Kaz

1978

The Eddie Capra Mysteries

1978

The Alpha Incident

1978 · Charlie

Hi-Riders

1978 · Mike

My Boys Are Good Boys

1978 · Bert Morton, Executive Producer

CHiPs

1977

The Food of the Gods

1976 · Bensington

Barbary Coast

1975 · Big Lou Hobart

Johnny Firecloud

1975 · Colby

Brannigan

1975 · Capt. Moretti

The Dead Don't Die

1975 · Lieutenant Reardon

Police Woman

1974

Harry O

1974

Run, Joe, Run

1974

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

1974 · Inspector DeBiesse

Night Games

1974 · Dutch Armbreck

Cry Panic

1974 · Chuck Braswell

Toma

1973

Faraday and Company

1973 · Ed Kelso

Angela – Love Comes Quietly

1973 · Ben Hoeksema

The Evil Touch

1973

Police Story

1973

You'll Never See Me Again

1973 · Will Alden

Birds of Prey

1973 · Jim McAndrew

The Rookies

1972

The Mind Snatchers

1972 · The Major

The Night Stalker

1972 · Bernie Jenks

The Reluctant Heroes

1971 · Capt. Luke Danvers

Primus

1971

Cannon

1971

The Anderson Tapes

1971 · Police Captain 'Iron Balls' Delaney

I Walk the Line

1970 · Carl McCain

Lost Flight

1970 · Glenn Walkup

Room 222

1969

The Devil's Eight

1969 · Burl

The Name of the Game

1968 · Senator Goddard

The Detective

1968 · Curran

Gentle Giant

1967 · Fog Hanson

The High Chaparral

1967 · Tracy Conlin

Custer

1967

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967 · George Clarence 'Bugs' Moran

The Dirty Dozen

1967 · Captain Stuart Kinder

Ironside

1967

The Green Hornet

1966 · Earl Evans

Tarzan

1966

The F.B.I.

1965 · King Hogan, Scott Martin, Graham Newcomb

Kraft Suspense Theatre

1963 · Harly Clay

The Outer Limits

1963 · John Dexter

Wall of Noise

1963 · Matt Rubio

Going My Way

1962

Something Wild

1961 · Mike

A Holster Full Of Law

1961 · Frank Clell

The Defenders

1961 · Floyd Cooper

Ada

1961 · Colonel Yancey

Tallahassee 7000

1961

Route 66

1960

Not for Hire

1959

The Texan

1958

Wanted: Dead or Alive

1958 · Martin Ash

Paths of Glory

1957 · Cpl. Philippe Paris

Run of the Arrow

1957 · Lieutenant Driscoll

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

1957 · Mike Valla

Four Women in Black

1957 · Carbine Webb

A Woman's Devotion

1956 · Trevor Stevenson

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956 · Steve Elkins

Desert Sands

1955 · Capt. David Malcolm

The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955 · Carl Spann, Carl Borden, John Forbes, Mel Reeves

Kiss Me Deadly

1955 · Mike Hammer

Big House, U.S.A

1955 · Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman

Climax!

1954 · Alex Hill, 'Griff' Griffith

Letter to Loretta

1953 · Joe Martin, Ed James, Pilot Duke Cavanaugh, Willis Cooper

Code Two

1953 · Chuck O'Flair

Jeopardy

1953 · Lawson the Fugitive

The Naked Spur

1953 · Roy Anderson

Somebody Loves Me

1952 · Benny Fields

Shadow in the Sky

1952 · Burt

Glory Alley

1952 · Socks Barbarrosa

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Wally Walters

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951 · Rich Adams, Barry Brannon

Teresa

1951 · Sgt. Dobbs

Four in a Jeep

1951 · Sergeant William Long

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre

1950 · Nicky Hanks, Mike

Studio One

1948 · Steve Windom, Larry Sheridan

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

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