Ralph Meeker
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Theatre World Award Award
Theatre World Award 1 won
- 1948 Theatre World Award Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
39 credits
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Climax!
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Defenders
The F.B.I.
Studio One
The High Chaparral
The Outer Limits
The Name of the Game
The Ed Sullivan Show
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Green Hornet
The Dirty Dozen
Paths of Glory
Lux Video Theatre
Barbary Coast
The Night Stalker
Not for Hire
Letter to Loretta
Kiss Me Deadly
The Detective
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Without Warning
The Naked Spur
The Anderson Tapes
Faraday and Company
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Winter Kills
The Food of the Gods
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Brannigan
I Walk the Line
Hi-Riders
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Run of the Arrow
Jeopardy
The Devil's Eight
Birds of Prey
Other credits
21 credits
Ironside
Cannon
Police Woman
Route 66
Room 222
The Rookies
Tarzan
Police Story
The Texan
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Harry O
CHiPs
Toma
Going My Way
Kaz
Custer
The Evil Touch
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
Run, Joe, Run
Primus
Tallahassee 7000
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