Ralph Meeker
Actor
Born November 21, 1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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).
Filmography
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Lt. Driscoll (archive footage)
Without Warning
Dave
Winter Kills
Gameboy Baker
Kaz
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
The Alpha Incident
Charlie
Hi-Riders
Mike
My Boys Are Good Boys
Bert Morton
CHiPs
The Food of the Gods
Bensington
Barbary Coast
Big Lou Hobart
Johnny Firecloud
Colby
Brannigan
Capt. Moretti
The Dead Don't Die
Lieutenant Reardon
Police Woman
Harry O
Run, Joe, Run
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Inspector DeBiesse
Night Games
Dutch Armbreck
Cry Panic
Chuck Braswell
Toma
Faraday and Company
Ed Kelso
Angela – Love Comes Quietly
Ben Hoeksema
The Evil Touch
Police Story
You'll Never See Me Again
Will Alden
Birds of Prey
Jim McAndrew
The Rookies
The Mind Snatchers
The Major
The Night Stalker
Bernie Jenks
The Reluctant Heroes
Capt. Luke Danvers
Primus
Cannon
The Anderson Tapes
Police Captain 'Iron Balls' Delaney
I Walk the Line
Carl McCain
Lost Flight
Glenn Walkup
Room 222
The Devil's Eight
Burl
The Name of the Game
Senator Goddard
The Detective
Curran
Gentle Giant
Fog Hanson
The High Chaparral
Tracy Conlin
Custer
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
George Clarence 'Bugs' Moran
The Dirty Dozen
Captain Stuart Kinder
Ironside
The Green Hornet
Earl Evans
Tarzan
The F.B.I.
King Hogan
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Harly Clay
The Outer Limits
John Dexter
Wall of Noise
Matt Rubio
Going My Way
Something Wild
Mike
A Holster Full Of Law
Frank Clell
The Defenders
Floyd Cooper
Ada
Colonel Yancey
Tallahassee 7000
Route 66
The Texan
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Martin Ash
Paths of Glory
Cpl. Philippe Paris
Run of the Arrow
Lieutenant Driscoll
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
Mike Valla
Four Women in Black
Carbine Webb
A Woman's Devotion
Trevor Stevenson
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Steve Elkins
Desert Sands
Capt. David Malcolm
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Carl Spann
Kiss Me Deadly
Mike Hammer
Big House, U.S.A
Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman
Climax!
Alex Hill
Letter to Loretta
Joe Martin
Code Two
Chuck O'Flair
Jeopardy
Lawson the Fugitive
The Naked Spur
Roy Anderson
Somebody Loves Me
Benny Fields
Shadow in the Sky
Burt
Glory Alley
Socks Barbarrosa
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Wally Walters
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Rich Adams
Teresa
Sgt. Dobbs
Four in a Jeep
Sergeant William Long
Studio One
Steve Windom
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self