Ralph Meeker
Birthday: 1920-11-21 | Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United StatesFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ralph Meeker (born Ralph Rathgeber; November 21, 1920 – August 5, 1988) was an American film, stage, and television 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 film noir cult classic 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. contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Lt. Driscoll (archive footage)
as Gameboy Baker
as Bert Morton
as Charlie
as Mike
as Bensington
as Capt. Moretti
as Colby
as Lieutenant Reardon
as Inspector DeBiesse
as Jim McAndrew
as Will Alden
as Bernie Jenks
as The Major
as Capt. Luke Danvers
as Police Captain 'Iron Balls' Delaney
as Carl McCain
as Burl
as Curran
as Captain Stuart Kinder
as George Clarence 'Bugs' Moran
as Colonel Yancey
as Cpl. Philippe Paris
as Lieutenant Driscoll
as Mike Valla
as Trevor Stevenson
as Capt. David Malcolm
as Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman
as Mike Hammer
as Roy Anderson
