Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
21 Nov, 1920 (104 years old)

Ralph Meeker

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.

Known For

The Alpha Incident
HD
95 min 1978

The Alpha Incident

Horror
The Food of the Gods
HD
88 min 1976

The Food of the Gods

Horror
Johnny Firecloud
HD
94 min 1975

Johnny Firecloud

Drama
Birds of Prey
HD
81 min 1973

Birds of Prey

Action
The Detective
HD
114 min 1968

The Detective

Crime
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
HD
100 min 1967

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

History

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