Acting credits
86
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Ralph Meeker
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.3
Moderate attention
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Movies: 48Series: 38Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 14562
IMDb ID: nm0576127
Known for: Acting
Born: November 21, 1920
Died: August 5, 1988
Age: 67
Place of birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1948 - 2004
Years active: 57
Average TMDB rating: 6.49
Wikidata: Q1370520
Also known as
Ralph Rathgeber
Other jobs
Executive Producer (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Ralph Meeker.
7.6
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly (archive footage)
2004 Movie
5.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Lt. Driscoll (archive footage)
2002 Movie
5.2
Without Warning
as Dave
1980 Movie
5.8
Winter Kills
as Gameboy Baker
1979 Movie
3.5
The Alpha Incident
as Charlie
1978 Movie
5.1
Hi-Riders
as Mike
1978 Movie
7.2
My Boys Are Good Boys
as Bert Morton
1978 Movie
5.0
The Food of the Gods
as Bensington
1976 Movie
4.8
Johnny Firecloud
as Colby
1975 Movie
6.0
Brannigan
as Capt. Moretti
1975 Movie
5.9
The Dead Don't Die
as Lieutenant Reardon
1975 Movie
5.2
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
as Inspector DeBiesse
1974 Movie
6.0
Night Games
as Dutch Armbreck
1974 Movie
6.8
Cry Panic
as Chuck Braswell
1974 Movie
4.7
Angela - Love Comes Quietly
as Ben Hoeksema
1973 Movie
7.0
You'll Never See Me Again
as Will Alden
1973 Movie
5.5
Birds of Prey
as Jim McAndrew
1973 Movie
5.8
The Mind Snatchers
as The Major
1972 Movie
6.8
The Night Stalker
as Bernie Jenks
1972 Movie
The Reluctant Heroes
as Capt. Luke Danvers
1971 Movie
6.1
The Anderson Tapes
as Police Captain 'Iron Balls' Delaney
1971 Movie
5.7
I Walk the Line
as Carl McCain
1970 Movie
3.7
Lost Flight
as Glenn Walkup
1970 Movie
5.1
The Devil's Eight
as Burl
1969 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Ralph Meeker.
5.0
Kaz
1 eps
1978 Series
5.0
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1 eps
1978 Series
6.8
CHiPs
1 eps
1977 Series
7.5
Barbary Coast
as Big Lou Hobart • 1 eps
1975 Series
6.2
Police Woman
1 eps
1974 Series
4.6
Harry O
1 eps
1974 Series
6.3
Run, Joe, Run
1 eps
1974 Series
5.5
The Evil Touch
1 eps
1973 Series
7.8
Toma
1 eps
1973 Series
6.9
Police Story
2 eps
1973 Series
6.8
The Rookies
1 eps
1972 Series
5.0
Primus
1 eps
1971 Series
6.6
Cannon
1 eps
1971 Series
6.0
Room 222
1 eps
1969 Series
6.8
The Name of the Game
as Senator Goddard • 1 eps
1968 Series
6.6
The High Chaparral
as Tracy Conlin • 1 eps
1967 Series
6.0
Custer
1 eps
1967 Series
6.8
Ironside
2 eps
1967 Series
7.2
The Green Hornet
as Earl Evans • 1 eps
1966 Series
6.7
Tarzan
1 eps
1966 Series
5.4
The F.B.I.
as King Hogan • 1 eps
1965 Series
5.3
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Harly Clay • 1 eps
1963 Series
7.8
The Outer Limits
as John Dexter • 1 eps
1963 Series
5.7
Going My Way
1 eps
1962 Series