Ralph Meeker
- Interprétation
- 21 novembre 1920 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- 5 août 1988
Biographie
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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Filmographie
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller · Lt. Driscoll (archive footage)
- Terreur Extraterrestre · Dave
- Qui a tué le président ? · Gameboy Baker
- Kaz
- The Eddie Capra Mysteries
- The Alpha Incident · Charlie
- Hi-Riders · Mike
- My Boys Are Good Boys · Bert Morton, Production exécutive
- CHiPs
- Soudain les monstres · Bensington
- Barbary Coast · Big Lou Hobart
- Johnny Firecloud · Colby
- Brannigan · Capt. Moretti
- The Dead Don't Die · Lieutenant Reardon
- Sergent Anderson
- 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
- Le Gang Anderson · Police Captain 'Iron Balls' Delaney
- Le Pays de la Violence · Carl McCain
- Lost Flight · Glenn Walkup
- Room 222
- The Devil's 8 · Burl
- The Name of the Game · Senator Goddard
- Le Détective · Curran
- Le Grand Ours Et L’Enfant (Mon Ami Ben - Le Film Pilote) · Fog Hanson
- Le grand chaparral · Tracy Conlin
- Custer
- L'Affaire Al Capone · George Clarence 'Bugs' Moran
- Les Douze Salopards · Captain Stuart Kinder
- L'Homme de fer
- Le Frelon vert · Earl Evans
- Tarzan
- Sur la piste du crime · King Hogan, Scott Martin
- Haute Tension · Harly Clay
- Au-delà du réel · John Dexter
- Wall of Noise · Matt Rubio
- Going My Way
- Dangereuse · Mike
- A Holster Full Of Law · Frank Clell
- The Defenders · Floyd Cooper
- Le troisième homme était une femme · Colonel Yancey
- Tallahassee 7000
- Route 66
- Not for Hire · US Army Sergeant Steve Dekker
- The Texan
- Au nom de la loi · Martin Ash
- Les Sentiers de la gloire · Cpl. Philippe Paris
- Le Jugement des flèches · 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 présente · Carl Spann, Carl Borden
- En quatrième vitesse · Mike Hammer
- Le Pacte des tueurs · Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman
- Climax! · Alex Hill, 'Griff' Griffith
- Letter to Loretta · Joe Martin, Ed James
- Code Two · Chuck O'Flair
- La Plage déserte · Lawson the Fugitive
- L'Appât · Roy Anderson
- Somebody Loves Me · Benny Fields
- Shadow in the Sky · Burt