Ralph Meeker
- Recitazione
- 21 novembre 1920 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- 5 agosto 1988
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller · Lt. Driscoll (archive footage)
- Horror - Caccia ai terrestri · Dave
- Rebus per un assassino · Gameboy Baker
- Kaz
- The Eddie Capra Mysteries
- The Alpha Incident · Charlie
- Hi-Riders · Mike
- My Boys Are Good Boys · Bert Morton, Produzione esecutiva
- CHiPs
- Il cibo degli dei · Bensington
- Barbary Coast · Big Lou Hobart
- Johnny Firecloud · Colby
- Ispettore Brannigan, la morte segue la tua ombra · Capt. Moretti
- La morte non esiste · Lieutenant Reardon
- Pepper Anderson agente speciale
- 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
- Il tocco del diavolo
- Sulle strade della California
- You'll Never See Me Again · Will Alden
- Birds of Prey · Jim McAndrew
- A tutte le auto della polizia
- Brain Control - Alterazioni progressive · The Major
- Una storia allucinante · Bernie Jenks
- The Reluctant Heroes · Capt. Luke Danvers
- Primus
- Cannon
- Rapina record a New York · Police Captain 'Iron Balls' Delaney
- Un uomo senza scampo · Carl McCain
- Lost Flight · Glenn Walkup
- Room 222
- The Devil's 8 · Burl
- Reporter alla ribalta · Senator Goddard
- Inchiesta pericolosa · Curran
- Il gigante buono · Fog Hanson
- Ai confini dell'Arizona · Tracy Conlin
- Custer
- Il massacro del giorno di San Valentino · George Clarence 'Bugs' Moran
- Quella sporca dozzina · Captain Stuart Kinder
- Ironside
- Il Calabrone Verde · Earl Evans
- Tarzan
- F.B.I. · King Hogan, Scott Martin
- Kraft Suspense Theatre · Harly Clay
- Oltre i limiti · John Dexter
- Il muro dei dollari · Matt Rubio
- Going My Way
- Momento selvaggio · Mike
- A Holster Full Of Law · Frank Clell
- La parola alla difesa · Floyd Cooper
- Ada Dallas · Colonel Yancey
- Tallahassee 7000
- Route 66
- Not for Hire · US Army Sergeant Steve Dekker
- The Texan
- Ricercato vivo o morto · Martin Ash
- Orizzonti di gloria · Cpl. Philippe Paris
- La tortura della freccia · Lieutenant Driscoll
- Vietato rubare le stelle · Mike Valla
- Four Women in Black · Carbine Webb
- Acapulco - Anche gli eroi sono assassini · Trevor Stevenson
- I racconti del West · Steve Elkins
- Desert Sands · Capt. David Malcolm
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- Alfred Hitchcock presenta · Carl Spann, Carl Borden
- Un bacio e una pistola · Mike Hammer
- Big House, U.S.A · Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman
- Climax! · Alex Hill, 'Griff' Griffith
- Letter to Loretta · Joe Martin, Ed James
- Code Two · Chuck O'Flair
- La marea della morte · Lawson the Fugitive
- Lo sperone nudo · Roy Anderson
- Somebody Loves Me · Benny Fields
- Shadow in the Sky · Burt