Ralph Meeker
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1920-11-21
- Décès:
- 1988-08-05
- Lieu de naissance:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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
Terreur Extraterrestre
Qui a tué le président ?
Kaz
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
The Alpha Incident
Hi-Riders
My Boys Are Good Boys
CHiPs
Soudain les monstres
Barbary Coast
Johnny Firecloud
Brannigan
The Dead Don't Die
Sergent Anderson
Harry O
Run, Joe, Run
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Night Games
Cry Panic
Toma
Faraday and Company
Angela – Love Comes Quietly
The Evil Touch
Police Story
You'll Never See Me Again
Birds of Prey
The Rookies
The Mind Snatchers
The Night Stalker
The Reluctant Heroes
Primus
Cannon
Le Gang Anderson
Le Pays de la Violence
Lost Flight
Room 222
The Devil's 8
The Name of the Game
Le Détective
Le Grand Ours Et L’Enfant (Mon Ami Ben - Le Film Pilote)
Le grand chaparral
Custer
L'Affaire Al Capone
Les Douze Salopards
L'Homme de fer
Le Frelon vert
Tarzan
Sur la piste du crime
Haute Tension
Au-delà du réel
Wall of Noise
Going My Way
Dangereuse
A Holster Full Of Law
The Defenders
Le troisième homme était une femme
Tallahassee 7000
Route 66
Not for Hire
The Texan
Au nom de la loi
Les Sentiers de la gloire
Le Jugement des flèches
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
Four Women in Black
A Woman's Devotion
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Desert Sands
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Revenge
Alfred Hitchcock présente
En quatrième vitesse
Le Pacte des tueurs
Climax!
Letter to Loretta
Code Two
La Plage déserte
L'Appât
Somebody Loves Me
Shadow in the Sky
La Ruelle du péché
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Teresa
Quatre dans un Jeep
Lux Video Theatre
Studio One
The Ed Sullivan Show