
Ralph Meeker
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.097 |
Birthday | 1920-11-21 |
Place of Birth | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
Also Known As | Ralph Rathgeber, |

1957

Paths of Glory
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A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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Paths of Glory

1967

The Dirty Dozen
7.6/1218
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. Th...
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The Dirty Dozen

1953

The Naked Spur
6.897/209
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
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The Naked Spur

1971

The Anderson Tapes
6.1/160
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the enti...
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The Anderson Tapes

1957

Run of the Arrow
6.2/46
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a...
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Run of the Arrow

1956

A Woman's Devotion
4.5/12
An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead i...
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A Woman's Devotion

1978

The Alpha Incident
3.4/15
A microorganism from Mars, brought to Earth by a space probe, terrorizes passengers in a railroad office.
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The Alpha Incident

1953

Jeopardy
6.6/39
A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.
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Jeopardy

1979

Winter Kills
5.813/48
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the...
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Winter Kills

1976

The Food of the Gods
5/111
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan st...
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The Food of the Gods

1975

The Dead Don't Die
5.8/11
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.
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The Dead Don't Die

1968

The Detective
6/68
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.
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The Detective

1967

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
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Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as...
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1972

The Night Stalker
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Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy a...
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The Night Stalker

1955

Big House, U.S.A
6.5/22
A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate la...
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Big House, U.S.A

1980

Without Warning
5.3/125
Sandy and Greg are teenagers who go camping, despite warnings not to, with their friends. They soon encounter aliens, who are using the area as a hunt...
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Without Warning

1953

Code Two
6.2/5
Three young men train to become motorcycle cops.
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Code Two

1955

Kiss Me Deadly
7.2/377
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thug...
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Kiss Me Deadly

1975

Johnny Firecloud
5.4/5
An American Indian war veteran avenges the hanging of his grandfather by local thugs.
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Johnny Firecloud

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself
7.7/52
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself

1961

Something Wild
6.2/35
A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.
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Something Wild

1970

I Walk the Line
5.8/43
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his ma...
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I Walk the Line

1974

The Girl on the Late, Late Show
5.5/4
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiri...
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The Girl on the Late, Late Show

1973

Birds of Prey
5/10
Harry Walker, a former military pilot, works as a helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for a Salt Lake City radio station. One day while working he o...
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Birds of Prey

1972

The Mind Snatchers
5.885/13
A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the br...
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The Mind Snatchers

1957

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
6/10
When beautiful blonde movie star Laurel Stevens is kidnapped on the verge of the premiere of her film “The Kidnapped Bride”, everyone thinks it's a pu...
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The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

1961

Ada
6.4/16
A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine tha...
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Ada

1952

Shadow in the Sky
6.6/5
Burt, a Marine suffering from Battle Fatigue, is deathly afraid of rain and confined to an asylum, but showing improvement. He wants to live with his...
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Shadow in the Sky

1969

The Devil's Eight
5.1/10
The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust...
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The Devil's Eight

1955

Desert Sands
4.4/5
The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.
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Desert Sands

1952

Somebody Loves Me
8.5/1
Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.
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Somebody Loves Me

1978

My Boys Are Good Boys
7.2/4
Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van.
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My Boys Are Good Boys

1951

Teresa
5.8/10
An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.
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Teresa

1952

Glory Alley
5.833/12
A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
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Glory Alley

1973

You'll Never See Me Again
7/4
After a couple have an argument, the wife disappears. The husband searches for her, only to discover evidence that implicates him in her murder.
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You'll Never See Me Again

1970

Lost Flight
3.7/5
The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult ver...
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Lost Flight

2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
5.8/4
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

1967

Gentle Giant
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The Story of a boy and his bear.
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Gentle Giant

1971

The Reluctant Heroes
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An army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from the history books to save his beleaguered squad on an...
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The Reluctant Heroes

1978

Hi-Riders
5.1/4
Story of a group of drag races and the young boy and girl who join them.
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Hi-Riders

1963

Wall of Noise
3.6/4
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hard...
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Wall of Noise

1975

Brannigan
5.9/101
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings Am...
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Brannigan

1951

Four in a Jeep
5.4/5
Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.
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Four in a Jeep

1961

A Holster Full Of Law
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Slaughter’s cattle are rustled, and when the sheriff is powerless to do anything about it, Slaughter is elected sheriff himself. With a band of skille...
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A Holster Full Of Law

1974

Cry Panic
6.8/6
A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping sec...
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Cry Panic

1973

Love Comes Quietly
5.2/5
Love Comes Quietly (aka Angela) tells the story of a free-spirited girl who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the 1920s, even the some...
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Love Comes Quietly

1974

Night Games
6/1
A Harvard-educated, big-city lawyer moves to a small Arizona town to set up practice. His first case is defending a beautiful socialite accused of mur...
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