Ralph Meeker

Acting

Ralph Meeker

Born 1920-11-21 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 47 films

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 husk…

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Filmography

47 films
Winter Kills poster

The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and d…

Winter Kills

★ 5.7 1979

Hi-Riders poster

A group of denim-clad drag-racers find themselves in trouble when a wealthy rancher's son dies duri…

Hi-Riders

★ 6.1 1978

Brannigan poster

A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradi…

Brannigan

★ 6.0 1975

Night Games poster

A Harvard-educated, big-city lawyer moves to a small Arizona town to set up practice. His first cas…

Night Games

★ 6.5 1974