Ralph Meeker

Personal Info

  • Known For

    Acting

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1920-11-21 (105 years old)

  • Place Of Birth

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Ralph Meeker


Biography

Ralph Meeker (born Ralph Rathgeber) 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