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Ralph Meeker
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The uses and beauty of trees
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Film & TV
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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.…
Known for
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller — Lt. Driscoll (archive footage)2002
- Without Warning — Dave1980
- Winter Kills — Gameboy Baker1979
- The Alpha Incident — Charlie1978
- My Boys Are Good Boys — Bert Morton1978
- Hi-Riders — Mike1978
- Kaz1978
- The Eddie Capra Mysteries1978
- CHiPs1977
- The Food of the Gods — Bensington1976
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ralph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Minneapolis
- Place of death
- Woodland Hills
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Theatre World Award
- Genre
- Western
- Image
- Ralph Meeker in Ada trailer cropped.jpg
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- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Commons category
- Ralph Meeker
- date of birth
- 1920-11-21
- date of death
- 1988-08-05
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1951-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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