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The Evolution of Ralph Meeker

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6.6

Ralph Meeker

milica's rating:

7.4

6.6

Teresa (1951)

Sgt. Dobbs

milica's rating:

7.2

Four in a Jeep (1951)

Sgt. William Long

6.1

Glory Alley (1952)

Socks Barbarrosa

8.3

6.8

Shadow in the Sky (1952)

Burt

6.2

Somebody Loves Me

Ben 'Benny' Fields

181

7.4

7.3

The Naked Spur

Roy Anderson

milica's rating:

6.7

6.8

Jeopardy (1953)

Lawson

milica's rating:

6.4

Code Two (1953)

Chuck O'Flair

7.3

6.6

Big House, U.S.A.

Jerry Barker

milica's rating:

5.3

5.7

Desert Sands (1955)

Capt. David Malcolm

milica's rating:

320

7.7

7.5

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Mike Hammer

milica's rating:

6.3

A Woman's Devotion

Trevor Stevenson

4.4

5.8

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957)

Mike Valla

6.9

6.8

Run of the Arrow (1957)

Lt. Driscoll

milica's rating:

1227

8.4

Paths of Glory (1957)

Cpl. Philippe Paris

milica's rating:

6.9

6.6

Ada (1961)

Colonel Yancey

milica's rating:

7.3

6.7

Something Wild

Mike

milica's rating:

6.5

Wall of Noise

Matt Rubio

623

7.6

7.7

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Capt. Stuart Kinder

milica's rating:

6.9

6.7

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)

George Clarence 'Bugs' Moran

milica's rating:

8.5

6.2

Gentle Giant (1967)

Fog Hanson

6.4

6.5

The Detective (1968)

Curran

milica's rating:

5.1

The Devil's 8 (1969)

Burl

6.6

6.7

I Walk the Line (1970)

Carl McCain

milica's rating:

114

6.5

6.4

The Anderson Tapes

'Iron Balls' Delaney

milica's rating:

6.3

5.7

The Mind Snatchers

The Major

milica's rating:

6.3

Love Comes Quietly (1973)

Ben Hoeksema

5.5

6.1

Brannigan

Capt. Moretti

milica's rating:

6.3

Johnny Firecloud (1975)

Colby

4.8

4.6

The Food of the Gods (1976)

Bensington

milica's rating:

5.3

Hi-Riders (1978)

Mike

The Alpha Incident

Charlie

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My Boys Are Good Boys (1978)

Bert Morton

6.4

6.1

Winter Kills (1979)

Gameboy Baker

milica's rating:

5.1

Without Warning

Dave

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Ralph Meeker was an American film, stage, and television 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 film noir cult classic 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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