Ralph Meeker
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Northwestern University grad Ralph Meeker reached Broadway just when the "Method" school of acting was taking hold. His first role of note was Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire; Meeker took over the role from Marlon Brando, and there were those who felt that he was closer to Williams' concept of Stanley than the mighty Brando. Meeker went on to star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play Picnic, though when time came to film the play, he was passed over in favor of the more bankable William Holden. As for his own film career, Meeker often had to settle for indifferent leading-man and villain assignments; his best screen showings included the role of Mike Hammer in 1955's Kiss Me Deadly and his harrowing portrayal of a condemned army private in Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957). He remained active onscreen until the early 1980s, and in 1978 both starred in and co-produced the feature film My Boys are Good Boys. In 1959, Ralph Meeker starred as army investigator Steve Dekker in the syndicated TV series Not For Hire.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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88% | Winter Kills |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Hi-Riders |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | My Boys Are Good Boys |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | The Alpha Incident (Gift from a Red Planet) |
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— | 1978 |
24% | The Food of the Gods |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Johnny Firecloud |
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— | 1975 |
20% | Brannigan |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | The Dead Don't Die |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Birds of Prey |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | The Mind Snatchers |
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— | 1972 |
74% | The Anderson Tapes |
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— | 1971 |
86% | The Night Stalker |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | I Walk the Line |
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— | 1970 |
100% | The Detective |
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— | 1968 |
89% | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre |
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— | 1967 |
79% | The Dirty Dozen |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | Gentle Giant |
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— | 1967 |
50% | Something Wild |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | Ada |
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— | 1961 |
95% | Paths of Glory |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Run of the Arrow |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | A Woman's Devotion |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Desert Sands |
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— | 1955 |
98% | Kiss Me Deadly |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Big House, U.S.A. |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Jeopardy |
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— | 1953 |
100% | The Naked Spur |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Code Two |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Glory Alley |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Somebody Loves Me |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Teresa |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Shadow in the Sky |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Four in a Jeep |
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— | 1950 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
CHiPs
1977-1983
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
The High Chaparral
1967-1971
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No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
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No Score Yet |
Playhouse 90
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Quotes from Ralph Meeker's Characters
Christina Bailey a.k.a. Berga Torn: | Get me to that bus stop and forget you ever saw me. If we don't make that bus stop? |
Mike Hammer: | We will. |
Christina Bailey a.k.a. Berga Torn: | If we don?t, remember me. |
Christina Bailey a.k.a. Berga Torn: | If we don't, remember me. |