Ralph Meeker, nascut Ralph Rathgeber (Minneapolis, Minnesota, 21 de novembre del 1920 − Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, 5 d'agost del 1988), va ser un actor estatunidenc.

拉尔夫·米克尔（Ralph Meeker）（出生于拉尔夫·拉斯格伯（Ralph Rathgeber）;1920 年 11 月 21 日 - 1988 年 8 月 5 日）是美国演员。他首先因在百老汇作品《罗伯茨先生》（1948-1951）和《野餐》（1953）中的角色而声名鹊起，前者为他的表演赢得了戏剧世界奖。在电影方面，米克尔最出名的可能是他在罗伯特·奥尔德里奇 1955 年的《致命之吻》中饰演的迈克·哈默。

米克尔继续扮演一系列角色，利用他沙哑和男子气概的银幕形象，包括在斯坦利·库布里克的军事法庭剧《光荣之路》（1957 年）中担任主角，在《狂野的东西》（1961 年）中饰演与卡罗尔·贝克对面的麻烦机械师，在《肮脏的十二人》（1967 年）中担任二战上尉，在黑帮电影《情人节大屠杀》（1967 年）中担任二战上尉。其他作品包括《I Walk the Line》（1970）和Sidney Lumet的《The Anderson Tapes》（1971）中的配角。

他在电视界也有多产的职业生涯，在电视剧《不雇佣》（1959-1960）和电视恐怖片《夜行者》（1972）中饰演史蒂夫·戴克中士。1980年中风后，米克尔被迫退出演艺圈，八年后在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶死于心脏病发作。

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 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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