# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-meeker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:46:11.067Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-meeker"
name: "Ralph Meeker"
slug: "ralph-meeker"
description: "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 known for his portrayal of Mike Hammer in Robert Aldrich's 1955 Kiss Me Deadly and as condemned infantryman Cpl. Philippe Paris in Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory."
tagline: "American actor (1920-1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ralph_Meeker_in_Ada_trailer_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1920-11-21"
deathDate: "1988-08-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.78916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0576127/"
    handle:    "nm0576127"
sources:
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    title: "Ralph Meeker"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ralph Meeker"
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    title: "Ralph Meeker"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump