FrameThrower · Actors · Ralph Meeker
Ralph Meeker
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1957–1961
Born 21 November 1920 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA · died 5 August 1988
Ralph Meeker 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1957–1961
- Theatre World Award1948
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ralph takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 54% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Ralph takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Ralph Meeker's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.