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Ralph Meeker
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Starred with
Vera Miles
in the first
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
episode,
Revenge (1955)
.
One of
Quentin Tarantino
's favorite actors of all time.
Worked as understudy for
Henry Fonda
in the theater version of Mister Roberts (1947).
His career was the inspiration for the Rick Dalton character in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
He has appeared in three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant:
The Naked Spur (1953)
,
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
and
Paths of Glory (1957)
.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 619-620. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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