Emile Meyer

Emile Meyer (August 18, 1910 – March 19, 1987) was an American actor, usually known for tough, aggressive, authoritative characters in Hollywood films from the 1950s era, mostly in Westerns or thrillers.
Career
Meyer had an uncredited, small speaking role as a sea captain in Panic in the Streets (1950) after Elia Kazan discovered him in a theatrical production in New Orleans. Meyer provided such noteworthy performances as Rufus Ryker, the cattle baron who brings in a hired killer in Shane (1953), as the belligerent Mr Halloran in Blackboard Jungle (1955), cast against type by Stanley Kubrick as Father Dupree in Paths of Glory (1957), and the corrupt cop Harry Kello who intends to "chastise" Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), his most frequently remembered role today. He appeared in an episode of the 1961 series The Asphalt Jungle.
He also appeared on television, including a guest spot on John Payne's The Restless Gun and as a truculently stubborn juror opposite James Garner in the 1957 Maverick episode "Rope of Cards", among several other supporting appearances in various roles during the course of the series. His guest appearance on the Restless Gun episode "Man and Boy" in 1957 included filming on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California.
His final film role was in The Legend of Frank Woods (1977).
Death
On March 19, 1987, Meyer died at North Shore Regional Medical Center in Slidell, Louisiana. He was 76 and had suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
Partial filmography
Panic in the Streets (1950) as Capt. Beauclyde, Master of Nile Queen (uncredited)
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951) as Welder (uncredited)
The Guy Who Came Back (1951) as Police Guard (uncredited)
The People Against O'Hara (1951) as Capt. Tom Mulvaney
The Mob (1951) as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
The Sea Hornet (1951) as Harrie (uncredited)
Cattle Queen (1951) as Shotgun Thompson
The Big Night (1951) as Peckinpaugh
The Wild North (1952) as Jake (uncredited)
Boots Malone (1952) as Racetrack Security Guard (uncredited)
Shadow in the Sky (1952) as Bartender (uncredited)
Carbine Williams (1952) as Head Guard (uncredited)
Glory Alley (1952) as General (uncredited)
We're Not Married! (1952) as Beauty Contest Announcer (uncredited)
Hurricane Smith (1952) as Capt. Raikes
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952) as Skipper (uncredited)
Girls in the Night (1953) as Police Officer Kovacs
Shane (1953) as Rufus Ryker
Sangaree (1953) as Angry Townsman (uncredited)
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953) as Storekeeper (uncredited)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) as Warden Reynolds
Drums Across the River (1954) as Nathan Marlowe
Silver Lode (1954) as Sheriff Wooley
Shield for Murder (1954) as Capt. Gunnarson
The Human Jungle (1954) as Police Chief Abe Rowan
White Feather (1955) as Magruder
Blackboard Jungle (1955) as Mr. Halloran
Stranger on Horseback (1955) as Sheriff Nat Bell
The Tall Men (1955) as Chickasaw Charlie
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) as Hunchbacher
Man with the Gun (1955) as Saul Atkins
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) as Detective Bednar
Raw Edge (1956) as Pop Penny
The Maverick Queen (1956) as Leo Malone
Gun the Man Down (1956) as Sheriff Morton
Badlands of Montana (1957) as Henry Harrison Hammer
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) as Lt. Harry Kello
The Delicate Delinquent (1957) as Sgt. Kelly (uncredited)
Paths of Glory (1957) as Father Duprée
Baby Face Nelson (1957) as Mac, Detective
The Lineup (1958) as Insp. Al Quine
The Case Against Brooklyn (1958) as Police Capt. T.W. Wills
The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958) as Ames
Revolt in the Big House (1958) as Warden
Good Day for a Hanging (1959) as Marshal Hiram Cain
King of the Wild Stallions (1959) as Matt Macguire
The Threat (1960) as Duncan
The Girl in Lovers Lane (1960) as Cal Anders
Young Jesse James (1960) as Maj. Charlie Quantrill
The George Raft Story (1961) as Detective Captain (uncredited)
Move Over, Darling (1963) as Process Server (uncredited)
Taggart (1964) as Ben Blazer
Young Dillinger (1965) as Det. Jergins
Hostile Guns (1967) as Uncle Joe Reno
A Time for Killing (1967) as Col. Harries
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk (1967) as Burke
Buckskin (1968) as Corbin
More Dead Than Alive (1969) as Bartender
A Time for Dying (1969) (uncredited)
The Outfit (1973) as Amos Hopper
Macon County Line (1974) as Gurney
The Legend of Frank Woods (1977) as Sheriff Dooley (final film role)
References
External links
American male film actors
1910 births
1987 deaths
Male actors from New Orleans
20th-century American male actors
American male television actors