
Rockets Redglare
Actor
Born: May 8, 1949 (52 years old)
Died: May 28, 2001
Biography
Rockets Redglare (May 8, 1949 – May 28, 2001) was an American character actor and stand-up comedian. As well as his career as an entertainer, he worked as a roadie for a band called The Hassles (with a young Billy Joel), and as a bodyguard and drug supplier to punk rock bassist Sid Vicious and artist-musician Jean Michel Basquiat.
Filmography (24)
- Stranger Than Paradise (1984, ★ 7.2)
- Basquiat (1996, ★ 6.6)
- Down by Law (1986, ★ 7.3)
- Oz (1997, ★ 8)
- Animal Factory (2000, ★ 6.3)
- Trees Lounge (1996, ★ 6.9)
- After Hours (1985, ★ 7.5)
- Talk Radio (1988, ★ 7)
- In the Soup (1992, ★ 6.7)
- Mystery Train (1989, ★ 7.3)
- Fall (1997, ★ 6.3)
- Big (1988, ★ 7.2)
- Monsters (1988, ★ 7.1)
- Desperately Seeking Susan (1985, ★ 6.1)
- Police State (1987, ★ 5)
- Little Noises (1992, ★ 5.7)
- Shakedown (1988, ★ 5.8)
- Chelsea on the Rocks (2008, ★ 5.6)
- Candy Mountain (1988, ★ 5.8)
- Cookie (1989, ★ 5.5)
- Stars & Bars (1988, ★ 4.3)
- Rooftops (1989, ★ 4.4)
- Who Killed Nancy? (2009, ★ 5)
- What About Me (1993, ★ 4)