Rockets Redglare
- Acting
- May 8, 1949
- 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Who Killed Nancy? · Self
- Chelsea on the Rocks · Self
- Rockets Redglare! · Self
- Animal Factory · Big Rand
- The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
- Louis & Frank · Ralph
- Oz · Barber
- Fall · Perfomance Priest
- Dreamland
- Basquiat · Rockets
- Trees Lounge · Stan
- What About Me · Frank
- In the Soup · Guy
- Little Noises · Uncle Howard
- Craps
- Force of Circumstance · The Factor
- In the Spirit · Bartender
- Sons · Man on Porch #1
- Mystery Train · Liquor Store Clerk
- Cookie · Carmine's Wiseguy
- Rooftops · Carlos
- Talk Radio · Killer / Redneck Caller
- Monsters · Swlabr (Voice)
- Big · Motel Clerk
- Shakedown · Ira
- She Must Be Seeing Things · Man on Roof
- Stars & Bars · Peter Gint
- Candy Mountain · Van Driver
- Police State · Detective
- Salvation! · Ollie
- Hotshot
- Her Name is Lisa
- Down by Law · Gig
- The Perils of P.K
- The Way It Is · Rockets
- Where Evil Dwells
- After Hours · Angry Mob Member
- Desperately Seeking Susan · Taxi Driver
- Last Rights · Thomas Burke
- Stranger Than Paradise · Poker Player