Rockets Redglare
Born May 08 1949• Died May 28 2001
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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.
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Oz
Barber
Monsters
Big
Motel Clerk
After Hours
Angry Mob Member
Down by Law
Gig
Animal Factory
Big Rand
Basquiat
Rockets
Desperately Seeking Susan
Taxi Driver
Shakedown
Ira
Stranger Than Paradise
Poker Player
In the Soup
Guy
Mystery Train
Liquor Store Clerk
Fall
Perfomance Priest
Talk Radio
Killer / Redneck Caller
Stars & Bars
Peter Gint
Trees Lounge
Stan
Rooftops
Carlos
Cookie
Carmine's Wiseguy
Sons
Man on Porch #1
In the Spirit
Bartender
Candy Mountain
Van Driver
Louis & Frank
Ralph
Chelsea on the Rocks
Self
Salvation!
Ollie
The Perils of P.K
Who Killed Nancy?
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Little Noises
Uncle Howard
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
Rockets Redglare!
Self
The Way It Is
Rockets
Force of Circumstance
The Factor
Where Evil Dwells
What About Me
Frank
Last Rights
Thomas Burke
Dreamland
Craps
Her Name is Lisa
Police State
Detective