Acting
Rockets Redglare
Birth Date
May 8, 1949
Death Date
May 28, 2001
(passed away at 52)
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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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TV Show
Oz
Barber
1997 • 1 episode
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TV Show
Monsters
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1988 • 1 episode
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Movie
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1988
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After Hours
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1985
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Mystery Train
Liquor Store Clerk
1989
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Desperately Seeking Susan
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1985
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Basquiat
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1996
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Animal Factory
Big Rand
2000
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1984
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1986
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1996
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1988
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In the Soup
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1992
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Salvation!
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Shakedown
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1988
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Dreamland
1997
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Self
2008
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1989
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Fall
Perfomance Priest
1997
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1988