Cast
Rockets Redglare
Acting
Cast
Rockets Redglare
Known for
Acting
Born
1949-05-08
Died
2001-05-28
Biography
Rockets Redglare (May 8, 1949 â 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.
Big
as Motel Clerk
After Hours
as Angry Mob Member
Animal Factory
as Big Rand
Stars & Bars
as Peter Gint
Basquiat
as Rockets
Trees Lounge
as Stan
Mystery Train
as Liquor Store Clerk
Desperately Seeking Susan
as Taxi Driver
Shakedown
as Ira
Stranger Than Paradise
as Poker Player
Talk Radio
as Killer / Redneck Caller
Fall
as Perfomance Priest
Down by Law
as Gig
Candy Mountain
as Van Driver
Chelsea on the Rocks
as Self
In the Soup
as Guy
Cookie
as Carmine's Wiseguy
Rooftops
as Carlos
In the Spirit
as Bartender
Louis & Frank
as Ralph
Rockets Redglare!
as Self
Salvation!
as Ollie
Sons
as Man on Porch #1
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
Who Killed Nancy?
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Perils of P.K
Little Noises
as Uncle Howard
Last Rights
as Thomas Burke
The Way It Is
as Rockets
Force of Circumstance
as The Factor
Where Evil Dwells
What About Me
as Frank
Her Name is Lisa
Police State
as Detective
Dreamland