Rockets Redglare

Born: 1949-05-08

Died: 2001-05-28

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

• Oz (1997)
• Big (1988)
• After Hours (1985)
• Talk Radio (1988)
• Mystery Train (1989)
• Down by Law (1986)
• Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
• Animal Factory (2000)
• In the Soup (1992)
• Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
• Shakedown (1988)
• Salvation! (1987)
• Louis & Frank (1998)
• Stars & Bars (1988)
• In the Spirit (1990)
• Force of Circumstance (1990)
• The Perils of P.K (1986)
• Candy Mountain (1988)
• Little Noises (1992)
• Where Evil Dwells (1985)
• The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man (1999)
• Sons (1990)
• She Must Be Seeing Things (1988)
• Her Name is Lisa (1987)
• What About Me (1993)