Rockets Redglare
Acting
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.
As actor 40
Oz
1997
Monsters
1988
Big
1988
After Hours
1985
Mystery Train
1989
Talk Radio
1988
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
Down by Law
1986
Basquiat
1996
Stranger Than Paradise
1984
In the Soup
1992
Trees Lounge
1996
Animal Factory
2000
Dreamland
1997
Cookie
1989
Stars & Bars
1988
Shakedown
1988
Salvation!
1987
Candy Mountain
1988
Hotshot
1987
Rooftops
1989
Fall
1997
Sons
1990
In the Spirit
1990
Louis & Frank
1998
Chelsea on the Rocks
2008
Little Noises
1992
The Perils of P.K
1986
She Must Be Seeing Things
1988
Rockets Redglare!
2003
Who Killed Nancy?
2009
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999
The Way It Is
1986
Force of Circumstance
1990
Her Name is Lisa
1987
What About Me
1993
Where Evil Dwells
1985
Craps
1991
Last Rights
1985
Police State
1987