Rockets Redglare
Acting

Rockets Redglare

Born 8 May 1949 · Died 28 May 2001

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.

Known for

Big
After Hours
Oz
Down by Law
Stranger Than Paradise
Desperately Seeking Susan
Mystery Train
Basquiat
Animal Factory
Talk Radio
Trees Lounge
Shakedown
Animal Factory
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
Louis & Frank
Fall
Dreamland
Basquiat
Trees Lounge
What About Me
Little Noises
In the Soup
Force of Circumstance
Sons
In the Spirit
Mystery Train
Rooftops
Cookie
Stars & Bars
Talk Radio
Shakedown
Big
Candy Mountain
She Must Be Seeing Things
Salvation!
Police State
Her Name is Lisa
Hotshot
Down by Law
The Way It Is
The Perils of P.K
After Hours
Where Evil Dwells
Desperately Seeking Susan
Stranger Than Paradise
Rockets Redglare · Midrow