Rockets Redglare
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.
Known For
Top 36 Movies
Police State
1987
Fall
1997
Down by Law
1986
Big
1988
Louis & Frank
1998
Little Noises
1992
After Hours
1985
Animal Factory
2000
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999
Where Evil Dwells
1985
Who Killed Nancy?
2009
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
Basquiat
1996
Mystery Train
1989
What About Me
1993
The Way It Is
1986
Talk Radio
1988
Shakedown
1988
The Perils of P.K
1986
Trees Lounge
1996
Stranger Than Paradise
1984
Stars & Bars
1988
In the Soup
1992
Force of Circumstance
1990
Cookie
1989
Chelsea on the Rocks
2008
Rooftops
1989
Candy Mountain
1988
Rockets Redglare!
2003
Salvation!
1987
Sons
1990
In the Spirit
1990
Dreamland
1997
Her Name is Lisa
1987