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.
Movie Credits
Stranger Than Paradise
1984-10-01
New York layabout Willie forms an unexpected bond with his young Hungarian cousin Eva when she pays
Basquiat
1996-08-09
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame
Down by Law
1986-09-20
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Stars & Bars
1988-03-18
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
Animal Factory
2000-10-13
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against
Trees Lounge
1996-05-11
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge,
After Hours
1985-10-11
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures d
What About Me
1993-01-10
After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999-01-01
This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his de
Salvation!
1987-09-11
A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Ch
Police State
1987-11-28
In Nick Zedd's mock docu-drama Police State, he puts his own body on the line to illustrate his beli
Rockets Redglare!
2003-05-02
A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death
The Way It Is
1986-04-04
A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead
Where Evil Dwells
1985-09-27
Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug f
Talk Radio
1988-12-21
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program jus
Force of Circumstance
1990-06-01
A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents.
Last Rights
1985-03-16
A Super-8 movie based on the case of grandmother murderess Velma Barfield who was executed for murde
Fall
1997-06-20
For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up s
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985-03-29
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in
Little Noises
1992-04-24
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
In the Soup
1992-10-23
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first
Sons
1990-01-01
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw
The Perils of P.K
1986-06-06
P.K., a former movie star now reduced to working as a stripper in a Las Vegas nightclub, is desperat
Mystery Train
1989-09-06
In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric nigh
Shakedown
1988-05-06
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop
Rooftops
1989-03-17
T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in t
Chelsea on the Rocks
2008-05-23
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New Yor
Who Killed Nancy?
2009-04-11
On October 12th, 1978, New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a young woman, slumped under
Big
1988-06-03
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to f
Her Name is Lisa
1987-01-09
A Vermont farmer searches New York City for his dream girl, with his gay neighbor as his guide.
In the Spirit
1990-04-06
After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She
Candy Mountain
1988-01-20
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker.
Louis & Frank
1998-07-08
Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform
Craps
1991-01-01
A slice of downtown New York City life (filmed partially on location at Katz' Deli).
Cookie
1989-08-02
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen
Dreamland
1997-01-01
Small-town gangsters and ambitious young girls meet in "Dreamland", where they exchange nervous kiss