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
Stranger Than Paradise
Basquiat
Down by Law
Stars & Bars
Animal Factory
Trees Lounge
After Hours
What About Me
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
Salvation!
Police State
Rockets Redglare!
The Way It Is
Where Evil Dwells
Talk Radio
Force of Circumstance
Last Rights
Fall
Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd
Desperately Seeking Susan
Little Noises
In the Soup
Sons
The Perils of P.K
Mystery Train
Shakedown
Rooftops
Chelsea on the Rocks
Who Killed Nancy?
Big
Her Name is Lisa
In the Spirit
Candy Mountain
Louis & Frank
Craps
Cookie
Oz
Monsters