Rockets Redglare

Rockets Redglare

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.

  • Title: Rockets Redglare
  • Popularity: 4.446
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1949-05-08
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Rockets Redglare Movies

  • 1984
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    Stranger Than Paradise

    Stranger Than Paradise

    7.151 1984 HD

    A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.

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  • 1996
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    Basquiat

    Basquiat

    6.6 1996 HD

    The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

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  • 1986
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    Down by Law

    Down by Law

    7.351 1986 HD

    A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

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  • 1988
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    Stars & Bars

    Stars & Bars

    4.4 1988 HD

    A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

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  • 2000
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    Animal Factory

    Animal Factory

    6.387 2000 HD

    Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug...

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  • 1996
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    Trees Lounge

    Trees Lounge

    6.9 1996 HD

    Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other...

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  • 1985
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    After Hours

    After Hours

    7.482 1985 HD

    Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

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  • 1993
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    What About Me

    What About Me

    4.3 1993 HD

    After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.

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  • 1999
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    The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

    The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

    1 1999 HD

    This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions.

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  • 1987
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    Salvation!

    Salvation!

    6.3 1987 HD

    A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Christian rock star.

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  • 1987
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    Police State

    Police State

    5 1987 HD

    Zedd is minding his business, when he is stopped by a cop who accuses him of being a junkie. After a short argument he is beaten and dragged to the...

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  • 2003
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    Rockets Redglare!

    Rockets Redglare!

    6 2003 HD

    A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes...

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  • 1986
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    The Way It Is

    The Way It Is

    1 1986 HD

    A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead.

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  • 1985
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    Where Evil Dwells

    Where Evil Dwells

    7.3 1985 HD

    Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David...

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  • 1988
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    Talk Radio

    Talk Radio

    7.013 1988 HD

    A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.

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  • 1990
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    Force of Circumstance

    Force of Circumstance

    1 1990 HD

    A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents.

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  • 1985
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    Last Rights

    Last Rights

    1 1985 HD

    A Super-8 movie based on the case of grandmother murderess Velma Barfield who was executed for murdering her husband. It was described by Tessa...

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  • 1997
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    Fall

    Fall

    6.9 1997 HD

    For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels...

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  • 2001
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    Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd

    Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd

    8 2001 HD

    THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD is the first DVD collection of the filmmaker’s works, and includes 11 of his films as well as outtakes, interviews, and...

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  • 1985
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    Desperately Seeking Susan

    Desperately Seeking Susan

    6.051 1985 HD

    A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken...

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  • 1992
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    Little Noises

    Little Noises

    5.7 1992 HD

    A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.

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  • 1992
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    In the Soup

    In the Soup

    6.5 1992 HD

    An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

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  • 1990
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    Sons

    Sons

    8 1990 HD

    A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.

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  • 1986
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    The Perils of P.K

    The Perils of P.K

    10 1986 HD

    P.K., a former movie star now reduced to working as a stripper in a Las Vegas nightclub, is desperate for a comeback, and thinks she could make one...

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  • 1989
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    Mystery Train

    Mystery Train

    7.3 1989 HD

    In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a...

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  • 1988
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    Shakedown

    Shakedown

    5.7 1988 HD

    When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their...

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  • 1989
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    Rooftops

    Rooftops

    4.8 1989 HD

    T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in the city. Their one passion is 'combat'. Combat is...

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  • 2008
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    Chelsea on the Rocks

    Chelsea on the Rocks

    5.7 2008 HD

    Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once...

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  • 2009
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    Who Killed Nancy?

    Who Killed Nancy?

    5.2 2009 HD

    On October 12th, 1978, New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a young woman, slumped under the bathroom sink in a hotel room. She was Nancy...

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  • 1988
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    Big

    Big

    7.176 1988 HD

    When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body...

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  • 1987
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    Her Name is Lisa

    Her Name is Lisa

    1 1987 HD

    A Vermont farmer searches New York City for his dream girl, with his gay neighbor as his guide.

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  • 1990
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    In the Spirit

    In the Spirit

    3.3 1990 HD

    After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her...

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  • 1997
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    Oz

    Oz

    8.011 1997 HD

    The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians,...

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  • 1988
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    Monsters

    Monsters

    7 1988 HD

    Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of 2011,...

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