Michael Rooker
Birthday: 1955-04-06
Place of Birth: Jasper, Alabama, USA
Biography: Michael Rooker (born April 6, 1955) is an American actor who mainly plays roles of antagonists. He first rose to prominence for portraying the titular role in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) and is best known for starring as Merle Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), followed by its sequels Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). He is a recurring collaborator of Guardians of the Galaxy director and co-CEO of DC Studios, James Gunn, appearing in all of his films to date, including Slither (2006), Super (2010), and The Suicide Squad (2021). Rooker's other notable roles include Chick Gandil in Eight Men Out (1988), Frank Bailey in Mississippi Burning (1988), Terry Cruger in Sea of Love (1989), Rowdy Burns in Days of Thunder (1990), Bill Broussard in JFK (1991), Hal Tucker in Cliffhanger (1993), Sherman McMaster in Tombstone (1993), Jared Svenning in Mallrats (1995), Detective Edward Kennesaw in Deceiver (1997), Detective Howard Cheney in The Bone Collector (1999), Detective Jake Riley in Replicant (2001), and Buddy in F9 (2021).
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Corrective Measures
Set in San Tiburon, the world's most dangerous maximum-security penitentiary and home to the world's...
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The Box
An ex-con tries to go straight but also wants to get back money he's owed for the job that put him i...
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Days of Thunder
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Ha...
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Mississippi Burning
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the co...
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JFK
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...
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Music Box
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects....
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Mallrats
Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Eventually, they d...
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Replicant
Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up w...
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The Dark Half
Following the public's realization that Thad Beaumont and George Stark are one and the same, the for...
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the wa...
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Super Capers
Would-be superhero, Ed Gruberman, who possesses no super powers must join a team of misfit heroes-in...
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Penance
A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares...
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The Replacement Killers
Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of poli...
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The 6th Day
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cl...
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Tombstone
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue...
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Jumper
David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport ins...
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Freeway Killer
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next ...
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Sea of Love
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and...
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Rosewood
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923...
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Slither
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutan...
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The Bone Collector
Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics u...
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Light of Day
Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems....
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L.A. Takedown
Michael Mann's gutsy telefilm tells the tale of two skilled professionals--one a cop, the other a cr...
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Cliffhanger
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partne...
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The Marine 2
Rebels seize control of the hotel where a Marine sniper and his wife are staying. Can he save the da...
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Here on Earth
Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a youn...
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Eight Men Out
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning ...
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Whisper
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cab...
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Deceiver
The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brillian...
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DC Showcase: Jonah Hex
When a ruthless brothel madame murders Jonah Hex's current quarry, the disfigured bounty hunter plan...
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Undisputed
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convict...
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Renegade Force
An FBI Agent and a female cop join forces to stop renegade cops who are offing the bad guys. Robert ...
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Super
After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into C...
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Clerk
A look at Kevin Smith's life and career from his childhood in New Jersey, to the day they cemented h...
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Brown's Requiem
Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used...
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The Suicide Squad
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve pris...
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Shadow Builder
A demon is summoned to take the soul of a young boy who has the potential to become a saint. By doin...
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The Out-Laws
A straight-laced bank manager is about to marry the love of his life. When his bank is held up by in...
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the uni...
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Lenexa, 1 Mile
The film tells the story of five childhood friends during their last summer together in Lenexa befor...
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Back to Back
An ex-cop finds himself caught up in a battle between Japanese mobsters and local gangland thugs and...
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Matadors
Two wealthy families in Chicago find themselves in an on-going struggle of pride and power....
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Skeleton Man
A co-ed group of Special Forces agents search the wilderness for a predator type creature that has b...
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Rogue River
When a young woman takes a trip down Rogue River, her car mysteriously disappears. Lost without tran...
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Afterburn
Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16,...
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Hypothermia
Two families' idyllic ice-fishing vacation turns deadly when they awaken a creature beneath the froz...
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of...
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Keys to Tulsa
Richter Boudreau is on a bad streak: Languishing in the shadow of his celebrity mother, he loses his...
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Louis
A silent film about Louis Armstrong as a young boy and how he acquired his first cornet....
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Saving Jessica Lynch
Based on the true story of the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, by the United States army, in Iraq....
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Song of Hiawatha
This adaptation of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of a mighty Ojibwe lea...
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Brother's Keeper
Identical twins Andy and Pete Goodwynn have been side-by-side since the womb. But that’s about to ch...
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The Hard Truth
A suspended cop and his girlfriend blackmail an electronics expert into helping them break into the ...
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Table One
Four friends (Stephen Baldwin, Michael Rooker, Luis Guzman and David Herman) who are misfits in the ...
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Wicked Ways
A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped gam...
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On Thin Ice
Patsy McCartle is a widow with two sons trying to gather all the money she has to pay for her car, b...
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The Trigger Effect
A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questiona...
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Ka...
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Road Rage
The film in the vein of Dexter and the great avenger films of the '70s will center on a serial kille...
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Suspicious
A woman drives down an eerie highway at night in search of hospitality and come across some suspicio...
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
On a mission to make Christmas unforgettable for Quill, the Guardians head to Earth in search of the...
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of m...
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The Belko Experiment
A group of eighty American workers are locked in their office and ordered by an unknown voice to par...
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The Underneath: In Fortune's Shadow
A knight of the underworld has three days to find his adversary and his answer....
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Pet...
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Blood Done Sign My Name
A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a loca...
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Cell 213
Cocky young attorney Michael Gray finds himself framed for murder when an inmate he is defending vio...
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Atlantis Down
2025 - The Shuttle Program has been privatized and the shuttle Atlantis relegated to glorified taxi ...
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Mysteria
A once famous and now a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter fighting to finish his latest script with a...
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Guide to the Galaxy with James Gunn
The director and his 8-bit avatar lead you on a galactic adventure through the making of this epic m...
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The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking
Seth Green and Matthew Senreich serve up hilarious Walking Dead-inspired satire in this special feat...
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Chasing Ghosts
A serial killer targeting the city's mobsters taunts police with clues and photos left behind at the...
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Bolden
A mythical account of the life of Buddy Bolden, the first Cornet King of New Orleans....
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The Eliminator
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediat...
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Pennhurst
A local television show embarks to capture the paranormal activity at Pennhurst, an abandoned psychi...
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Fantasy Island
A group of contest winners arrive at an island hotel to live out their dreams, only to find themselv...
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Love and Monsters
Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to su...
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Brightburn
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind,...
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F9
Dominic Toretto and his crew battle the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they've ev...
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Life After Flash
A look at the roller coaster life of Sam J. Jones since his role as Flash Gordon, his struggles and ...
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Rent-a-Cop
Detective Tony Church is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop when his drug sting operatio...
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DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection
An anthology of DC Showcase stories consisting of a new Superman/Shazam feature and extended version...
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The Outer Limits: The New Series - Time Travel and Infinity
The consequences of time travel are the thematic framework for this compilation of episodes from the...
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Meet Wally Sparks
Wally Sparks is a tabloid TV show reporter who's trying to boost ratings on his show. He goes to the...
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The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
An in-depth, two-part documentary by FOX Sports on the making of the 1990 film "Days of Thunder" a f...
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Newsbreak
A reporter risks his life to get to the bottom of a stack of lies, corruption and murder surrounding...
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Johnny and Clyde
When a young boy dogsits Clyde, a criminal canine trying to go straight, he ends up facing down the ...
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The Sparrows Are Flying Again! - The Making of the Dark Half
Documentary covering the making of The Dark Half....
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Above the Law
Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthod...
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Erection of an Epic - The Making of Mallrats
The outrageous insider's look at the creation of a cult classic....
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This Man's Life
A magical tale about a man traveling home to claim his estranged father's inheritance when he encoun...
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Vivo
A music-loving kinkajou named Vivo embarks on the journey of a lifetime to fulfill his destiny and d...
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Renegades: The Bad Boys of NASCAR
A look at the history of renegade drivers in NASCAR and the outlaw spirit ingrained in the sport....
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White Elephant
An ex-marine enforcer must battle his conscience and code of honor when he is forced to do things fo...
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Portrait: The Making of Henry
Making of documentary from the Ultra HD Blu-ray edition of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer releas...
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Bastard Out of Carolina
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and ...
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The Driving Dead
In a post apocalyptic Illinois, tough men survive against zombies utilizing an ingeniously put- toge...
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Elwood
Elwood is a parallel world in which animal genetics have evolved equally to humans....
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The Dark Tower
Young Roland Deschain investigates a treacherous plot in the town of Mejis, far from his hometown of...
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Pig Village
Set in a volatile borderland of crime and survival, bare-knuckle boxer Hammer finds himself trapped ...
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Repo! The Genetic Opera
A teenage girl raised in a world of addiction to drugs, cosmetic surgery and artificial organ transp...
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Superman
Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with...
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The Edge
A three-part anthology suspense program in which men and women face life's ultimate danger zone. Eac...
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The Making of 'Tombstone'
A Documentary covering the making of the 1993 Western 'Tombstone' featuring cast and crew...
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