Rockets Redglare
Birthday: 1949-05-08
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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.
Movies
Stranger Than Paradise
A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting ...
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Basquiat
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...
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Down by Law
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans....
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Stars & Bars
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric....
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Animal Factory
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against...
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Trees Lounge
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge,...
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After Hours
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures d...
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What About Me
After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York....
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The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his de...
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Salvation!
A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Ch...
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Police State
In Nick Zedd's mock docu-drama Police State, he puts his own body on the line to illustrate his beli...
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Rockets Redglare!
A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death...
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The Way It Is
A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead...
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Where Evil Dwells
Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug f...
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Talk Radio
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program jus...
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Force of Circumstance
A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents....
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Last Rights
A Super-8 movie based on the case of grandmother murderess Velma Barfield who was executed for murde...
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Fall
For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up s...
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Desperately Seeking Susan
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in...
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Little Noises
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune....
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In the Soup
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first ...
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Sons
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw...
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The Perils of P.K
P.K., a former movie star now reduced to working as a stripper in a Las Vegas nightclub, is desperat...
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Mystery Train
In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric nigh...
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Shakedown
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop ...
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Rooftops
T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in t...
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New Yor...
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Who Killed Nancy?
On October 12th, 1978, New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a young woman, slumped under ...
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Big
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to f...
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Her Name is Lisa
A Vermont farmer searches New York City for his dream girl, with his gay neighbor as his guide....
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In the Spirit
After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She...
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Candy Mountain
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker....
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Louis & Frank
Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform ...
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Craps
A slice of downtown New York City life (filmed partially on location at Katz' Deli)....
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Cookie
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen...
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