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.
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Rockets Redglare was an American character actor and stand-up comedian closely associated with the downtown New York underground scene of the 1980s and 1990s.
He is recognized for distinctive supporting film appearances in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law and Mystery Train, as well as Martin Scorsese's After Hours.
He worked with notable filmmakers across independent and mainstream projects, including Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, and Steve Buscemi.
