Mark Rolston

Highest Rated: 99% Aliens (1986)

Lowest Rated: 0% Gangster Land (In the Absence of Good Men) (2017)

Birthday: Dec 7, 1956

Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Character actor Mark Rolston specialized in everyman portrayals with a slightly understated, tough edge to them. Born in Baltimore, MD, in 1956, Rolston broke into film in the early to mid-'80s and scored his first major feature role with a turn as a private in James Cameron's effects-heavy sci-fi blockbuster Aliens (1986). Within a few years, he began turning up in supporting capacities in numerous additional features; the more visible included Weeds (1987), Prancer (1989), Body of Evidence (1993), Rush Hour (1998), and Martin Scorsese's Best Picture winner The Departed (2006). In 2008, Rolston signed on to play Erickson, who comes face to face with Jigsaw's (Tobin Bell) diabolical traps, in the fifth installment of the gore-soaked Saw franchise. Rolston also made television appearances on programs including Touched by an Angel and NYPD Blue.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

		CREDIT
No Score Yet	Blood Craft	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	Glass Jaw	Frank Maloney	—	2018
0%	Gangster Land (In the Absence of Good Men)	Dion O'Banion	—	2017
No Score Yet	Tell Me How I Die	Dr. Layton	—	2016
No Score Yet	Relentless Justice	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	Vanished	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	That Guy... Who Was in That Thing	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	Crosshairs	Actor	—	2012
39%	Saw VI	Erickson	$27.7M	2009
15%	Not Forgotten	Agent Wilson	—	2009
13%	Saw V	Dan Erickson	$56.8M	2008
No Score Yet	Asylum	Dr. Burke	—	2007
No Score Yet	Protecting the King	Frank	—	2007
No Score Yet	You've Got a Friend	Dennis Billings	—	2007
No Score Yet	The Hard Ride	Actor	—	2007
91%	The Departed	Timothy Delahunt	$132.4M	2006
No Score Yet	Miracle at Sage Creek	Capt. Johnson	—	2005
No Score Yet	Chasing Ghosts	Frank Anderson	—	2005
No Score Yet	Scorcher	Kellaway	—	2002
No Score Yet	Highway	Burt Miranda	—	2001
No Score Yet	A Table for One	Tom	—	1999
60%	Rush Hour	Agent Russ	—	1998
No Score Yet	Letters From a Killer	O'Dell	—	1998
No Score Yet	George Wallace	Ricky Brickle	—	1997
28%	Hard Rain	Wayne	—	1997
No Score Yet	Humanoids from the Deep	Bill Taylor	—	1997
25%	Daylight	Chief Dennis Wilson	—	1996
35%	Eraser	J. Scar	—	1996
No Score Yet	The Set Up	Ray	—	1995
No Score Yet	Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back	Donnie Hanson	—	1995
91%	The Shawshank Redemption	Bogs Diamond	—	1994
No Score Yet	Scanner Cop	Lieutenant Harry Brown	—	1994
No Score Yet	Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story	O'Keefe	—	1993
No Score Yet	The Comrades of Summer	Voronov	—	1992
8%	Body of Evidence	Detective Reese	—	1992
No Score Yet	Heat Wave	Officer Zenakis	—	1990
31%	Robocop 2	Stef	—	1990
25%	Impulse	Man in Bar	—	1990
67%	Prancer	Herb Drier	—	1989
No Score Yet	Survival Quest	Jake	—	1989
83%	Lethal Weapon 2	Hans	—	1989
No Score Yet	A Sinful Life	Teresa	—	1989
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson	Actor	—	1989
No Score Yet	The Lady Forgets	Actor	—	1989
No Score Yet	Steal the Sky	Colonel Bukharine	—	1988
80%	Weeds	Dave	—	1987
72%	The Fourth Protocol	Russian Decoder	—	1987
99%	Aliens	Pvt. Drake	—	1986
No Score Yet	Aliens (Special Edition)	Actor	—	1986

TV

		CREDIT
No Score Yet	SEAL Team 2017	David Alper	2018
9%	Rosewood 2015-2017	Harvey	2016
80%	Castle 2009-2016	Kurt Van Zant	2015
76%	Body of Proof 2011-2013	Det. Charley Meeks	2012
No Score Yet	NCIS 2003	George Westcott	2012 2003
74%	The Defenders 2010-2011	Johnny Greene	2011 2010
No Score Yet	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2000-2015	Sheriff	2009
No Score Yet	NCIS: Los Angeles 2009	Sgt. Jerrod `Pallet' Mullhearn	2009
84%	The Closer 2005-2012	Father Jack Shaw Father Jack	2009 2007
88%	Supernatural 2005	Alastair	2008
No Score Yet	Cold Case 2003-2010	Ari Gordon	2007
52%	Shark 2006-2008	Cade Berlinger	2007
No Score Yet	CSI: Miami 2002-2012	Glen Cole	2007 2006 2005
No Score Yet	Criminal Minds 2005	Sheriff Hall	2005
No Score Yet	CSI: NY 2004-2013	Bill Markoni	2005
86%	24 2001-2014	Bruce Foxton	2004
50%	Star Trek: Enterprise 2001-2005	Kuroda	2003
84%	NYPD Blue 1993-2005	Leon Broadus Carl Bowen	2002 1996
89%	Alias 2001-2006	Lambert	2001
88%	Angel 1999-2004	Boone	2001
44%	Dark Angel 2000-2002	Colberg	2001
No Score Yet	Touched by an Angel 1994-2003	Delroy Gibbons	2001
75%	The X-Files 1993-2018	Cult Leader Bud LaPierre	2000 1994
No Score Yet	ER 1994-2009	Off. Thomas	1995
86%	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 1993-1997	Gregor	1995 1994
No Score Yet	Murder, She Wrote 1984-1996	Finn Dawley Sgt. Boyle Sgt. Terence Boyle Liam Gillen	1995 1993 1992
No Score Yet	Babylon 5 1993-1998	Karl Mueller	1994
89%	Star Trek: The Next Generation 1987-1994	Pierce	1994
No Score Yet	From the Earth to the Moon 1998	Gus Grissom
No Score Yet	The Legend of Calamity Jane 1998	Voice

QUOTES FROM Mark Rolston CHARACTERS

Andy Dufresne	All right. But you should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down hard. In fact, I hear the bite reflex is so strong they have to pry the victims jaws open with a crowbar.
Bogs Diamond	Where do you get this shit?
Andy Dufresne	I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?

Pvt. Drake

Right on, Vaz

Bogs Diamond	Now I'm gonna open my fly, and you're gonna swallow what I give you to swallow. And after you swallow mine you're gonna swallow Rooster's cause you done broke his nose, and I think he oughta have something to show for it.
Andy Dufresne	Anything you put in my mouth you're gonna lose.
Bogs Diamond	Naw you don't understand. You do that and I'll put all eight inches of this steel in your ear.
Andy Dufresne	All right. But you should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down hard. In fact, I hear the bite reflex is so strong they have to pry the victim's jaws open with a crowbar.
Bogs Diamond	Where do you get this shit?
Andy Dufresne	I read it. You now how to read? You ignorant fuck.

Pvt. Drake	Have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Pvt. Drake	Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Pvt. Hudson	Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Pvt. Vasquez	No, have you?
Pvt. Vasquez	No. Have you?

Delahunt	I gave you the wrong adress, but you went to the right one.
Delahunt	I gave you the wrong adress, but you showed up at the right one.

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