Michael Rooker
Highest Rated: 100% Bastard out of Carolina (1996)
Lowest Rated: 6% Super Capers (2009)
Birthday: Apr 6, 1955
Birthplace: Jasper, Alabama, USA
Raised in Chicago by his divorced mother, Michael Rooker lived a hand-to-mouth existence until his teens. Rooker successfully auditioned for the Goodman School, and upon graduation, appeared in Chicago-area stage productions. He made a spectacular film debut in the sociopathic title role of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which was filmed in 1986 but not given a general release until four years later. Henry established Rooker as a gifted purveyor of "don't screw with me" roles, such as chief "Black Sox" conspirator Chick Gandil in Eight Men Out (1988). Michael Rooker's more rugged film assignments of the 1990s included Cliffhanger (1993) and Tombstone (1994).
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | Monster Problems | Actor | — | 2020 |
| 10% | Fantasy Island | Damon | — | 2020 |
| 70% | Bolden | Actor | — | 2019 |
| 85% | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | Yondu | $389.9M | 2017 |
| 53% | The Belko Experiment | Bud Melks | $10.2M | 2017 |
| 91% | Guardians of the Galaxy | Yondu | $270.6M | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | Brother's Keeper | Chief Carver | — | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | Rogue River | Actor | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Pennhurst | Director Actor | — | 2012 |
| 17% | Cell 213 | Ray Clement | — | 2011 |
| 49% | Super | Abe | $0.3M | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | Mysteria | Actor | — | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection | Actor | — | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | Atlantis Down | Father | — | 2010 |
| 40% | Louis | Pat McMurphy | — | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | DC Showcase: Jonah Hex | Red Doc | — | 2010 |
| 52% | Blood Done Sign My Name | Defense Attorney Billy Watkins | $83.2K | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | Freeway Killer | Detective St. John | — | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | Hypothermia | Ray Pelletier | — | 2010 |
| 80% | Penance | Mann | — | 2009 |
| 6% | Super Capers | The Dark Winged Vespers | — | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | The Lena Baker Story (Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story) | Sheriff Haney | — | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | Meteor | Calvin Stark | — | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | The Marine 2 | Church | — | 2009 |
| 15% | Jumper | William Rice | $80.1M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Whisper | Sydney Braverman | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | The Hard Ride | Actor | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Kinamand (Chinaman) | Actor | — | 2006 |
| 86% | Slither | Grant Grant | $7.8M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Full Count | Russ | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Johnny & Clyde | Frank Tennant | — | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | Chasing Ghosts | Mark Spencer | — | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | Skeleton Man | Captain Leary | — | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | The Eliminator | Miles Dawson | — | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | On Thin Ice | Roger Hopkins | — | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | The Box | Det. Stafford | — | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | Saving Jessica Lynch | Commander Curry | — | 2003 |
| 48% | Undisputed | A.J. Mercker | — | 2002 |
| 27% | Replicant | Jake | — | 2001 |
| 41% | The 6th Day | Robert Marshall | $33.9M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | Newsbreak | John McNamara | — | 2000 |
| 17% | Here on Earth | Michael | — | 2000 |
| 50% | Brown's Requiem | Fritz Brown | — | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | Table One | Rowdy | — | 2000 |
| 28% | The Bone Collector | Capt. Howard Cheney | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | A Table for One | Matt | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | Renegade Force | Actor | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | Shadow Builder | Actor | — | 1998 |
| 35% | The Replacement Killers | Stan Zeedo Zedkov | — | 1998 |
| 48% | Deceiver | Kennesaw | $0.6M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder | Father Vassey | — | 1998 |
| 86% | Rosewood | Sheriff Walker | — | 1997 |
| 13% | Meet Wally Sparks | Actor | — | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | Song of Hiawatha | Bertrand | — | 1997 |
| 100% | Bastard out of Carolina | Earle | — | 1996 |
| 75% | The Trigger Effect | Gary | — | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | Back to Back | Bob | — | 1996 |
| 10% | Keys to Tulsa | Keith Michaels | — | 1996 |
| 56% | Mallrats | Svenning | — | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | Suspicious | Attendant | — | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | The Hard Truth | Jonah Mantz | — | 1994 |
| 73% | Tombstone | Sherman McMasters | — | 1993 |
| 56% | The Dark Half | Alan Panghorn | — | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Afterburn | Casey | — | 1992 |
| 84% | JFK | Bill Broussard | — | 1991 |
| 39% | Days of Thunder | Rowdy Burns | — | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | L.A. Takedown | Bosko | — | 1989 |
| 79% | Sea of Love | Terry | — | 1989 |
| 72% | Music Box | Karchy Laszlo | — | 1989 |
| 83% | Mississippi Burning | Frank Bailey | — | 1988 |
| 86% | Eight Men Out | Chick Gandil | — | 1988 |
| 15% | Rent-A-Cop | Joe | — | 1988 |
| 53% | Above the Law | Man in Bar | — | 1988 |
| 53% | Light of Day | Oogie | — | 1987 |
| 87% | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | Henry | — | 1986 |
| 67% | Streets of Fire | Actor | — | 1984 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 81% |
The Walking Dead 2010 |
Merle Dixon |
2019 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003 |
Guest |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
SEAL Team 2017 |
Big Chief |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Talking Dead 2011 |
Guest |
2017 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
The Nerdist 2011-2013 |
Guest |
2013 2011 |
| 91% |
Archer 2009 |
E.Z. Ponder |
2012 |
| No Score Yet |
Criminal Minds 2005 |
Linda Carlson |
2009 |
| 52% |
Shark 2006-2008 |
Oscar Riddick |
2008 |
| 81% |
Thief 2006 |
John Hayes |
2006 |
| No Score Yet |
JAG 1995-2005 |
Capt. Jack Ramsey |
2005 |
| No Score Yet |
MythBusters 2003 |
Appearing |
2003 |
| No Score Yet |
The Outer Limits 1995-2002 |
Beckett |
2001 |
| No Score Yet |
The Equalizer 1985-1989 |
1988 |
QUOTES FROM Michael Rooker CHARACTERS
Becky Otis's Sister says: I love you, Henry.
Henry says: I guess I love you too.
Henry says: Otis, plug it in!
Otis says: (his video camera breaks, while filming outside the car window) - Look what you did! Oh, god! Oh, Jesus! Look at it, it's ruined! Damn, Henry you ought to look where you're driving!
Henry says: Who the hell told you, to stick your head out the window anyway?
Otis says: You could of killed me!
Henry says: Sure...Blame it on me!
Henry says: Sure. Blame it on me!
Otis says: Oh, this fu*king camera! [Otis throws the video camera out the car window]
Henry says: What did you do that for?
Otis says: It wasn't any good anymore.
Henry says: Could have fixed it.
Otis says: Sh*t, the lens was busted right off!
Henry says: Could have fixed it!
Otis says: How do you know? You a camera repair man? ...You should have said something.
Henry says: You threw the fu*ker right out the window!
Henry says: Guns are easy to get...I can make a phone call and get a gun. Anybody can get a gun, Otis.
Henry says: Guns are easy to get. I can make a phone call and get a gun. Anybody can get a gun, Otis.
Otis says: I'd like to kill somebody.
Henry says: Say that again.
Henry says: Let's me and you go for a ride, Otis.
Store Clerk says: How about those Bears?
Henry says: Fu*k the Bears.
Henry says: You telling me you never killed anybody before?
Otis says: I ain't saying that.
Henry says: Then you've killed before, right?
Otis says: Well maybe I didn't have no choice.
Henry says: You didn't have no choice here neither...Did you?
Henry says: You didn't have no choice here neither. Did you?
Otis says: Huh?
Henry says: Did you?!
Otis says: I don't know.
Otis says: Where you going?
Henry says: Nowhere - you wanna come?
Henry says: Nowhere. You wanna come?
Henry says: (Henry grabs Otis after he tries kissing his sister) - Don't do that Otis - she's your sister.
Henry says: (Henry grabs Otis after he tries kissing his sister) - Don't do that Otis. She's your sister.
Henry says: If you shoot someone in the head with a .45 every time you kill somebody, it becomes like your fingerprint, see? But if you strangle one, stab another, and one you cut up, and one you don't, then the police don't know what to do. They think you're four different people. What they really want, what makes their job so much easier, is pattern. What they call a modus operandi. That's Latin. Bet you didn't know any Latin, did you kid?
Otis says: Big fu*king deal.
Henry says: What?
Otis says: Nothing.
Henry says: It's like a trail of sh*t, Otis. It's like the blood droppings from a deer you shot, and all they've got to do is follow those droppings, and pretty soon, they're going to find their deer.
Otis says: Why don't you use a gun?
Henry says: You can use a gun. I'm not saying you can't use a gun. Just don't use the same gun twice.
Henry says: (Otis starts rewinding the Snuff video they just made) - What are you doing?
Otis says: I wanna see it again.
Henry says: (about killing someone) - It's always the same and it's always different.
Henry says: She was a whore. My mama was a whore. But I don't fault her for that. It ain't what she done, but how she done it. Long as I can remember, she'd bring men up to the house. My daddy was there too, but it didn't matter none to her. She'd make me watch.
Becky Otis's Sister says: That's creepy.
Henry says: She'd beat me too; A lot. She'd beat me when I wouldn't watch it. And sometimes she'd beat me, and make me wear a dress, and watch her doing' it. Then they'd laugh at me.
Becky Otis's Sister says: She made you wear a dress?
Henry says: You think I'm lying?
Becky Otis's Sister says: I feel like I know you, like I've known you for a long time. I feel like I've known you forever and ever.
Henry says: Yeah. I killed my mama; one night. It was my 14th birthday. She was drunk, and we had an argument. She hit me with a whiskey bottle. I shot her. I shot her dead.
Becky Otis's Sister says: I thought you said you stabbed her.
Henry says: Oh yeah, that's right...I stabbed her.
Henry says: Oh yeah, that's right. I stabbed her.