Michael Rooker

Highest Rated: 100% Bastard out of Carolina (1996)

Lowest Rated: 0% 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

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
84%	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Yondu	$389.9M	2017
54%	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
No Score Yet	Bolden!	Actor	—	2010
80%	Penance	Mann	—	2009
0%	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	The Marine 2	Church	—	2009
No Score Yet	Meteor	Calvin Stark	—	2009
15%	Jumper	William Rice	$80.1M	2008
No Score Yet	Whisper	Sydney Braverman	—	2007
No Score Yet	The Hard Ride	Actor	—	2007
86%	Slither	Grant Grant	$7.8M	2006
No Score Yet	Kinamand (Chinaman)	Actor	—	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
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
85%	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	The Hard Truth	Jonah Mantz	—	1994
73%	Tombstone	Sherman McMasters	—	1993
57%	The Dark Half	Alan Panghorn	—	1993
No Score Yet	Afterburn	Casey	—	1992
83%	JFK	Bill Broussard	—	1991
39%	Days of Thunder	Rowdy Burns	—	1990
No Score Yet	L.A. Takedown	Bosko	—	1989
78%	Sea of Love	Terry	—	1989
75%	Music Box	Karchy Laszlo	—	1989
86%	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
86%	Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer	Henry	—	1986
67%	Streets of Fire	Actor	—	1984

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003	Guest	2017
71%	SEAL Team 2017	Big Chief	2017
No Score Yet	Talking Dead 2011	Guest	2017 2015
80%	The Walking Dead 2010	Merle Dixon	2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
No Score Yet	The Nerdist 2011-2013	Guest	2013
93%	Archer 2009-2018	E.Z. Ponder	2012
No Score Yet	Criminal Minds 2005	Linda Carlson	2009
52%	Shark 2006-2008	Oscar Riddick	2008
No Score Yet	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	I love you, Henry.
Henry	I guess I love you too.

Henry

Otis, plug it in!

Otis	(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	Who the hell told you, to stick your head out the window anyway?
Otis	You could of killed me!
Henry	Sure...Blame it on me!
Henry	Sure. Blame it on me!
Otis	Oh, this fu*king camera! [Otis throws the video camera out the car window]
Henry	What did you do that for?
Otis	It wasn't any good anymore.
Henry	Could have fixed it.
Otis	Sh*t, the lens was busted right off!
Henry	Could have fixed it!
Otis	How do you know? You a camera repair man? ...You should have said something.
Henry	You threw the fu*ker right out the window!

Henry	Guns are easy to get...I can make a phone call and get a gun. Anybody can get a gun, Otis.
Henry	Guns are easy to get. I can make a phone call and get a gun. Anybody can get a gun, Otis.

Otis	I'd like to kill somebody.
Henry	Say that again.
Henry	Let's me and you go for a ride, Otis.

Store Clerk	How about those Bears?
Henry	Fu*k the Bears.

Henry	You telling me you never killed anybody before?
Otis	I ain't saying that.
Henry	Then you've killed before, right?
Otis	Well maybe I didn't have no choice.
Henry	You didn't have no choice here neither...Did you?
Henry	You didn't have no choice here neither. Did you?
Otis	Huh?
Henry	Did you?!
Otis	I don't know.

Otis	Where you going?
Henry	Nowhere - you wanna come?
Henry	Nowhere. You wanna come?

Henry	(Henry grabs Otis after he tries kissing his sister) - Don't do that Otis - she's your sister.
Henry	(Henry grabs Otis after he tries kissing his sister) - Don't do that Otis. She's your sister.

Henry	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	Big fu*king deal.
Henry	What?
Otis	Nothing.
Henry	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	Why don't you use a gun?
Henry	You can use a gun. I'm not saying you can't use a gun. Just don't use the same gun twice.

Henry	(Otis starts rewinding the Snuff video they just made) - What are you doing?
Otis	I wanna see it again.

Henry

(about killing someone) - It's always the same and it's always different.

Henry	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	That's creepy.
Henry	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	She made you wear a dress?
Henry	You think I'm lying?
Becky Otis's Sister	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	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	I thought you said you stabbed her.
Henry	Oh yeah, that's right...I stabbed her.
Henry	Oh yeah, that's right. I stabbed her.