Michael Rooker
- Highest Rated: Bastard out of Carolina (1996)
- Lowest Rated: Super Capers (2009)
- Birthday: Apr 6, 1955
- Birthplace: Jasper, Alabama, USA
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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
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Year |
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| 70% | Bolden | Actor | — | 2019 |
| 84% | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | Yondu | $389.9M | 2017 |
| 51% | The Belko Experiment | Bud Melks | $10.2M | 2017 |
| 91% | Guardians of the Galaxy | Yondu | $270.6M | 2014 |
| Brother's Keeper | Chief Carver | — | 2013 | |
| Rogue River | Actor | — | 2012 | |
| Pennhurst | Director Actor | — | 2012 | |
| 17% | Cell 213 | Ray Clement | — | 2011 |
| 49% | Super | Abe | $0.3M | 2011 |
| Mysteria | Actor | — | 2011 | |
| DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection | Actor | — | 2010 | |
| Atlantis Down | Father | — | 2010 | |
| 40% | Louis | Pat McMurphy | — | 2010 |
| DC Showcase: Jonah Hex | Red Doc | — | 2010 | |
| 52% | Blood Done Sign My Name | Defense Attorney Billy Watkins | $83.2K | 2010 |
| Freeway Killer | Detective St. John | — | 2010 | |
| Hypothermia | Ray Pelletier | — | 2010 | |
| 80% | Penance | Mann | — | 2009 |
| 0% | Super Capers | The Dark Winged Vespers | — | 2009 |
| The Lena Baker Story (Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story) | Sheriff Haney | — | 2009 | |
| Meteor | Calvin Stark | — | 2009 | |
| The Marine 2 | Church | — | 2009 | |
| 15% | Jumper | William Rice | $80.1M | 2008 |
| Whisper | Sydney Braverman | — | 2007 | |
| The Hard Ride | Actor | — | 2007 | |
| Kinamand (Chinaman) | Actor | — | 2006 | |
| 86% | Slither | Grant Grant | $7.8M | 2006 |
| Full Count | Russ | — | 2006 | |
| Johnny & Clyde | Frank Tennant | — | 2005 | |
| Chasing Ghosts | Mark Spencer | — | 2005 | |
| Skeleton Man | Captain Leary | — | 2004 | |
| The Eliminator | Miles Dawson | — | 2004 | |
| On Thin Ice | Roger Hopkins | — | 2003 | |
| The Box | Det. Stafford | — | 2003 | |
| 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 |
| Newsbreak | John McNamara | — | 2000 | |
| 17% | Here on Earth | Michael | — | 2000 |
| 50% | Brown's Requiem | Fritz Brown | — | 2000 |
| Table One | Rowdy | — | 2000 | |
| 28% | The Bone Collector | Capt. Howard Cheney | — | 1999 |
| A Table for One | Matt | — | 1999 | |
| Renegade Force | Actor | — | 1998 | |
| Shadow Builder | Actor | — | 1998 | |
| 35% | The Replacement Killers | Stan Zeedo Zedkov | — | 1998 |
| 48% | Deceiver | Kennesaw | $0.6M | 1998 |
| Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder | Father Vassey | — | 1998 | |
| 86% | Rosewood | Sheriff Walker | — | 1997 |
| 13% | Meet Wally Sparks | Actor | — | 1997 |
| Song of Hiawatha | Bertrand | — | 1997 | |
| 100% | Bastard out of Carolina | Earle | — | 1996 |
| 75% | The Trigger Effect | Gary | — | 1996 |
| Back to Back | Bob | — | 1996 | |
| 10% | Keys to Tulsa | Keith Michaels | — | 1996 |
| 55% | Mallrats | Svenning | — | 1995 |
| The Hard Truth | Jonah Mantz | — | 1994 | |
| 73% | Tombstone | Sherman McMasters | — | 1993 |
| 56% | The Dark Half | Alan Panghorn | — | 1993 |
| Afterburn | Casey | — | 1992 | |
| 84% | JFK | Bill Broussard | — | 1991 |
| 39% | Days of Thunder | Rowdy Burns | — | 1990 |
| L.A. Takedown | Bosko | — | 1989 | |
| 78% | Sea of Love | Terry | — | 1989 |
| 72% | Music Box | Karchy Laszlo | — | 1989 |
| 87% | 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
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Credit |
Year |
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Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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SEAL Team
2017
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Big Chief |
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Talking Dead
2011
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| 81% |
The Walking Dead
2010
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Merle Dixon |
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The Nerdist
2011-2013
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Guest |
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| 90% |
Archer
2009
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E.Z. Ponder |
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Criminal Minds
2005
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Linda Carlson |
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| 52% |
Shark
2006-2008
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Oscar Riddick |
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| 81% |
Thief
2006
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John Hayes |
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JAG
1995-2005
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Capt. Jack Ramsey |
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MythBusters
2003-2018
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Appearing |
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The Outer Limits
1995-2002
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Beckett |
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The Equalizer
1985-1989
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QUOTES FROM Michael Rooker CHARACTERS
- Becky Otis's Sister
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I love you, Henry.
- Henry
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I guess I love you too.
- Henry
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Otis, plug it in!
- Otis
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(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
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Who the hell told you, to stick your head out the window anyway?
- Otis
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You could of killed me!
- Henry
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Sure...Blame it on me!
- Henry
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Sure. Blame it on me!
- Otis
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Oh, this fu*king camera! [Otis throws the video camera out the car window]
- Henry
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What did you do that for?
- Otis
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It wasn't any good anymore.
- Henry
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Could have fixed it.
- Otis
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Sh*t, the lens was busted right off!
- Henry
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Could have fixed it!
- Otis
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How do you know? You a camera repair man? ...You should have said something.
- Henry
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You threw the fu*ker right out the window!
- Henry
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Guns are easy to get...I can make a phone call and get a gun. Anybody can get a gun, Otis.
- Henry
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Guns are easy to get. I can make a phone call and get a gun. Anybody can get a gun, Otis.
- Otis
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I'd like to kill somebody.
- Henry
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Say that again.
- Henry
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Let's me and you go for a ride, Otis.
- Store Clerk
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How about those Bears?
- Henry
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Fu*k the Bears.
- Henry
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You telling me you never killed anybody before?
- Otis
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I ain't saying that.
- Henry
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Then you've killed before, right?
- Otis
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Well maybe I didn't have no choice.
- Henry
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You didn't have no choice here neither...Did you?
- Henry
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You didn't have no choice here neither. Did you?
- Otis
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Huh?
- Henry
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Did you?!
- Otis
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I don't know.
- Otis
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Where you going?
- Henry
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Nowhere - you wanna come?
- Henry
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Nowhere. You wanna come?
- Henry
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(Henry grabs Otis after he tries kissing his sister) - Don't do that Otis - she's your sister.
- Henry
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(Henry grabs Otis after he tries kissing his sister) - Don't do that Otis. She's your sister.
- Henry
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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
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Big fu*king deal.
- Henry
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What?
- Otis
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Nothing.
- Henry
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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
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Why don't you use a gun?
- Henry
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You can use a gun. I'm not saying you can't use a gun. Just don't use the same gun twice.
- Henry
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(Otis starts rewinding the Snuff video they just made) - What are you doing?
- Otis
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I wanna see it again.
- Henry
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(about killing someone) - It's always the same and it's always different.
- Henry
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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
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That's creepy.
- Henry
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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
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She made you wear a dress?
- Henry
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You think I'm lying?
- Becky Otis's Sister
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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
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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
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I thought you said you stabbed her.
- Henry
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Oh yeah, that's right...I stabbed her.
- Henry
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Oh yeah, that's right. I stabbed her.