Know Your “That Guy”: Michael Rooker
Michael Rooker
Born: April 6, 1955
Number of Roles: 103
Best Known for Playing: Horrible, usually racist, criminals and murderers
First Appearance: Lieutenant on Crime Story (1986)
Most Recent Appearance: Merle Dixon on The Walking Dead (2010)
Notable Roles:
- Rowdy Burns in Days of Thunder
- Hal Tucker in Cliffhanger
- Henry in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Man in Bar in Above the Law
- Frank Bailey in Mississippi Burning
- Bill Broussard in JFK
- Sherman McMasters in Tombstone
- Captain Howard Cheney in The Bone Collector
- Col. Beckett on The Outer Limits “Patient Zero”
- Grant Grant in Slither
- Det. John Hayes on Thief
- Dale Lawson on Burn Notice
- Abe in Super
- Church in The Marine 2
- Robert Marshall in The 6th Day
Fun Facts
- Studied Akido Martial Arts
- Worked with all the major 80’s action stars, Arnold in The 6th Day, Stallone in Cliffhanger, Van Damme in Replicant and Seagal in Above the Law.
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was Rooker’s official first movie, filmed in 1986, but it wasn’t released until 1990 due to it’s controversial nature.
I’m like the J. Jonah Jameson of Everything Action, writing and editing and constantly demanding pictures of Spider-Man.
