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Mickey Rourke
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Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (born September 16, 1952) is an American actor and former boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films.
During the star of the 1980s, Rourke played supporting roles in films like Body Heat (1981) and Diner (1982), before portraying leading roles in films like The Motorcycle Boy in Rumble Fish (1983), Charlie Moran in The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Captain Stanley White in Year of the Dragon and John Gray in 9½ Weeks (1986). He received critical praise for his work in the Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly and the horror mystery Angel Heart (both 1987). In 1991, following a string of critical and commercial failure…
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Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (born September 16, 1952) is an American actor and former boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films. During the star of the 1980s, Rourke played supporting roles in films like Body Heat (1981) and Diner (1982), before portraying leading roles in films like The Motorcycle Boy in Rumble Fish (1983), Charlie Moran in The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Captain Stanley White in Year of the Dragon and John Gray in 9½ Weeks (1986). He received critical praise for his work in the Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly and the horror mystery Angel Heart (both 1987). In 1991, following a string of critical and commercial failures, Rourke—who trained as a boxer in his early years—left acting and became a professional boxer for a time. After retiring from boxing in 1994, Rourke returned to acting and had supporting roles in several films such as The Rainmaker (1997), Buffalo '66 (1998), Animal Factory, Get Carter (both 2000), The Pledge (2001), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), Man on Fire (2004) and Domino (2005). In 2005, Rourke made a comeback in mainstream Hollywood circles with a lead role in the neo-noir action thriller Sin City, for which he won awards from the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Irish Film and Television Awards, and the Online Film Critics Society. This comeback culminated in his portraying aging wrestler Randy 'The Ram' Robinson in the sports drama film The Wrestler (2008). For the role, Rourke won the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. After this, Rourke appeared in several commercially successful films; Iron Man 2, The Expendables (both 2010) and Immortals (2011), before primarily going on to work in independent and direct-to-video productions.
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3 Days Rising
as Willy T
Bring the Law
as Gargos
The Roaring Game
as The Plow King
Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks
as Self
Devil's Play
as Reverend Beau Jackson
Like Tears in Rain
as Self
Faye
as Self
Not Another Church Movie
as Devil
Jade
as Tork
Chuck Zito: An American Story
as Self
Murder at Hollow Creek
as Ruslan Petrovic
Mad Props
as Self
21 Rubies
as Mickey Mandovanis
The Palace
as Bill Crush
Murder Motel
as Dino
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
Hunt Club
as Virgil
Section 8
as Earl Atherton
WarHunt
as Major Johnson
The Commando
as Johnny
Man of God
as Paralyzed Man
Take Back
as Patrick / Jack
kid 90
as Self
Adverse
as Kaden
Bisping
as Self
Girl
as Sheriff
Belmondo l'influenceur
as Self
The Legion
as Corbulo
Berlin, I Love You
as Jim
Night Walk
as Gary
Tiger
as Frank Donovan
Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers
as Self - The Narrator (voice)
Nightmare Cinema
as The Projectionist
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Weaponized
as Professor Clarence Peterson
Blunt Force Trauma
as Zorringer
War Pigs
as Major A.J. Redding
Ashby
as Ashby Holt
A Hitman in London
as Vogel
Hollywood Banker
as Self
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
as Marv
Dead in Tombstone
as Lucifer
Generation Iron
as Narrator (voice)
The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini
as Self
Java Heat
as Malik
Black November
as Tom Hudson
The Courier
as Maxwell
Sunset Strip
as Self
I Am Bruce Lee
as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Immortals
as King Hyperion
Passion Play
as Nate
Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
as Self
One Night in Vegas
as Self
The Expendables
as Tool
Iron Man 2
as Ivan Vanko
13
as Jefferson
42nd Street: River to River
as Self
Within the Ring
as Self
WWE WrestleMania XXV
as Self
La Traversée du désir
as Self
The Wrestler
as Randy
Killshot
as Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
The Informers
as Peter
No Poster
Hyung
as Jack
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
as Self
Stormbreaker
as Darrius Sayle
Domino
as Ed Mosbey
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
as Self (archive footage)
Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'
as Self
Sin City
as Marv
Man on Fire
as Jordan Kalfus
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
as Billy Chambers
Masked and Anonymous
as Edmund
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
Spun
as The Cook
Picture Claire
as Eddie
The Follow
as Husband
They Crawl
as Tiny Frakes
The Pledge
as Jim Olstad
Animal Factory
as Jan the Actress
Get Carter
as Cyrus Paice
Shades
as Paul S. Sullivan
Out in Fifty
as Jack Bracken
Shergar
as Gavin O'Rourke
Thursday
as Kasarov
Thicker Than Blood
as Father Frank Larkin
Point Blank
as Rudy Ray
Buffalo '66
as The Bookie
The Rainmaker
as Bruiser Stone
Exit in Red
as Ed Altman
Another 9 1/2 Weeks
as John Gray
Double Team
as Stavros
Bullet
as Butch 'Bullet' Stein
Fall Time
as Florence
F.T.W.
as Frank T. Wells
Meet Mickey Rourke
as Self
The Last Outlaw
as Graff
White Sands
as Gorman Lennox
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
as Harley Davidson
Desperate Hours
as Michael Bosworth
Wild Orchid
as James Wheeler
Johnny Handsome
as Johnny Handsome
Francesco
as Francesco
Homeboy
as Johnny Walker
A Prayer for the Dying
as Martin Fallon
Barfly
as Henry Chinaski
Angel Heart
as Harry Angel
Nine 1/2 Weeks
as John
Year of the Dragon
as Stanley White
The Pope of Greenwich Village
as Charlie
Rumble Fish
as The Motorcycle Boy
Eureka
as Aurelio D'Amato
Diner
as Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
Body Heat
as Teddy Lewis
Heaven's Gate
as Nick Ray
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
as John Rideout
Fade to Black
as Richie
Act of Love
as Joseph Cybulkowski
City in Fear
as Tony Pate
1941
as Reese
Love in the Hamptons
as Swede
National Lampoon's Hollywood Heist
No Poster
Merchandise
as Patrick
No Poster
She's Still Here
as Father Scott
No Poster
The Mob Priest
as Jared McKendry
No Poster
A Walking Miracle
as Jack