Charles Rocket

Birthplace: Exeter, Maine
Birthday: August 24, 1949

Handsome, lanky comic character player who first gained notoriety for saying the f-word on the air while employed by "Saturday Night Live". Rocket was subsequently fired from the long-running sketch series, and went on to appear in a number of features, TV-movies, specials and several series--he was especially effective as Richard Addison, the brother of Bruce Willis's p.i. on the series "Moonlighting," in a recurring roles on the inventive series "Max Headroom," the inspirational "Touched By an Angel" and as a regular on the legal drama "The …more

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Credits

Actor

The Investigators
Truman Knuman; a reporter
Steel Collar Man
Robot D-5-B
The Outlaws
Stanley Flynn
California Girls
Barry
Tequila and Bonetti
Captain Midian Knight

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Career Milestones

2004
Cast in the action thriller "Shade," set in the L.A. scene of poker hustlers
2000
Returned to series TV as co-star of Fox's fall sitcom "Normal, Ohio", starring John Goodman
1994
Had recurring role on the drama series, "Touched By an Angel" (CBS)
1993
Appeared in a recurring role on the sitcom, "Flying Blind" (Fox)
1992
Cast as a series regular on the cop show, "Tequila and Bonetti"