Mickey Rourke
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 cumulated 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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- 2024 · Faye as Self
- 2024 · Not Another Church Movie as Devil
- 2024 · Murder at Hollow Creek as Ruslan Petrovic
- 2024 · Mad Props as Self
- 2024 · Jade as Tork
- 2023 · 21 Rubies as Mickey Mandovanis
- 2023 · The Palace as Bill Crush
- 2023 · Murder Motel as Dino
- 2023 · Sly as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2023 · Hunt Club as Virgil
- 2022 · Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Section 8 as Earl Atherton
- 2022 · WarHunt as Major Johnson
- 2022 · The Commando as Johnny
- 2021 · Man of God as Paralyzed Man
- 2021 · Take Back as Patrick / Jack
- 2021 · Adverse as Kaden
- 2021 · Bisping as Self
- 2020 · Girl as Sheriff
- 2020 · Belmondo l'influenceur as Self
- 2020 · The Legion as Corbulo
- 2019 · Night Walk as Gary
- 2019 · Losers as Self
- 2019 · Berlin, I Love You as Jim
- 2019 · The Masked Singer as Gremlin
- 2019 · The Masked Singer as Self
- 2019 · The Masked Singer as Gremlin (archive footage)
- 2018 · Tiger as Frank Donovan
- 2018 · Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers as Self - The Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Nightmare Cinema as The Projectionist
- 2016 · Weaponized as Professor Clarence Peterson
- 2015 · Blunt Force Trauma as Zorringer
- 2015 · War Pigs as Major A.J. Redding
- 2015 · Ashby as Ashby Holt
- 2015 · A Hitman in London as Vogel
- 2014 · Hollywood Banker as Self
- 2014 · Sin City: A Dame to Kill For as Marv
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Dead in Tombstone as Lucifer
- 2013 · Generation Iron as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini as Self
- 2013 · Java Heat as Malik
- 2012 · Black November as Tom Hudson
- 2012 · The Courier as Maxwell
- 2012 · Sunset Strip as Self
- 2012 · I Am Bruce Lee as Self
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2011 · Immortals as King Hyperion
- 2011 · David Haye versus as Self
- 2011 · Passion Play as Nate
- 2010 · Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables' as Self
- 2010 · One Night in Vegas as Self
- 2010 · The Day Before as Self
- 2010 · The Expendables as Tool
- 2010 · Iron Man 2 as Ivan Vanko
- 2010 · 13 as Jefferson
- 2009 · 42nd Street: River to River as Self
- 2009 · Alan Carr: Chatty Man as Self
- 2009 · Within the Ring as Self
- 2009 · WWE WrestleMania XXV as Self
- 2009 · La Traversée du désir as Self
- 2008 · Killshot as Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas
- 2008 · The Informers as Peter
- 2008 · Hyung as Jack
- 2008 · The Wrestler as Randy
- 2008 · Projectorparishilton as Self - Guest
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Stormbreaker as Darrius Sayle
- 2005 · Domino as Ed Mosbey
- 2005 · Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire' as Self
- 2005 · Sin City as Marv
- 2004 · Man on Fire as Jordan Kalfus
- 2003 · Once Upon a Time in Mexico as Billy Chambers
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Masked and Anonymous as Edmund
- 2003 · Spun as The Cook
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- 2002 · V Graham Norton as Self
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
- 2001 · Picture Claire as Eddie
- 2001 · The Follow as Husband
- 2001 · The Hire as Husband
- 2001 · They Crawl as Tiny Frakes
- 2001 · The Pledge as Jim Olstad
- 2000 · Animal Factory as Jan the Actress
- 2000 · Get Carter as Cyrus Paice
- 1999 · Shades as Paul S. Sullivan
- 1999 · Out in Fifty as Jack Bracken
- 1999 · Shergar as Gavin O'Rourke
- 1998 · Thursday as Kasarov
- 1998 · Thicker Than Blood as Father Frank Larkin
- 1998 · Point Blank as Rudy Ray
- 1998 · Buffalo '66 as The Bookie
- 1997 · The Rainmaker as Bruiser Stone
- 1997 · Exit in Red as Ed Altman
- 1997 · Another 9 1/2 Weeks as John Gray
- 1997 · Double Team as Stavros
- 1996 · Bullet as Butch 'Bullet' Stein
- 1995 · Fall Time as Florence
- 1994 · F.T.W. as Frank T. Wells
- 1994 · Meet Mickey Rourke as Self
- 1993 · The Last Outlaw as Graff
- 1993 · WWE Raw as Self (archive footage)
- 1993 · GMTV as Self
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
- 1992 · White Sands as Gorman Lennox
- 1991 · Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man as Harley Davidson
- 1990 · Desperate Hours as Michael Bosworth
- 1989 · Wild Orchid as James Wheeler
- 1989 · Johnny Handsome as Johnny Handsome
- 1989 · Francesco as Francesco
- 1988 · Homeboy as Johnny Walker
- 1987 · A Prayer for the Dying as Martin Fallon
- 1987 · Barfly as Henry Chinaski
- 1987 · Angel Heart as Harry Angel
- 1986 · Nine 1/2 Weeks as John
- 1985 · Year of the Dragon as Stanley White
- 1984 · The Pope of Greenwich Village as Charlie
- 1983 · Rumble Fish as The Motorcycle Boy
- 1983 · Eureka as Aurelio D'Amato
- 1982 · Diner as Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell
- 1981 · Body Heat as Teddy Lewis
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1980 · Heaven's Gate as Nick Ray
- 1980 · Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case as John Rideout
- 1980 · Fade to Black as Richie
- 1980 · Act of Love as Joseph Cybulkowski
- 1980 · City in Fear as Tony Pate
- 1979 · 1941 as Reese
- 1976 · Love in the Hamptons as Swede
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 2024 · Hollywood Heist as
- 2024 · Bring the Law as Gargos
- 2024 · The Wheels of Heaven as Reverend Beau Jackson
- 2024 · Merchandise as Patrick
- 2024 · The Mob Priest as Jared McKendry
- 2024 · She's Still Here as Father Scott
- 2024 · The Roaring Game as