Mickey Rourke 1952 73
Mickey Rourke 1952 73
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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2025 Bring the Law as Gargos
2025 A Walking Miracle as Jack
2025 Hollywood Heist
2025 Merchandise as Patrick
2025 The Roaring Game
2025 She's Still Here as Father Scott
2025 The Mob Priest as Jared McKendry
2025 The Wheels of Heaven as Reverend Beau Jackson
2024 Like Tears in Rain as Self
2024 Faye as Self
2024 Not Another Church Movie as Devil
2024 Jade as Tork
2024 Chuck Zito: An American Story as Self (archive footage)
2024 Murder at Hollow Creek as Ruslan Petrovic
2024 Mad Props as Self
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 Section 8 as Earl Atherton
2022 WarHunt as Major Johnson
2022 The Commando as Johnny Executive Producer
2021 Man of God as Paralyzed Man
2021 Take Back as Patrick / Jack Executive Producer
2021 Adverse as Kaden
2021 Bisping as Self
2020 Girl as Sheriff
2020 Belmondo l'influenceur as Self
2020 The Legion as Corbulo
2019 Berlin, I Love You as Jim
2019 Night Walk as Gary
2018 Tiger as Frank Donovan
2018 Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers as Self - The Narrator (voice)
2018 Nightmare Cinema as The Projectionist Co-Executive Producer
2016 Weaponized as Professor Clarence Peterson
2016 House of Time Thanks
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
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 Passion Play as Nate
2010 Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables' as Self
2010 One Night in Vegas 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 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
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 Masked and Anonymous as Edmund
2003 Spun as The Cook
2001 Picture Claire as Eddie
2001 The Follow 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 Writer, Music Supervisor
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
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 Screenplay
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
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