Mickey Rourke

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-09-16 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Schenectady, New York, USA

Mickey Rourke

Biography

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, fol...

Acting

2005

Sin City

as Marv

1983

Rumble Fish

as The Motorcycle Boy

1989

Johnny Handsome

as Johnny Handsome

2010

Iron Man 2

as Ivan Vanko

2003

1987

Angel Heart

as Harry Angel

1986

2000

Get Carter

as Cyrus Paice

1980

Heaven's Gate

as Nick Ray

1987

Barfly

as Henry Chinaski

1989

Wild Orchid

as James Wheeler

1993

1985

Year of the Dragon

as Stanley White

2001

The Pledge

as Jim Olstad

1990

Desperate Hours

as Michael Bosworth

1997

The Rainmaker

as Bruiser Stone

2003

Spun

as The Cook

2008

The Wrestler

as Randy

1998

Buffalo '66

as The Bookie

2004

Man on Fire

as Jordan Kalfus

1988

Homeboy

as Johnny Walker

1994

F.T.W.

as Frank T. Wells

2000

Animal Factory

as Jan the Actress

1998

Thursday

as Kasarov

2010

2006

Stormbreaker

as Darrius Sayle

1997

Double Team

as Stavros

1987

A Prayer for the Dying

as Martin Fallon

2005

Domino

as Ed Mosbey

1980

Fade to Black

as Richie

2001

1995

Fall Time

as Florence

1982

Diner

as Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell

1981

Body Heat

as Teddy Lewis

1996

Bullet

as Butch 'Bullet' Stein

2001

The Follow

as Husband

2008

Killshot

as Armand 'The Blackbird' Degas

1983

Eureka

as Aurelio D'Amato

2011

Immortals

as King Hyperion

2010

13

as Jefferson

2011

2008

2022

Section 8

as Earl Atherton

1997

1999

Shades

as Paul S. Sullivan

1992

White Sands

as Gorman Lennox

1997

Exit in Red

as Ed Altman

1998

Point Blank

as Rudy Ray

2012

1980

City in Fear

as Tony Pate

1989

Francesco

as Francesco

1999

Out in Fifty

as Jack Bracken

2012

The Courier

as Maxwell

2023

2013

2009

2023

The Palace

as Bill Crush

2001

They Crawl

as Tiny Frakes

2013

Generation Iron

as Narrator (voice)

2013

Java Heat

as Malik

2024

Murder at Hollow Creek

as Ruslan Petrovic

2021

Bisping

as Self

2014

2012

Black November

as Tom Hudson

2012

2015

2023

Sly

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2015

Ashby

as Ashby Holt

2023

21 Rubies

as Mickey Mandovanis

1998

Thicker Than Blood

as Father Frank Larkin

2024

Mad Props

as Self

2015

War Pigs

as Major A.J. Redding

2023

Hunt Club

as Virgil

2015

Blunt Force Trauma

as Zorringer

-

Bring the Law

as Gargos

2025

Devil's Play

as Reverend Beau Jackson

2024

Faye

as Self

2016

Weaponized

as Professor Clarence Peterson

2008

Hyung

as Jack

1979

1941

as Reese

1980

Act of Love

as Joseph Cybulkowski

1999

Shergar

as Gavin O'Rourke

2018

Tiger

as Frank Donovan

2012

2018

Nightmare Cinema

as The Projectionist

-

Merchandise

as Patrick

-

The Mob Priest

as Jared McKendry

2018

Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers

as Self - The Narrator (voice)

2019

Night Walk

as Gary

2021

Adverse

as Kaden

2021

Take Back

as Patrick / Jack

2020

The Legion

as Corbulo

2022

WarHunt

as Major Johnson

2020

Girl

as Sheriff

2021

Man of God

as Paralyzed Man

2022

The Commando

as Johnny

-

She's Still Here

as Father Scott

2024

Jade

as Tork

2024

Chuck Zito: An American Story

as Self (archive footage)

Production

2021

Take Back

as Executive Producer

2018

Nightmare Cinema

as Co-Executive Producer

1988

Homeboy

as Screenplay

2016

House of Time

as Thanks

1996

Bullet

as Writer

1996

Bullet

as Music Supervisor

2022

The Commando

as Executive Producer

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