Mickey Rourke filmography
This is a filmography of Mickey Rourke. This list includes information about films starring Mickey Rourke, notes, awards, his television works, trivia, highest-grossing films, critical acclaim of Rourke's films, shows in which he appeared, and roles he turned down among other things. It also provides information about other work and previous collaborations of Rourke. A recently published book, Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Mickey Rourke Movies by Dan Rempala, explores life lessons provided by Rourke's films.
Mickey Rourke began his career in the film 1941, directed by Steven Spielberg. Later, Rourke starred in several television films and made brief appearances in feature films. He made his breakthrough performance in the film Diner. Later, his career continued with popular films such as 9½ Weeks, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Rumble Fish, Year of the Dragon, Barfly, Angel Heart and many more. Rourke also starred in a film about Francis of Assisi called Francesco. In the early 1990s, he returned to boxing and didn't star in many films. He also turned down many roles that proved to be fortuitous for other actors. In the 2000s, he returned to prominence and won a Saturn Award for his performance in Sin City. Rourke has worked with well-known actors including Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken.
Rourke starred in theater films, direct-to-video films and television works. He also wrote some of his films under the name "Sir" Eddie Cook. He also made cameo appearances in some of his films like The Pledge or They Crawl.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | City in Fear | Tony Pate | Alan Smithee Jud Taylor | Television film |
| Act of Love | Joseph Cybulkowski | Jud Taylor | Television film | |
| Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case | John Rideout | Peter Levin | Television film | |
| 1981 | Hardcase | Perk Dawson | Lee H. Katzin | Television pilot |
| 1993 | The Last Outlaw | Graff | Geoff Murphy | Television film |
| 1998 | Thicker Than Blood | Father Frank Larkin | Richard Pearce | Television film |
| 2017 | Dice | Himself | Jay Karas | Episode: "Fingerless" |
| Year | Title | Role | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Exit in Red | Ed Altman | Yurek Bogayevicz |
| 1997 | Love in Paris: Another 9½ Weeks | John Gray | Anne Goursaud |
| 1998 | Point Blank | Rudy Ray | Matt Earl Beesley |
| 1999 | Out in Fifty | Jack Bracken | Scott Leet Christopher Bojesse |
| Shergar | Gavin O'Rourke | Denis C. Lewiston | |
| 2001 | They Crawl | Tiny Frakes | John Allardice |
| 2012 | The Courier | Maxwell | Hany Abu-Assad |
| 2013 | Dead in Tombstone | Satan | Roel Reiné |
| 2016 | WEAPONiZED | Professor Clarence Peterson | Timothy Woodward Jr. |
| Year | Title | Credit | Other work |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Homeboy | screenplay | |
| 1994 | F.T.W. | story | |
| 1996 | Bullet | screenplay | music supervisor |
Career awards
Critical acclaim
Rotten Tomatoes
You can find below only films of Mickey Rourke which ranked as "fresh" in the site Rotten Tomatoes.
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Metacritic
This list includes only "green" films of M. Rourke in Metacritic.
| Rank | Title | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diner | 86 |
| 2 | The Wrestler | 81 |
| 3 | Body Heat | 78 |
| 4 | Sin City | 74 |
| 5 | The Rainmaker | 72 |
| 6 | The Pledge | 71 |
| 7 | Buffalo '66 | 68 |
| 8 | The Animal Factory | 65 |
| 9 | Rumble Fish | 63 |
Previous collaborations
During his career, Rourke worked with several directors including Steven Spielberg, Lawrence Kasdan, Francis Ford Coppola, Barry Levinson, Stuart Rosenberg, Nicolas Roeg, Michael Cimino, Adrian Lyne, Alan Parker, Mike Hodges, Barbet Schroeder, Walter Hill, Tsui Hark, Terrence Malick, Jonas Åkerlund, Wong Kar-wai, Tony Scott, Robert Rodriguez and John Madden, as well as actors-turned-directors Sean Penn, Vincent Gallo and Steve Buscemi. Actors he worked with include Kim Basinger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Helena Bonham Carter, Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Tupac Shakur, Bruce Willis, Benicio del Toro, Alicia Silverstone, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, and Robert De Niro. Rourke has worked five times with fellow actor Christopher Walken. They starred together in Heaven's Gate, Homeboy, Man on Fire, Domino, and did voice acting together in the video game True Crime: New York City (2005).
In August 1992, Christopher Walken stated the following about to the film Homeboy:
| “ | Mickey Rourke and I were in Heaven's Gate together; he had this tiny part and I was playing whatsisname. We were sitting up there in the mountains talking about...dinosaurs. And I told him about this thing I had read in some science magazine, that there's a theory that dinosaurs really never disappeared at all. That in fact all they did was get smaller and smaller, their scales turned into feathers and they flew away-and that in fact dinosaurs are still with us, they're just birds. And Mickey said, ‘That's interesting,’ and he started telling me about this movie that he was going to do someday about a boxer and it was called Homeboy. You know, I remember also he told me at the time, ‘There's this guy, the fighters manager, and you're gonna play this part.’ I said, ‘Okay Mickey, lets go.’ So almost ten years went by and there we were making it. And I said to him, ‘Why don’t I tell that story about the birds and dinosaurs?’ He said. ‘Right.’ And there is that scene at the beach with all the seagulls, talking about dinosaurs. It's completely disconnected from anything going on in the movie, but I think it's one of the things in the movie...It's real. Here are these two guys who are really kind of victims, talking about the origin and destiny of dinosaurs.[1] | ” |
Other works
Mickey Rourke made his stage debut in a revival of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge". He provided the mid-song rap on the David Bowie song "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)" on Bowie's album Never Let Me Down (1987) and appeared as a gangster in the music video for "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias. He lent his voice to the video games Driv3r (2004) as Jericho and True Crime: New York City (2005) as Terrence "Terry" Higgins. He also appeared in a Japanese TV commercial for Suntory Reserve (early '90s), a commercial for Daihatsu and Lark cigarettes, and a commercial for DirecTV. More recently, in 2009, Rourke voiced the character of Dick Marcinko for the biographical video game Rogue Warrior, which was released on December 1, 2009.[2] Rourke's portrayal of Marcinko was a source of humorous praise from a few critics.
References
- General
- "Mickey Rourke > Filmography". Allrovi. Archived from the original on 2013-01-20. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- "Mickey Rourke Movie Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- "Mickey Rourke (Results Page)". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- "Mickey Rourke at Hollywood.com". Hollywood.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- "Rotten Tomatoes reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- Specific
- ↑ Walken, Christopher (August 1992). Film Comment (Interview). Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Crecente, Brian (April 27, 2009). "Rogue Warrior Carpet F-Bombs With Rourke". Kotaku. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
External links
| Awards | ||
|---|---|---|
| National Society of Film Critics | ||
| Preceded by Robert Preston for S.O.B. |
Best Supporting Actor 1982 for Diner |
Succeeded by Jack Nicholson for Terms of Endearment |
| Saturn Awards | ||
| Preceded by David Carradine for Kill Bill: Volume 2 |
Best Supporting Actor 2005 for Sin City |
Succeeded by Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland |
| Golden Globe Awards | ||
| Preceded by Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood |
Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama 2008 for The Wrestler |
Succeeded by Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart |