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Michael Rooker

Michael Rooker
Birthday
April 6th, 1955
From
Jasper, Alabama, USA
Actor

Michael Rooker Biography

Michael Rooker (born April 6, 1955) is an American actor who mainly plays roles of antagonists. He first rose to prominence for portraying the titular role in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) and is best known for starring as Merle Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), followed by its sequels Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). He is a recurring collaborator of Guardians of the Galaxy director and co-CEO of DC Studios, James Gunn, appearing in all of his films to date, including Slither (2006), Super (2010), and The Suicide Squad (2021). Rooker's other notable roles include Chick Gandil in Eight Men Out (1988), Frank Bailey in Mississippi Burning (1988), Terry Cruger in Sea of Love (1989), Rowdy Burns in Days of Thunder (1990), Bill Broussard in JFK (1991), Hal Tucker in Cliffhanger (1993), Sherman McMaster in Tombstone (1993), Jared Svenning in Mallrats (1995), Detective Edward Kennesaw in Deceiver (1997), Detective Howard Cheney in The Bone Collector (1999), Detective Jake Riley in Replicant (2001), and Buddy in F9 (2021).

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Discussion on Bootlegging in a Dry County

Anderson: Nice to be back in a dry county. When I was Sheriff, about half my take-home pay was from collectin taxes on illegal juice like this, probably works the same here. I think you'd haul in a tidy penny here, winkin at the bootleggers.
Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell: I don't know nothin bout that.
Anderson: [takes a drink; holds up the beer] Yeah. Tidy penny. You got anything stronger than this, Deputy?
Deputy Sheriff Pell: No. No, we ain't.
Anderson: No? You know in Thornton, Mississippi there's a joint-juice still in every yard. Well, all you need is some corn and sugar, and a pot to boil it in. I tried takin the prints on this old boy one time, and he'd had his hand in the mash barrel, all his life. Well, there's no skin at all on there, there's no prints.
Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell: We ain't too interested in your good ol Mississippi boy stories, Anderson; you ain't from here no more. Why'd you leave, anyway?
Anderson: Just wanted a change of scenery. The grits started leavin a bad taste in my mouth.
Frank Bailey: Well, if that's how you feel about it, Mr. FBI Man, why don't you drink up that beer and get the hell on outta here, get back to your nigger-commie-lovin bosses up North?
Anderson: You must not know my boss. Mr. Hoover? He's not too fond of commies. He'd be on your side there.
Frank Bailey: I don't give two shits whose side your Mr. Hoover's on, boy. All I know is we got 5,000 niggers in this county and we ain't registered a vote yet. So you can tell your stiff-suits up there in DC that they ain't gonna change us one bit. Less it's over my dead body. Or a lot of dead niggers.
Anderson: You'd kill, Frank? Is that what you're sayin'?
Frank Bailey: I wouldn't give it no more thought than wringin a cat's neck. And there ain't a court in Mississippi that'd convict me for it.
Anderson: How bout you, Deputy? How're you with wringin necks, huh?
Deputy Sheriff Pell: Just keep pushin me, Hoover boy.
Frank Bailey: Now you listen here, you cornholin fucker. You tell your queer-loving nigger bosses that they ain't never gonna find those civil rightsers! So you might as well pack up your bags and get your ass on back up North where you belong, boy-
Anderson: [while grabbing Bailey by the crotch; after opening his coat and exposing his gun he turns to Deputy Pell; Releases his grip on Bailey, who collapses to the floor, then takes a swig of beer] Now you listen here, shitkicker! Don't you go confusin me with some whole other body. You got your brains in your dick if you think we're just gonna fade away- we're gonna be here til this thing is finished. How bout you, Deputy? That gun of yours just for show, or do you get to shoot people once in a while? Thanks for the beer.

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