Charles Rocket
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Charles Adams Claverie (August 28, 1949-19; October 7, 2005), better known by stage names like Charlie Hamburger, Charlie Kennedy, and, most notablely, Charles Rocket, an American actor, comedian, and television news reporter, was born in New York City.
He was best known for his role as the villain Nicholas Andre in the film Dumb and Dumber, as well as his appearance as Dave Dennison, Max and Dani Dennison's father in Disney's Hocus Pocus.
Early life
Rocket was born in Bangor, Maine, and the son of Mary Aurelia (née Fogler) and Sumner Abbott "Ham" Claverie. In the 1970s, he attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the late 1960s and was part of the Rhode Island underground culture scene, which also included Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and film director Gus Van Sant.
Personal life
On board the USS Massachusetts anchored in Fall River, Massachusetts, Rocket's college girlfriend, Beth Crellin, married the soldier on board. Zane's uncle, Zane, was born in 1976.
Career
Rocket made several short films and fronted his band, the Fabulous Motels, on SNL (which he used in a SNL sketch about a terrified criminal who uses an accordion to kill his dates and is killed by a bagpipe band). He was also a news anchor at WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, and under his own name at KOAA-TV in Pueblo, Colorado, as well as WTVF Nashville under the name Charles Kennedy. In 1980, Charles Rocket made his television debut on Saturday Night Live, utilizing the name Charles Rocket.
Rocket was cast in the 1980–81 season, which came after the departure of the show's original cast members and executive producer Lorne Michaels. Jean Doumanian, a new executive producer, was branded as a cross between Bill Murray and Chevy Chase, and was singled out by him. Rocket was hired to host Weekend Update, and he was featured in more sketches than any other male cast member of the season with the exception of Joe Piscopo.
Rocket portrayed recurring character Phil Lively, a game show host who took his larger-than-life persona home and lived as if it were a game show host. Ronald Reagan, David Rockefeller, Prince Charles, and Marlin Perkins were among his celebrity impersonations on SNL. He also hosted "The Rocket Report," a series of filmed segments in which he posed as a roaming reporter around New York, which critics later described as one of the few consistently good portions of Doumanian's programs.
A parody of the famed "Who Shot J.R.?" was included in the Saturday Night Live episode of February 21, 1981, hosted by Dallas artist Charlene Tilton. The popular nighttime soap has a story arc. Rocket and Tilton were chatting during the show, while other cast members expressed indignation, culminating in Rocket being shot in the chest by a sniper in the middle of a sketch. Tilton asked Rocket how he felt about being shot in the show's closing moments, as cast members gathered with the host to say good night. "It's the first time I've ever been fired in my life," Rocket replied in character. I'd like to know who did it" so far."
NBC replaced Doumanian with Dick Ebersol after one further episode, due in part to the breach of broadcast quality, negative coverage of the new cast, and lower ratings for both the series and general. Rocket, as well as many of the writers and fellow cast members Gilbert Gottfried and Ann Risley, were fired by Ebersol, who put the show on hold for a month to retool, before the next episode. The result of a writers' strike resulted in the cancellation of the remainder of the season, and Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy were the only cast members retained over from Doumanian's time. Rocket was particularly hostile toward Murphy and Piscopo, according to a Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, as Doumanian had selected him and Gail Matthius to be the show's biggest stars, only to have them receive mixed-to-negative feedback about their performances and to have Murphy and Piscopo upstaged them.
Rocket recovered from this early-career setback and spent time in film, including appearances in Hocus Pocus, It's Hillary, How I Got to College, Dances with Wolves, and Dumb and Dumber, all playing comedic foils.
Rocket played antagonist network president Ned Grossberg on the comedy-drama Moonlighting, Robert Addison, brother of Bruce Willis' David Addison) and Adam, an angel of death, on television. He appeared in the T.V. as a guest star. Is Wings a long-time friend of Brian Hackett, Danny's son. Grant, a physics professor, appeared in a season six episode of 3rd Rock From The Sun.
Rocket appeared on the David Byrne-produced B-52's album Mesopotamia on the track "Loveland" and Amarcord Nino Rota's "La Dolce Vita Suite," produced by Saturday Night Live music manager Hal Willner, in addition to his acting duties.
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