| Location | Bangor, Maine, Usa |
| Age | 56 years |
| Cause of Death | Suicide |
| Date of Birth | 28/08/1949 |
| Date of Death | 07/10/2005 |
| Visitors | 2,332 since 08/01/2009 |
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Charles Rocket (August 24, 1949 – October 7, 2005) was an American film and television actor, notable for his tenure as a cast member on Saturday Night Live as well as for his appearances as the villain Nicholas Andre in the film Dumb and Dumber and Adam, the Angel of Death, in the series Touched by an Angel. He was found dead on October 7, 2005. His manner of death was ruled as suicide.
Charles Rocket is remembered for his brief stint on Saturday Night Live, from which he was fired for uttering an obscenity during a live broadcast. Rocket entered the Rhode Island School of Design in 1967, studied filmmaking, and later worked as a TV news reporter and anchorman for network affiliates in Colorado, Rhode Island and Tennessee. In 1980 he changed directions, joining the cast of Saturday Night Live, where he anchored the show's satirical "Weekend Update" news report. He was fired after blurting an expletive while ad-libbing near the end of a live broadcast on 21 February 1981. In the next two decades he made a steady living as a supporting actor on TV and in feature films, sometimes in films starring former sketch comedians like Jim Carrey (Dumb and Dumber, 1994) and Billy Crystal (Father's Day, 1997). In October of 2005 he was found in a field near his Connecticut home with his throat cut; police later announced that his death had been ruled a suicide.
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