1. Charles Adams Claverie, known by stage names Charlie Hamburger, Charlie Kennedy, and Charles Rocket, was an American actor.
12 Facts About Charles Rocket
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Charles Rocket was a cast member on Saturday Night Live, played the villain Nicholas Andre in the film Dumb and Dumber, and played Dave Dennison in Disney's Hocus Pocus.
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Charles Rocket's grandfather was Raymond H Fogler, who had served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
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Charles Rocket attended Winnacunnet High School and the Rhode Island School of Design in the late 1960s and was part of the Rhode Island underground culture scene in the 1970s that included Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and film director Gus Van Sant.
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Charles Rocket made several short films and fronted his band, the Fabulous Motels, on accordion.
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Charles Rocket was then a news anchor at WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, and KOAA-TV in Pueblo, Colorado, under his own name, and WTVF Nashville under the name Charles Kennedy.
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Charles Rocket was tapped to anchor Weekend Update, and was featured in more sketches than any other male cast member that season, with the exception of Joe Piscopo.
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Charles Rocket portrayed recurring character Phil Lively, a game show host who took his larger-than-life persona home and treated life as if it were a game show.
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Charles Rocket hosted "The Rocket Report", a series of filmed segments where he posed as a roving reporter around New York; in later years, reviewers considered them one of the few consistently strong parts of Doumanian's shows.
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Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live revealed that Charles Rocket was particularly hostile toward Murphy and Piscopo, as he believed the two isolated themselves from the rest of the cast.
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Charles Rocket married his college girlfriend, Beth Crellin, on board the battleship USS Massachusetts anchored in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1972.
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Charles Rocket was found dead in a field on his Connecticut property on October 7,2005, with his throat slit.