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Charles Rocket

Charles Adams Claverie (August 28, 1949 – October 7, 2005), known by stage names Charlie Hamburger, Charlie Kennedy and Charles Rocket, was an American actor, comedian, musician, and television news reporter. He 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.

Charles Rocket

Charles Adams Claverie

(1949-08-28)August 28, 1949
Bangor, Maine, U.S.

October 7, 2005(2005-10-07) (aged 56)

Canterbury, Connecticut, U.S.

Charlie Hamburger
Charlie Kennedy

Rhode Island School of Design

  • Actor
  • comedian
  • musician
  • reporter

1980–2005

Beth Crellin
​
(m. 1972)​

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Early life[edit]

Rocket was born in Bangor, Maine, the son of Mary Aurelia (née Fogler) and Sumner Abbott "Ham" Claverie.[1][2] He attended Winnacunnet High School[3] and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the late 1960s and was part of the Rhode Island underground culture scene in the 1970s that also included Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and film director Gus Van Sant.[4]

1989 "" by Tom Petty

Yer So Bad

1991 "King of the Hill" by with Tom Petty

Roger McGuinn

1997 "Good Year" by

The Refreshments

Hill, Doug and Weingrad, Jeff (1986). Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. New York, Beech Tree Books/William Morrow.  0-688-05099-9.

ISBN

at IMDb 

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at Memory Alpha

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in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Variety. October 10, 2005.

Obituary for Charles Rocket

at the Wayback Machine (archived October 25, 2005) Phillipe and Jorge, Providence Phoenix. October 14, 2005.

"Remembering a giant of the Providence underground."

at the Wayback Machine (archived October 9, 2012) Jim Emerson, RogerEbert.com. October 17, 2005.

"Charles Rocket, R.I.P."