In 1981, Saturday Night Live was in its 6th season and things weren’t going so well. The Connecticut medical examiner says Rocket slit his throat. On this day, 41 years ago, Saturday Night Live was nearly canceled. Former Saturday Night Live comedian Charles Rocket has killed himself.
He appeared twice on Quantum Leap, first as "Scrooge" like real estate developer / business mogul Michael Blake, who plans to tear down a city mission building in the old Manhattan neighborhood which he grew up in, which Sam, as his valet, is dispatched to keep him from doing in the Season Three episode " A Little Miracle", then as CDR Dirk Riker, former commanding officer and nemesis of a young Al "Bingo" Calavicci, who accused him of raping and murdering his wife Marci in the Season 4 episode titled " A Leap For Lisa". Charles Rocket charles+rocket.jpg / While he had a steady stream of acting work after the abrupt end of his SNL career, Rocket was found in a field near his home with a slit throat in October of 2005. Moments in Television History 17: Charles Rocket Nearly Ends SNL. " A Little Miracle" in Season 3 and " A Leap For Lisa" in Season 4Ĭharles Adams Claverie (August 24, 1949 – October 7, 2005), known by such stage names as Charlie Hamburger, Charlie Kennedy, and, most famously, Charles Rocket, 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 as Dave Dennison, the father in Disney's Hocus Pocus. In a People magazine article about Charles Rocket’s rocky ride to notoriety, Michaels, the paterfamilias of the SNL universe, captures this desperate need when he saysof the ill-fated 1980-81.
Charles Rocket, shown here in 2005, appeared as CDR Dirk Riker in the episode "A Leap For Lisa" in Season 4 of "Quantum Leap".
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