Henry Rollins
Acting • Born 1961-02-13
Biography
Henry Rollins (born Henry Lawrence Garfield; February 13, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, actor, radio DJ, and activist. After performing for the short-lived Washington D.C.-based band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until early 1986. Following the band's breakup, Rollins soon established the record label and publishing company 2.13.61 to release his spoken word albums, as well as forming the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups until 2003 and during 2006. Since Black Flag, Rollins has embarked on projects covering a variety of media. He has hosted numerous radio shows, such as Harmony in My Head on Indie 103, and television shows such as The Henry Rollins Show, MTV's 120 Minutes, and Jackass. He had a recurring dramatic role as a white supremacist in the second season of Sons of Anarchy and has also had roles in several films. Rollins has also campaigned for various political causes in the United States, including promoting marriage equality for LGBT couples, World Hunger Relief, and an end to war in particular, and tours overseas with the United Service Organizations to entertain American troops.
Filmography
177 credits
Heat
Movie • 1995
Hugh Benny
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Movie • 2002
Self
Lost Highway
Movie • 1997
Guard Henry
The Legend of Cool Disco Dan
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Feast
Movie • 2005
Coach
The Chase
Movie • 1994
Officer Dobbs (lead chase car driver)
The New Guy
Movie • 2002
Warden
Scenes of the Crime
Movie • 2002
Greg
Henry Rollins: Henry Rollins Goes To London
Movie • 1995
Himself
Henry Rollins: Talking From The Box
Movie • 1992
Himself
Punk: Attitude
Movie • 2005
Himself
Henry Rollins: Live at Luna Park
Movie • 2004
Himself
Jack Frost
Movie • 1998
Sid Gronic
Henry Rollins: Shock and Awe
Movie • 2005
Himself
Johnny Mnemonic
Movie • 1995
Spider
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
Movie • 2007
Dale Murphy
Henry Rollins: Up for It
Movie • 2001
Himself
Brainwave
Movie • 2011
Self
The Alibi
Movie • 2006
Putty
American Hardcore
Movie • 2006
Self
Henry Rollins Provoked: Live From Melbourne
Movie • 2008
Henry Rollins
Suck
Movie • 2009
Rockin' Roger
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
Movie • 2000
Bonk (voice)
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
Movie • 2011
Kilowog (voice)
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Henry Rollins: Live in the Conversation Pit
Movie • 2008
Himself
Henry Rollins: Uncut from NYC
Movie • 2006
Himself
Henry Rollins: Uncut From Israel
Movie • 2007
Himself
Deathdealer: A Documentary
Movie • 2003
Vincent
Morgan's Ferry
Movie • 2001
Monroe
Bad Brains: A Band in DC
Movie • 2012
Self
Henry Rollins: You Saw Me Up There
Movie • 1998
Himself
Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
Movie • 2012
Self
Babylon's Burning
Movie • 2007
Himself
Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome
Movie • 2007
Self
The Right Side of My Brain
Movie • 1984
The Obsessed: The Documentary
Movie • 1994
William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet
Movie • 2009
Himself
In The House of Flies
Movie • 2014
The Voice
Reality 86'd
Movie • 1991
Self
Henry Rollins 50
Movie • 2011
Downloaded
Movie • 2013
Self
Kiss Napoleon Goodbye
Movie • 1990
Jackson
We Lost Our Human
Movie • 2023
Bacon Witch / Bumblebee Dad (voice)
Jobriath A.D.
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Born to Rage?
Movie • 2010
Self
Ghost on the Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club
Movie • 2006
Gun Club Producer
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Movie • 2025
Self
Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film
Movie • 2013
Self
Music
Movie • 2021
Ebo's Neighbor
Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
The Devil's Tomb
Movie • 2009
Fulton
Time Lapse
Movie • 2001
Gaines
Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line
Movie • 2006
Self
He Never Died
Movie • 2015
Jack
Punk's Not Dead
Movie • 2007
Self
Desperate But Not Serious
Movie • 2000
Bartender
IDn4
Movie • 1991
Self
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
Movie • 2015
Self
Louder Than Hell: Wacken The Movie
Movie • 2014
Self
Henry Rollins, Easter Sunday
Movie • 1997
Henry Rollins
Hendrie
Movie • 2024
Self
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Movie • 2016
Himself
The Last Heist
Movie • 2016
Bernard
No Age New York
Movie • 1993
Himself
Gutterdämmerung
Movie • 2016
Priest Svengali
Morphine: Journey of Dreams
Movie • 2014
Himself
Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story
Movie • 2012
Self
West of Memphis
Movie • 2012
Self – WM3 Supporter
H for Hunger
Movie • 2009
Narrator
Under the Radar: Burma
Movie • 2010
Himself
Bad Boys II
Movie • 2003
TNT Leader
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Movie • 2011
Self
Henry Rollins: San Francisco 1990
Movie • 2007
Henry Rollins: Live and Ripped in London
Movie • 1999
Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind
Movie • 2011
Self
The Hardcore Collection
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith
Movie • 2012
Himself
Flipside Video Fanzine Number Two
Movie • 1983
Flipside Video Fanzine Number 1
Movie
A House on a Hill
Movie • 2003
Arthur
The Slog Movie
Movie • 1982
Self
Riot on the Dance Floor
Movie • 2014
Self
Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey
Movie • 1994
Himself
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Movie • 1994
Self
Clockwork Orange County
Movie • 2012
Self - Black Flag
Jackass: The Movie
Movie • 2002
Self
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Movie • 2005
Self
Black Flag: TV Party Target Video
Movie • 1983
Self
The Outhouse: The Film 1985-1997
Movie • 2017
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
Movie • 2014
Himself
The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
Movie • 2005
Self (segment "Liar")
The Legend of 420
Movie • 2017
Himself
A History of Radness
Movie • 2015
Coach Carlucci
The Dicks from Texas
Movie • 2014
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
Movie • 1994
Self
Students of 'The Graduate'
Movie • 2007
Self
Dreamland
Movie • 2019
Hercules
Circle Jerks: My Career as a Jerk
Movie • 2012
God Bless Ozzy Osbourne
Movie • 2011
Self
Paradise Lost?
Movie • 2015
God (voice)
Henry Rollins: Keep Talking, Pal.
Movie • 2018
Himself
25 Years of Punk
Movie • 2001
Self
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Movie • 2006
Self
Lemmy
Movie • 2010
Self
A Tribute To Ron Asheton
Movie • 2013
Self
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Movie • 2006
Self
Snake Underworld with Henry Rollins
Movie • 2011
Himself
Urban Struggle: The Battle of the Cuckoo's Nest
Movie • 1981
Himself
We Were Feared
Movie • 2010
Self
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Movie • 1989
Self
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Movie • 2009
Self
In Your Face: The Neil Zlozower Story
Movie • 2018
Himself
Classic Albums: The Doors
Movie • 2008
Self
Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Movie • 2010
Self
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
Movie • 2019
Self
The Making of 'Jackass: The Movie'
Movie • 2002
Self
BLACK FLAG Live in Berlin
Movie • 1983
Analog Love
Movie • 2021
Himself
FeeLee. History of a Single Label
Movie • 2020
Self
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Movie • 2021
himself
Mr. Bungle: The Night They Came Home
Movie • 2020
Audience
The Wesley Willis Experience
Movie • 2001
Self
Pump With A Chump
Movie • 1998
Self
Moneybag Head
Movie • 2020
Homeless Man
The Tony Alva Story
Movie • 2019
Self
A Band Called Death
Movie • 2013
Self
WINO: The Documentary
Movie • 2023
Uma Retrospectiva Definitiva de Ween
Movie • 2025
Self
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
Movie • 1994
Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos
Movie • 2025
Self
Black Flag: Live
Movie • 1984
Search and Destroy: Iggy & The Stooges' Raw Power
Movie • 2010
Self
Batman Beyond
TV • 1999
Mad Stan (voice)
Sons of Anarchy
TV • 2008
AJ Weston
Teen Titans
TV • 2003
Johnny Rancid (voice)
Californication
TV • 2007
Radio Show Host
Icons
TV • 2002
Full Metal Challenge
TV • 2003
The Henry Rollins Show
TV • 2006
Host
Henry Rollins: Uncut
TV • 2008
Adventure Time
TV • 2010
Bob Rainicorn (voice)
Animal Underworld
TV • 2012
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Trucker (voice)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Musical Guest
10 Things You Don't Know About
TV • 2012
Self - Host
Henry's Film Corner
TV • 2004
Host
Stitchers
TV • 2015
Robert Barbiero
The Boulet Brothers' Dragula
TV • 2016
Self - Guest Judge
RuPaul Drives...
TV • 2013
Self - Guest
Classic Albums
TV • 1997
Self - Musician, Author
Masters of the Universe: Revelation
TV • 2021
Tri-Klops (voice)
Adventure Time
TV • 2010
Cookie (voice)
The Eric Andre Show
TV • 2012
Self
Hot Ones
TV • 2015
Self
Deadly Class
TV • 2019
Jürgen Denke
Punk
TV • 2019
Self
Royal Crackers
TV • 2023
President (voice)
Night Visions
TV • 2001
Host
Classic Albums
TV • 1997
Self - Musician / Author
Uncle Grandpa
TV • 2013
Skeletony (voice)
The Drew Carey Show
TV • 1995
Mr. Jericho, Ass Kicker
RuPaul's Drag Race
TV • 2009
Self - Guest Judge
Z Nation
TV • 2014
Lt. Mueller
Con Man
TV • 2015
Stutter Dawes (uncredited)
Con Man
TV • 2015
Stutter Dawes
Seven Ages of Rock
TV • 2007
Self
The Paul Reiser Show
TV • 2011
Henry
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
TV • 2008
Robotman (voice)
The Art of Punk
TV • 2013
Self
Hawaii Five-0
TV • 2010
Ray Beckett
Now Apocalypse
TV • 2019
Mitchell Kent
Alive from Off Center
TV • 1985
self
The Legend of Korra
TV • 2012
Zaheer (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Free Radio
TV • 2008
Self
New-Gen
TV
Deadalus (voice)