Rodney Eastman

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Rodney Eastman
Born (1967-07-20) July 20, 1967 (age 57)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationActor
Years active1986–present

Rodney Eastman (born July 20, 1967) is a Canadian actor best known for his role of Joey Crusel in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master . He is also a musician in a band named King Straggler with fellow actors John Hawkes and Brentley Gore. The band resides in Los Angeles, California.

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Life and career

Eastman was born in Montreal in 1967 and moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was five. Deciding while he was attending Schurr High School in Montebello, California that he wanted to be an actor, he studied drama and appeared in numerous high school productions. After graduating, he landed his first job as an extra in the television musical Have You Tried Talking to Patty? Eastman has starred in several films, and his best-known film role is in the 1987 hit horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Joey Crusel. [1] In 1988, he reprised his role in the sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master . His other films include Deadly Weapon, Mobsters , The Opposite of Sex and Knight to F4.

Eastman also made many guest appearances on television shows, including Highway to Heaven , Charles in Charge , Melrose Place , CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , Babylon 5 (as Kiron Maray in season one episode "The War Prayer", 1994), as Sammael in season one episode 18 of Chris Carter's Millennium , The Protector , Renegade , ER and Sliders . He also appeared as Lee Sekelling in The Mentalist .

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1986 Chopping Mall ShoplifterUncredited
1987 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Joey Crusel
1988Broken AngelBillyTV movie
1988 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master Joey Crusel
1989 Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers Freddy
1989 Deadly Weapon Zeke
1989 The Preppie Murder JerseyTV movie
1991 Flight of Black Angel Bobby GordonTV movie
1991 Mobsters Joey
1993 Hear No Evil Interviewed KidUncredited
1996 No One Would Tell Tony DinardoTV movie
1997Dead Men Can't DanceDavid Porter
1998 The Opposite of Sex Ty
1998Tourist TrapStorkTV movie
1999 Clubland Mondo
1999Random Acts of ViolenceDrug Dealer
1999Blue Ridge FallAaron Perkins
2000The DancerIsaac
2000 Sand Baker
2001 The Caveman's Valentine Matthew
2002 Con Express RickyVideo
2003 Freddy vs. Jason JoeyArchive footage, special thanks
2004SawtoothChristian
2008 Fix Crackhead
2008Rule of threeRuss
2009The Resurrection of Officer RollinsRalphShort
2010 Spork Spit
2010 I Spit on Your Grave Andy Chirensky
2010Sheeps and WolvesWolfShort
2010 Janie Jones Billy
2010The Black BelleRodney Eastman
2010 Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy HimselfDocumentary
2012 Extracted Eric
2013By the Time You Read ThisDriver
2014CamouflageGalvin
2016Foreign LandMr. James
2016HoaxThe ManShort
2017SableAndres
2019Getting the Kinks OutHarold
UnreleasedWilliam FrostePhillip Ciarelli

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1986 CBS Schoolbreak Special UncreditedEpisode: "Have You Tried Talking to Patty?" (3.02)
1987 Highway to Heaven KevinEpisode: "Parents' Day" (3.21)
1987 Starman Eric KendallEpisode: "Fathers and Sons" (1.19)
1988 Who's the Boss? Boy #1Episode: "Sam's Car" (5.01)
1989 TV 101 DerekEpisode: "Clicks" (1.09)
1989 CBS Summer Playhouse Steve CabellEpisode: "Curse of the Corn People" (3.07)
1989 Jake and the Fatman Eric McGinnEpisode: "Dancing in the Dark" (3.05)
1990 Baywatch TeenagerEpisode: "The Big Race" (1.19)
1990 Against the Law Richey LittlefieldEpisode: "Pilot" (1.01)
1989-

1990

Charles in Charge Bobby Nijinsji /

Danny Holland

2 episodes (4.25, 5.23)
1990 Hull High Richard Stoltz2 episodes (#1.1, #1.5)
1991 Parker Lewis Can't Lose Jimmy Joe TroutEpisode: "A Walk on the Dark Side" (2.02)
1993 FBI: The Untold Stories Episode: "The Miller Extortion" (2.11)
1993 Bodies of Evidence J.J.Episodes: "Endangered Species" (2.07)
1994 Babylon 5 Kiron MarayEpisode: "The War Prayer" (1.07)
1994 Touched by an Angel CraigEpisode: "Cassie's Choice" (1.05)
1994 Murder, She Wrote Jeff DelagreEpisode: "Fatal Paradise" (11.07)
1995 University Hospital Ryan HarrisonEpisodes: "'Til Death Do Us Part" (1.08)
1995 Cybill GregEpisode: "The Big Sleep Over" (1.12)
1993-1995 Diagnosis: Murder Jimmy Stevens / Ben2 episodes (1.05, 3.02)
1996 ER FreddEpisode: "The Match Game" (2.17)
1996 Sliders ByronEpisode: "The Dream Masters" (3.05)
1996 Renegade TrikeEpisode: "God's Mistake" (5.05)
1996 Dangerous Minds Mike JensenEpisode: "Bad Apple" (1.04)
1997 Millennium SammaelEpisode: "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" (1.19)
1997 Nash Bridges MilesEpisode: "Lost and Found" (3.01)
1998 Party of Five DaveEpisode: "Separation Anxiety" (5.02)
1999 Melrose Place Ricky G.4 episodes
2000 NYPD Blue TommyEpisode: "The Man with Two Right Shoes" (7.03)
2000 The Huntress Episode: "Surprise Party" (1.05)
2000 The X-Files Ronald PurnellEpisode: "Invocation" (8.05)
2001 The Beast Episode: "The Price" (1.01)
2001 Dead Last Jimmy SwainEpisode: "The Crawford Touch" (1.12)
2003 Threat Matrix Billy2 episodes (1.03, 1.04)
2004 Touching Evil JackEpisode: "K" (1.06)
2006 CSI: NY Clark KranenEpisode: "Super Men" (2.19)
2006 Cold Case Arthur Pool - 1945Episode: "The Hen House" (3.21)
2006 Shark Charlie DavisEpisode: "Déjà Vu All Over Again" (1.07)
2007 Crossing Jordan Homeless GuyEpisode: "In Sickness & in Health" (6.14)
2007 Saving Grace Carl SperryEpisode: "Keep Your Damn Wings Off My Nephew" (1.04)
2007 Cane Dan2 episodes (1.01, 1,08)
2007 Criminal Minds Stephen FoleyEpisode: "Birthright" (3.11)
2009 Without a Trace Grady McBrideEpisode: "Chameleon" (7.15)
2009 The Mentalist Lee SkellingEpisode: "Carnelian, Inc." (1.17)
2009 Monk Del JohnstonEpisode: "Mr. Monk Goes Camping" (8.12)
2010 Rizzoli & Isles Mo MoneeEpisode: "She Works Hard for the Money" (1.04)
2011 Breakout Kings Mars O'ConnellEpisode: "Fun with Chemistry" (1.07)
2011 The Protector Gale CarsonEpisode: "Revisions" (1.05)
2011 Bones Ricky DuvalEpisode: "The Memories in the Shallow Grave" (7.01)
2013 NCIS Wendell KraiserEpisode: "Alibi" (11.8)
2014 Longmire Creeley DornEpisode: "Wanted Man" (3.05)
2001,

2015

Investigation Jacob Warren /

Keith Driscoll

2 episodes (2.10, 15.14)
2015AmbientStriker
2015 NCIS: Los Angeles Jimmie Ray

Easton

Episode: "Rage" (6.20)

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