Michael Rooker, best known as Merle Dixon on ... and parlaying that typecasting into roles in movies like “Mississippi Burning,” “”Tombstone,” “Mallrats,” “Slither” and ...

Michael Rooker (born April 6 ... roles include Chick Gandil in Eight Men Out (1988), Frank Bailey in Mississippi Burning (1988), Terry Cruger in Sea of Love (1989), Rowdy Burns in Days of ...