Eddie Rouse

He was filming the HBO television series Westworld at the time of his death in 2014. Rouse attended Olney High School in the Olney section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began his career in acting at the Bushfire Theatre of the Performing Arts, also located in Philadelphia. Rouse then studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he first met fellow students, Danny McBride and filmmaker David Gordon Green, whom he would work with later in his career. Rouse made his feature film debut in David Gordon Green's George Washington, released in 2000, as a character's "cranky uncle." (George Washington was also Green's debut as a film producer, film director and screenwriter). Rouse was then cast in several more of David Gordon Green's films, including All the Real Girls in 2003, Pineapple Express in 2008, and The Sitter, opposite Jonah Hill, in 2011. Rouse also appeared in the 2002 basketball-themed romantic comedy Juwanna Mann; Ridley Scott's American Gangster and Joel Schumacher's The Number 23, both released in 2007; Pandorum as a chef who has gone crazy in 2009; and the 2010 Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary I'm Still Here directed by Casey Affleck.