# Rodney Eastman

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.

## 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. 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

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1986 | Chopping Mall | Shoplifter | Uncredited |
| 1987 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Joey Crusel | |
| 1988 | Broken Angel | Billy | TV 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 | Jersey | TV movie |
| 1991 | Flight of Black Angel | Bobby Gordon | TV movie |
| 1991 | Mobsters | Joey | |
| 1993 | Hear No Evil | Interviewed Kid | Uncredited |
| 1996 | No One Would Tell | Tony Dinardo | TV movie |
| 1997 | Dead Men Can't Dance | David Porter | |
| 1998 | The Opposite of Sex | Ty | |
| 1998 | Tourist Trap | Stork | TV movie |
| 1999 | Clubland | Mondo | |
| 1999 | Random Acts of Violence | Drug Dealer | |
| 1999 | Blue Ridge Fall | Aaron Perkins | |
| 2000 | The Dancer | Isaac | |
| 2000 | Sand | Baker | |
| 2001 | The Caveman's Valentine | Matthew | |
| 2002 | Con Express | Ricky | Video |
| 2003 | Freddy vs. Jason | Joey | Archive footage, special thanks |
| 2004 | Sawtooth | Christian | |
| 2008 | Fix | Crackhead | |
| 2008 | Rule of three | Russ | |
| 2009 | The Resurrection of Officer Rollins | Ralph | Short |
| 2010 | Spork | Spit | |
| 2010 | I Spit on Your Grave | Andy Chirensky | |
| 2010 | Sheeps and Wolves | Wolf | Short |
| 2010 | Janie Jones | Billy | |
| 2010 | The Black Belle | Rodney Eastman | |
| 2010 | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Himself | Documentary |
| 2012 | Extracted | Eric | |
| 2013 | By the Time You Read This | Driver | |
| 2014 | Camouflage | Galvin | |
| 2016 | Foreign Land | Mr. James | |
| 2016 | Hoax | The Man | Short |
| 2017 | Sable | Andres | |
| 2019 | Getting the Kinks Out | Harold | |
| Unreleased | William Froste | Phillip Ciarelli | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1986 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Uncredited | Episode: "Have You Tried Talking to Patty?" (3.02) |
| 1987 | Highway to Heaven | Kevin | Episode: "Parents' Day" (3.21) |
| 1987 | Starman | Eric Kendall | Episode: "Fathers and Sons" (1.19) |
| 1988 | Who's the Boss? | Boy #1 | Episode: "Sam's Car" (5.01) |
| 1989 | TV 101 | Derek | Episode: "Clicks" (1.09) |
| 1989 | CBS Summer Playhouse | Steve Cabell | Episode: "Curse of the Corn People" (3.07) |
| 1989 | Jake and the Fatman | Eric McGinn | Episode: "Dancing in the Dark" (3.05) |
| 1990 | Baywatch | Teenager | Episode: "The Big Race" (1.19) |
| 1990 | Against the Law | Richey Littlefield | Episode: "Pilot" (1.01) |
| 1989- 1990 | Charles in Charge | Bobby Nijinsji / Danny Holland | 2 episodes (4.25, 5.23) |
| 1990 | Hull High | Richard Stoltz | 2 episodes (#1.1, #1.5) |
| 1991 | Parker Lewis Can't Lose | Jimmy Joe Trout | Episode: "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 Maray | Episode: "The War Prayer" (1.07) |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Craig | Episode: "Cassie's Choice" (1.05) |
| 1994 | Murder, She Wrote | Jeff Delagre | Episode: "Fatal Paradise" (11.07) |
| 1995 | University Hospital | Ryan Harrison | Episodes: "'Til Death Do Us Part" (1.08) |
| 1995 | Cybill | Greg | Episode: "The Big Sleep Over" (1.12) |
| 1993-1995 | Diagnosis: Murder | Jimmy Stevens / Ben | 2 episodes (1.05, 3.02) |
| 1996 | ER | Fredd | Episode: "The Match Game" (2.17) |
| 1996 | Sliders | Byron | Episode: "The Dream Masters" (3.05) |
| 1996 | Renegade | Trike | Episode: "God's Mistake" (5.05) |
| 1996 | Dangerous Minds | Mike Jensen | Episode: "Bad Apple" (1.04) |
| 1997 | Millennium | Sammael | Episode: "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" (1.19) |
| 1997 | Nash Bridges | Miles | Episode: "Lost and Found" (3.01) |
| 1998 | Party of Five | Dave | Episode: "Separation Anxiety" (5.02) |
| 1999 | Melrose Place | Ricky G. | 4 episodes |
| 2000 | NYPD Blue | Tommy | Episode: "The Man with Two Right Shoes" (7.03) |
| 2000 | The Huntress | | Episode: "Surprise Party" (1.05) |
| 2000 | The X-Files | Ronald Purnell | Episode: "Invocation" (8.05) |
| 2001 | The Beast | | Episode: "The Price" (1.01) |
| 2001 | Dead Last | Jimmy Swain | Episode: "The Crawford Touch" (1.12) |
| 2003 | Threat Matrix | Billy | 2 episodes (1.03, 1.04) |
| 2004 | Touching Evil | Jack | Episode: "K" (1.06) |
| 2006 | CSI: NY | Clark Kranen | Episode: "Super Men" (2.19) |
| 2006 | Cold Case | Arthur Pool - 1945 | Episode: "The Hen House" (3.21) |
| 2006 | Shark | Charlie Davis | Episode: "Déjà Vu All Over Again" (1.07) |
| 2007 | Crossing Jordan | Homeless Guy | Episode: "In Sickness & in Health" (6.14) |
| 2007 | Saving Grace | Carl Sperry | Episode: "Keep Your Damn Wings Off My Nephew" (1.04) |
| 2007 | Cane | Dan | 2 episodes (1.01, 1,08) |
| 2007 | Criminal Minds | Stephen Foley | Episode: "Birthright" (3.11) |
| 2009 | Without a Trace | Grady McBride | Episode: "Chameleon" (7.15) |
| 2009 | The Mentalist | Lee Skelling | Episode: "Carnelian, Inc." (1.17) |
| 2009 | Monk | Del Johnston | Episode: "Mr. Monk Goes Camping" (8.12) |
| 2010 | Rizzoli & Isles | Mo Monee | Episode: "She Works Hard for the Money" (1.04) |
| 2011 | Breakout Kings | Mars O'Connell | Episode: "Fun with Chemistry" (1.07) |
| 2011 | The Protector | Gale Carson | Episode: "Revisions" (1.05) |
| 2011 | Bones | Ricky Duval | Episode: "The Memories in the Shallow Grave" (7.01) |
| 2013 | NCIS | Wendell Kraiser | Episode: "Alibi" (11.8) |
| 2014 | Longmire | Creeley Dorn | Episode: "Wanted Man" (3.05) |
| 2001, 2015 | Investigation | Jacob Warren / Keith Driscoll | 2 episodes (2.10, 15.14) |
| 2015 | Ambient | Striker | |
| 2015 | NCIS: Los Angeles | Jimmie Ray Easton | Episode: "Rage" (6.20) |