Outside of his music, his spoken word performances, authoring several books, and being a talking head in every rock documentary every recorded, Henry Rollins has amassed a hodgepodge acting career of bit parts in TV and film over the last 25 years, making him fairly recognizable to most of America as "that guy from that one thing." To the average viewer, he's that semi-familiar, salt-and-pepper tough guy, flexing his tattooed forearms in roles like Cop #2, Different Kind of Cop #2, or Security Guard Who Is Also a Retired Cop #2. But for fans of his work in Black Flag and Rollins Band, it's always a fun surprise to see Hank pop up in random movies in which he stands an extremely high chance of being torn to shreds by the film's end.

Rollins has no pretensions about his talents as an actor nor much discrimination about the roles he chooses to take on. "I'm not an actor," he once said of his career. "You'd think Hollywood would have figured that out." His refreshingly workmanlike approach has garnered him something of a Gen X cult following because, well, anything that occupies enough of his time that he doesn't start a third iteration of a reunited Black Flag is a welcome distraction.

We recently spent five perfectly good days watching nothing but the collected films of Mr. Henry Rollins so that you don't have to. Below is a list of Rollins' acting roles, ranked in order from worst to best.

Ground rules for rankings:

Movies only. No TV. (Sorry, Sons of Anarchy fans.)

No voice acting roles.

Nothing where he plays himself.

Rankings are determined by a number of factors: How much screen time Rollins gets, how well suited he is for the role, how good the movie is, how ripped his trap muscles look, etc.

Oh, and there will be spoilers.

Character: Guy who sits in a car

Scenes of the Crime is basically the movie Drive if it was produced by the studio that makes all those afternoon TNT Network movies and all the actors got their hair styled at Supercuts. Rollins gets just a split second of screen time in this movie and it's not entirely clear what his character's purpose is other than sitting in a car on a stakeout. A tremendous let-down, although to be honest, he could have played every single character in the whole movie and still not have saved this thing.

Character: Prison warden

Two years after DJ Qualls made a name for himself as the skinny college loser in Road Trip, he returned to play a skinny high school loser in The New Guy. Like most high school students, Qualls gets advice on how to be cool from a convict at the local penitentiary, where Rollins plays the warden. Several other musicians make half-assed cameos in this movie including Vanilla Ice, Gene Simmons, and Tommy Lee. They all amount to one big inside joke aimed at music geeks that lands like a fart at a funeral.

Character: Jackson

This is an indie film that Rollins and Lydia Lunch made in 1990. They do sex in it. You're welcome/sorry.

Character: Rockin' Roger, radio DJ

Simply put: Suck sucks. It's a movie about a struggling bar band becoming vampires in an effort to make it big. That might sound far fetched, but feasting upon human flesh honestly sounds like a more pleasurable promotional strategy than playing a showcase at SXSW. A slew of other music celebs somehow got roped into starring in this movie and, sadly, Rollins gets the smallest part out of all of them. Alice Cooper plays a creepy bar owner and gives his best (only?) performance since he taught Wayne and Garth the meaning of Milwaukee. Iggy Pop plays a producer who gets slashed in the throat. Hell, even Moby gets to poke fun at his staunch veganism by playing an aggro bro named Beef who fronts a meat-themed metal band. But poor Hank only gets a quick scene as a smartmouthed shock jock radio DJ. It was undoubtedly a cathartic role for Rollins, who could finally exact revenge for all of the awful drivetime interviews he's been subjected to over the years by hosts with names like Rude Dave in the Morning and Terry and the Toilet Boys. But hey, not all interviewers can be Nardwuar.

Character: Coach, motivational speaker

Rollins' character in Feast is described in the movie as "the poor man's Tony Robbins." He is one of a handful of people (including Judah Friedlander) defending a bar from a swarm of horny demons who fuck vigorously in order to spawn more demons. Rollins doesn't do much in this film aside from having his pants ripped off for some reason and getting crushed to death by the aforementioned fornicating demons. And aside from the hilarity of seeing two actors in ill-fitting demon suits giving it to each other from behind, this movie is not worth watching for the brief gag of seeing Rollins in a pair of pink sweatpants.

Character: Bartender

Some day, the Academy will get its head out of its ass and recognize the sleeveless arts. When they do, Rollins will be awarded all the Oscars for his performance as the sleeveless, potentially homicidal bartender in this campy buddy comedy about the shallowness of Los Angeles that plays like something between a second-rate Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion and a fourth-rate Clueless. Oh, and it also features Joey Lawrence.

Character: Putty, hired goon

What is it that's so wonderful about the sight of Henry Rollins in a short sleeved shirt and tie? He looks like a Dilbert who deadlifts. He plays a hired goon in this movie about a service that covers up for people's marital infidelities. His character's name is Putty and you've really got to wonder if it was intended for the guy from Seinfeld, which, come to think of it… have those two ever been seen together?

Character: Hugh Benny, muscle

When discussing the biggest names in Hollywood in the 90s, it's impossible to escape the big three: Pacino. DeNiro. Rollins. All three titans of cinema appear in this crime thriller about angry men who have professional dick swinging contests and hang up phones super aggressively. Rollins must've had other obligations to film a Scorsese movie or something, though, because he only gets a few seconds of screen time in Heat, during which Al Pacino grabs him by the face and throws him through a window.

Character: TNT Leader, Miami PD

Bad Boys II pulls a fast one on the Rollins faithful, featuring him heavily in the opening scene as the leader of a special-ops unit for the Miami PD. All signs point to this being a typical Rollins role where he furrows his brow and looks cool in combat boots in the background, occasionally popping off a line of dialogue until inevitably being gruesomely offed in the third act. But no. Rollins inexplicably disappears after the first five minutes and IS NEVER SEEN AGAIN FOR THE ENTIRE TWO AND A HALF HOURS OF THIS MOVIE! He doesn't even get the dignity of being blown away while covering for Will Smith as he shoots a gun out of his Porsche while it does a 360 flip over a drug dealer's car and says, "Now THAT's how it's done by the Bad Boys... 2." Fuck you, Michael Bay! (Cool explosions, though.)

Character: Fulton, priest

The Devil's Tomb is a movie wherein Cuba Gooding Jr. leads a team of soldiers which includes the yellow-eyed bully from A Christmas Story, the white trash inmate who gets her head bashed in on Orange Is the New Black, and a few other less prestigiously decorated actors. While a group of semi-recognizable military types might seem like a natural fit for someone of Rollins' talents, he was surprisingly cast here as a priest. Rollins' character has coveted knowledge about a fallen angel terrorizing the area and is visibly shaken and terrified throughout the movie. Unfortunately, years of playing hard-headed tough guy characters did not adequately prepare Rollins for exhibiting "emotions" and his attempt at displaying fear just comes off as him having to pee really badly. Occasionally Cuba presses Rollins for information and he rattles off a bunch of apocalyptic Bible jargon like a kid who rushed into his parents' bedroom to tattle on his brother. But major points for venturing out of his comfort zone.

Character: Sid Gronic, peewee hockey coach

Jack Frost is a movie about a dad (played by Michael Keaton) who dies in a horrific car accident (This is a family comedy, by the way) and comes back to life as an anthropomorphic snowman because of a magic harmonica. Henry Rollins plays the high-strung coach of a youth hockey team. The soundtrack features Hanson covering "Merry Christmas, Baby." 1998 was a weird time, man.

Character: Dale Murphy, USMC tough guy/TV show host