They Live: The Story Behind How Roddy Piper Came Up with the Movie’s Most Famous Line. Benjamin Bullard. Fri, September 22, 2023 at 6:40 PM UTC. 4 min read.

Hollywood noticed Roddy Piper. Body Slam , 1987: A fish-out-of-water comedy about a music promoter in the world of wrestling, with “Rowdy” Roddy Piper as “Quick” Rick Roberts.

Nearly an hour into John Carpenter’s They Live (1988), the gum-chewing, ass-kicking Roddy Piper engages Keith David in one of the most ridiculous bouts of fisticuffs in movie history.The fight ...

Piper's most acclaimed performance is without a doubt his turn as a nameless drifter in John Carpenter's 1988 sci-fi classic "They Live." Though Piper is credited in the movie as Nada, his ...

A few years after "They Live," Roddy Piper led another film called "Immortal Combat," in which a young Chris Jericho had a brief cameo. As such, the AEW star got to witness the wrestler-turned ...

'Rowdy' Roddy Piper was a WWE Hall of Famer, ... He was in the main event of the very first WrestleMania, took the lead role in John Carpenter's sci-fi classic They Live, ...