Perry King

Perry King

Birthday: 1948-04-30

Place of birth: Alliance, Ohio, USA

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0455133

Biography:

Perry King, born Perry Firestone King, made his film debut, aged around 23, in the 1972 film Slaughterhouse-Five. In 1975, he portrayed Hammond Maxwell in the exploitation film Mandingo. Since the 1970s, he has appeared in dozens of feature films, television series and television movies. He auditioned for the role of Han Solo in Star Wars, but the role ultimately went to Harrison Ford. However, he played the character in the radio adaptations of Star Wars and both its sequels. In 1984, King was nominated for a Golden Globe award for his role in the TV movie The Hasty Heart. That same year, he landed the role of Cody Allen on the series Riptide. In 1993, he starred in the television adaptation of Sidney Sheldon's novel A Stranger in the Mirror, which is a roman à clef on Groucho Marx. In 1995, he portrayed the role of Hayley Armstrong on Melrose Place. He also appeared as Richard Williams in the NBC TV series Titans with Yasmine Bleeth in 2000 and as the President of the United States in the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow. King has made guest appearances on TV shows including Spin City, Will & Grace, Eve, and Cold Case.

Played in movies:

The Cracker Factory

Score: 9.5

The Cowboy and the Movie Star

Score: 9.3

Night of 100 Stars II

Score: 8.0

Search and Destroy

Score: 6.8

Mandingo

Score: 6.6

The Day After Tomorrow

Score: 6.5

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

Score: 6.5

Slaughterhouse-Five

Score: 6.5

Class of 1984

Score: 6.4

Bad

Score: 6.3

Disaster at Silo 7

Score: 6.3

Face of Evil

Score: 6.2

Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood

Score: 6.1

The Divide

Score: 6.0

Stranded

Score: 6.0

Home for the Holidays

Score: 5.9

Switch

Score: 5.9

Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story

Score: 5.8

Hijacked: Flight 285

Score: 5.7

The Lords of Flatbush

Score: 5.7

The Deadly Visitor

Score: 5.7

The Possession of Joel Delaney

Score: 5.6

Samson and Delilah

Score: 5.5

The Choirboys

Score: 5.5

A Different Story

Score: 5.3

The Clairvoyant

Score: 5.3

The Perfect Neighbor

Score: 5.3

Lipstick

Score: 5.2

Eyewitness

Score: 5.1

City in Fear

Score: 5.1

Jericho Fever

Score: 5.0

Big Truck and Sister Clare

Score: 5.0

The Wild Party

Score: 4.9

Stranger at the Door

Score: 4.6

The Perfect Wife

Score: 4.4

Love's Savage Fury

Score: 4.3

Perfect People

Score: 4.2

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

Score: 4.0

She Led Two Lives

Score: 4.0

Kaleidoscope

Score: 4.0

A Cry in the Night

Score: 3.8

Another pretty face

Score: 3.5

Framed for Murder

Score: 3.4

Their Second Chance

Score: 3.0

A Stranger in the Mirror

Score: 3.0

Good King Wenceslas

Score: 3.0

Her Married Lover

Score: 2.8

The Knife and Gun Club

Score: 2.0

Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer

Score: 1.0

Only One Survived

Score: 0.0

The Hemingway Play

Score: 0.0

Foster & Laurie

Score: 0.0

Golden Gate

Score: 0.0

Inmates: A Love Story

Score: 0.0

Blood and Blackboards

Score: 0.0

My Saga

Score: 0.0

The Hasty Heart

Score: 0.0

Shakedown on the Sunset Strip

Score: 0.0

The Adventures of Ragtime

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Eve

Score: 9.1

The Mentalist

Score: 8.4

Captains and the Kings

Score: 8.3

Tales from the Crypt

Score: 8.0

The Torkelsons

Score: 7.8

Cold Case

Score: 7.8

Drop Dead Diva

Score: 7.8

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.7

Without a Trace

Score: 7.3

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

The Sentinel

Score: 7.1

Brothers and Sisters

Score: 7.1

Spin City

Score: 7.1

Big Love

Score: 7.0

Will & Grace

Score: 6.8

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Score: 6.8

Burke's Law

Score: 6.7

Riptide

Score: 6.7

Cannon

Score: 6.5

I'll Take Manhattan

Score: 6.4

The Hitchhiker

Score: 6.2

Medical Center

Score: 6.1

Aspen

Score: 6.0

The Trouble with Larry

Score: 6.0

Melrose Place

Score: 5.9

Titans

Score: 5.6

Almost Home

Score: 5.5

Happiness Isn't Everything

Score: 0.0

The Lives of Benjamin Franklin

Score: 0.0

The Last Convertible

Score: 0.0

The Quest

Score: 0.0