Perry King
Acting
Born 1948-04-30
Alliance, Ohio, USA
93 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
55 credits
The Mentalist
Melrose Place
Without a Trace
Cold Case
Hawaii Five-O
Will & Grace
Spin City
Brothers and Sisters
Tales from the Crypt
Big Love
The Outer Limits
Drop Dead Diva
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
The Sentinel
The Hitchhiker
The Day After Tomorrow
Eve
Burke's Law
Riptide
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
The Torkelsons
Mandingo
Titans
Captains and the Kings
Switch
Class of 1984
Bad
Almost Home
Aspen
Slaughterhouse-Five
Stranded
The Trouble with Larry
The Lords of Flatbush
The Last Convertible
Lipstick
Night of 100 Stars II
Kaleidoscope
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Short Cut to Haifa
Happiness Isn't Everything
The Perfect Wife
The Choirboys
The Possession of Joel Delaney
I'll Take Manhattan
Hijacked: Flight 285
The Clairvoyant
Her Married Lover
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Foster & Laurie
Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood
The Wild Party
Love's Savage Fury
A Stranger in the Mirror
A Different Story
Other credits
5 credits
Cannon
Medical Center
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
The Quest
Producing
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