Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 30, 1948
Place of Birth
Alliance, Ohio, USA
Credits
93 titles
Perry King
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Divide
Sam Kincaid
My Saga
Self
Eyewitness
Sheriff Lee Decker
Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood
Ran'l McCoy
Drop Dead Diva
Warren Persky
The Mentalist
Greg Bauer
Framed for Murder
Jason
Brothers and Sisters
Curtis Jones
Big Love
Congressman Clark Paley
Blood and Blackboards
Home for the Holidays
Cooper
The Perfect Neighbor
William Costigan
Stranger at the Door
Greg Norris
The Day After Tomorrow
President Blake
Cold Case
Stan Williams
Eve
Jackson
Without a Trace
Walter Mulligan
Another pretty face
The Perfect Wife
Dr. Robert Steward
Titans
Richard Williams
Her Married Lover
Richard Mannhart
Will & Grace
John Marshall
The Cowboy and the Movie Star
Clint Barran
The Adventures of Ragtime
Jerry Blue
Their Second Chance
Spin City
Tom Crandall
Face of Evil
Russell Polk
The Sentinel
William Ellison
Hijacked: Flight 285
Frank Leyton
The Outer Limits
Senator Richard Adams
Good King Wenceslas
Tunna
She Led Two Lives
Jeffrey Madison
Burke's Law
Richard Moss
Jericho Fever
Michael Whitney
A Stranger in the Mirror
Toby Temple
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
Randall (voice)
The Trouble with Larry
Boyd Flatt
Almost Home
Brian Morgan
A Cry in the Night
Erich
Melrose Place
Hayley Armstrong
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
Mark
The Torkelsons
Brian Morgan
Switch
Steve Brooks
Only One Survived
Philip Asherton
Kaleidoscope
John Chapman
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Jake (voice)
The Knife and Gun Club
Dr. Matt Haley
Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer
Herbert 'Peter' Pulitzer
Tales from the Crypt
Roger
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Philip Weber