Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
4/30/1948
Place of Birth
Alliance, Ohio, USA
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...
Known For
Slaughterhouse-Five
as Robert
The Day After Tomorrow
as President Blake
The Choirboys
as Baxter Slate
Switch
as Steve Brooks
Jericho Fever
as Michael Whitney
Bad
as L.T.
Perfect People
as Ken Laxton
Foster & Laurie
as Rocco Laurie
Class of 1984
as Andrew Norris
Mandingo
as Hammond Maxwell
Hijacked: Flight 285
as Frank Leyton
Disaster at Silo 7
as Maj. Hicks
Home for the Holidays
as Cooper
Good King Wenceslas
as Tunna
Face of Evil
as Russell Polk
The Lords of Flatbush
as Chico Tyrell
The Wild Party
as Dale Sword
Kaleidoscope
as John Chapman
A Different Story
as Albert Walreavens
She Led Two Lives
as Jeffrey Madison