Perry King
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.0629 |
| Birthday | 1948-04-30 |
| Place of Birth | Alliance, Ohio, USA |
| Also Known As |
1991
Switch
5.876/262
Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to...
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Switch
1982
Class of 1984
6.393/416
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is...
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Class of 1984
1972
Slaughterhouse-Five
6.515/260
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to h...
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Slaughterhouse-Five
1972
The Possession of Joel Delaney
5.618/38
An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish...
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The Possession of Joel Delaney
2007
Framed for Murder
3.833/9
When a woman falsely accused of murdering her husband is released from prison after 8 years, she hires a private investigator, determined to find out...
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Framed for Murder
1975
Mandingo
6.626/163
Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settle...
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Mandingo
2005
The Perfect Neighbor
5.6/9
A disturbed new neighbor fixates on another woman's husband.
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The Perfect Neighbor
1974
The Lords of Flatbush
5.786/98
Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four lower middle-class Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. The Lords chase girls, steal c...
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The Lords of Flatbush
1977
Bad
6.5/53
Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite,...
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Bad
1977
The Choirboys
5.443/35
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
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The Choirboys
2005
Home for the Holidays
6.111/9
After their parents are killed in a terrible accident, the four McMurrin children live with their loving Aunt Martha. Martha wants to adopt the childr...
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Home for the Holidays
1980
City in Fear
5.667/9
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page On...
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City in Fear
1979
Search and Destroy
7.143/7
The hunter becomes the prey as a Vietnam veteran (Perry King) tries to ferret out the real culprit after being tagged as the prime suspect in the murd...
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Search and Destroy
1976
Lipstick
5.369/61
An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But j...
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Lipstick
1999
Her Married Lover
3.125/8
Film editor Katie and suspense novelist Richard share an erotically charged moment during a hostage crisis, before embarking on a rapturous affair. Wh...
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Her Married Lover
1984
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
7/3
Deafblind Helen Keller learned to communicate with the world through her teacher Annie Sullivan. The Miracle Continues follows Helen through her youth...
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Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1986
Samson and Delilah
5.5/4
From Hanna-Barbera's animated series depicting the tales of the bible, "Samson and Delilah" tells the story of the warrior Samson and the deception of...
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Samson and Delilah
2012
Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood
6.1/39
In this bloody long-standing feud, two families seek vengeance against each other as they unmercifully attempt to destroy each other's loved ones.
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Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood
1975
The Wild Party
4.9/22
An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.
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The Wild Party
1988
Disaster at Silo 7
7.25/4
During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel tank is penetrated by a falling spanner. The film traces the efforts of the maintenance...
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Disaster at Silo 7
1992
A Cry in the Night
4.4/7
A divorced mother suspects that she and her two children may be in danger because of her insanely jealous new husband
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A Cry in the Night
1990
Kaleidoscope
4.556/9
A family friend hires gumshoe John Chapman to find and reunite three sisters estranged by fate for 30 years. The circuitous trail leads Chapman from t...
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Kaleidoscope
1978
A Different Story
5.538/13
A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience in order to prevent his deportation, and then gradually fall in love with one another.
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A Different Story
2001
The Perfect Wife
4.833/15
When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him.
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The Perfect Wife
2004
Stranger at the Door
5.2/6
Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenl...
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Stranger at the Door
1996
Face of Evil
6.333/15
Using her girl-next-door looks to her advantage, Darcy Palmer is a calculating thief and murderer. After killing a young college student and taking he...
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Face of Evil
1996
Hijacked: Flight 285
5.625/16
A convicted murderer is escorted by marshals on a regular flight from Phoenix to Dallas. Shortly after takeoff, two of his aides, traveling as ordinar...
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Hijacked: Flight 285
1994
She Led Two Lives
4.8/5
A married woman is reunited with her childhood sweetheart, and marries him too, forcing her to live two lives at once.
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She Led Two Lives
2004
The Day After Tomorrow
6.564/9070
After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age,...
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The Day After Tomorrow
1988
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
4.25/4
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Rit...
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The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1979
Love's Savage Fury
5.25/4
During the Civil War, a self-centered, young Southern belle tries to hold onto the family estate when the Union Army takes over the area.
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Love's Savage Fury
1998
The Adventures of Ragtime
10/1
Ragtime is a miniature pet horse and the kids love him. But villains Sam and Lester think Ragtime can be their meal ticket. They kidnap the horse for...
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The Adventures of Ragtime
1979
The Cracker Factory
9.3/3
Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a fe...
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The Cracker Factory
1988
Shakedown on the Sunset Strip
0/0
Ambitious police sergeant, Charles Stoker, takes on prostitution in 1948 Los Angeles to make a name for himself. Madam, Brenda Allen, however has the...
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Shakedown on the Sunset Strip
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
6.8/5
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II
2002
Another pretty face
4.667/3
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Another pretty face
1972
Short Cut to Haifa
5/1
A middle-aged truck driver travelling through the desert with his good-for-nothing nephew and a pretty nun, gets stuck and are forced to wait to be re...
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Short Cut to Haifa
1983
The Hasty Heart
9/1
In Burma on the penultimate day of World War II, Cameron Highlander Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan is seriously wounded and transported to a local milita...
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The Hasty Heart
1986
Stranded
8/2
Loni Anderson and Perry King are stranded on a desert island.
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Stranded
1988
Perfect People
4.667/6
After many years of marriage Ken and Barbara decide to change their way of living radically. In order to become more attractive they submit themselves...
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Perfect People
1989
Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer
3.7/3
When young Roxanne Ulrich (Chynna Phillips) meets wealthy charmer Herbert Pulitzer (Perry King) and enters the scandal-ridden world of the rich and fa...
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Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer
1994
Good King Wenceslas
4.4/5
Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.
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Good King Wenceslas
1982
The Clairvoyant
5.607/14
Two uneasy friends, a police officer and a TV talk show host, each pursue the mysterious "handcuff killer" with the aid of an artist who sees - and dr...
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The Clairvoyant
1993
A Stranger in the Mirror
3.5/6
A naive young woman arrives in Hollywood to become a star, but after she gets drugged and raped during a shoot, she hardens quickly and catches the ey...
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A Stranger in the Mirror
1992
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
5.8/15
An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.
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Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
2018
The Divide
6.375/8
Set in drought-plagued Northern California in 1976, The Divide chronicles the story of Sam Kincaid (King), an aging rancher with a failing memory, his...
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The Divide
2018
My Saga
0/0
Four years ago, Adam Harris was struck down with a brain tumour, an event that he was determined to transform from something tragic into a period of l...
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My Saga
1998
The Cowboy and the Movie Star
9.25/4
Depressed at the thought of losing his family ranch to settle his divorce, cowboy Clint Brannan decides to drive his cattle up to their high pasture.
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The Cowboy and the Movie Star
1973
The Deadly Visitor
6.4/5
A writer who takes a room in a boarding house finds himself haunted by a menacing invisible presence that may be the ghost of a previous tenant or tha...
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The Deadly Visitor
1993
Jericho Fever
6/3
A group of terrorists bomb peace negotiations in Mexico. One of the terrorists contracts a fever disease during the attack. The terrorists flee across...
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Jericho Fever
2015
Eyewitness
5.1/11
A mother and daughter set out on a weekend river rafting retreat, only to encounter 3 escaped convicts along the way.
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Eyewitness
2006
Blood and Blackboards
0/1
Director Mark L. Lestor, producer Merrie Lynn Ross and actor Perry King are interviewed about the making of CLASS OF 1984, the 1982 cult classic. At t...
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Blood and Blackboards
1981
Inmates: A Love Story
8/1
Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, who profited from his cheat, will help him to a rev...
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Inmates: A Love Story
1981
Golden Gate
9/1
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a ru...
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Golden Gate
1990
The Knife and Gun Club
4.333/3
Failed drama series pilot about events at a trauma center run by two doctors struggling to keep the Emergency Room open.
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The Knife and Gun Club
1975
Foster & Laurie
8.5/2
The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down...
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Foster & Laurie
1976
The Hemingway Play
7/1
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.
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The Hemingway Play
1990
Only One Survived
8/1
Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.
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Only One Survived
1997
Their Second Chance
5.333/3
After nearly thirty years a mother and adopted daughter are reunited. Soon after, the biological father comes back into the picture.
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Their Second Chance
1985
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
0/0
The NBC All Star Hour (1985) was a one-hour primetime television special that brought together stars from NBC’s biggest shows of the mid-1980s, blendi...
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The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
1987
It's Howdy Doody Time: A 40-Year Celebration
7/1
A two-hour syndicated TV special celebrating Howdy Doody on the occasion of the show's 40th anniversary.
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