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

Born: Alliance, Ohio, USA, 1948-04-30

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Big Truck and Sister Clare	Nephew Daniel	50
2	1972	Slaughterhouse-Five	Robert	65
3	1972	The Possession of Joel Delaney	Joel Delaney	57
4	1973	The Deadly Visitor	Jamie	60
5	1974	The Lords of Flatbush	Chico Tyrell	57
6	1975	The Wild Party	Dale Sword	51
7	1975	Mandingo	Hammond Maxwell	67
8	1975	Foster & Laurie	Rocco Laurie	0
9	1976	The Hemingway Play	Hem	0
10	1976	Lipstick	Steve Edison	53
11	1977	Bad	L.T.	64
12	1977	The Choirboys	Baxter Slate	53
13	1978	A Different Story	Albert Walreavens	54
14	1979	The Cracker Factory	Dr. Edwin Alexander	95
15	1979	Love's Savage Fury	Col. Zachary Willis	43
16	1979	Search and Destroy	Kip Moore	68
17	1980	City in Fear	Lt. John Armstrong	62
18	1981	Inmates: A Love Story	Roy Matson	0
19	1981	Golden Gate	Jordan Kingsley	0
20	1982	Class of 1984	Andrew Norris	64
21	1982	The Clairvoyant	Paul 'Mac' McCormack	53
22	1983	The Hasty Heart	Yank	0
23	1984	Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues	John Macy	65
24	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
25	1986	Stranded	Nick MacKenzie	60
26	1986	Samson and Delilah	Samson (voice)	55
27	1988	Perfect People	Ken Laxton	42
28	1988	Shakedown on the Sunset Strip	Charles Stoker	0
29	1988	Disaster at Silo 7	Maj. Hicks	63
30	1988	The Man Who Lived at the Ritz	Philip Weber	40
31	1989	Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer	Herbert 'Peter' Pulitzer	10
32	1990	The Knife and Gun Club	Dr. Matt Haley	0
33	1990	Kaleidoscope	John Chapman	48
34	1990	Only One Survived	Philip Asherton	0
35	1991	Switch	Steve Brooks	59
36	1992	Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story	Mark	54
37	1992	A Cry in the Night	Erich	38
38	1993	A Stranger in the Mirror	Toby Temple	37
39	1993	Jericho Fever	Michael Whitney	50
40	1994	She Led Two Lives	Jeffrey Madison	40
41	1994	Good King Wenceslas	Tunna	30
42	1996	Hijacked: Flight 285	Frank Leyton	53
43	1996	Face of Evil	Russell Polk	63
44	1997	Their Second Chance		50
45	1998	The Adventures of Ragtime	Jerry Blue	0
46	1998	The Cowboy and the Movie Star	Clint Barran	90
47	1999	Her Married Lover	Richard Mannhart	32
48	2001	The Perfect Wife	Dr. Robert Steward	44
49	2002	Another pretty face		60
50	2004	The Day After Tomorrow	President Blake	65
51	2004	Stranger at the Door	Greg Norris	46
52	2005	The Perfect Neighbor	William Costigan	59
53	2005	Home for the Holidays	Cooper	59
54	2006	Blood and Blackboards		0
55	2007	Framed for Murder	Jason	34
56	2012	Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood	Ran'l McCoy	63
57	2015	Eyewitness	Sheriff Lee Decker	51
58	2018	My Saga	Himself	0
59	2018	The Divide	Sam Kincaid	60
60	2023	Sly	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	72

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Rick	71
2	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Jay Farraday	71
3	1969	Medical Center		61
4	1971	Cannon		64
5	1974	The Lives of Benjamin Franklin		0
6	1976	Captains and the Kings	Rory Armagh	83
7	1977	Aspen	Lee Bishop	60
8	1979	The Last Convertible	Russ Currier	0
9	1982	The Quest		0
10	1983	The Hitchhiker	Doug	61
11	1984	Riptide	Cody Allen	68
12	1987	I'll Take Manhattan	Cutter Amberville	58
13	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Roger	80
14	1990	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	Ray (voice)	67
15	1991	The Torkelsons	Brian Morgan	78
16	1992	Melrose Place	Hayley Armstrong	59
17	1993	Almost Home	Brian Morgan	55
18	1993	The Trouble with Larry	Boyd Flatt	60
19	1994	Burke's Law	Richard Moss	67
20	1995	The Outer Limits	Senator Richard Adams	77
21	1996	The Sentinel	William Ellison	71
22	1996	Spin City	Tom Crandall	71
23	1998	Will & Grace	John Marshall	68
24	2000	Titans	Richard Williams	56
25	2002	Without a Trace	Walter Mulligan	73
26	2003	Eve	Jackson	91
27	2003	Cold Case	Stan Williams	78
28	2006	Brothers and Sisters	Curtis Jones	71
29	2008	The Mentalist	Greg Bauer	84
30	2009	Drop Dead Diva	Warren Persky	77
31		Happiness Isn't Everything	Commander Gower	0