Perry King
Birthday: 1948-04-30
Place of Birth: Alliance, Ohio, USA
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.
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Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he mak...
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Class of 1984
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are ...
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so ...
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The Possession of Joel Delaney
An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a ...
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Framed for Murder
When a woman falsely accused of murdering her husband is released from prison after 8 years, she hir...
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Mandingo
Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce...
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The Lords of Flatbush
Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four lower middle-class Brooklyn teenagers known as The...
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Bad
Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the op...
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The Choirboys
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in va...
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Home for the Holidays
After their parents are killed in a terrible accident, the four McMurrin children live with their lo...
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City in Fear
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publi...
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Search and Destroy
The hunter becomes the prey as a Vietnam veteran (Perry King) tries to ferret out the real culprit a...
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Lipstick
An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-sham...
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Her Married Lover
Film editor Katie and suspense novelist Richard share an erotically charged moment during a hostage ...
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Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Deafblind Helen Keller learned to communicate with the world through her teacher Annie Sullivan. The...
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Samson and Delilah
From Hanna-Barbera's animated series depicting the tales of the bible, "Samson and Delilah" tells th...
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Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood
In this bloody long-standing feud, two families seek vengeance against each other as they unmerciful...
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The Wild Party
An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career....
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Disaster at Silo 7
During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel tank is penetrated by a falling spanne...
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A Cry in the Night
A divorced mother suspects that she and her two children may be in danger because of her insanely je...
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Kaleidoscope
A family friend hires gumshoe John Chapman to find and reunite three sisters estranged by fate for 3...
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A Different Story
A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience in order to prevent his deportation, an...
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The Perfect Wife
When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him....
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Stranger at the Door
Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with...
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Face of Evil
Using her girl-next-door looks to her advantage, Darcy Palmer is a calculating thief and murderer. A...
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Hijacked: Flight 285
A convicted murderer is escorted by marshals on a regular flight from Phoenix to Dallas. Shortly aft...
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She Led Two Lives
A married woman is reunited with her childhood sweetheart, and marries him too, forcing her to live ...
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The Day After Tomorrow
After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmen...
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The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe wh...
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Love's Savage Fury
During the Civil War, a self-centered, young Southern belle tries to hold onto the family estate whe...
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The Adventures of Ragtime
Ragtime is a miniature pet horse and the kids love him. But villains Sam and Lester think Ragtime ca...
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The Cracker Factory
Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholis...
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Shakedown on the Sunset Strip
Ambitious police sergeant, Charles Stoker, takes on prostitution in 1948 Los Angeles to make a name ...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Big Truck and Sister Clare
A middle-aged truck driver travelling through the desert with his good-for-nothing nephew and a pret...
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The Hasty Heart
In Burma on the penultimate day of World War II, Cameron Highlander Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan is s...
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Perfect People
After many years of marriage Ken and Barbara decide to change their way of living radically. In orde...
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Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer
When young Roxanne Ulrich (Chynna Phillips) meets wealthy charmer Herbert Pulitzer (Perry King) and ...
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Good King Wenceslas
Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people....
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The Clairvoyant
Two uneasy friends, a police officer and a TV talk show host, each pursue the mysterious "handcuff k...
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A Stranger in the Mirror
A naive young woman arrives in Hollywood to become a star, but after she gets drugged and raped duri...
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Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its ...
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The Divide
Set in drought-plagued Northern California in 1976, The Divide chronicles the story of Sam Kincaid (...
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My Saga
Four years ago, Adam Harris was struck down with a brain tumour, an event that he was determined to ...
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The Cowboy and the Movie Star
Depressed at the thought of losing his family ranch to settle his divorce, cowboy Clint Brannan deci...
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The Deadly Visitor
A writer who takes a room in a boarding house finds himself haunted by a menacing invisible presence...
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Jericho Fever
A group of terrorists bomb peace negotiations in Mexico. One of the terrorists contracts a fever dis...
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Eyewitness
A mother and daughter set out on a weekend river rafting retreat, only to encounter 3 escaped convic...
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Blood and Blackboards
Director Mark L. Lestor, producer Merrie Lynn Ross and actor Perry King are interviewed about the ma...
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Inmates: A Love Story
Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, w...
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Golden Gate
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the...
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The Knife and Gun Club
Failed drama series pilot about events at a trauma center run by two doctors struggling to keep the ...
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Foster & Laurie
The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by ...
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The Hemingway Play
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points...
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Only One Survived
Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble....
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Their Second Chance
After nearly thirty years a mother and adopted daughter are reunited. Soon after, the biological fat...
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The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
The NBC All Star Hour (1985) was a one-hour primetime television special that brought together stars...
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