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Ron Perlman

Born 1950-04-13

📍 Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Ronald Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor and voice-over actor. His best known roles are as Clay Morrow on Sons of Anarchy (2008–2013), Hellboy in Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Vincent on the series Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990) for which he won a Golden Globe Award, Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986), Johner in Alien Resurrection (1997), Nino in Drive (2011), and Benedict Drask in Don't Look Up (2021).

Perlman is also known as a collaborator of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, having roles in the del Toro films Cronos (1993), Blade II (2002), Pacific Rim (2013) and Nightmare Alley (2021). His voice-over work includes the narrator of the post-apocalyptic game series Fallout (1997–present), Clayface in the DC Animated Universe, Slade in Teen Titans (2003–2006), Mr. Lancer in Danny Phantom (2004–2007), Lord Hood in the video games Halo 2 (2004) and Halo 3 (2007), the Stabbington brothers in Tangled (2010), The Lich in Adventure Time (2011–2017), Xibalba in The Book of Life (2014) and Optimus Prime in both the Transformers: Power of the Primes (2018) animated series, and the film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023).

Filmography 270

The Way Things Seem to Be

as Mr. Harrison

Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich

Paradise Records

as Slade Klossus (voice)

Scream Before You Die

as Governor Starks

Day of the Fight

as Charlie Conner

as Dr. Orion Zephyr

The Instigators

as Mayor Miccelli

as Prentice Stanton

Chuck Zito: An American Story

as Super Mutant

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

as Toby Hellinger

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake

as Lich (voice)

The Retirement Plan

Heroes of the Golden Mask

as Kunyi (voice)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

as Optimus Primal (voice)

as Sterling Frost Sr.

as Sterling Frost Sr. (voice)

How I Got There

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

as Podesta (voice)

American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective

Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

There Are No Saints

The Last Victim

as Sheriff Hickey

as Benedict Drask

This Game's Called Murder

as Mr. Wallendorf

Nightmare Alley

The Innocent Butler

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

A Place Among the Dead

Adventure Time: Distant Lands

as The Lich (voice)

as DUI Detainee

Hell on the Border

as Charlie Storm

as General Pershing

as Bernardo (voice)

Run with the Hunted

as Frank Napier

Westside vs the World

After the Screaming Stops

The Steam Engines of Oz

as Magnus (voice)

Transformers: Power of the Primes

as Optimus Primal / Optimal Optimus (voice)

The Escape of Prisoner 614

Sergio and Sergei

as Sheriff Jack

Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom

as Shoggoth (voice)

as Al Braverman

Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure

as The Stabbington Brothers (voice)

Prison Fighters: Five Rounds to Freedom

Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia

as Bular (voice)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

as Wes Chandler

Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom

as Shoggoth (voice)

The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore

as Self - Guest Panelist

as Viktor Dragovic

Before I Disappear

The Book of Life

as Xibalba (voice)

as Judge Pernell Harris

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

as Self (archive footage)

as Louie the Jaw

as Barry Lerner

as Det. Chilcoat

Nfinity Champions League Cheerleading Event

as Narrator (voice)

Tbilisi, I Love You

as nameless rider

as Judge Henry South

as Darryl (voice)

as Luther Braxton

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

as Polyphemus (voice)

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

as Deathstroke / Slade (voice)

as Hannibal Chau

as Hannibal Chau

3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom

as Mayor Williams

The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption

Green Lantern: The Animated Series

as Sinestro (voice)

New Teen Titans

as Slade (voice)

New Teen Titans

as Slade / Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

The Littlest Angel

Conan the Barbarian

Season of the Witch

Dark Metropolis

as Stabbington Brother (voice)

The Making of Fallout: New Vegas

The Legend of Secret Pass

as Parker (voice)

Acts of Violence

Killer by Nature

as Ramon Limon (voice)

The Devil's Tomb

1000 Ways to Die

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Curtis Sunday

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

as Double X / Dr. Ecks (voice)

Hellboy: In Service of the Demon

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

as Gha Nachkt (voice)

Sons of Anarchy

I Sell the Dead

as Father Duffy

Mutant Chronicles

as Brother Samuel

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

as Self - Hellboy, Hellboy 1 & 2

The Spiderwick Chronicles

as Red Cap (voice) (uncredited)

Uncross the Stars

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

as Arbor (voice)

Afro Samurai the Movie

The Making of 'The Last Winter'

Battle for Terra

as Elder Vorin (voice)

as The Man in the Hat

Hellboy Animated: Iron Shoes

as Hellboy (voice)

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron

as Hellboy (voice)

as Father Drake

as Justice (voice)

as Dwayne Burcell

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms

as Hellboy (voice)

The Last Winter

Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!

as Captain Skunkbeard / Biff Wellington (voice)

How to Go Out on a Date in Queens

as Collie Entragian

Working with a Master: Mick Garris

Masters of Horror

Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy

as Vice Principal Lancer (voice)

What's New, Scooby-Doo? Vol. 5: Sports Spooktacular

as Kago (voice)

Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?

as Hotep / Ancient One #2 (voice)

The Second Front

as General von Binding

Avatar: The Last Airbender

as Sozin (voice)

as Monster Hunter (voice)

as Colonel (voice)

as Fang (voice)

as Bandit (voice)

Missing in America

100 Scariest Movie Moments

as Rumor / Killer Croc (voice)

as Killer Croc (voice)

Justice League Unlimited

as Orion (voice)

Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation

as Detective Sergeant Perry

as Vice Principal Lancer (voice)

Comic Book: The Movie

On Air with Ryan Seacrest

One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

as Acme VP, Never Learning

as 'Ugly' Jim McCrae

as Colonel McKellog

as Slade (voice)

Boys on the Run

as Dr. William Winslow

as Christopher Bellows

Star Trek: Nemesis

as Viceroy Vkruk

What's New, Scooby-Doo?

as Inspector Malpumpkin / Joe / Frozen Fiend (voice)

The Blood Pact: The Making of 'Blade II'

as Warhawk (voice)

as Orion (voice)

as Clayface (voice)

The Legend of Tarzan

as Colonel Nikolas Rokoff (voice)

Enemy at the Gates

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

as Leader (voice)

as Heavyman / Koenig (voice)

Bread and Roses

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Jackie Chan Adventures

as Karl Nivor (voice)

The King's Guard

as Sam Tucker (voice)

The Trial of Old Drum

as Charles Burden Sr.

as Nick Everson

Operation Sandman

as Dr. Harlan Jessup

as Marshal Nalhober

The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

as Frank Brodie

Supreme Sanction

as The Director

as Booking Agent

I Woke Up Early the Day I Died

as Cemetery Caretaker

The Wild Thornberrys

as Wild Horse (voice)

Frogs for Snakes

A Town Has Turned to Dust

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island

as Grasping (voice)

The Magnificent Seven

as Josiah Sanchez

as Dr. Ramsey Krago

The Second Civil War

as Alan Manieski

Alien Resurrection

The New Batman Adventures

as Clayface (voice)

Perversions of Science

as Donnie Shank

as Mickey Kaline (voice)

as Mickey Kaline / Weiner Cooker (voice)

Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm

as Kurtis Striker (voice)

Superman: The Animated Series

as Jax-Ur (voice)

The Island of Dr. Moreau

as Sayer of the Law

Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff

as Satan (voice)

Tracey Takes On...

The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space

as Lord Vox of Vestron

as Doctor Frederick Texarian

Picture Windows: Lightning

The Last Supper

as Norman Arbuthnot

Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery

as Mr. Scratch (voice)

The City of Lost Children

as Chas Bradley

The Outer Limits

as Lt. Col. Brandon Grace

Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks

as Hulk/Dr. Bruce Banner (voice)

as Hulk (voice)

as Wizard/Hulk (voice)

as Detective Pantella

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

as Konstantine Konali

When the Bough Breaks

as Dr. Douglas Eben

Double Exposure

as John McClure

as Roland Thompson (voice)

as Lt. Col. Delacroix

as Arbutus (voice)

as Angel de la Guardia

Romeo Is Bleeding

as Jack's Attorney

as Satan (voice)

as Sgt. Sweete (voice)

as Sgt. Grating (voice)

The Adventures of Huck Finn

Highlander: The Series

as The Messenger

The Little Mermaid

as Apollo (voice)

Batman: The Animated Series

as Driller (voice)

Batman: The Animated Series

as Clayface (voice)

as Captain Soames

Blind Man's Bluff

as Frank Cerrillo

The Legend of Prince Valiant

A Stoning in Fulham County

as Jacob Shuler

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self - Guest

Beauty and the Beast

La rosa dei nomi

The Name of the Rose

MacGruder and Loud

The Ice Pirates

as Maury Goldman

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

as Rock Powers (voice)