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).
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Primarily2025 Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life as Self
2025 The Saviors as Mr. Harrison
2025 Paradise Records
2025 Carrier as Eli Pierson
2025 Legacy as Mr. Carter
2025 Cottonmouth as Victor Cain
2025 Come with Me as Dalton Kirby
2025 Stranglehold
2025 The Gentleman as Theo
2025 Out Late as Angelo
2025 Saurus City as Slade Klossus (voice)
2025 Auxiliary Man as Maury Goldman Producer
2025 Play Dirty as Murray
2024 Scream Before You Die as Governor Starks
2024 Day of the Fight as Stevie
2024 Absolution as Charlie Conner
2024 Succubus as Dr. Orion Zephyr
2024 The Instigators as Mayor Miccelli
2024 Joe Baby as Prentice Stanton
2024 Chuck Zito: An American Story as Self
2023 The Retirement Plan as Bobo
2023 The Baker as Pappi
2023 Heroes of the Golden Mask as Kunyi (voice)
2023 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as Optimus Primal (voice)
2022 How I Got There as The Merc
2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Podesta (voice)
2022 American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective as Self
2022 Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters as Self
2022 There Are No Saints as Sans
2022 The Last Victim as Sheriff Hickey
2021 Don't Look Up as Benedict Drask
2021 This Game's Called Murder as Mr. Wallendorf
2021 Nightmare Alley as Bruno
2021 The Innocent Butler as Self
2021 Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster as Self
2021 Val as Self (archive footage)
2020 Monster Hunter as Admiral
2020 A Place Among the Dead as RP
2020 The Big Ugly as Preston Executive Producer
2020 Clover as Mr. Wiley
2019 Havana Kyrie as Henry
2019 Hell on the Border as Charlie Storm
2019 The Great War as General Pershing
2019 Go Fish as Bernardo (voice)
2019 Run with the Hunted as Birdie Executive Producer
2019 Westside vs the World as Narrator
2019 To Dust Producer
2018 Asher as Asher Producer
2018 After the Screaming Stops as Self
2018 The Steam Engines of Oz as Magnus (voice)
2018 Transformers: Power of the Primes as Optimus Primal / Optimal Optimus (voice)
2018 The Escape of Prisoner 614 as The Sheriff Executive Producer
2018 Sergio and Sergei as Peter Executive Producer
2017 Pottersville as Sheriff Jack Producer
2017 Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom as Shoggoth (voice)
2017 All I See Is You Executive Producer
2017 Chuck as Al Braverman
2017 All Nighter Executive Producer
2017 Prison Fighters: Five Rounds to Freedom as Narrator
2016 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as Gnarlak
2016 Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom as Shoggoth (voice)
2015 Stonewall as Ed Murphy
2015 Moonwalkers as Kidman
2014 Savage Mutts as Terry 'Shotgun' Coburn
2014 Poker Night as Calabrese
2014 Skin Trade as Viktor Dragovic
2014 Before I Disappear as Bill
2014 The Book of Life as Xibalba (voice)
2014 Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self (archive footage)
2014 Desiree as Anslinger
2014 Elwood as Louie the Jaw
2014 Kid Cannabis as Barry Lerner
2014 13 Sins as Det. Chilcoat
2014 Nfinity Champions League Cheerleading Event as Narrator (voice)
2014 Tbilisi, I Love You
2014 The Virginian as Judge Henry South
2013 Crave as Pete
2013 Forget Us Not as Narrator
2013 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters as Polyphemus (voice)
2013 Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox as Slade Wilson / Deathstroke (voice)
2013 Pacific Rim as Hannibal Chau
2012 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom as Phyllis
2012 The Punisher: Dirty Laundry as Big Mike
2012 Bad Ass as Mayor Williams
2012 The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption as Horus
2011 The Littlest Angel as God
2011 Drive as Nino
2011 Conan the Barbarian as Corin
2011 Season of the Witch as Felson
2010 Dark Metropolis
2010 Tangled as Stabbington Brother (voice)
2010 The Legend of Secret Pass as Parker (voice)
2010 Bunraku as Nicola
2010 Acts of Violence as Priest Bill
2010 Killer by Nature as Dr. Julian
2009 Dark Country as Sheriff
2009 The Job as Jim
2009 The Devil's Tomb as Wesley
2008 Local Color as Curtis Sunday
2008 Hellboy: In Service of the Demon as Self
2008 Mutant Chronicles as Brother Samuel
2008 I Sell the Dead as Father Duffy
2008 Hellboy II: The Golden Army as Hellboy
2008 Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound as Self - Hellboy, Hellboy 1 & 2
2008 Outlander as Gunnar
2008 The Spiderwick Chronicles as Red Cap (voice) (uncredited)
2008 Uncross the Stars as Bobby
2007 In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale as Norick
2007 The Making of 'The Last Winter' as Self
2007 Battle for Terra as Elder Vorin (voice)
2007 No. 6 as The Man in the Hat
2007 Hellboy Animated: Iron Shoes as Hellboy (voice)
2007 Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron as Hellboy (voice)
2007 5ive Girls as Father Drake
2006 Pro-Life as Dwayne Burcell
2006 Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms as Hellboy (voice)
2006 Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! as Captain Skunkbeard / Biff Wellington (voice)
2006 The Last Winter as Ed Pollack
2006 How to Go Out on a Date in Queens as Vito
2006 Desperation as Collie Entragian
2006 Working with a Master: Mick Garris
2005 What's New, Scooby-Doo? Vol. 5: Sports Spooktacular as (voice)
2005 Tarzan II as Kago (voice)
2005 Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? as Hotep / Ancient One #2 (voice)
2005 The Second Front as General von Binding
2005 Missing in America as Red
2004 Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation as Self
2004 Quiet Kill as Detective Sergeant Perry
2004 Hellboy as Hellboy
2004 Comic Book: The Movie as Ron Perlman
2003 One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection as Self
2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action as Acme VP, Never Learning
2003 Hoodlum & Son as 'Ugly' Jim McCrae
2003 Two Soldiers as Colonel McKellog
2003 Boys on the Run as Captain
2003 Absolon as Murchison
2003 Rats as Dr. William Winslow
2002 Shakedown as Christopher Bellows
2002 Star Trek: Nemesis as Viceroy Vkruk
2002 The Blood Pact: The Making of 'Blade II' as Self
2002 Blade II as Reinhardt
2001 Night Class as Morgan
2001 Down as Mitchell
2001 Enemy at the Gates as Koulikov
2000 Bread and Roses as Party Guest (uncredited)
2000 The King's Guard as Lord Morton
2000 Titan A.E. as Prof. Sam Tucker (voice)
2000 The Trial of Old Drum as Charles Burden Sr.
2000 Price of Glory as Nick Everson
2000 Operation Sandman as Dr. Harlan Jessup
1999 Happy, Texas as Marshal Nalhober
1999 Primal Force as Frank Brodie
1999 Supreme Sanction as The Director
1998 Houdini as Booking Agent
1998 I Woke Up Early the Day I Died as Cemetery Caretaker
1998 Frogs for Snakes as Gascone
1998 A Town Has Turned to Dust as Jerry Paul
1998 An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island as Grasping (voice)
1997 Body Armor as Dr. Ramsey Krago
1997 The Second Civil War as Alan Manieski
1997 Alien Resurrection as Johner
1997 Prince Valiant as Boltar
1997 Tinseltown as Cliff
1997 Betty as Donnie Shank
1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau as Sayer of the Law
1996 Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff as Satan (voice)
1995 The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space as Lord Vox of Vestron
1995 Mr. Stitch as Doctor Frederick Texarian
1995 Lightning as Gambler
1995 The Last Supper as Norman Arbuthnot
1995 Fluke as Sylvester
1995 Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery as Mr. Scratch (voice)
1995 The City of Lost Children as One
1995 Original Sins as Chas Bradley
1994 Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks as Graft
1994 Sensation as Detective Pantella
1994 Police Academy: Mission to Moscow as Konstantine Konali
1994 When the Bough Breaks as Dr. Douglas Eben
1994 Double Exposure as John McClure
1994 The Cisco Kid as Lt. Col. Delacroix
1993 Cronos as Angel de la Guardia
1993 Romeo Is Bleeding as Jack's Attorney
1993 The Adventures of Huck Finn as Pap Finn
1992 Sleepwalkers as Captain Soames
1992 Blind Man's Bluff as Frank Cerrillo
1988 A Stoning in Fulham County as Jacob Shuler
1987 La rosa dei nomi as Self
1986 The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' as Self (uncredited)
1986 The Name of the Rose as Salvatore
1984 The Ice Pirates as Zeno
1981 Quest for Fire as Amoukar
1981 À propos de 'La guerre du feu' as Self
6.78 Animation 26
6.71 History 3
6.67 Documentary 18
6.63 Family 22
6.60 Music 1
6.39 Adventure 40
6.15 Fantasy 29
5.93 Mystery 13
5.92 Science Fiction 25
5.86 War 5
5.72 Comedy 36
5.69 Drama 57
5.59 Action 50
5.57 Horror 27
5.41 TV Movie 9
5.21 Thriller 52
4.97 Crime 29
4.86 Western 5
4.26 Romance 5