Ron Perlman 1950 75

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).

From Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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2025 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

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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