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).
Known For
| Birth Location | Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA |
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| Born | 1950-04-13 |
Movies
Scream Before You Die
as Governor Starks
2024
2024
2023
The Retirement Plan
as Bobo
2023
The Baker
as Pappi
2023
Heroes of the Golden Masks
as Kunyi (voice)
2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
as Optimus Primal (voice)
2023
How I Got There
as The Merc
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
as Il Podestà (voice)
2022
2022
There Are No Saints
as Sans
2022
The Last Victim
as Sheriff Hickey
2022
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
2021
Monster Hunter
as Admiral
2020
A Place Among the Dead
as RP
2020
The Big Ugly
as Preston
2020
Clover
as Mr. Wiley
2020
Havana Kyrie
as Henry
2019
The Great War
as General Pershing
2019
Hell on the Border
as Charlie Storm
2019
Go Fish
as Bernardo (voice)
2019
Run with the Hunted
as Birdie
2019
Westside vs the World
as Narrator
2019
Asher
as Asher
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
2018
Sergio and Sergei
as Peter
2018
Pottersville
as Sheriff Jack
2017
Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom
as Shoggoth (voice)
2017
Chuck
as Al Braverman
2017
Prison Fighters: Five Rounds to Freedom
as Narrator
2017
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
as Gnarlak
2016
Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom
as Shoggoth (voice)
2016
Stonewall
as Ed Murphy
2015
Moonwalkers
as Kidman
2015
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
Kid Cannabis
as Barry Lerner
2014
13 Sins
as Det. Chilcoat
2014
Nfinity Champions League Cheerleading Event
as Narrator (voice)
2014
2014
The Virginian
as Judge Henry South
2014
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
2013
3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom
as Phyllis
2012
The Punisher: Dirty Laundry
as Big Mike
2012
Bad Ass
as Mayor Williams
2012
2012
The Littlest Angel
as God
2011
Drive
as Nino
2011
Conan the Barbarian
as Corin
2011
Season of the Witch
as Felson
2011
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
2010
Dark Country
as Sheriff
2009
The Job
as Jim
2009
The Devil's Tomb
as Wesley
2009
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
2008
2007
Battle for Terra
as Elder Vorin (voice)
2007
Hellboy Animated: Iron Shoes
as Hellboy (voice)
2007
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
as Hellboy (voice)
2007
5ive Girls
as Father Drake
2007
Pro-Life
as Dwayne Burcell
2006
Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms
as Hellboy (voice)
2006
Local Color
as Curtis Sunday
2006
The Last Winter
as Ed Pollack
2006
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!
as Captain Skunkbeard / Biff Wellington (voice)
2006
2006
Desperation
as Collie Entragian
2006
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
2005
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
as Self
2004
Quiet Kill
as Detective Sergeant Perry
2004
Hellboy
as Hellboy
2004
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
2003
Shakedown
as Christopher Bellows
2002
Star Trek: Nemesis
as The Reman Viceroy
2002
Blade II
as Dieter Reinhardt
2002
Night Class
as Morgan
2001
Down
as Mitchell
2001
Enemy at the Gates
as Koulikov
2001
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
Bread and Roses
as Party Guest (uncredited)
2000
Operation Sandman
as Dr. Harlan Jessup
2000
Happy, Texas
as Marshal Nalhober
1999
Primal Force
as Frank Brodie
1999
Supreme Sanction
as The Director
1999
Houdini
as Booking Agent
1998
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
as Grasping (voice)
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
Body Armor
as Dr. Ramsey Krago
1997
The Second Civil War
as Alan Manieski
1997
Alien Resurrection
as Ron Johner
1997
Prince Valiant
as Boltar
1997
Tinseltown
as Cliff
1997
Betty
as Donnie Shank
1997
The Island of Dr. Moreau
as Sayer of the Law
1996
Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff
as Satan (voice)
1996
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
1995
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
1994
Cronos
as Angel de la Guardia
1993
Romeo Is Bleeding
as Jack's Attorney
1993
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as Pap Finn
1993
Sleepwalkers
as Captain Soames
1992
Blind Man's Bluff
as Frank Cerrillo
1992
A Stoning in Fulham County
as Jacob Shuler
1988
La rosa dei nomi
as Self
1987
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
as Self (uncredited)
1986
The Name of the Rose
as Salvatore
1986
The Ice Pirates
as Zeno
1984
Quest for Fire
as Amoukar
1981
Joe Baby
as Prentice Stanton
-
Cottonmouth
as Victor Cain
-
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Auxiliary Man
as Maury Goldman
-
The Making of 'The Last Winter'
as Self
-
Carrier
as Eli Pierson
-
Saurus City
as Slade Klossus (voice)
-
Movies
The Big Ugly
Executive Producer
2020
Run with the Hunted
Executive Producer
2019
To Dust
Producer
2019
Asher
Producer
2018
The Escape of Prisoner 614
Executive Producer
2018
Sergio and Sergei
Executive Producer
2018
Pottersville
Producer
2017
All I See Is You
Executive Producer
2017
All Nighter
Executive Producer
2017
Auxiliary Man
Producer
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