Ron Perlman

Biography

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

The Blacklist

Luther Braxton

The Legend of Prince Valiant

The View

Self

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Leader (voice)

Danny Phantom

Vice Principal Lancer (voice)

American Dad!

Monster Hunter (voice)

American Dad!

Colonel (voice)

American Dad!

Fang (voice)

Filmography

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

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Toby Hellinger
2023	Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake	Lich (voice)
2023	Poker Face	Sterling Frost Sr.
2023	Poker Face	Sterling Frost Sr. (voice)
2020	Adventure Time: Distant Lands	The Lich (voice)
2019	The Capture	Frank Napier
2019	Reprisal	Big Graham
2016	Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia	Bular (voice)
2016	StartUp	Wes Chandler
2014	Hand of God	Judge Pernell Harris
2013	The Blacklist	Luther Braxton
2013	The Frame	Hannibal Chau
2013	Turbo FAST	Darryl (voice)
2011	Green Lantern: The Animated Series	Sinestro (voice)
2011	New Teen Titans	Slade (voice)
2011	New Teen Titans	Slade / Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
2009	1000 Ways to Die	Self - Narrator (voice)
2009	Archer	Ramon Limon (voice)
2008	Sons of Anarchy	Clay Morrow
2008	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Gha Nachkt (voice)
2008	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Double X / Dr. Ecks (voice)
2007	Afro Samurai	Justice (voice)
2005	American Dad!	Monster Hunter (voice)
2005	Masters of Horror
2005	American Dad!	Colonel (voice)
2005	American Dad!	Fang (voice)
2005	American Dad!	Bandit (voice)
2004	Danny Phantom	Vice Principal Lancer (voice)
2004	The Batman	Rumor / Killer Croc (voice)
2004	Justice League Unlimited	Orion (voice)
2004	100 Scariest Movie Moments	Self
2004	The Batman	Killer Croc (voice)
2004	On Air with Ryan Seacrest	Self
2003	Teen Titans	Slade (voice)
2002	Kim Possible	Warhawk (voice)
2002	What's New, Scooby-Doo?	Inspector Malpumpkin / Joe / Frozen Fiend (voice)
2001	The Legend of Tarzan	Colonel Nikolas Rokoff (voice)
2001	The Tick	Fiery Blaze
2001	Justice League	Orion (voice)
2001	Justice League	Clayface (voice)
2000	Static Shock	Heavyman / Koenig (voice)
2000	Jackie Chan Adventures	Karl Nivor (voice)
2000	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	Leader (voice)
1999	Family Law	Roy
1999	The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
1998	Charmed	Mr. Kellman
1998	The Magnificent Seven	Josiah Sanchez
1998	The Wild Thornberrys	Wild Horse (voice)
1997	Perversions of Science	40132
1997	The View	Self
1997	The New Batman Adventures	Clayface (voice)
1997	The Second Civil War	Alan Manieski
1996	Tracey Takes On...	Stuart
1996	Superman: The Animated Series	Jax-Ur (voice)
1996	Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm	Kurtis Striker (voice)
1996	Hey Arnold!	Mickey Kaline (voice)
1996	Hey Arnold!	Mickey Kaline / Weiner Cooker (voice)
1995	The Outer Limits	Lt. Col. Brandon Grace
1994	Aladdin
1994	Fantastic Four	Hulk/Dr. Bruce Banner (voice)
1994	Aladdin	Arbutus (voice)
1994	Iron Man	Hulk (voice)
1994	Fantastic Four	Wizard/Hulk (voice)
1993	Bonkers	Sgt. Grating (voice)
1993	Animaniacs	Satan (voice)
1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Driller (voice)
1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Clayface (voice)
1992	Highlander: The Series	The Messenger
1992	The Little Mermaid	Apollo (voice)
1991	The Legend of Prince Valiant
1987	Beauty and the Beast	Vincent
1985	MacGruder and Loud	Attorney
1984	Miami Vice	John Ruger
1981	The Fall Guy