page_title: Ron Perlman
section_title: Film and television
hierarchical_section_title: Ron Perlman / Career / Film and television
caption_attribution_description: English: Ron Perlman at1989 Emmy's
context_page_description: Ronald Perlman is an American television, film, stage and voice actor. He played the roles of Amoukar in Quest for Fire, Salvatore in The Name of the Rose, Vincent on the television series Beauty and the Beast, for which he won a Golden Globe Award, One in The City of Lost Children, Johner in Alien: Resurrection, Hellboy in both Hellboy and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Clay Morrow on the television series Sons of Anarchy and Nino in Drive.
  Perlman is also known as a collaborator of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, having roles in the del Toro films Cronos, Blade II, and Pacific Rim. He is also known for his voice-over work as the narrator of the post-apocalyptic game series Fallout, Clayface in the DC Animated Universe, Slade in the animated series Teen Titans, the Stabbington brothers in Tangled, The Lich in Adventure Time and Xibalba in The Book of Life.
context_section_description: Perlman started his career as a stage actor, appearing in various productions, and made his feature film debut in Jean-Jacques Annaud's film Quest for Fire (1981). Annaud later revealed that when he contacted Perlman to ask him about playing Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986), Perlman was thinking of abandoning his career. After various minor and supporting roles in films and television series, his breakthrough role came when he played Vincent on the television series Beauty and the Beast, opposite Linda Hamilton from 1987 to 1990. This earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series in 1989.
  He went on to play roles in many films and television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s as well as the 2000s. His most notable film appearances were in films such as The Name of the Rose (1986), Romeo is Bleeding (1993), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994), The Last Supper (1995), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), Alien Resurrection (1997), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Blade II and Star Trek: Nemesis (both 2002) and two Stephen King adaptations, Sleepwalkers and Desperation. His appearances on television series include Highlander: The Series, The Outer Limits, The Magnificent Seven, and the Amazon series Hand of God.
  He played his first leading film role in 1995, when he played "One" in Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's French-language The City of Lost Children. In 2003, Perlman starred in a commercial for Stella Artois beer. This commercial, which was called "Devil's Island", won a Silver Award at the 2003 British Advertising Awards. He got another leading film role in 2004 when he played the title role in the comic book adaptation Hellboy. Perlman reprised his role as Hellboy in the straight to DVD animated features Hellboy: Sword of Storms (2006) and Hellboy: Blood and Iron (2007) as well as Hellboy II: The Golden Army, released on July 11, 2008.
  In 2008, Perlman joined the cast of the television series Sons of Anarchy on FX playing Clay Morrow, the national president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club. He would also play Wes Chandler in the second and third seasons of StartUp in 2017–18.
caption: Perlman at the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards in September 1989
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