Ron Perlman was born on 13 April 1950.
You can’t really say that you know his work. He works a lot. On IMDb, he has almost 300 listed credits. And that includes a single credit for 79 episodes of Sons of Anarchy and another for 55 episodes of Beauty and the Beast. His first major role was in Quest for Fire.
But I first noticed him in The Name of the Rose. He played the mentally-challenged hunchback Salvatore. His performance was shockingly believable. I later saw him in The City of Lost Children and assumed he was French! Later, I was shocked to see him in Happy, Texas. He plays a gay Texas Marshal. who gets one of the best lines in the film. “Admire him, son. That is one big dicked cop!”
But he stars in a lot of psychotronic films. He’s great in Alien: Resurrection. He has a small but important role in Blade II. And he does a lot of voice work for animated films and video games. But like I indicated, he works so much it is hard to keep track of.
I know him best for the Guillermo del Toro Hellboy films. I’m not even that fond of them. But they are fun and always worth revisiting.
Other April 13th Anniversaries
Filmmakers:
- Howard Keel (1919-2004)
- Don Adams (1923-2005)
- Stanley Donen (1924-2019)
- Beverley Cross (1931-1998)
- Lyle Waggoner (1935-2020)
- Edward Fox (1937-)
- Paul Sorvino (1939-2022)
- Charles Burnett (1944-)
- Tony Dow (1945-2022)
- William Sadler (1950-)
- Peter Davison (1951-)
- Ricky Schroder (1970-).
Films:
- The Boy and the Pirates (1960)
- The Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978)
- Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
- Iceman (1984)
- Serial Mom (1994)
- Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire (2004)
- Disturbia (2007)
- My Name Is Bruce (2007)
- Creature of Darkness (2009)
- Haunted Airplane (2009)
- The Final Storm (2010).
Ron Perlman by Miguel Discart under CC BY-SA 2.0.