Today’s Jewish Birthday: Ron Perlman

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Ron Perlman

Ronald N. Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor. His credits include the roles of Amoukar in Quest for Fire (1981), Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986), Vincent in the television series Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, One in The City of Lost Children (1995), Johner in Alien Resurrection (1997), Koulikov in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Hellboy in both Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Clay Morrow in the television series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2013), Nino in Drive (2011) and Benedict Drask in Don’t Look Up (2021).

As a frequent collaborator of film director Guillermo del Toro, he has had roles in the del Toro films Cronos (1993), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), Pacific Rim (2013), Asher (2018), Nightmare Alley (2021), and Pinocchio (2022).

Perlman has also had a prolific career as a voice actor, including the narrator of the post-apocalyptic game series Fallout (1997–present), Clayface in the DC Animated Universe (1992–2003), 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) and its spinoff Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (2023), Xibalba in The Book of Life (2014) and Optimus Primal in both the Transformers: Power of the Primes (2018) animated series, and the film Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023).

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1 thought on “Today’s Jewish Birthday: Ron Perlman”

  1. White we lived in Washington Heights in Manhattan, I met Ron Perlman’s mother who went to the same shul I went to. She was extremely friendly and proud of her son. When I was working on my doc. film “L’Chayim Comrade Stalin!” about the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region, better known as Birobidzhan I asked Mrs. Perlman if I might ask her son to be the narrator of my film. She put me in contact with him and we worked together on the narration. He was a real pro and he added a lot to the film. His baritone timbre gave the film more gravitas.

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