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Ron Perlman

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).

Filmography

2025
The Gentleman

as Theo

Movie
2025
Paradise Records

as The Chief

Movie
2024
Succubus

as Dr. Orion Zephyr

Movie
2024
The Instigators

as Mayor Miccelli

Movie
2024
Joe Baby

as Prentice Stanton

Movie
2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

as Optimus Primal (voice)

Movie
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

as Podesta (voice)

Movie
2021
Don't Look Up

as Benedict Drask

Movie
2021
Nightmare Alley

as Bruno

Movie
2020
Monster Hunter

as Admiral

Movie
2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

as Gnarlak

Movie
2013
Pacific Rim

as Hannibal Chau

Movie
2011
Drive

as Nino

Movie
2011
Conan the Barbarian

as Corin

Movie
2011
Season of the Witch

as Felson

Movie
2010
Tangled

as Stabbington Brother (voice)

Movie
2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

as Hellboy

Movie
2004
Hellboy

as Hellboy

Movie
2002
Blade II

as Reinhardt

Movie
2001
Enemy at the Gates

as Koulikov

Movie
1997
Alien Resurrection

as Johner

Movie
1994
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

as Konstantine Konali

Movie
1992
Sleepwalkers

as Captain Soames

Movie
1986
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1986
The Name of the Rose

as Salvatore

Movie
2023
Poker Face

as Sterling Frost Sr.

TV Show
2008
Sons of Anarchy

as Clay Morrow

TV Show
1998
The Magnificent Seven

as Josiah Sanchez

TV Show