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Ron Perlman

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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), When the Bough Breaks (1994), 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 Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, he has had roles in the del Toro films Cronos (1993), Blade II (2002), Pacific Rim (2013), Nightmare Alley (2021), and Pinocchio (2022). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ron Perlman has received more than 15,741,726 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Ron Perlman is the 410th most popular actor (down from 335th in 2019), the 742nd most popular biography from United States (down from 618th in 2019) and the 205th most popular American Actor.

Ron Perlman is most famous for playing the role of Hellboy in the movie of the same name.

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  • 16M

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  • 69.49

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  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ron Perlman ranks 410 out of 13,578Before him are Zsa Zsa Gabor, Doris Day, Christopher Lambert, Walter Matthau, Alan Arkin, and Gerard Butler. After him are Robert Mitchum, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Magda Schneider, Albert Finney, and Ali MacGraw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Ron Perlman ranks 27Before him are Joe Hisaishi, Néstor Kirchner, Mithun Chakraborty, Richard Branson, Zhang Yimou, and Peter Gabriel. After him are Richard Dean Anderson, Randy Quaid, William Hurt, William H. Macy, Daniel Auteuil, and Choe Ryong-hae.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ron Perlman ranks 742 out of 20,380Before him are Thorstein Veblen (1857), Truman Capote (1924), Walter Matthau (1920), Alan Arkin (1934), Douglas Osheroff (1945), and Josephine Cochrane (1839). After him are John Carpenter (1948), Alan Shepard (1923), Robert Mitchum (1917), Burt Reynolds (1936), James Caan (1940), and Robert Altman (1925).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Ron Perlman ranks 205Before him are Danny Glover (1946), John Lithgow (1945), Doris Day (1922), Christopher Lambert (1957), Walter Matthau (1920), and Alan Arkin (1934). After him are Robert Mitchum (1917), Burt Reynolds (1936), James Caan (1940), Ali MacGraw (1939), Richard Dean Anderson (1950), and Randy Quaid (1950).