Perry King Filmography

The Day After Tomorrow

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset of an international series of crises brought on by the long-term results of the greenhouse effect. At the eye of the storm is paleoclimatologist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather Read More

The Perfect Neighbor

Synopsis: The Perfect Neighbor stars Barbara Niven as Donna Germaine, a woman attempting to start her life over in a new location. However, her past as a femme fatale is impossible to outrun. She falls back on some old bad habits when she becomes obsessed with William (Perry King), a neighbor who is having Read More

A Stranger at the Door

Synopsis: 25 years ago, Katherine (Linda Norris) put her son Jamie up for adoption. Now happily married to Greg Norris (Perry King), Katherine is surprised when a young man claiming to be Jamie (Andrew Kraulis) shows up at her door. Captivated by the boy's charm and honeyed words, Katherine and Greg welcome Read More

Another Pretty Face

Synopsis: The media's tendency to favor youth and cosmetic perfection over experience and intelligence is the gist of this mildly trenchant TV movie. Mel Harris stars as Diana, a top TV news anchor who is summarily dumped from her lofty perch in favor of a younger and prettier journalist named Amber (Julianne Morris Read More

The Perfect Wife

Actors: Shannon Sturges, Perry King

Synopsis: Dr. Robert Seward (Perry King) is unable to save the life of a young cyclist who has been struck down by a drunken driver. Instead of blaming the motorist, Liza (Shannon Sturges), the unhinged sister of the dead cyclist, holds Seward responsible for the boy's death. Plotting an intricate and Read More

Titans [TV Series]

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Yasmine Bleeth, Lourdes Benedicto

Synopsis: The dirty laundry of the wealthy and oversexed gets yet another airing in this prime-time soap opera from producer Aaron Spelling. Richard Williams (Perry King) is a tough-as-nails businessman who single-handedly built his aviation business into a powerful multinational conglomerate. Richard is Read More

A Clean Kill

Actors: Perry King, Roxana Zal

Synopsis: An unexpected death turns lovers into rivals in this thriller. Richard Mannhart (Perry King) is an unhappily married author who is having an affair with Katie Griffin (Roxana Zal), a film editor. Richard is mostly interested in sex, but Katie has become deeply infatuated with him. However, when Read More

The Cowboy and the Movie Star

Actors: Sean Young, Perry King, Priscilla Barnes, David Groh, Michael Chieffo

Synopsis: Sean Young stars as a spoiled Hollywood star who finds herself marooned in the Wild West after a car wreck. When a handsome cowboy in the midst of a cattle drive suddenly appears, the pampered princess has little choice but to accompany him to the nearest town. This romantic adventure was made Read More

Barclay's Big Adventure

Actors: Jay Thomas, Perry King, Michelle Joyner, Justin Cooper, Greg Dean

Their Second Chance

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Perry King, Tracy Griffith, Sheila Moore, Chris Owens

Synopsis: Based on actual events, this made-for-TV drama stars Lindsay Wagner as Barbara Colvin, a woman about to become a grandmother. The new birth stirs up her own interest in finding the love-child she gave up for adoption some 20-odd years ago. With the help of the courts, Colvin is reunited with her Read More

Hijacked: Flight 285

Actors: James Brolin, Perry King, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall

Synopsis: While being escorted to prison from Phoenix to New York, crazed killer Peter Cronin (Anthony Michael Hall) hijacks a commercial jet in flight with the help of accomplices. Holding the 200 passengers and the crew members hostage, Cronin forces the plane to land in Dallas, then demands another, more Read More

Face of Evil

Actors: Tracey Gold, Perry King, Shawnee Smith, Don Harvey, Brigitta Dau

Synopsis: No sooner has unsuccessful artist Darcy Palmer (Tracey Gold) met music student Brianne Dwyer (Mireille Enos) at an airport than she murders Brianne, stuffs her body in her trunk, and assumes her identity! Entering a prestigious New Hampshire University on the late Brianne's scholarship, Darcy is Read More

Let It Be Me

Synopsis: Wanting to learn some dance moves in order to cut a mean rug with his beloved at their upcoming wedding, a young man finds nothing but trouble after he starts taking lessons from a gorgeous teacher. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Good King Wenceslas

Synopsis: Virtue battles treachery in this made-for-TV peroid drama. Prince Wenceslas (Jonathan Brandis) is the seventeen-year-old heir to the Czech crown, who has been pledged to marry the lovely Johanna (Charlotte Chatton), whose father, Duke Phillip (Leo McKern), is a man of no small power and wealth. Read More

She Led Two Lives

Actors: Connie Sellecca, A. Martinez, Perry King, Patricia Clarkson, David Wohl

Synopsis: In this fact-based made-for-television drama, a woman engages in polyandry. The trouble is neither husband knows about the other. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tales From the Crypt: Came the Dawn

A Cry in the Night

Actors: Perry King, Carol Higgins Clark, James Rae

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the film explores the life of an art-gallery manager (Carol Higgins Clark) who marries a famous Canadian painter (Perry King). After moving her two young daughters to his mansion, she soon comes to the frightening realization that he is much more than the Read More

Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story

Actors: Molly Ringwald

Synopsis: Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story was one of a myriad of early 1990s TV movies centering around the AIDS issue. Molly Ringwald stars as Alison Gertz, an upscale Manhattanite who thinks she knows her way around. Still, Alison conducts an "unprotected" one-night affair, which results in Read More

Switch

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams, Lorraine Bracco, Perry King, Tony Roberts

Synopsis: Ellen Barkin stars in this mystical comedy about a detestable male chauvinist temporarily reincarnated into the body of a woman. Steve Brooks (Perry King) foolishly accepts an invite for an evening of debauchery from three former girlfriends, and thinks he's got it made when he shows up to find Read More

Only One Survived

Synopsis: In this adventure, four folk from New York city, and their Brazilian boat captain attempt to keep a ship filled with dynamite from foundering along the South American coastline. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Kaleidoscope'

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Perry King, Claudia Christian, Patricia Kalember

Synopsis: Wealthy, but yearning for the family he lost after his parents' untimely deaths, a businessman hires a private eye to locate his three sisters, each of whom was sent to a different foster home following the mysterious accident. One particularly traumatized sister seems to know the truth about the Read More

Disaster at Silo 7

Synopsis: An explosion in a nuclear warhead silo located near a tiny Texas town causes all kinds of terror in this taut suspensor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer

Actors: Perry King, Chynna Phillips

Synopsis: Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer was based on the best-selling 1987 autobiography of (who else?) Roxanne Pulitzer. Since both the book and the subsequent TV movie were told from Roxanne's point of view, it is to be expected that certain ego-massaging liberties would be taken with the facts behind her Read More

The Prize Pulitzer: The Roxanne Pulitzer Story

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biography chronicles the ugly divorce between publishing magnate Herbert "Pete" Pulitzer and his youthful wife Roxanne. It is based on Roxanne's autobiography. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perfect People

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Perfect People is an engaging rehash of a plot device that has been surefire since the 1925 Charley Chase two-reeler Mighty Like a Moose. After several years of marriage, Perry King and Lauren Hutton have turned into plump, boring middle-agers. With their sex life in shambles, the Read More

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

Synopsis: In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible. Read More

Shakedown on the Sunset Strip

Synopsis: In this crime drama set in LA during the '40s, an infamous Hollywood madam is arrested and mayhem ensues as the names of her famous patrons, among them government officials and policemen, are revealed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I'll Take Manhattan

Actors: Valerie Bertinelli, Francesca Annis, Perry King

Synopsis: This glitzy miniseries based on the Judith Krantz novel is a wicked soap opera about sex, power, and betrayal. Valerie Bertinelli stars as Maxi, whose mother (Francesca Annis) marries her father's hated brother Cutter (Perry King) after his death. Cutter had sworn to destroy everything his late Read More

Stranded

Synopsis: In this comedy, two rival ad executives find themselves marooned on a South Pacific during a balloon accident. Comic mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hasty Heart

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1950, John Patrick's play The Hasty Heart was restaged 33 years later as a cable-TV special. Set in a British military hospital in 1944 Burma, Patrick's story concentrates on three people: dedicated Red Cross nurse Sister Margaret, insouciant American officer "Yank," and a Read More

Riptide

Synopsis: The weekly TV series Riptide was kicked off on January 3, 1984 with a 2-hour "movie premiere"--which is TV Guide talk for "pilot film." Cody Allen (Perry King) and Nick Ryder (Joe Penny) are hip, handsome Southern California detectives. Teaming up with their service buddy, computer geek Murray Read More

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

Actors: Mare Winningham, Blythe Danner, Perry King, Vera Miles, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: This semi-sequel to William Gibson's The Miracle Worker recounts the early adult years of the profoundly handicapped but brilliant Helen Keller. Helen, played by Mare Winningham, enters college, with her friend and mentor Annie Sullivan Macy (Blythe Danner) by her side. As Helen's international Read More

The Killing Hour

Actors: Perry King, Elizabeth Kemp, Norman Parker, Kenneth McMillan, Jon Polito

Synopsis: Young art student Virna Nightbourne (Elizabeth Kemp) has the unconscious ability to draw the future victims of a serial murderer, in this standard thriller that also involves Paul "Mac" McCormack (Perry King) a sleazy talk-show host and the local police. McCormack is out to promote number one as Read More

Search and Destroy

Actors: Perry King, Don Stroud, Tisa Farrow, Park Jong Soo, George Kennedy

Synopsis: In this actioner, a vengeful official from southern Vietnam heads for the United States to make the American soldiers who left him alone in the jungle during a surprise attack pay for their betrayal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Class of 1984

Actors: Perry King, Timothy Van Patten, Merrie Lynn Ross, Roddy McDowall, Al Waxman

Synopsis: A music teacher (Perry King) at a tough Los Angeles high school reaches out to his students with the gift of music -- only to find a gang of sadistic punk rockers is actively dissuading new members from joining the orchestra. Not only are the punkers sadistic; they are also led by the nefarious Timothy Van Patten Read More

Inmates: A Love Story

Synopsis: This ABC TV movie is set in an experimental coed prison, presided over by progressive warden E.F. Crown (Shirley Jones). The wisdom of incarcerating men and women together is placed in doubt when white-collar criminal Roy Matson (Perry King) falls in love with hard-boiled, streetwise Jane Mount (Kate Jackson Read More

Golden Gate

Actors: Richard Kiley

Synopsis: Golden Gate revolves around a San Francisco-based newspaper empire run by a family named Kingsley (it could just as well have been "Kane," since the family was based on you-know-what Frisco-based publishing dynasty). Richard Kiley, the cold and commanding Kingsley patriarch, suffers a heart Read More

City in Fear

Actors: David Janssen, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: In his last appearance before the cameras, David Janssen plays an alcoholic journalist desperate for a comeback. Janssen hitches his star to ruthless publisher Robert Vaughn, who is exploiting a rash of brutal murders to sell papers. The danger here is that the unknown serial killer, who preys Read More

Love's Savage Fury

Synopsis: A made-for-TV drama clearly inspired by Gone With the Wind, Love's Savage Fury is an account of a Southern belle and two Union prison escapees who vie for a hidden treasure. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cracker Factory

Actors: Natalie Wood

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt, the made-for-TV Cracker Factory originally aired on March 16, 1979. Natalie Wood stars as alcoholic Cleveland housewife Cassie Barrett, who after attempting suicide is shipped off by her family to a psychiatric ward. It's not the first time Read More

Last Convertible

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Anton Myrer, the three-part NBC miniseries The Last Convertible chronicles the lives of five former Harvard roommates, all of whom share the titular Packard automobile. Beginning with the quintet's graduation in 1944, the teleplay by Philip de Guere, Stephen McPherson Read More

A Different Story

Actors: Perry King, Meg Foster, Valerie Curtin, Peter Donat, Richard Bull

Synopsis: Paul Aaron directed this early exploration of homosexuality, starring Meg Foster and Perry King. King plays Albert, an illegal alien dumped by his filthy-rich boyfriend, who makes a home for himself as a squatter in an empty mansion. Foster plays Stella, a lesbian real estate agent who comes upon Read More

The Choirboys

Actors: Charles Durning, Louis Gossett, Jr., Perry King, Clyde Kusatsu, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: Loosely based on former policeman Joseph Wambaugh's humorous novel, The Choirboys determinedly explores the stunted interior lives of a large crew of callous, bigoted L.A. policemen. These men get together to lend one another emotional support. However, the means they choose for this do not Read More

Aspen

Actors: Sam Elliott, Perry King, Gene Barry, Martine Beswicke, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: Ostensibly a six-hour miniseries adaptation of Bert Hirschfield's novel Aspen, the program actually used only the title of the Hirschfield work; the plot proper was lifted from another novel by a different author, Bart Spicer's The Adversary. Set in the titular Colorado ski resort in the 1960s Read More

Andy Warhol's Bad

Actors: Carroll Baker, Perry King, Susan Tyrrell, Stefania Casini, Cyrinda Foxe

Synopsis: The final film released under the Andy Warhol moniker (which Warhol executive produced) is a much more polished affair than Flesh, Trash or Heat, but preserves the oddball wit and eccentric flair that made those films so memorable. Directed by Warhol film editor Jed Johnson, Andy Warhol's Bad Read More

Captains and the Kings

Synopsis: One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from a novel by Taylor Caldwell. Covering a time span from 1857 to 1912, this was the saga of the Irish-immigrant Armagh clan, with emphasis on the rags-to-riches career of Read More

Lipstick

Actors: Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King, Anne Bancroft, Robin Gammell

Synopsis: Lipstick is a cheap exploitation film pretending to make a social statement about rape and revenge. Chris (Margaux Hemingway), a fashion model is raped by Gordon Stuart (Chris Sarandon) her sister's music teacher. When he tries to rape her sister Kathy (Mariel Hemingway), Chris kills him. She is Read More

Foster and Laurie

Synopsis: Given the title Foster and Laurie and the added fact that the protagonists are two cops, one might deduce that this TV movie was the pilot for a potential series. Not this time: The two leading characters are killed almost before the opening credits fade! In flashback, the film traces the Read More

Mandingo

Actors: James Mason, Susan George, Brenda Sykes

Synopsis: Richard Fleischer directed this lurid historical drama based on the novel by Kyle Onstott. The story begins on a run-down plantation lorded over by Warren Maxwell (James Mason) and his son Hammond (Perry King). Hammond travels to New Orleans where he buys a top-of-the-line slave, Mede (Ken Read More

The Wild Party

Actors: James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King, Tiffany Bolling, Royal Dano

Synopsis: Director James Ivory has disowned this Hollywood drama, inspired by the Fatty Arbuckle/Virginia Rappe case and based on a satirical poem by Joseph Moncure March, which was heavily cut by American International Pictures from two hours to 90 minutes. The story concerns Jolly Grimm (James Coco) Read More

The Lords of Flatbush

Actors: Armand Assante, Perry King, Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Paul Mace, Susan Blakely

Synopsis: This low-budget independent film by novice directors Stephen F. Verona and Martin Davidson is a slice-of-life elegy from the leather-jacket, bobby-soxer era of 1957, set in a Brooklyn high school. The film stands out for the appearance of up-and-coming actors (circa 1974) Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler Read More

The Deadly Visitor

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Deadly Visitor stars Gwen Verdon as the owner of a bizarre boarding house. Every time someone checks in, so does another guest--this one an unseen, malevolent ghost. Perry King, James Keach, and Stephen Macht co-star, while "The Presence" is played in her visible scenes by Ann Miles Read More

The Possession of Joel Delaney

Actors: Jose Fernandez, Aukie Herger, Paulita Iglesias, Marita Lindholm, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Hordern, Perry King, Lisa Kohane, Edmundo Rivera Alvarez, Robert Burr

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, Norah Benson (Shirley MacLaine) is a wealthy woman living in Manhattan who keeps a close and protective eye on her brother Joel (Perry King), who has a flat in a rough section of the East Village. Joel is a frequent guest at Norah's home and loves her two children Read More

Slaughterhouse-Five

Actors: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." These opening words of Kurt Vonnegut's famous novel make an effective and short summary of a haunting, funny film. For the screen, director George Roy Hill faithfully renders Vonnegut's black anti-war comedy about Pilgrim (well played in a low key by Michael Sacks Read More

Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible: Samson and Delilah

Synopsis: Featuring the voices of Perry King as mighty Samson and Linda Purl as his love Delilah, this Hanna-Barbera animated video tells a version of the Bible story concerning Delilah's treachery and Samson's righteous revenge. When the Philistines conquer the Promised Land, only mighty Samson has the Read More