He’s back in The Devil’s Tomb, a supernatural action flick starring Cuba Gooding Jr and Ray Winstone. It’s coming to DVD on May 2.
You’ve seen the films Perlman is in and the rumbling voice is instantly recognisable. A cross between Aston Villa goalkeeper Brad Friedel and Anchorman Ron Burgundy in the head department, Perlman has a memorable visage.
But too often it’s hidden underneath mountains of make-up and prosthetics and his genius sometimes fail to register with the less eagle-eyed viewer. So here we give you five of Perlman’s most memorable roles:
- Perlman has a penchant for playing 'less than pretty' characters, but made women swoon as noble Vincent in the 1980’s TV series Beauty and the Beast alongside The Terminator’s Linda Hamilton.
And that was despite nicking The Ultimate Warrior’s mullet and having a face reminiscent of a shaky handed infant drawing a cat’s face on a walnut with a Stanley knife.
- More facial disfigurement was required for Perlman as ‘Johner’ in Alien: Resurrection, with exceptionally pretty scars carved across his face.
Rowdy by nature, Johner was (or will be? Considering the movie takes place hundreds of years from now..) not a merc to be messed with.
- Before his dalliances with the taxman, Wesley Snipes had a bash as a superhero in the much-loved Blade trilogy. In (arguably) the greatest of the three, Snipes went head-to-head with Perlman as the vampire Reinhardt.
They needed to form an unlikely truce to defeat a super-vampire who looked a lot like one of the guys from Bros. Oh wait, it was one of the guys from Bros. Baffling.
- Perlman hit main-stream A-list when cast as the lead in Guillermo Del Toro’s awesome HellBoy in 2004.
Perlman then went on to became the oldest actor (at 58) to portray the giant-fisted eponymous hero of a major superhero franchise when HellBoy II: The Golden Army was released in 2008. What a guy.
And, finally, just for fun...
- Remember the classic Stella Artois ad from a few years back set aboard the prisoner ship? The one where one of the officers gets nailed with a soup ladle? Of course you do.
Well, Perlman’s the dude who does the nailing and gets banished to solitary confinement for his efforts. The ad is called ‘Devil’s Island’.
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