Felton Perry
| Felton Perry | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 11, 1945 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1968-present |
Felton Perry (born September 11, 1945) is an American actor.[1] He is most notable for his roles as Deputy Obrah Eaker in the 1973 movie Walking Tall, and as Inspector Early Smith in the 1973 movie Magnum Force, the second film in the Dirty Harry series.[2] Felton's other well-known role is in the 1987 science fiction movie RoboCop as Donald Johnson, the executive at the corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP). He reprised his role as Johnson in the sequels RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993).
Career
A life member of the Actors Studio,[3] Felton has starred on the television show Hooperman as Inspector Clarence McNeil. He has made guest appearances on many TV series, including 227 (TV series),Adam-12, Ironside, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Cagney and Lacey, What's Happening Now!!, Ironside, The Partridge Family, Barnaby Jones, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, N.Y.P.D. Blue, Judging Amy, Civil Wars, Murphy Brown, Stingray, Marcus Welby, M.D., Sports Night and The West Wing.
He has also done voicing characters in animation including the feature film The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat and the children's television series A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
Filmography
- Medium Cool (1969)
- Brute Corps (1971)
- Night Call Nurses (1972)
- Trouble Man (1972)
- Magnum Force (1973)
- Walking Tall (1973)
- The Towering Inferno (1974)
- Sudden Death (1977)
- Mean Dog Blues (1978)
- Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
- RoboCop (1987)
- Weeds (1987)
- Checking Out (1989)
- RoboCop 2 (1990)
- Talent for the Game (1991)
- RoboCop 3 (1993)
- Puppet Master 4 (1993)
- Relentless 3 (1993)
- Dumb & Dumber (1994)
- Dark Breed (1996)
- Hollywood Vampyr (2002)
Television appearances
- Room 222 (1969)
- Ironside (1969-73)
- Dragnet (1970)
- Julia (1970)
- Nanny and the Professor (1970)
- O'Hara, US Treasury (1971, 1972)
- Adam-12 (1971, 1972)
- Medical Center (1974)
- Police Story (1975)
- Barnaby Jones (1978)
- Hill Street Blues (1982, 1985)
- Cagney & Lacey (1985)
- Hooperman (1987-89)
- L.A. Law (1986-1990)
- Murphy Brown (1991)
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1991-92)
- Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1993)
- NYPD Blue (1994)
- Living Single (1995)
- Sports Night (1998)
- Judging Amy (2002)
References
- ↑ "Felton Perry". The New York Times.
- ↑ Sayre, Nora (December 26, 1973). "Screen: 'Magnum Force':Police Story Is Sequel to 'Dirty Harry' The Cast". The New York Times.
- ↑ Garfield, David (1980). "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 278. ISBN 0-02-542650-8.