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(25 July 1896, Three Rivers, Michigan
- 17 December 1967, Hollywood, California)
 Perrin launched his film career in 1914 as a bit player and extra,
working his way up to leading roles by 1917. After serving on a
submarine in WWI, he resumed his movie work, attaining stardom in
the 1919 Universal serial Lion Man.
Handsome and athletic, Perrin became a popular Western star in the
1920s. Throughout the silent era, he worked for most of the major
Western units (Universal, Pathe, First National) and not a few of
the minor ones (Rayart, Mascot). In 1929, he was starred in the
first all-talkie B-Western, Overland Bound.
Perrin found a niche in B-movie westerns of the 1930s. He usually
played leads as Jack Perrin, but occasionally adopted the pseudonyms
Jack Gable or Richard (Dick) Terry. Perrin was then co-producing
low-budget films with Hollywood veteran William Berke, and the
pseudonyms may have been intended to mislead exhibitors as to the
depth of the Berke-Perrin company's talent pool.
Perrin's last major role was as Davy Crockett in 1937's The Painted
Stallion, for Republic Pictures. Though he continued making films
through 1960, many of his later roles were minor and often went
uncredited.
For his contributions as an actor in motion pictures, Jack Perrin
was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1777 Vine
Street, in Hollywood, California.
He appeared in 280 movies from 1917 to 1961. |
