Biography
As he aged, he gracefully made the transition to character roles, generally cast as villains or father figures. The grandson of famed book editor Maxwell Perkins, King attended prep school, earned an Ivy League education at Yale and received his acting training under John Houseman at Juilliard. After debuting on stage in the replacement cast of the Tony-winning drama "Child's Play" in 1971, he quickly landed supporting roles in two 1972 …
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Career Milestones
| Had recurring role on Fox's "Melrose Place" | ||
| Voiced Han Solo for the National Public Radio productions of "Star Wars", "The Empire Strikes Back" and "The Return of the Jedi"; also starred in several "Earplay" dramas for NPR | ||
1971 | Broadway debut in the replacement cast of the Tony-winning drama "Child's Play" | |
1972 | Film debut, "Slaughterhouse-Five" | |
1972 | Supported Shirley MacLaine as her brother in the thriller "The Possession of Joel Delaney" | |
1974 | Co-starred with Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler in "Lords of Flatbush" | |
1974 | Early TV credit, appearing in "The Whirlwind" episode of the CBS biography "Benjamin Franklin" | |
1975 | Co-starred with Dorian Harewood in the fact-based drama "Foster and Laurie" (CBS) | |
1975 | Had second male lead in "The Wild Party", co-starring James Coco and Raquel Welch | |
1975 | Played featured role in the dreadful "Mandingo" | |
1976 | Played Rory Armagh in the NBC miniseries "Captains and the Kings" | |
1977 | Was in the ensemble cast of "The Choirboys" | |
1978 | Portrayed a gay man who falls in love with a lesbian (Meg Foster) in "A Different Story" | |
1979 | Appeared opposite Jennifer O'Neill in the pulp romance "Love's Savage Fury" (ABC) | |
1982 | Last film for nine years, "Class of 1984" | |
1982 | Starred in the short-lived ABC series "The Quest" | |
1984 | Had moderate TV success with the adventure series "Riptide" (NBC) | |
1984 | Won praise for performance in the Showtime remake of "The Hasty Heart" | |
1987 | Cast as Valerie Bertinelli's wealthy father in the CBS miniseries "I'll Take Manhattan" | |
1990 | Returned to Broadway succeeding Ron Perlman in the role of Col. Jessup in Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men" | |
1991 | Returned to features as Steve Brooks, a man reincarnated as a woman (Ellen Barkin), in Blake Edwards' "Switch" | |
1993 | Appeared in the short-lived ABC sitcom "Almost Home", a revamp of "The Torkelsons" | |
1993 | Co-starred in the short-lived CBS summer sitcom "The Trouble With Larry" | |
1997 | Garnered praise for stage performance in Doug Heyes, Jr's "Seven Out" at the Globe Playhouse in L.A. | |
1998 | Played a down-on-his-luck cowboy in the fairly awful Fox Family Channel movie, "The Cowboy and the Movie Star" | |
2000 | Acted opposite Roxana Zal in Lifetime's "Her Married Lover", a gripping, edge-of-the-seat murder mystery; telepic reunited him with Susan Blakely, his love interest from "The Lords of Flatbush", playing his wife | |
2000 | Starred as the patriarch of a wealthy Beverly Hills family in the NBC primetime serial "Titans" | |
2004 | Cast as the President of the United States in Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" | |