Career
Perry also played leading roles in two blaxploitation movies in the mid-1970s: The Black Godfather (1974) and The Black Gestapo (1975). Other television appearances include Barney Miller, Good Times, and Babylon 5. More recently, Perry had a cameo role in the film version of South.W.A.T., playing the father of the character he portrayed nearly three decades earlier in the television series, played on this occasion by LL Cool J.