Luke Perry

Also known as Coy Luther Perry III, Luke

American actor (1966–2019)

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Luke Perry was an American actor best known for his role as Dylan McKay on the 1990s television series "Beverly Hills, 90210," which made him a major pop culture icon of that era. He matters because he became one of the defining faces of a generation through his work on that influential show, and his unexpected death in 2019 at age 52 resonated widely with fans who grew up watching him.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 9

Top works

Mormons in American Politics
Mitt Romney, Mormonism, and the 2012 Election
2020 Presidential Election
2020 Democratic Primary
The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas, Volume 14

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Film & TV

Acting · Mansfield, Ohio, USA

Known for

A Love Letter To Making Movies — Self2020
You Cannot Kill David Arquette — Self (archive footage)2020
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Wayne Maunder2019
Luke Perry: In His Own Words — Self (archive footage)2019
The Griddle House — Older Jack2018
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs — Self2017
It's Gawd! — Jeffrey2017
Riverdale — Fred Andrews2017
Love in Paradise — Avery Ford2016
Race To Win — Gentry2016

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1966
Active to: 2019

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 729
Total plays: 8,533

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,882x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,528x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,953x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
The 2016 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary
· 2016 · cited 13,214x

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Official website

The Official Luke Perry Website

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.lukeperry.com
Image: Luke Perry by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Height: 1.78
Number of children: 2

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date of birth: 1966-10-11
Commons category: Luke Perry
Commons gallery: Luke Perry
birth name: Coy Luther Perry III
date of death: 2019-03-04
start of work period: 1982-00-00
end of work period: 2019-00-00

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Article

Coy Luther "Luke" Perry III (October 11, 1966 – March 4, 2019) was an American actor. He became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the Fox television series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000. Perry also starred as Fred Andrews on the CW series Riverdale. He had guest roles on shows such as Criminal Minds, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Simpsons, and Will & Grace, as well as a recurring role voicing Rick Jones in The Incredible Hulk (1996–1997) from Marvel Comics, and also appeared in various films, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), 8 Seconds (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Final Storm, The Beat Beneath My Feet (2015), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which was his final feature performance and earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. He died of a stroke on March 4, 2019, at the age of 52.

Early life