# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/perry-pirkanen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:00:20.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/perry-pirkanen"
name: "Perry Pirkanen"
slug: "perry-pirkanen"
description: "Perry Pirkkanen is an American actor. He is best known for starring in the 1980 Italian cannibal film Cannibal Holocaust. He also starred in Umberto Lenzi's cannibal movie Cannibal Ferox. In Cannibal Holocaust he is erroneously credited as 'Perry Pirkanen'. Pirkkanen, then a student at New York City's Actors Studio, was hired by director Ruggero Deodato who was looking for unknown actors to play the film's four main characters. In the film, he was in an infamous scene where he butchered a large turtle. He is even seen holding the turtle's head next to his mouth. However, after filming the scene, he cried and had an emotional breakdown off camera."
tagline: "American actor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           45.63
  momentum:             0.4451038575667656
  historical:           7.0495
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685194/"
    handle:    "nm0685194"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Pirkanen"
    title: "Perry Pirkanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بيري بيركانين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بيرى بيركانين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Pirkanen"
    title: "Perry Pirkanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Pirkanen"
    title: "Perry Pirkanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Pirkanen"
    title: "Perry Pirkanen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%86"
    title: "پری پیرکانن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3507236"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55649"
    title: "Perry Pirkanen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump