# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rod-perry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:17:39.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rod-perry"
name: "Rod Perry"
slug: "rod-perry"
description: "Roderick Maurice Perry was an American actor best known for his role as Sgt. David \"Deacon\" Kay in the 1970s TV series S.W.A.T. Perry also played leading roles in two blaxploitation movies in the mid-1970s: The Black Godfather (1974) and The Black Gestapo (1975). Other TV appearances include Barney Miller, Good Times, Babylon 5, and the 1974 TV movies The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Trapped Beneath the Sea.\nIn the 2000s, Perry had a cameo role in the 2003 film version of S.W.A.T., playing the father of the character he portrayed three decades earlier in the TV series, played on this occasion by LL Cool J."
tagline: "American actor (1934-2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Cropped_Photo_of_Rod_Perry.jpg"
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"
birthDate: "1934-07-30"
deathDate: "2020-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.75
  momentum:             1.274549098196393
  historical:           5.567934666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675272/"
    handle:    "nm0675272"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Perry"
    title: "Rod Perry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Perry_(akteur)"
    title: "Rod Perry (akteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "رود بيري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%88_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "راڈ پیری (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Perry_(actor)"
    title: "Rod Perry (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Perry"
    title: "Rod Perry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1246911"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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