John Bennett Perry (born January 4, 1941, in Williamstown, Massachusetts) is an American actor. He has appeared in numerous films and television programs, including Independence Day, George of the Jungle, The West Wing, L.A. Law, Days of our Lives, 240-Robert and Magnum P.I.. Williamstown is a town located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. ... Independence Day (also known as its promotional abbreviation ID4) is an American science fiction movie about an attempted alien takeover of Earth. ... George of the Jungle is a live-action film based on the original cartoon of the same name. ... The West Wing is a popular and widely acclaimed American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin and produced and co-written by John Wells. ... The L.A. Law opening title featured a personalized license plate mounted on a Jaguar. ... Days of our Lives is a long-running American soap opera. ... 240-Robert was a television series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. ... Magnum, P.I. was an American television show that followed the adventures of Thomas Magnum (played by Tom Selleck), a private investigator living in Hawaii. ...

Perry has married twice. His first wife was Suzanne Perry Morrison (a former press secretary to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau), with whom he is father of actor Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing on Friends). He appeared alongside his son in the 1997 movie Fools Rush In and in the episode My Unicorn of the sitcom Scrubs. Perry and Suzanne divorced before Matthew's first birthday. A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... Trudeau redirects here. ... Matthew Langford Perry (born August 19, 1969) is an American-Canadian Emmy-nominated actor who is best known for his role as Chandler Bing in the American television sitcom Friends, a part he played for 10 years. ... Chandler Muriel Bing was a fictional character on the popular US television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), played by Matthew Perry. ... Friends is a situation comedy about a group of six friends living in New York City. ... Fools Rush In is a Romantic comedy starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek. ... My Unicorn is the 79th episode of the American sitcom Scrubs. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Scrubs is an American situation comedy that premiered on October 2, 2001 on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence, who also co-created Spin City. ...

With his second and current wife, Debbie, he has a daughter, Mia Perry.

Perry is also known for playing the clean-shaven "sailor" in Old Spice commercials of the 1970s and 1980s. Old Spice is an inexpensive mens cologne as well as the brand name for a line of related products. ...

External links

• John Bennett Perry at the Internet Movie Database
• Bio at Yahoo! Movies