Perry Pirkanen

Perry Pirkanen

Perry Pirkkanen is an American actor. He is best known for starring in the 1980 Italian cannibal film Cannibal Holocaust. In the movie 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. So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released, its director Ruggero Deodato was indicted for the actors' murder. In the film, he was seen having his penis cut off, being decapitated, and having his body eaten by the natives next to his head. The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumors that the film was a snuff movie. The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were cancelled and the actors appeared on a television show as proof. He has also starred in Perfect Crime as the original inspector Ascher.

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Perry Pirkanen Movies

  • 1980
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    City of the Living Dead

    City of the Living Dead

    6.375 1980 HD

    A woman seemingly dies of fright after participating in a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church...

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  • 1980
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    Cannibal Holocaust

    Cannibal Holocaust

    6.297 1980 HD

    A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who...

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    Cannibal Ferox

    Cannibal Ferox

    5.395 1981 HD

    Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is...

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