While Matthew Perry’s extended time playing Chandler Bing quickly eclipsed his father’s fame, John Bennett Perry had notable successes on television, in film, and on stage. Getting his break as a stage actor, he appeared in the 1967 musical “Now Is the Time for All Good Men,” which ran for less than a year. His first credited television appearance was on the TV movie “Bobby Jo and the Good Time Band” in 1972; the following year, he secured a recurring role across five episodes of NBC’s “Police Story.”
The father and son acting duo also appeared on-screen at the same time on several occasions, both on “Friends” and other shows. While in the “My Unicorn” episode of “Scrubs,” Perry Senior played Gregory Parks, the father of Perry Junior’s character Murray Marks. On “Friends,” in the episode “The One with Rachel’s New Dress,” John Perry played the father of Rachel Green’s boyfriend at the time.
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Despite a long-running career, John Bennett Perry has been absent from TV and film since 2011. He was last seen in the 2011 movie “Bob’s New Suit” and on the single-camera comedy show “Mr. Sunshine,” which was co-created by Matthew Perry and ran for just three months in 2011.
