Actor. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the no-nonsense restaurant owner Nemo in the television series "Everybody Loves Raymond". Raised in Pennsylvania until the age of 14, he relocated to California with his parents where he completed his public education at Santa Monica High School. After having great involvement with the drama club, he was given the Glenn Ford Award and after attaining his degree in theatrical arts from the UCLA, he began his career as a stage acting touring in theatre productions throughout the state. Upon being discovered by film director Peter Godfrey who saw him in a production of "The Glass Menagerie", he was so impressed by his professionalism, dark good looks, and slim physique, he arranged for him to begin a career in the television industry beginning with him being under his supervision in an episode of "Chevron Hall of Stars". For the next 43 years, he went on to flourish as a prolific character actor on film and television attaining over 100 credits; often typecast as husbands, fathers, politicians, lawyers, doctors, playboys, aristocrats, prisoners, hostages, judges, blue-collared guys, con-artists, heroes, henchmen, retail clerks, soldiers, lieutenants, captains, cowboys, sheriffs, guards, policemen, gigolos, best friends, neighbors, clergymen, businessmen, reporters, detectives, bankers, adventurers, eccentrics, chauffeurs, and patriarchs. In motion pictures, he appeared in such films as "The Left Handed Gun" (1958), "To Trap a Spy" (1965), "Lust and the Flesh" (1965), "Don't Just Stand There!" (1968), "The Love God" (1969), "Herbie Drives a Cab" (1974), "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?" (1975), "Vibes" (1988), "The Freeway Mechanic" (1989), "Repossessed" (1990), and "Hot Shots!" (1993). With the advent of television, he became a familiar face appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Schlitz Playhouse," "Crossroads," "Cavalcade of America," "Lux Video Theatre," "Suspicion," "Trackdown," "Broken Arrow," "Maverick," Cheyenne," "Goodyear Theatre," "Grand Jury," "The Rebel," "Wanted: Dead or Alive," "Johnny Ringo," "Harrigan and Son," "Follow the Sun," "The Untouchables," "Bus Stop," "Sam Benedict," "The Twilight Zone," "Dr. Kildare," "Rawhide," "Combat!," "Ben Casey," "My Living Doll," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," "A Man Called Shenandoah," "Gunsmoke," "Honey West," "The Fugitive," "Love on a Rooftop," "It's About Time," "The Monkees," "Captain Nice," "The Lucy Show," "Iron Horse," "Judd for the Defense," "The Guns of Will Sonnett," "The Wild Wild West," "Adam-12," "Bewitched," "Bonanza," "Death Valley Days," "Here Come the Brides," "I Dream of Jeannie," "Mayberry R.F.D.," "That Girl," "Room 222," "Night Gallery," "Banyon," "The Doris Day Show," "M*A*S*H," "Barnaby Jones," "The Partridge Family," "Mannix," "Cannon," "The Rookies," "Emergency!," "Ellery Queery," "Ironside," "Police Woman," "Kojak," "Alice," "The Incredible Hulk," "Rhoda," "Soap," "Barney Miller," "Night Court," "Highway to Heaven," Hill Street Blues," "Cheers," "MacGyver," "Murder, She Wrote," "ALF," "Seinfeld," "Our House," and "The Faculty". During his career, he was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was supportive of the California State Republican Committee, was a theatrical instructor the Pasadena Playhouse, presided as a chairman for the Canyon Theatre Guild, was an active parishioner of the Catholic church, and he served as the celebrity spokesman for the American Cancer Association and the Arthritis Foundation. After retiring from acting in 1999, Perry, who never married nor had any children, died from complications of diabetes.