John Marvin Perkins (born September 11, 1959) is an American actor who portrayed Sol Star on HBO's Deadwood, and later reprised his role in Deadwood: The Movie.
Biography[]
John Hawkes was born John Marvin Perkins in Alexandria, Minnesota, to Patricia Jeanne (Olson) and Peter John Perkins, a farmer. He is of Scandinavian and British Isles descent. John moved to Austin, Texas to begin his career as an actor and musician. He co-founded the Big State Productions Theatre Company and appeared in the group's original play, "In the West", at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He took on the stage name "John Hawkes" because another actor shared his birth name, John Perkins.[1]
John starred in the critically-acclaimed, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which received wide praise and was awarded the special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Camera d'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Additional feature credits include the Lion's Gate film, A Slipping-Down Life (1999) with Guy Pearce, the psychological thriller Identity (2003) alongside John Cusack and Ray Liotta, Miami Vice (2006) with Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell, Playing God (2004), The Perfect Storm (2000), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and Hardball (1997). Hawkes also starred in and co-produced the independent film, Buttleman (2003), for which he received a Breakout Performance Award at the 2004 Sedona Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Deep Ellum Film Festival.[1]
Hawkes' television credits include a lead role in the critically-acclaimed HBO series, Deadwood (2004), in which he played "Sol Star", a spirited entrepreneur in a lawless town.[1]
John lives in Los Angeles, where he writes, records and performs music with his band, "King Straggler".[1]
Credits[]
Season 1[]
- "Deadwood" Sol Star
- "Deep Water" Sol Star
- "Reconnoitering the Rim" Sol Star
- "Here Was a Man" Sol Star
- "The Trial of Jack McCall" Sol Star
- "Plague" Sol Star
- "Bullock Returns to the Camp" Sol Star
- "Suffer the Little Children" Sol Star
- "No Other Sons or Daughters" Sol Star
- "Mister Wu" Sol Star
- "Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking" Sol Star
- "Sold Under Sin" Sol Star
Season 2[]
- "A Lie Agreed Upon: Part I" Sol Star
- "A Lie Agreed Upon: Part II" Sol Star
- "New Money" Sol Star
- "Requiem for a Gleet" Sol Star
- "Complications" Sol Star
- "Something Very Expensive" Sol Star
- "E.B. Was Left Out" Sol Star
- "Childish Things" Sol Star
- "Amalgamation and Capital" Sol Star
- "Advances, None Miraculous" Sol Star
- "The Whores Can Come" Sol Star
- "Boy-the-Earth-Talks-To" Sol Star
Season 3[]
- "Tell Your God to Ready for Blood" Sol Star
- "I Am Not the Fine Man You Take Me For" Sol Star
- "True Colors" Sol Star
- "Full Faith and Credit" Sol Star
- "A Two-Headed Beast" Sol Star
- "A Rich Find" Sol Star
- "Unauthorized Cinnamon" Sol Star
- "Leviathan Smiles" Sol Star
- "Amateur Night" Sol Star
- "A Constant Throb" Sol Star
- "The Catbird Seat" Sol Star
- "Tell Him Something Pretty" Sol Star
Movie[]
Filmography[]
| Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Police Academy | Driver of Teskey Truck (uncredited) | 1984 |
| Future-Kill | The Light Man | |
| D.O.A. | Sloane | 1988 |
| Johnny Be Good | Pizza Boy | |
| Murder Rap | Christopher / Wiseman | |
| It Takes Two | Thief #2 | |
| Heartbreak Hotel | M.C. | |
| Dakota | Rooster | |
| Rosalie Goes Shopping | Schnucki Greenspace | 1989 |
| Never Leave Nevada | Christo Chevalier | 1990 |
| Scary Movie | Warren | 1991 |
| Sweet Poison (TV Movie) | Jimmy | |
| The Rape of Doctor Willis (TV Movie) | Mateson | |
| Nails (TV Movie) | Harvey Cassler | 1992 |
| Freaked | Cowboy | 1993 |
| Flesh and Bone | Groom | |
| Cool and the Crazy (TV Movie) | Crazy | 1994 |
| Dead Air (TV Movie) | Morton | |
| Congo | Bob Driscoll | 1995 |
| Night of the Scarecrow | Danny | |
| Angry Cafe | Turtle | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn | Pete Bottoms | 1996 |
| Shaughnessy (TV Movie) | ||
| Deep in the Heart | Mac | |
| 'Til There Was You | Gawayne | 1997 |
| Steel | Mugger | |
| Playing God | Flick | |
| Boogie Boy | T-Bone | 1998 |
| Rush Hour | Stucky | |
| Home Fries | Randy | |
| Where's Marlowe? | Earl | |
| I Still Know What You Did Last Summer | Dave | |
| A Slipping-Down Life | David Elliot | 1999 |
| Late Last Night (TV Movie) | Ponzo | |
| Blue Streak | Eddie | |
| Nathan Dixon (TV Movie) | Russell Keach | |
| The Perfect Storm | Mike 'Bugsy' Moran | 2000 |
| Sand | Hardy | |
| Hardball | Ticky Tobin | 2001 |
| Sam's Circus (TV Movie) | Gunner | |
| Strange Frequency 2 (TV Movie) | Jared | 2002 |
| Identity | Larry | 2003 |
| Buttleman | Harold Buttleman | |
| Sweet Underground | Johnny | 2004 |
| Me and You and Everyone We Know | Richard Swersey | 2005 |
| The Amateurs | Moe | |
| Wristcutters: A Love Story | Yan | 2006 |
| Miami Vice | Alonzo Stevens | |
| American Gangster | Freddie Spearman | 2007 |
| Miracle at St. Anna | Herb Redneck | 2008 |
| S. Darko | Phil | 2009 |
| Earthwork | Stan Herd | |
| Winter's Bone | Teardrop | 2010 |
| Everything Will Happen Before You Die | Lane | |
| Small Town Saturday Night | Donnie Carson | |
| Eve's Necklace | William (voice) | |
| On Holiday | Wild Bill | |
| Martha Marcy May Marlene | Patrick | 2011 |
| Higher Ground | CW Walker | |
| Contagion | Roger | |
| The Sessions | Mark | 2012 |
| Arcadia | Tom | |
| The Playroom | Martin Cantwell | |
| Outlaw Country (TV Movie) | Tarzen Larkin | |
| Lincoln | Robert Latham | |
| The Pardon | Finnon 'Arkie' Burke | 2013 |
| Life of Crime | Louis Gara | |
| Low Down | Joe Albany | 2014 |
| How and Why (TV Movie) | Goodman Hesselman | |
| The Driftless Area | Shane | 2015 |
| Too Late | Mel Sampson | |
| Everest | Doug Hansen | |
| Dr. Del (TV Movie) | Del Canyon | 2016 |
| Small Town Crime | Mike Kendall | 2017 |
| The Legend of Master Legend (TV Movie) | Master Legend | |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Charlie | |
| Unlovable | Jim | 2018 |
| The Peanut Butter Falcon | Duncan | 2019 |
| Deadwood: The Movie (TV Movie) | Sol Star | |
| End of Sentence | Frank Fogle | |
| Roving Woman | Gregory Milloy | 2022 |
| Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Babes | 1990 | |
| The Idiot Box | 1991 | |
| Mann & Machine | Tommy Chartraw | 1992 |
| Civil Wars | Jim Montgomery | |
| Northern Exposure | Jason | |
| The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. | Utah Johnny Montana's Assistant | 1993 |
| Wings | Mark the Waiter | 1993-1994 |
| Rebel Highway | Crazy / Nixer | 1994 |
| The Marshal | Elton | 1995 |
| Touched by an Angel | Mason Cook | |
| Planet Rules | Cecil Flood | |
| Dangerous Minds | Evan | 1996 |
| Promised Land | Jake | |
| Millennium | Mike Bardale | |
| The Big Easy | Wild Bill | 1997 |
| Pacific Blue | Paul Brent | |
| Nash Bridges | Vaughn | |
| ER | P.A. | |
| Profit | Dr. Jeremy Batewell | |
| The Naked Truth | Duane Baldwin | |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | George | 1998 |
| Fantasy Island | Arnie White | |
| Brimstone | Frederick Wilcot 'Willy' Graver | |
| The Crow: Stairway to Heaven | Jake Thompson | |
| Martial Law | Jake Simms | 1999 |
| The X-Files | Phillip Padgett | |
| The Magnificent Seven | Morris | |
| The Practice | Stuart Donovan | 2000 |
| Strange Frequency | Songwriter | 2001 |
| 24 | Greg Penticoff | |
| Taken | Major Marty Erickson | 2002 |
| Deadwood | Sol Star | 2004-2006 |
| Without a Trace | Terry Wicker | 2007 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Terry Wicker | |
| Monk | Matthew Teeger | 2008 |
| ACME Saturday Night | Guest Host | 2009 |
| Psych | Rollins | |
| Lost | Lennon | 2010 |
| Eastbound & Down | Dustin Powers | 2009-2013 |
| Inside Amy Schumer | Juror #8 | 2015 |
| Too Old to Die Young | Viggo | 2019 |
| Hit-Monkey | Eli (voice) | 2021 |
| True Detective | Hank Prior | 2024 |
| Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Bar-B-Que Movie | Jerry - Dad | 1988 |
| A-ha: Crying in the Rain (Music Video) | Young Robber | 1990 |
| The Orange Orange | Romeo | 2001 |
| Welcome | Bill | 2007 |
| Dark Yellow | Man | 2008 |
| Tender as Hellfire | French | 2009 |
| Path Lights | Bobby | |
| Wasteland | Daniel | |
| The Bluegrass Brainwash Conspiracy | 2012 | |
| Sigur Rós: Leaning Towards Solace (Music Video) | Father | |
| Resurrection Slope | John | 2013 |
| The Sleepy Man | Sleepy Man | |
| Grouplove: Shark Attack (Music Video) | The Magician | |
| Massive Attack Feat. Tricky, 3D: Take It There (Music Video) | Himself | 2016 |
| You Will Be Loved | Birdwatcher | 2017 |
| Tomahawk | Him | 2020 |
| Water and Smoke | Marvin | 2021 |
| Marvel's Wastelanders: Doom (Podcast Series) | Klaw (voice) | 2022 |
| Lista (Music Video) | J | 2024 |
