Ken Foree built a substantial career playing toughs, thugs, and heavies on both sides of the law. He maintained a certain amount of prestige for the first decade or so of his acting tenure. Foree debuted as a goon in one of the more critically respected racially themed films of the 1970s: the sports comedy The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976), starring Richard_Pryor and Billy_Dee_Williams. Foree followed it up with a turn as a National Guardsman valiantly defending his nation against hordes of rampaging zombies (from inside a shopping mall) in the cult classic Dawn of the Dead (1978), played a black sportsman in Phil_Kaufman's period piece The_Wanderers (1979), and re-teamed with George_A._Romero for the medieval fantasy Knightriders (1981).


Small roles in two critically respected A-listers -- James_Cameron's The_Terminator (1984) and Richard_Pryor's Jo_Jo_Dancer,_Your_Life_Is_Calling (1986) -- did much to cement Foree's reputation as a reliable player, but thereafter, he began to sink into less respectable material, with a strong emphasis on long-form work and direct-to-video exploitationers. Pictures such as the 1991 Hangfire and the 1992 Fatal_Charm did little to further Foree's career. By the late '90s and well into the 2000s, he seemed typecast as a horror player, in movies such as The_Dentist (1996), The_Devil's_Rejects (2005), and Halloween (2007). Nathan Southern, Rovi

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