Ken Foree

Ken Foree is one of those actors who carved out a place in horror history with a single role and somehow made it feel absolutely timeless. His turn as Peter in George Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978) is just magnetic — he brings this calm, unshakeable authority to the character that makes you root for him even when everything around him is falling apart, which in a Romero film is very much the point. What's fascinating is how his career took this wild detour into kids' television with Kenan & Kel, playing the long-suffering Roger Rockmore, and he nailed that too — totally different energy, totally convincing. Born on a leap day in 1948, Foree is genuinely one of the most quietly underrated genre actors of his generation, and his Dawn legacy alone earns him a permanent spot in the horror hall of fame.

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Name (English)

Ken Foree

Name (Japanese)

ケン・フォリー

Reading

けん・ふぉりー

Born

February 29, 1948 (age 78)

Origin

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / film producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat

• Official sitehttps://www.kenforee.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Foree
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529912

Tags

• Indiana
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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