Ken Foree Biography

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

• 1. Peter: When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth.
  From Dawn of the Dead. Submitted by Rocky F (3 months ago)

• 1. Francine: What are they?
  2. Peter: They're us, that's all.
  From Dawn of the Dead. Submitted by HAL 9 (6 months ago)

• 1. Peter: Ain't it a crime.
  2. Stephen: What?
  3. Peter: The only person who could miss with this gun is the sucker with the bread to buy it.
  From Dawn of the Dead. Submitted by Gavin S (9 months ago)

• 1. Francine: They're still here.
  2. Stephen: They're after us. They know we're still in here.
  3. Peter: They're after the place. They don't know why, they just remember. Remember that they want to be in here.
  4. Francine: What the hell are they?
  5. Peter: They're us, that's all, when there's no more room in hell.
  6. Stephen: What?
  7. Peter: Something my granddad used to tell us. You know Macumba? Voodoo. My granddad was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us, 'When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.'
  From Dawn of the Dead. Submitted by Gavin S (10 months ago)

• 1. Roger: [about to run a gauntlet of zombies] Whad'ya think? Bag it or try for it?
  2. Peter: You game?
  3. Roger: I need lighter fluid.
  4. Peter: You got it.
  From Dawn of the Dead. Submitted by Gavin S (10 months ago)

• 1. Roger: Hey, man, we can't carry all this shit. [Peter wheels a gardening cart up with all of their supplies] Oh, I see, we're just gonna wheel right by 'em, right?
  2. Peter: We're gonna try, brother. We ain't doin' this for the exercise, so we might as well try to get what we can.
  3. Roger: No way this is gonna happen.
  From Dawn of the Dead. Submitted by Gavin S (10 months ago)