Jack Perrin (July 25 1896 - December 17 1967) was an American actor specializing in westerns.

He was born Lyman Wakefield Perrin in Three Rivers, Michigan; his father worked in real estate and relocated the family to Los Angeles, California shortly after the turn of the century.

Perrin served in the U.S. Navy during World War I. Following the war, he returned to Los Angeles and started acting for Universal Studios. His first on-screen appearance was in the 1917 film Luke's Lost Liberty alongside Harold Lloyd.

In 1920 Perrin married actress Josephine Hill. During the 1920s, Perrin made a name for himself, starring in a number of cliffhanger, melodrama, and serial films.

Perrin found a niche in B-movie westerns of the 1930s. He usually played leads as Jack Perrin, but occasionally adopted the pseudonyms Jack Gable or Richard (Dick) Terry. Perrin was then co-producing low-budget films with Hollywood veteran William Berke, and the pseudonyms may have been intended to mislead exhibitors as to the depth of the Berke-Perrin company's talent pool.

Perrin's last major role was as Davy Crockett in 1937's The Painted Stallion, for Republic Pictures. Perrin divorced his wife that year as well. Though he continued making films through 1960, many of his later roles were minor and often went uncredited.

Perrin suffered a heart attack and died December 17 1967, aged 71.

For his contributions as an actor in motion pictures, Jack Perrin was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1777 Vine Street, in Hollywood, California.

John Stephenson Perrin (Born February 4, 1898 in Escanaba, Michigan, Died June 24, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former outfielder for the Boston Red Sox and fullback/quarterback for the Hartford Blues of the NFL.

He played football and baseball at the University of Michigan.

Jack Perrin was born in Three Rivers, Michigan on July 25, 1896. His father, a real estate investor had an eye on the burgeoning prospects in Los Angeles and moved his family west when Perrin was about 4. He literally grew up witnessing the birth of the film industry, which exploded there in 1913, after the key personnel behind Universal and Famous Players (later known as Paramout) moved out in an attempt to escape Edison's patent wars. Perrin entered films in 1915, reportedly with Mack Sennett (these details are in dispute) before enlisting in the Navy in the Great War. Released in 1919, he returned to Hollywood and landed a contract with Universal until 1921. He was cut loose from what was then the largest studio in the world and made the rapid descent into the world of low budget production in westerns produced by Rayart, Aywon and Arrow Pictures. During this period he would work with the drek of poverty row directors: Harry S. Webb and hack-extrordinaire, Robert J. Horner. By the latter part of the 1920s he would be back at Universal in a series of Canadian Mountie type westerns. On a personal level, he met and married Universal star Josephine Hill in 1920 and the marriage would last until 1937. Although he seemingly possessed all of the assets necessary for cowboy stardom, fate would not be so kind to Perrin. He again left Universal and went to work for skinflint companies headed by the Horner and Webb. The quality of these productions was dismal and his popularity correspondingly suffered. He bowed out as a leading man under an ostensible partnership with veteran low budget producer William Burke (I) in 1936.