Oct 18, 2014 2 min read

NEW YORK – Looking for Easy Street? Just follow the horned Hellboy, badass biker Clay Morrow or Vincent the lion man from “Beauty and the Beast.”

The guy behind the facades is Ron Perlman whose self-professed Neanderthal bone structure and leading-man blue eyes have made him a household face.

Perlman, 64, has racked up more than 200 credits in theater, film, TV and voice work in his 30-plus years in Hollywood. Now, he’s the proud owner of a revealing memoir, “Easy Street (The Hard Way),” co-written by Michael Largo with a foreword by one of his enablers, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.

Of his many gigs, Perlman said in a recent interview, writing a book is the “trippiest part of it all.” It’s something he never figured he’d do, until his two kids – 24 and 28 – followed him into the arts and he doubted they had strong models like the ones that shaped him: Bogart, Brando, The Beatles and more.

Perlman, a salty talker ever chomping on a fat cigar, does a lot of namedropping in his book, but the native New Yorker also digs deep into his childhood, his lean years selling handbags to support his family, his older brother’s suicide and his father’s sudden death.

And there’s “The Event,” as he calls it – his own suicide attempt with pills and booze after realizing he hadn’t hit Easy Street after all. There were no calls, no offers after his first big movie, “Quest for Fire” in 1982 in which he played a caveman.

Well into his second act, has Perlman finally made it?

Before Clay took a bullet to the jugular last season on “Sons of Anarchy,” the motorcycle drama broke FX records. In addition to the book, out in September from Da Capo Press, Amazon just green-ighted “Hand of God” for an original series, starring Perlman as a morally corrupt judge who speaks directly to the man upstairs through his brain-dead son.

Perlman’s production company, Wing and a Prayer Pictures, has 10 projects in the works.

“So I’m quite busy,” he said. “I’m in fantasyville right now. I really am.”