Biography
Louis Jude "Lou" Ferrigno (born November 9, 1951 ) is an American actor, fitness trainer/consultant, and retired professional bodybuilder. As a bodybuilder, Ferrigno won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles, and appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron. As an actor, he is best known for portraying the title role in the CBS television series The Incredible Hulk. He has also appeared in European-produced fantasy-adventures such as Sinbad of the Seven ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Little Angels
2025
as Cop Lou
After a hotshot college football coach is suspended and sentenced to community service, he's forced to coach a ragtag girls' soccer team—learning humi...

The 92nd Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade
2024
The star-studded tradition continues with THE 92nd ANNUAL HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS PARADE. Hosted by Dean Cain and Laura McKenzie along with Montel Willia...

Mission Peace: Staunch Moderates Documentary
2022
A documentary about the formation of an intellectual movement about addressing the divide and to strive for national and world peace during the Biden ...

Mummy Dearest
2021
as Matthew Bradley
A mother recently confined to a wheelchair moves into her daughter’s home, but suggestions that the house is haunted and strange behavior by her daugh...

Guest House
2020
as Sergeant Winters
A newly engaged couple finds the home of their dreams and it quickly becomes a nightmare when the previous owner's friend continues squatting in their...

Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
2019
as Self
Filmed in part in front of a live audience at The New Amsterdam Theater in New York City, this Stan Lee tribute takes viewers on an action-packed jour...

Purge of Kingdoms
2019
as Deadard Stork
In a parody of "Game of Thrones," nobles from the Eight Kingdoms gather for Purge Fest 3000 to try and put an end to their violent conflicts, while me...

Cross: Rise of the Villains
2019
as Powerhouse
Armed with an explosive powerful ancient cross amulet, Callan is back with his extraordinary team of weapons experts to defend Los Angeles from its bi...

Ring Ring
2019
as Mr. Daniels
After a group of telemarketers get fired by their penny-pinching boss, they take revenge by stealing the company's list of clients to start up their o...

Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
as Self - Actor
The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent film era to the present day.

Enter the Fire
2018
as Monroe
On the run from the mob, Jake Bolt visits his estranged foster brother. As the mafia closes in, the two brothers must band together to fend off the ma...

Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel
2018
as Ion
When a neighborhood development is built over a former CIA hidden underground base that was destroyed 30 years earlier, but what no one knew there is ...

Life After Flash
2017
as Self
A look at the roller coaster life of Sam J. Jones since his role as Flash Gordon, his struggles and successes, and the aftermath of when he went up ag...

Instant Death
2017
as John Bradley
A vicious gang war for drug dominance draws in a disturbed Special Forces veteran John Bradley. Trying to adjust to normal life and haunted by inner d...

Heroes Manufactured
2017
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary following Canadian artists and their ability to break into the comic book industry while dealing with fandom and the craze of comic book...

FantastiCozzi
2016
as Hercules (archive footage)
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.

The Bandit Hound
2016
as Willy
A lovable dog named Bandit starts stealing cash to help his adopted family, he unwittingly sets them on a collision course with his dangerous ex-partn...

I Am Thor
2015
as Himself
Jon Mikl Thor was a bodybuilding, steel bending, brick smashing rock star in the '70s & '80s whose band, Thor, never quite made it big. Years later he...

I Am Your Father
2015
as Himself
David Prowse is an eighty years old actor, who has lived behind Darth Vader's mask during three decades. A group of Star Wars fans find out why he has...

Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
2015
as Agent Banner
The sharks take bite out of the East Coast when the sharknado hits Washington, D.C. and Orlando, Florida.

Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
as Hulk (voice) (uncredited)
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fat...

Anything Is Possible
2015
as (voice)
Some people become icons, but rarely does someone emerge who becomes the inspiration for generations to come. This is the story of dreams , of passion...

Tom Felton Meets the Superfans
2015
as Self
In his directorial debut, Tom Felton, who played the villainous Draco Malfoy in the hugely successful Harry Potter films, meets the world's most commi...

Avengers Grimm
2015
as Iron John
When Rumpelstiltskin destroys the Magic Mirror and escapes to the modern world, the four princesses of "Once Upon a Time"-Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty,...

The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015
as Skizurra
When he is betrayed by a trusted friend, Mathayus must marshal all his strength and cunning to outwit a formidable opponent who will stop at nothing t...

A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con
2014
as Self
This fast-paced Documentary was filmed inside America's biggest Comics/Film Convention and includes informative and humorous interviews with Levar Bur...

Generation Iron
2013
as Self
Generation Iron - examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today and gives the audience front row access to the lives of the top 7 bodybuilders...
Liberator
2012
as Ed Migliocetti / The Liberator
Lou Ferrigno ("The Incredible Hulk") is back in action as a washed-up superhero trying to get his life back on the rails in this gritty short film.

The Avengers
2012
as The Hulk (voice) (uncredited)
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I...
Finding Zac Efron
2012
as Himself
A mockumentary in which the attendees of an actors' camp embark on a search to find Zac Efron.

Evolution of Bodybuilding
2012
as Self
Hear it straight from the Legends themselves about their stories of success and heartbreak. EVOLUTION OF BODYBUILDING offers a close look at what it t...

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
as Self
At 89 years old, Stan Lee's name appears on more than one BILLION comics in 75 countries in 25 languages. Arguably the most recognized name in comics,...
Soupernatural
2010
as Lou
What happens in a small town Newsroom when it is rumored that the Messiah is serving soup at a local Church Festival.

I Love You, Man
2009
as Lou Ferrigno
Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that...

L'Incroyable Hulk : L'Homme Mystère
2009
as Hulk

The Incredible Hulk
2008
as Voice of The Incredible Hulk / Security Guard
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dr...

Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes
2005
as Self
A gay attorney uses his newfound powers to thwart a mad scientist.

Hulk
2003
as Security Guard
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a ragin...

Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
2002
as Self - Mr. Universe 1974
A documentary on the making of "Pumping Iron" to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Aired on Cinemax.

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
as The Incredible Hulk (archive footage)
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the mode...

Ping!
2001
as Dogcatcher
Ping is a chihuahua rescued from the pound by nearsighted Ethel, who thinks he's a cat. When a pair of bumbling thieves try to break into Ethel's hous...

The Godson
1998
as Bugsy
After the death of his older brother, Guiseppe "the guppy" Calzone becomes head of the Calzone Mob family. His aging father knows his son is not cut o...

Stand Tall
1997
as Self
This documentary is very much in the style of Pumping Iron, but like Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Rebuild it is centered around its "Star", Lou Ferri...

The Misery Brothers
1995
as Quazzie
Screwball sex comedy focusing on two brothers.

Cage II: The Arena of Death
1994
as Billy
After being tricked into thinking his best friend, and caretaker is dead, Vietnam Vet, and mentally disabled person has no other choice but to enter T...

The Making of '...And God Spoke'
1994
as Cain
A documentary on the making of a big budget Bible picture. This is a spoof that shows the inside action on a film set where everything that could poss...

Frogtown II
1992
as Ranger John Jones
In the sequel to Hell Comes to Frogtown, the Mutant-Frog leader of Frogtown kidnaps a professor and forces him to make a serum that will turn everyone...

The Naked Truth
1992
as Fed. #1
Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminating evidence against a mafia boss, who sends his T...

Hangfire
1991
as Smitty
When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furiou...

The Death of the Incredible Hulk
1990
as The Hulk
During the critical experiment that would rid David Banner of the Hulk,a spy sabotages the laboratory. Banner falls in love with the spy, Jasmin, who ...

Liberty & Bash
1989
as Bash
Liberty, Bash, and their friend Jesse served together in a war in Central America. Now Liberty and Bash work with youths, helping them stay out of cri...

Cage
1989
as Billy Thomas
A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has...

The Trial of the Incredible Hulk
1989
as The Hulk
On the run again, Dr. David Banner is jailed for assault after interrupting a mugging. Blind attorney Matt Murdock enlists Banner's help in locating t...

Desert Warrior
1989
as Zerak
The story centres on one such nomadic tribe who it transpires are searching for new, uncontaminated females with whom to procreate. Big Lou is apparen...

Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989
as Sinbad
Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.

All's Fair
1989
as Klaus
To relax, a group of stressed-out executives go to the country for a weekend to play war games.

The Incredible Hulk Returns
1988
as The Hulk
Dr. David Banner meets a former student, who has a magical hammer that summons Thor, a Norse god who is prevented from entering Valhalla. When the two...

The Adventures of Hercules
1985
as Hercules
Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.

Hercules
1983
as Hercules
Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help o...

The Seven Magnificent Gladiators
1983
as Han
A bandit leader endowed with supernatural powers by his sorceress mother makes yearly raids on a peasant village. However, the women of the village co...

Battle of the Video Games
1983
as Self
Anson Williams and Jayne Kennedy play host to celebrities who compete against one another at video games to win money for charity.

Bride of the Incredible Hulk
1980
as The Incredible Hulk
David and Carolyn marry in Hawaii and continue to work to find a cure for both their afflictions in a race against time.

The Return of the Incredible Hulk
1977
as The Hulk
On the run and presumed dead by the authorities, David Banner, using the name 'Benton', continues in his efforts to find a cure. He accidentally finds...

The Incredible Hulk
1977
as The Incredible Hulk
An accidental overdose of gamma radiation causes a mutation in scientist David Banner's DNA: now whenever he becomes angry, he metamorphoses into a se...

Pumping Iron
1977
as Self
Amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests as five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends h...

The Hermit
N/A
as The Hermit
Dragged on a vacation to the woods, teenagers Lisa and Eric fight for their lives against an unstoppable cannibal pig farmer.
Hard Redemption
N/A
as Rico
Korean American teenager Bryan wants out of his ruthless gang, the Goblins, setting the stage for gang retribution. On his first day of GED summer sch...