Actor, born in New York City, USA. He studied at Columbia University, and made his film debut in 1953 while still a student. After several early films, such as Friendly Persuasion (1956), he achieved international fame as the maniacal Norman Bates in Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), with its three sequels (1983, 1986, 1990). Although he played many other parts on stage and screen, this role was the peak of his career.
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor best known for his role as the serial killer Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).
He was the son of American stage and film actor Osgood Perkins (James Ripley Osgood Perkins, 1891–1937) and his wife, Janet Esseltyn Rane.
Perkins' first movie was The Actress (1953);
Perkins also co-wrote, with composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the screenplay for the 1973 film The Last of Sheila, for which they received a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers
of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.
Personal life
Perkins was bisexual, having had affairs with a number of men, including 1950s and 60s film star Tab Hunter, dancer Rudolf Nureyev and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale, with whom Perkins had a
six-year relationship prior to his marriage to Berry Berenson.
His son, Osgood Perkins, credited as Oz Perkins, is also an actor and his other son, Elvis Perkins, is a musician.
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Filmography
In the Deep Woods (1992)
The Naked Target (1992)
The Man Next Door (1991)
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
Ghost Writer (1990)
I'm Dangerous Tonight
(1990)
Daughter of Darkness (1990)
Chillers (1990)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Destroyer (1988)
Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987)
Psycho III (1986)
Crimes of Passion (1984)
The Glory Boys (1984)
Psycho II (1983)
The Sins of Dorian Gray (1983)
For the Term of His Natural Life (1982)
North Sea Hijack,
also known as Ffolkes (1980)
Double Negative (1980)
The Black Hole (1979)
Twice a Woman (1979)
Winter Kills (1979)
Les Misérables (1978)
First, You Cry
(1978)
Remember My Name (1978)
Mahogany (1975)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Lovin' Molly (1974)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Play It As
It Lays (1972)
Someone Behind the Door (1971)
Ten Days Wonder (1971)
How Awful About Allan (1970)
WUSA (1970)
Catch-22 (1970)
Pretty Poison (1968)
The Champagne Murders (1967)
Evening Primrose (1966)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
The Fool Killer (1965)
Agent 38-24-36 (1964)
The Sword and the Balance
(1963)
The Trial (1962)
Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
Phaedra (1962)
Goodbye Again (1961) Psycho (1960)
Tall Story (1960)
On the Beach (1959)
Green Mansions (1959)
The Matchmaker (1958)
This Angry Age (1958)
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
The Tin Star (1957)
The Lonely Man (1957)
Fear Strikes
Out (1957)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
The Actress (1953)
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