• Name: Anthony Perkins
• Date of Birth: April 04, 1932
• Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA

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Biography: 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 ...( read more )stage and film actor Osgood Perkins and Janet Esseltyn Rane. Perkins' first movie was The Actress (1953); he received an Academy Award nomination for his role in his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956). After other acclaimed performances both in film and on Broadway, he starred as Norman Bates in the 1960 film Psycho. Many people feel he deserved to win an Oscar for this role[citation needed], but he was not nominated. Following the success of Psycho, he did have a decade-long successful career in Europe, where many fans did not associate Perkins with the typecasting image of Norman Bates.

Perkins went on to create a critically-lauded portrayal of Joseph K. in Orson Welles' The Trial (1962) a cinematic adaptation of the novel by Franz Kafka. Upon returning to America, he took the role of a disturbed young murderer in Pretty Poison (1968), which served to affect the rest of his career. He starred in the sequels and prequel to Psycho, including Psycho II, Psycho III (which he directed) and Psycho IV: The Beginning. He also played a few memorable characters, such as the chaplain in Catch-22 (1970). Despite these successes, most of his later work was made-for-TV movies. 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. Among his Broadway credits are the Frank Loesser musical Greenwillow (1960) and Bernard Slade's 1979 play Romantic Comedy opposite Mia Farrow. Perkins's life was meticulously documented in the biography Anthony Perkins: Split Image by Charles Winecoff (Alyson Books, 2006).

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  01MovieMan

  He was a very talented actor
  I did not know he directed
  He was a regular customer in the bicycle store I worked at in Manhattan.
  He always bought the same model bicycle and sold it when he left for California. Then he bought another one there.

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  aquariangirl4

  im speachless alls i know im getting more of this tall, dark, stranger movies...........................

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  aquariangirl4

  sooooooooo adorible tall, dark, handsom. and the smile wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!-he talks like a dream and sings too! i mean i fell in love with the tv set

  posted 147 days ago
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  cravingxheart

  fucking gorgeous.

  posted 215 days ago
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  77loloscoolbutJTROCKS77

  a truely great actor!

  posted 464 days ago
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  thequietgirl

  Such a cutie he was, as well as a magnificent actor. A very intelligent man who left us a little too soon. R.I.P

  posted 464 days ago
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  stupid190

  Truely Amazing!!!

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  Spicecats

  Legend!

  posted 638 days ago

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• Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (Unrated, 2006)
• In the Deep Woods (Unrated, 1992)
• Der Mann Nebenan (A Demon in My View) (The Man Next Door) (R, 1991)
• Psycho IV: The Beginning (R, 1990)
• Edge of Sanity (R, 1989)
• Lucky Stiff (PG, 1988)
• Destroyer (Shadow of Death) (The Edison Effect) (Unrated, 1988)
• Psycho III (R, 1986)
• Psycho II (R, 1983)
• Ffolkes (PG-13, 1980)

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