Anthony Perkins

Anthony Perkins

Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and his Oscar-nominated role in Friendly Persuasion (1956). He made his film debut in The Actress (1953) directed by George Cukor before experiencing success on Broadway with Elia Kazan’s production of Tea and Sympathy (1955). He quickly became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, working alongside actors such as Henry Fonda (The Tin Star), Sophia Loren (Desire Under the Elms), Shirley MacLaine (The Matchmaker), Audrey Hepburn (Green Mansions), and Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, and Ava Gardner (On the Beach). He left Hollywood in 1960 and had a successful career in Europe, where he co-starred with Ingrid Bergman (Aimez-vous Brahms?), Melina Mercouri (Phaedra), Brigitte Bardot (Une ravissante idiote), and Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli, and Orson Welles (Le procès). He returned to Hollywood in 1968 with Pretty Poison, which became a cult classic. In the decades that followed, his career continued to flourish alongside personalities like Diana Ross (Mahogany), Jeff Goldblum (Remember My Name), Elizabeth Taylor (Winter Kills), John Candy (Double Negative), and Lauren Bacall (Murder on the Orient Express). In 1973, he co-wrote The Last of Sheila with Stephen Sondheim. During his career, he won a Golden Globe, a Cannes Award, and a David di Donatello Award, and was nominated for two Tony Awards and one Academy Award. Perkins died on September 12, 1992, of AIDS complications.

Known For: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1932-04-04

Died: 1992-09-12

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Actress	Fred Whitmarsh	62
2	1956	Stars of Cabaret	Self (archive footage)	0
3	1956	Friendly Persuasion	Josh Birdwell	66
4	1957	Fear Strikes Out	Jimmy Piersall	71
5	1957	The Lonely Man	Riley Wade	61
6	1957	This Angry Age	Joseph Dufresne	59
7	1957	The Tin Star	Ben Owens	70
8	1958	Desire Under the Elms	Abel Cabot	69
9	1958	The Matchmaker	Cornelius Hackl	70
10	1959	Green Mansions	Abel	60
11	1959	On the Beach	Lt. Peter Holmes	66
12	1960	Hedda Hopper's Hollywood	Self	60
13	1960	Tall Story	Ray Blent	54
14	1960	Psycho	Norman Bates	84
15	1961	Goodbye Again	Philip Van der Besh	71
16	1962	Phaedra	Alexis Kyrilis	58
17	1962	Five Miles to Midnight	Robert Macklin	59
18	1962	The Trial	Josef K.	74
19	1963	The Sword and the Balance	Johnny Parsons	76
20	1964	Agent 38-24-36	Harry Compton / Nicolas Sergueivitch Miloukine	59
21	1965	The Fool Killer	Milo Bogardus	68
22	1966	Is Paris Burning?	Sgt. Warren	72
23	1966	Evening Primrose	Charles Snell	73
24	1967	The Champagne Murders	Christopher Belling	55
25	1968	Pretty Poison	Dennis Pitt	68
26	1968	The Male Animal	Tommy Turner	0
27	1970	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis	Self (archive footage)	71
28	1970	Catch-22	Chaplain Capt. A.T. Tappman	67
29	1970	WUSA	Rainey	54
30	1970	How Awful About Allan	Allan	58
31	1971	Someone Behind the Door	Laurence Jeffries	55
32	1971	Ten Days' Wonder	Charles Van Horn	63
33	1972	Play It as It Lays	B.Z.	62
34	1972	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	Reverend LaSalle	65
35	1973	The Last of Sheila Featurette	Self	0
36	1974	Lovin' Molly	Gid	47
37	1974	Murder on the Orient Express	Hector MacQueen	71
38	1975	Mahogany	Sean McAvoy	58
39	1978	Remember My Name	Neil Curry	61
40	1978	First, You Cry	Arthur Heroz	0
41	1978	Les Misérables	Javert	72
42	1979	The Horror Show	Self - Host	38
43	1979	Winter Kills	John Cerruti	59
44	1979	Twice a Woman	Alfred	41
45	1979	The Black Hole	Dr. Alex Durant	58
46	1980	North Sea Hijack	Lou Kramer	62
47	1980	Double Negative	Lawrence Miles	33
48	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
49	1983	The Sins of Dorian Gray	Henry Lord	57
50	1983	Psycho II	Norman Bates	65
51	1984	Crimes of Passion	Reverend Peter Shayne	63
52	1986	Psycho III	Norman Bates	56
53	1986	King Kong! The Living Legend	Self	0
54	1988	Destroyer	Robert Edwards	50
55	1988	Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz	Anthony Perkins	0
56	1989	Edge of Sanity	Dr. Henry Jekyll / Jack "The Ripper" Hyde	54
57	1990	Daughter of Darkness	Anton	50
58	1990	With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film	Self	0
59	1990	The Day of Reckoning	Self - Host	0
60	1990	I'm Dangerous Tonight	Buchanan	44
61	1990	The Ghost Writer	Anthony Strack	60
62	1990	Psycho IV: The Beginning	Norman Bates	57
63	1991	A Demon in My View	Arthur Johnson	30
64	1992	The Naked Target	El Mecano	48
65	1992	In the Deep Woods	Paul Miller, P.I.	56
66	1993	24 Hour Psycho	Norman Bates (archive footage)	40
67	2000	The American Nightmare	Self	70
68	2002	The Cockettes	Self (archive footage)	67
69	2005	The Making of 'Psycho'	Self (archive footage)	74
70	2010	The Psycho Legacy	Self (archive footage)	69
71	2013	Fallout	Self (archive footage)	70
72	2014	Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles	Self - Actor (archive footage)	67
73	2015	Tab Hunter Confidential	Self (archive footage)	74
74	2015	Fifty Shades of Erotica		70
75	2017	78/52	Self (archive footage)	73
76	2017	Psycho Tom	Norman Bates	0
77	2020	Anthony Perkins, the Actor Behind the Door	Himself (archive) - subject	77
78	2022	Making I'm Dangerous Tonight	Himself	60

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1948	Studio One	Clyde Smith	50
3	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
4	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Panelist	69
5	1951	Goodyear Television Playhouse	Joey	53
6	1953	General Electric Theater	West Wind	63
7	1953	The Man Behind the Badge	Pedro	55
8	1954	Reflets de Cannes	Self	20
9	1955	Windows	Benji	0
10	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
11	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Singer	56
12	1959	Discorama	Self	0
13	1961	Treffpunkt New York	Self	0
14	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
15	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
16	1965	aspekte	Self	70
17	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Tommy Turner	50
18	1966	ABC Stage 67	Charles Snell	62
19	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
20	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
21	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
22	1977	Please Turn the Page	Self	60
23	1979	NDR Talk Show	Self	65
24	1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self	53
25	1983	For the Term of His Natural Life	Rev. James North	59
26	1984	The Glory Boys	Jimmy	56
27	1987	Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story	Talleyrand	68
28	1990	Chillers	Self - Host	62
29	1992	Patricia Highsmith's Tales	Host	0

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