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Anthony Perkins
Known for: ActingAnthony 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.
Filmography 51
Psycho
+6
as Norman Bates 
Catch-22
+6
as Chaplain Capt. A.T. Tappman 
Is Paris Burning?
as Sgt. Warren 
Murder on the Orient Express
+7
as Hector MacQueen 
The Matchmaker
+3
as Cornelius Hackl 
Psycho II
+6
as Norman Bates 
The Trial
+5
as Josef K. 
Crimes of Passion
+5
as Reverend Peter Shayne 
Chillers
+7
as Self - Host 
On the Beach
as Lt. Peter Holmes 
The Black Hole
+3
as Dr. Alex Durant 
Psycho III
+5
as Norman Bates 
Psycho IV: The Beginning
+3
as Norman Bates 
The Tin Star
+8
as Ben Owens 
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
+4
as Reverend LaSalle 
The Last of Sheila
+3
Writer 
Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story
as Talleyrand 
Friendly Persuasion
+3
as Josh Birdwell 
Green Mansions
as Abel 
Pretty Poison
+2
as Dennis Pitt 
Five Miles to Midnight
as Robert Macklin 
Desire Under the Elms
+3
as Abel Cabot 
For the Term of His Natural Life
as Reverend James North 
The Glory Boys
+2
as Jimmy 
In the Deep Woods
+9
as Paul Miller, P.I. 
Winter Kills
+4
as John Cerruti 
The Actress
+2
as Fred Whitmarsh 
Goodbye Again
as Philip Van der Besh 
North Sea Hijack
+2
as Lou Kramer 
Someone Behind the Door
+7
as Laurence Jeffries 
Evening Primrose
as Charles Snell 
Tab Hunter Confidential
+4
as Self (archive) 
The Lonely Man
+3
as Riley Wade 
Tall Story
+2
as Ray Blent 
Les Misérables
+15
as Javert 
Remember My Name
as Neil Curry 
Lovin' Molly
+2
as Gid 
The Sword and the Balance
as Johnny Parsons 
WUSA
as Rainey 
The Sins of Dorian Gray
+1
as Henry Lord 
Ten Days' Wonder
as Charles Van Horn 
Fear Strikes Out
+3
as Jimmy Piersall 
Phaedra
+7
as Alexis Kyrilis 
How Awful About Allan
+13
as Allan 
Destroyer
+4
as Robert Edwards 
Twice a Woman
as Alfred 
Edge of Sanity
+6
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Jack "The Ripper" Hyde 
Double Negative
as Lawrence Miles 
Mahogany
+6
as Sean McAvoy 
Lucky Stiff
Director 
A Demon in My View
+2
as Arthur Johnson