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Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 - September 12,
1992) was an United States|American actor best
known for his role as the serial killer Norman
Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. He was the son
of American stage and film actor Osgood Perkins
(James Ripley Osgood Perkins, 1891-1937) and his
wife, Janet.

Perkins' first movie was The Actress (1953 in
film|1953);  he received an Academy Award
nomination for his role in his second film,
Friendly Persuasion (movie)|Friendly Persuasion
(1956 in film|1956).

After other acclaimed performances both in film
and on Broadway theatre|Broadway, he starred in
the 1960 in film|1960 film Psycho, which led to
his being typecast as the crazy killer (Lovin'
Molly notwithstanding). His performances in Psycho
and its sequels (Psycho II, Psycho III and Psycho
IV: The Beginning) were effective because of the
ambiguity he brought to the role, being both a
vulnerable victim and cold killer at different
times. This added to the suspense as it was never
known by the viewer until the last part of the
film whether Perkins' character was responsible
for the murders.

In 1978, he contributed a memorable performance to
Orson Welles' cinematic adaptation of Franz
Kafka's dark satire The Trial.

He went on to star in (and even direct) the
sequels and prequel to Psycho and also played a
few memorable characters, such as the chaplain in
Catch-22 (1970 in film|1970), but most of his
later work was made-for-TV movies or films made
outside the USA. 

==Personal life==
Perkins was bisexuality|bisexual, having had
affairs with a number of men, including 1950s and
1960s|60s film star Tab Hunter, writer-model-actor
Alan Helms, dancer Rudolf Nureyev and
dancer-choreographer Grover Dale, with whom
Perkins had a six-year relationship prior to his
marriage to Berry Berenson. He claimed to have
been exclusively homosexual until his late
thirties, when he underwent gay to straight
therapy. Dale married actress Anita Morris only 10
days before the Perkins-Berenson nuptials (Dale
and Morris's son is television actor James Badge
Dale).

Perkins died in 1992 of complications from AIDS.

His son, Osgood Perkins, credited as Oz Perkins,
is also an actor.

One day before the ninth anniversary of his death,
his widow, Berry Berenson, died on American
Airlines Flight 11, the flight that was hijacked
and crashed into the North Tower of the World
Trade Center during the September 11, 2001
Terrorist Attack|September 11, 2001 Terrorist
Attacks.

== Quote ==
I have learned more about love, selflessness and
human understanding from the people I have met in
this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I
ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in
which I spent my life.

==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 (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 (movie)|Friendly Persuasion
(1956) 
*The Actress (1953)

==External links==
*http://www.thepsychomovies.com The Psycho Movies
Web Site




 


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