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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
. 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
); 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 in the 1960 film
Psycho
, followed by a critically-lauded portayal of Joseph K. in Orson Welles
' cinematic adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial.

He went on to star in (and even direct) the sequels and prequel to Psycho, including Psycho II
, Psycho III
and Psycho IV: The Beginning
while playing 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 the screenplay for the 1973
film The Last of Sheila
together with composer / lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

Personal life

Perkins was bisexual, having had affairs with a number of men, including 1950s and 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 met the actress Victoria Principal
. 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 and his other son, Elvis Perkins, is a musician.

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 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
    , a.k.a. 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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