Anthony Perkins
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| Anthony Perkins | |
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| Image:Normanbates.jpg Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho | |
| Born | April 4 1932 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 12 1992 (aged 60) Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Years active | 1953-1992 |
| Spouse(s) | Berry Berenson (1948-2001) |
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an Academy Award-nominated American stage and screen actor best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its three sequels, Psycho II, Psycho III and Psycho IV: The Beginning.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Perkins was born in New York City, the son of Janet Esseltyn Rane and stage and film actor James Ripley Osgood Perkins. He attended The Brooks School, Buckingham Browne & Nichols, Columbia University and Rollins College, having moved to Boston, Massachusetts after his father's death in 1942.[1]
[edit] Career
Perkins' first movie was The Actress (1953). He received an Academy award nomination for 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. The role affected the remainder of his career.
Following the success of Psycho, Perkins had a successful career in Europe. He created a 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). He also played the chaplain in Catch-22 (1970). Perkins also co-wrote, with composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the screenplay for the (1973) film The Last of Sheila, for which the writers received a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. He returned to the role of Norman Bates for the sequels, Psycho II, Psycho III (which he directed) and Psycho IV: The Beginning.
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 1996 biography Anthony Perkins: Split Image written by Charles Winecoff.[2]
[edit] Personal life
Perkins was bisexual, having had affairs with a number of men, including 1950s and 1960s film stars Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim 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 gay until his late 30s, when he met actress Victoria Principal.[3]
Perkins died on September 12, 1992, at age 60 from complications of AIDS. One day before the ninth anniversary of his death, Perkins' widow, Berenson, died on American Airlines Flight 11, during the September 11, 2001 attacks. He had two sons: actor Osgood "Oz" Perkins (b. 1974), and musician, Elvis Perkins (b. 1976).
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| “ | 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. | ” |
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[edit] References
- ^ Anthony Perkins Biography. Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved on 2007-06-18.
- ^ Winecoff, Charles (1996). Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0525940642.
- ^ Tina Gianoulis. Perkins, Anthony (1932-1992). GLBTQ Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2007-06-18.
[edit] External links
- Anthony Perkins at the Internet Broadway Database
- Anthony Perkins at the Internet Movie Database
- Anthony Perkins at the TCM Movie Database
- Psycho star Anthony Perkins on playing Norman Batesco:Anthony Perkins
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