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Gil Perkins
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Gilbert Vincent Perkins (24 August 1907 – 28 March 1999) was an Australian film and television actor. A champion athlete and trackman in his native northern Australia, Gil Perki…
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Gilbert Vincent Perkins (24 August 1907 – 28 March 1999) was an Australian film and television actor. A champion athlete and trackman in his native northern Australia, Gil Perkins always wanted to get into films; as a teenager he virtually ran away from home, taking a job as a deck hand on a Norwegian freighter. He eventually landed in Hollywood in the late '20s, during the era of part-silent, part-talkie movies, and (because his accent was mistaken for English) he played young Englishmen in some of his first films. He soon drifted into stuntwork, regularly doubling cowboy star William Boyd and putting a red toupee over his own blond hair to double 'Red Skelton', among others. Some of his most notable stunt jobs were in the sci-fi/horror field. He doubled star Bruce Cabotthroughout King Kong (1933), stood in for Spencer Tracy as Mr. Hyde in Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde (1941) and replaced Bela Lugosi as the Monster in the climactic battle sequence of Frankenstein rencontre le loup-garou (1943). In addition to his feature films, Perkins turned up regularly in serials and on TV. On many occasions he worked with special effects and rigging departments, setting up large action scenes. By the 1960s he was doing more acting than stunts; he "officially" retired in 1972, although he took a number of subsequent jobs. - IMDb Mini Biography
Filmography
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1980
Raging Bull
Movie Cornerman (uncredited)
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1978
FM
Movie Stunts
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1976
Sherlock Holmes in New York
Movie Carriage Driver
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1975
Framed
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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1974
The Towering Inferno
Movie Stunts
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1973
Walking Tall
Movie 1st Bouncer
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1972
The Poseidon Adventure
Movie Stunts
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1972
What's Up, Doc?
Movie Jones' Driver
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1970
Lost Flight
Movie Australian
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1968
The Wrecking Crew
Movie Stunts
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1968
Here's Lucy
TV show Stuntman #1
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1967
Mannix
TV show
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1967
Cimarron Strip
TV show Swede
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1966
The Sand Pebbles
Movie Stunts
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1966
Hawaii
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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1966
Mission: Impossible
TV show Russian Colonel
More credits
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1966
Star Trek
TV show Slave #3 (uncredited)
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1966
Batman
Movie Bluebeard
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1966
Batman
TV show Dicer
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1965
Get Smart
TV show Waiter
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1965
Laredo
TV show
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1965
Lost in Space
TV show Convixt
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1965
The Great Race
Movie Saloon Brawler (uncredited)
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1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV show Dr. Armand Warshowsky
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1963
Twilight of Honor
Movie Stunts
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1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie Stunts
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1962
Kid Galahad
Movie Freddie (uncredited)
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1962
How the West Was Won
Movie Henchman (uncredited)
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1962
Pressure Point
Movie
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1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV show Pool Man
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1962
The Virginian
TV show Whitey
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1961
Valley of the Dragons
Movie Tarn / Doctor
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1960
The Alamo
Movie Tennessean (uncredited)
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1960
Spartacus
Movie Slave Leader (uncredited)
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1960
Thriller
TV show Eddie
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1959
Mr. Lucky
TV show Hood (uncredited)
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1959
Bonanza
TV show Whitey
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1959
Gunmen from Laredo
Movie
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1959
Black Saddle
TV show Sgt. Moffat
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1958
77 Sunset Strip
TV show
