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Anthony Perkins
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Anthony 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-nom…
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Anthony 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.
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2022
Making I'm Dangerous Tonight
Movie Himself
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2020
Anthony Perkins, the Actor Behind the Door
Movie Self - Subject (archive footage)
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2015
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Movie (archive footage)
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2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
Movie Self (archive)
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2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Movie Self - Actor (archive footage)
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2013
Fallout
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2005
The Making of 'Psycho'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
The Cockettes
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2000
The American Nightmare
Movie Self
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1992
In the Deep Woods
Movie Paul Miller, P.I.
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1992
The Naked Target
Movie El Mecano
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1992
Patricia Highsmith's Tales
TV show Host
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1991
A Demon in My View
Movie Arthur Johnson
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1990
Psycho IV: The Beginning
Movie Norman Bates
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1990
The Ghost Writer
Movie Anthony Strack
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1990
I'm Dangerous Tonight
Movie Buchanan
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1990
A Curious Suicide
Movie Self - Host
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1990
The Day of Reckoning
Movie Self - Host
- 1990
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1990
Daughter of Darkness
Movie Anton
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1990
Chillers
TV show Self - Host
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1990
The Making of the Edge of Sanity
Movie Self
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1989
Edge of Sanity
Movie Dr. Henry Jekyll / Jack "The Ripper" Hyde
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1988
Lucky Stiff
Movie Director
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1988
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Movie Anthony Perkins
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1988
Destroyer
Movie Robert Edwards
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1987
Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story
TV show Talleyrand
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1986
The Making Of Psycho III
Movie Self
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1986
King Kong! The Living Legend
Movie Self
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1986
Psycho III
Movie Norman Bates
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1984
Crimes of Passion
Movie Reverend Peter Shayne
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1984
The Glory Boys
TV show Jimmy
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1983
Psycho II
Movie Norman Bates
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1983
The Sins of Dorian Gray
Movie Henry Lord
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1983
For the Term of His Natural Life
TV show Reverend James North
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1982
The Orson Welles Story
Movie Self
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1982
Night of 100 Stars
Movie Self
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1981
Wetten, dass..?
TV show Self
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1980
Double Negative
Movie Lawrence Miles
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1980
North Sea Hijack
Movie Lou Kramer
