Anthony Perkins was born in New York on April 4, 1932, the son of actor Osgood Perkins, who died when Tony was 5. Entertaining acting ambitions from an early age, Tony worked in summer stock as a teenager before breaking into the movies when he was in his early 20s.Perkins began his film career playing sensitive youths, including Gary Cooper's pacifist son in Friendly Persuasion (1956), for which he received an Oscar nomination. After taking on the role of creepy Norman Bates in Psycho (1960), however, Perkins became typecast as a deranged outsider. Some of his notable performances include the mentally disturbed baseball player Jimmy Piersall in Fear Strikes Out (1957), a doomed survivor in On the Beach (1959), Josef K. in Orson Welles's production of The Trial (1962) and a chaplain in Catch-22 (1970).
Perkins starred in three Psycho sequels before his death on Sept. 12, 1992.
PsychoWhen larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where twitchy manager Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cares for his housebound mother. The place seems quirky but fine …... Read More
Psycho IIIAnd you thought it was safe to go back in the shower! Anthony Perkins recreates his most famous role and makes his directing debut in this second sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's legendary thriller. Once again, the Bates Motel is the site of nasty doings as rehabilitated psychopath Norman Bates... Read More
The TrialDirector Orson Welles's brilliant adaptation of Franz Kafka's existential novel casts Anthony Perkins as Josef K, a bank clerk who finds himself at the mercy of a powerful and bizarre judicial system when he's arrested for an unnamed crime. In his efforts to exonerate himself, the bewildered Josef... Read More
Psycho IINorman Bates (Anthony Perkins) comes home in the terrifying sequel to one of Alfred Hitchcock's most suspenseful movies. After years of rehab in a mental institution, Norman returns to the family home, but is he really free of the henpecking from his "mother"? Vera Miles reprises her role from the... Read More
Evening PrimroseSeeking refuge from the outside world, a reclusive poet (Anthony Perkins) takes up residence in a department store, only to discover he isn't alone. Among his new neighbors is a beautiful girl (Charmian Carr) who's lived there most of her life and is desperate to leave. Paul Bogart directs this... Read More
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Chillers: Vol. 1 (1990) | NR | |
Edge of Sanity (1989) | R | |
Lucky Stiff (1988) | PG | |
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Crimes of Passion (1984) | NR | |
The Glory Boys (1984) | NR | |
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The Black Hole (1979) | PG | |
Winter Kills (1979) | R | |
Les Miserables (1978) | NR | |
Mahogany (1975) | PG | |
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) | PG | |
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Play It as It Lays (1972) | R | |
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Someone Behind the Door (1971) | NR | |
Catch-22 (1970) | R | |
WUSA (1970) | PG-13 | |
Charles Bronson: Vital Hits (1970) | PG | |
How Awful About Allan (1970) | NR | |
Pretty Poison (1968) | NR | |
Evening Primrose (1966) | NR | |
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Phaedra (1962) | UR | |
Le Couteau Dans La Plaie (1962) | NR | |
Goodbye Again (1961) | NR | |
Psycho (1960) | NR | |
On the Beach (1959) | NR | |
Desire Under the Elms (1958) | NR | |
The Matchmaker (1958) | NR | |
The Tin Star (1957) | NR | |
The Lonely Man (1957) | NR | |
Fear Strikes Out (1957) | NR | |
Friendly Persuasion (1956) | NR | |
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