Anthony Perkins Wallpapers

Anthony Perkins Wallpapers

Anthony Perkins Actor Wallpapers, Biography, Filmography, Photos

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 (1960).

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 as Norman Bates in the 1960 film Psycho. Many people feel he deserved to win an Oscar for this role[citation needed], but he was not nominated. Following the success of Psycho, he did have a decade-long successful career in Europe, where many fans did not associate Perkins with the typecasting image of Norman Bates.

He went on to create a critically-lauded portrayal of Joseph K. in Orson Welles' cinematic adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial, and upon returning to America, he took the role of a disturbed young murderer in Pretty Poison, which served to affect the rest of his career. He starred in the sequels and prequel to Psycho, including Psycho II, Psycho III (which he directed) and Psycho IV: The Beginning. He also played 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, with composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the screenplay for the 1973 film The Last of Sheila, for which they received a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.

Perkins's life was meticulously documented in the biography Anthony Perkins: Split Image by Charles Winecoff (Alyson Books, 2006).

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, also known as 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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