Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its three sequels.
Perkins was born in New York City, the son of Janet Esselstyn (née 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 in 1942, five years after his f...
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Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its three sequels.
Perkins was born in New York City, the son of Janet Esselstyn (née 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 in 1942, five years after his father's death.
Perkins made his film debut in The Actress (1953). He received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor and an Academy Award nomination for his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956). And he portrayed the troubled former Boston Red Sox baseball player Jimmy Piersall in the 1957 true story Fear Strikes Out.
Following this, he released three pop albums in 1957 and 1958 on Epic and RCA as "Tony Perkins". His single "Moon-Light Swim" was a hit in the United States, peaking at #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1957. He...
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