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Date of Birth : Apr 4th 1932

American actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and its three sequels. 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”.[3] His single “Moon-Light Swim” was a hit in the United States, peaking at #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1957.[4] He starred with Shirley Booth and Shirley MacLaine in the film The Matchmaker (1958).

He also acted on the stage. In 1958, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in Look Homeward, Angel on Broadway. During this time he also starred in Green Mansions (1959) with Audrey Hepburn and the college comedy Tall Story (1960) with Jane Fonda.


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Psycho II ( 1983 )

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North Sea Hijack ( 1980 )

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Psycho ( 1960 )

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