Anthony Perkins — biography, films, roles and trivia

Biography

American actor and film director. Anthony Perkins was the son of the famous Broadway actor Osgood Perkins. He graduated from Rollins College and Columbia University. In 1956 and 1957, Anthony Perkins was nominated for an Academy Award — the first time for William Wyler's film "Friendly Persuasion," which won the Palme d'Or. He appeared in several films with Sophia Loren ("Desire Under the Elms" and others), worked with Orson Welles on the adaptation of Kafka's novel "The Trial," and in 1961 was awarded the Cannes Film Festival prize for his role in "Goodbye Again." He was considered one of the most promising Hollywood stars of the late 1950s.

He gained worldwide and, at the same time, fatal fame after his role in Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho." Subsequently, directors saw the actor only as mentally unbalanced characters. He never hid his bisexuality, and died of pneumonia, according to some rumors brought on by AIDS, at the age of 60. His widow, Berry Berenson, died tragically on September 11, 2001, on one of the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers in New York.

Filmography

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1983 The Sins of Dorian Gray Henry Lord

Interesting facts

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Anthony's widow, Berry Berenson, died during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks; she was a passenger on American Airlines Flight AAL11 from Boston to Los Angeles, which was the first plane to crash into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York.
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Father of Osgood Perkins and Elvis Perkins.
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Anthony had two sons in his marriage to American actress, model, and photographer Berry Berenson: actor Oz Perkins (born 02.02.1974) and musician Elvis Perkins (born 09.02.1976).
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Anthony attended the private elementary school Buckingham Browne & Nichols in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the private boarding high school Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, and the private Columbia University in New York; he studied at the private Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
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Anthony was born to Janet Esselstyn and Osgood Perkins, the only child in the family. His father, a very famous film and Broadway actor, died when Anthony was five years old. His paternal great-grandfather was the well-known American wood engraver Andrew Varick Stout Anthony.
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Died in 1992 from AIDS.
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Anthony Perkins was left-handed.
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He was bisexual.