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Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor, director, and singer.
Sep 13, 1992 · Anthony Perkins, the haunting, lanky character actor who achieved his greatest fame as deranged motel keeper Norman Bates in the classic Hitchcock thriller “Psycho,” died Saturday of complications...
Sep 16, 1992 · For two years Anthony Perkins and his wife, Berry Berenson, kept silent that the actor was dying of AIDS. "He simply never wanted anyone to know," Ms. Berenson said in an interview at their...
Sep 14, 1992 · Anthony Perkins, the actor who starred in dozens of films and plays but was best known for his role as Norman Bates, the eerily soft-spoken psychopath in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller...
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Born in New York City on April 4, 1932, Anthony Perkins started acting as a teen and later received an Oscar nomination for his role in 1956's Friendly Persuasion. He starred in several other films before landing his most well-known part as innkeeper Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Perkins went on to star in many other movies from the 19...
Anthony Perkins was born in New York City, New York on April 4, 1932, to Janet Rane and Osgood Perkins, an actor. The younger Perkins would eventually speak of having a tortured, emotionally strained relationship with his parents and feeling deep anguish over the death of his father when he was 5 years old. At age 15, Perkins joined Actors Equity a...
The lanky thespian returned to the big screen in the 1956 drama Friendly Persuasion portraying a young Quaker caught between his spiritual, pacifist upbringing and military obligation during the Civil War. Perkins earned a supporting actor Oscar nomination for the role, continuing to build performances noted for their sensitivity and genuineness. I...
Typecasting from the Bates role would follow Perkins for years in American film circles, and he would relocate to Europe after receiving recognition at Cannes for his part in the Ingrid Bergman film Goodbye Again (1961). Perkins starred in several Europe-based films throughout the 1960s, including Orson Welles's The Trial (1963), but would eventual...
During the late 1980s, Perkins was diagnosed with HIV. Though he kept the news secret, he worked with Berenson for Project Angel Food, an organization that provides meals for individuals who are homebound due to HIV. On September 12, 1992, Perkins died from AIDS-related pneumonia at his home in Hollywood, California. He was survived by his wife and...
Anthony Perkins was an Oscar-nominated actor who starred in Psycho and other films. He died on September 12, 1992, in Hollywood, California, after being diagnosed with HIV in 1983.
Sep 14, 1992 · The actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in "Psycho", kept his illness secret until the end. He urged compassion and understanding about AIDS in a statement read by his publicist after his death.
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Sep 12, 2016 · The actor, who played Norman Bates in the classic horror film "Psycho", revealed his HIV status in a statement before his death. He said he learned more about love and compassion from the people he met in the world of AIDS.
