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Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and his Oscar-nominated role in Friendly Persuasion (1956). He made his film debut in The Actress (1953) directed by George Cukor before experiencing success on Broadway with Elia Kazan... more

Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and his Oscar-nominated role in Friendly Persuasion (1956). He made his film debut in The Actress (1953) directed by George Cukor before experiencing success on Broadway with Elia Kazan’s production of Tea and Sympathy (1955).

He quickly became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, working alongside actors such as Henry Fonda (The Tin Star), Sophia Loren (Desire Under the Elms), Shirley MacLaine (The Matchmaker), Audrey Hepburn (Green Mansions), and Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, and Ava Gardner (On the Beach).

He left Hollywood in 1960 and had a successful career in Europe, where he co-starred with Ingrid Bergman (Aimez-vous Brahms?), Melina Mercouri (Phaedra), Brigitte Bardot (Une ravissante idiote), and Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli, and Orson Welles (Le procès). He returned to Hollywood in 1968 with Pretty Poison, which became a cult classic.

In the decades that followed, his career continued to flourish alongside personalities like Diana Ross (Mahogany), Jeff Goldblum (Remember My Name), Elizabeth Taylor (Winter Kills), John Candy (Double Negative), and Lauren Bacall (Murder on the Orient Express). In 1973, he co-wrote The Last of Sheila with Stephen Sondheim.

During his career, he won a Golden Globe, a Cannes Award, and a David di Donatello Award, and was nominated for two Tony Awards and one Academy Award. Perkins died on September 12, 1992, of AIDS complications.

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Psycho
(1960)
Drama, Horror, Thriller
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam
8.5
96%
97
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Murder on the Orient Express
(1974)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Runtime:
128 min
Director:
Sidney Lumet
Cast:
Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset
7.3
90%
63
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The Trial
(1962)
Crime, Drama
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Orson Welles
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff
7.7
83%
N/A
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Catch-22
(1970)
Comedy, Drama, War
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Mike Nichols
Cast:
Alan Arkin, Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin
7.1
79%
70
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Psycho II
(1983)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by 'her' demands and begins to question his own sanity.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Richard Franklin
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Meg Tilly
6.5
60%
54
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The Black Hole
(1979)
Action, Adventure, Family, Science Fiction
The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino c...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Gary Nelson
Cast:
Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms
6.0
38%
52
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On the Beach
(1959)
Drama, Romance, Science Fiction
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him...
Runtime:
134 min
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Cast:
Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson
7.3
75%
N/A
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Friendly Persuasion
(1956)
Drama, War, Western
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
Runtime:
137 min
Director:
William Wyler
Cast:
Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton
7.5
88%
N/A
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
(1972)
Western
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
John Huston
Cast:
Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Ned Beatty, Anthony Perkins, Victoria Principal
7.0
71%
N/A
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Psycho III
(1986)
Horror, Thriller
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls 'mother'. One day a nosey journalist comes to see him to ask questions about his past.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Anthony Perkins
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey, Roberta Maxwell, Hugh Gillin
5.4
61%
58
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The Tin Star
(1957)
Romance, Western
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Anthony Mann
Cast:
Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray, Neville Brand
7.4
80%
N/A
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Is Paris Burning?
(1966)
Drama, History, War
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city w...
Runtime:
173 min
Director:
René Clément
Cast:
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Versini, Alain Delon, Gert Fröbe
6.9
71%
N/A
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Crimes of Passion
(1984)
Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Joanna Crane lives a double life. During the day she works as fashion designer but during the night she is the high class prostitute China Blue. As she is accused for industrial spying, Bobby Grady is hired to shadow her. However, they fall in love. Meanwhile a psychopathic preacher starts stalking her.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Ken Russell
Cast:
Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, Bruce Davison, Annie Potts, John Laughlin
6.3
33%
N/A
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Tab Hunter Confidential
(2015)
Documentary
In the 1950s, Tab Hunter was number one at the box office and number one on the music charts and was Hollywood’s most sought-after young star. Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds and Sophia Loren were just a few of the actresses he was romantically linked to. He was America’s Boy Next Door and nothing, it seemed, could damage Tab Hunter’s ca...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Jeffrey Schwarz
Cast:
Tab Hunter, Clint Eastwood, Natalie Wood, Paul Newman, James Dean
7.8
88%
60
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Pretty Poison
(1968)
Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young man gets in over his head when he convinces a small-town girl he's a secret agent.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Noel Black
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph, Dick O'Neill
7.2
100%
N/A
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Psycho IV – The Beginning
(1990)
Horror, Mystery, TV Movie, Thriller
Norman Bates is again released from the mental hospital he was placed in at the end of Psycho III after serving another few years and is apparently rehabiliated for the second time. Norman is now married to a young nurse named Connie and is expecting a child. However, Norman fears that the child will inherit his mental illness. Meanwhi...
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Mick Garris
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas, Olivia Hussey, CCH Pounder, Warren Frost
5.5
N/A
N/A
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North Sea Hijack
(1980)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
A terrorist (Anthony Perkins) holds an offshore drilling rig and production platform for ransom in the North Sea. Ffolkes (Roger Moore) a wealthy misogynistic eccentric, volunteers to send his crack team of soldiers in to stop the terrorists. With few other options available, the British Government reluctantly accepts his help.
Runtime:
100 min
6.3
33%
N/A
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78/52
(2017)
Documentary
The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.
Runtime:
91 min
Cast:
Emilie Germain, Oz Perkins, Peter Bogdanovich, Guillermo del Toro, Eli Roth
7.3
88%
74
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Les Misérables
(1978)
Drama, History, Romance, TV Movie
Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.
Runtime:
150 min
Director:
Glenn Jordan
Cast:
Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins, Caroline Langrishe, Ian Holm, Christopher Guard
7.3
N/A
N/A
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Goodbye Again
(1961)
Drama, Romance
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier resists the advances of Philip Van der Besh, the 24-year-old son of one of her clients. But when her longtime paramour, Roger Demarest, begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman, Paula decides that two can play that game. However, it seems that society looks differently at May-Decembe...
Runtime:
120 min
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Fear Strikes Out
(1957)
Drama
Sports biopic depicting the athletic, domestic, and emotional struggles of Jimmy Piersall (Anthony Perkins). He achieved stardom as a member of the Boston Red Sox but battled mental illness and intense pressure from his father.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Robert Mulligan
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Perry Wilson
7.0
82%
N/A
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Mahogany
(1975)
Drama, Romance
Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Berry Gordy, Tony Richardson
Cast:
Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins, Marisa Mell, Jean-Pierre Aumont
6.2
32%
N/A
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Winter Kills
(1979)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's attempts to control his actions, Nick follows the clues that have been handed to him. As he progresses, it becomes increasingly difficult to discer...
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
William Richert
Cast:
Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach, Sterling Hayden
6.3
86%
N/A
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Phaedra
(1962)
Drama
A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis's father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra. When Alexis meets his stepmother, sparks fly and the two begin an affair. What will the Fates bring this family? Alexis's roadster and the music of Bach figure in the conclusion.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Jules Dassin
Cast:
Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, Elizabeth Ercy
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Someone Behind the Door
(1971)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Nicolas Gessner
Cast:
Charles Bronson, Anthony Perkins, Jill Ireland, Henri Garcin, Agathe Natanson
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Green Mansions
(1959)
Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature. It is all an admirable romance telling a tale of "quest, love, and violence."
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Mel Ferrer
Cast:
Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Henry Silva, Nehemiah Persoff
5.6
N/A
N/A
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The Matchmaker
(1958)
Comedy, Romance
Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Joseph Anthony
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine, Shirley Booth, Paul Ford, Robert Morse
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Five Miles to Midnight
(1962)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Immediately after Lisa (Loren) declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going husband Robert (Perkins), he is reported dead in a plane crash. Secretly still alive, he convinces her to collect his life insurance, although she knows that it's a bad idea. Lisa must contend with the complications of the scheme, which in...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Anatole Litvak
Cast:
Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Yolande Turner
6.3
29%
N/A
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Desire Under the Elms
(1958)
Drama, Romance
Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two wives Cabot has overworked into early graves. Most bitter is Eben, whose mother had owned most of the farm, and who feels who should be sole heir. When the old man brings home a ne...
Runtime:
111 min
Director:
Delbert Mann
Cast:
Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Pernell Roberts, Frank Overton
6.6
N/A
N/A
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The Actress
(1953)
Comedy, Drama
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
Runtime:
90 min
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Ten Days Wonder
(1971)
Drama, Mystery
A philosophy professor is investigating the sudden demise of one of his students, who had mental problems.
Runtime:
110 min
6.3
N/A
N/A
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Remember My Name
(1978)
Drama, Thriller
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
Runtime:
94 min
6.5
N/A
N/A
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The Lonely Man
(1957)
Action, Western
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Ja...
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Henry Levin
Cast:
Jack Palance, Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand, Robert Middleton, Eileen Aiken
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Edge of Sanity
(1989)
Horror, Thriller
When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. The police can't catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind
Runtime:
91 min
5.4
N/A
N/A
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WUSA
(1970)
Drama
Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's reactionary editorial stance on the air, even if he doesn't agree with it. Rheinhardt finds his cynical detachment challenged by a lady friend, Geraldine, and by Rainey, a neighbour and trou...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Stuart Rosenberg
Cast:
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey, Bruce Cabot
5.5
N/A
N/A
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Play It as It Lays
(1972)
Drama
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of so...
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Frank Perry
Cast:
Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Adam Roarke, Tammy Grimes, Ruth Ford
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Tall Story
(1960)
Comedy
Love puts a college basketball star into a tailspin.
Runtime:
91 min
6.0
N/A
N/A
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How Awful About Allan
(1970)
TV Movie, Thriller
After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
Runtime:
74 min
Director:
Curtis Harrington
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett, Kent Smith, Robert H. Harris
6.0
N/A
N/A
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The Champagne Murders
(1967)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Claude Chabrol
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux, Suzanne Lloyd, Henry Jones
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Lovin' Molly
(1974)
Drama, Romance
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Sidney Lumet
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges, Blythe Danner, Edward Binns, Susan Sarandon
6.0
N/A
N/A