Anthony Perkins
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.
Psycho
as Norman BatesWhen larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of...
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Murder on the Orient Express
as Hector MacQueenIn 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve...
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Catch-22
as Chaplain Capt. A.T. TappmanA bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However,...
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Crimes of Passion
as Reverend Peter ShayneFashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute...
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Psycho II
as Norman BatesNorman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite...
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Fifty Shades of Erotica
as uncreditedBefore Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on...
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Psycho IV: The Beginning
as Norman BatesWhen he hears talk radio host Fran Ambrose discussing the topic of matricide, Norman calls in...
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Pretty Poison
as Dennis PittA troubled arsonist spins a tale of espionage to a captivating girl, who becomes enthralled and...
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Psycho III
as Norman BatesWhen Maureen Coyle, a suicidal nun who resembles Norman's former victim, Marion Crane, arrives...
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
as Reverend LaSalleOutlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that...
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On the Beach
as Lt. Peter HolmesIn 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds...
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The Trial
as Josef K.Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on...
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Friendly Persuasion
as Josh BirdwellThe story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to...
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The Black Hole
as Dr. Alex DurantThe explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for...
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The Tin Star
as Ben OwensAn experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
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In the Deep Woods
as Paul Miller, P.I.A friend of Joanna has been killed by a serial killers who leaves the bodies in the woods. A...
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Is Paris Burning?
as Sgt. WarrenNear the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if...
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78/52
as Self (archive footage)The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the...
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Tab Hunter Confidential
as Self (archive footage)Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout...
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Winter Kills
as John CerrutiThe younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies...
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North Sea Hijack
as Lou KramerWhen terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not...
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The Cockettes
as Self (archive footage)Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture...
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I'm Dangerous Tonight
as BuchananAn ancient Aztec cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way into the possession of a young...
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Edge of Sanity
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Jack "The Ripper" HydeWhen his experiments into a powerful new anesthetic go hideously awry, respected physician Dr....
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Mahogany
as Sean McAvoyAn aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes...
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Les Misérables
as JavertIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Actor (archive footage)The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible...
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Five Miles to Midnight
as Robert MacklinImmediately after Lisa declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going...
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Green Mansions
as AbelA young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace,...
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King,...
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The Matchmaker
as Cornelius HacklThornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with...
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How Awful About Allan
as AllanAfter an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his...
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Phaedra
as Alexis KyrilisA modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely...
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Agent 38-24-36
as Harry Compton / Nicolas Sergueiovitch MaukoulineA Russian spy is sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization....
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Lovin' Molly
as GidSpanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and...
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The Champagne Murders
as Christopher BellingA champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.
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The Fool Killer
as Milo BogardusAfter the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the...
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24 Hour Psycho
as Norman Bates (archive footage)24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The...
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The Lonely Man
as Riley WadeAging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies...
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Goodbye Again
as Philip Van der BeshMiddle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old...
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The Actress
as Fred WhitmarshThe true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
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Tall Story
as Ray BlentA young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward...
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Someone Behind the Door
as Laurence JeffriesA neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to...
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A Demon in My View
as Arthur JohnsonA strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The...
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Remember My Name
as Neil CurryJust released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins...
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The American Nightmare
as SelfAn examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they...
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Night of 100 Stars
as SelfThe most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took...
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Destroyer
as Robert EdwardsA prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and...
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Daughter of Darkness
as AntonAn atmospheric, sub-hallucinogenic venture into the world of the unknown. The enigma facing a...
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Play It as It Lays
as B.Z.Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an...
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Evening Primrose
as Charles SnellA man becomes part of a secret society of people who live in a department store and quickly...
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The Naked Target
as El MecanoA New York executive is handcuffed to a precious briefcase to which only his Spanish contact...
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Desire Under the Elms
as Abel CabotEphraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy...
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Fallout
as Self (archive footage)During the 1940s, Nevil Shute had a steady job as an engineer in the British military but in his...
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First, You Cry
as Arthur HerozThe story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and...
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WUSA
as RaineyRheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in...
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Ten Days' Wonder
as Charles Van HornCharles Van Horn, son of rich and powerful Théo Van Horn, calls upon his former teacher Paul...
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This Angry Age
as Joseph DufresneTwenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions...
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Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
as Anthony PerkinsFictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.
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Twice a Woman
as AlfredWhen a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more...
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The Psycho Legacy
as Self (archive footage)The cast and crew of all four Psycho films recall their time working on the influential horror...
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The Ghost Writer
as Anthony StrackBlocked novelist Anthony Strack is desperate enough to plot suicide. Before he completes the...
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The Sword and the Balance
as Johnny ParsonsThree young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them...
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Fear Strikes Out
as Jimmy PiersallTrue story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major...
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Double Negative
as Lawrence MilesMentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
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The Making of 'Psycho'
as Self (archive footage)A retrospective on the entire movie, from start to finish. There are interviews with many of the...
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Stars of Cabaret
as Self (archive footage)A collection of amateur films made by photographer Roderic Vickers and friends.
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The Male Animal
as Tommy TurnerThe trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being...
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Making I'm Dangerous Tonight
as HimselfBehind the scenes footage of I'm Dangerous Tonight. Footage shot by Stan Giesea and Eric H. Lasher
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The Sins of Dorian Gray
as Henry LordIn this version of Oscar Wilde's tale, Dorian Gray is an actress who, desperate to become a...
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The Last of Sheila Featurette
as SelfA short documentary released as pre-publicity for the 1973 murder mystery, The Last of Sheila.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as SelfA look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.
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Anthony Perkins, the Actor Behind the Door
as Himself (archive) - subjectAnthony Perkin’s face and name remain familiar to a younger 21st century audience, fond of...
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The Day of Reckoning
as Self - HostA young man begins to have terrifying nightmares after visiting his obsessive uncle's automated...
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Saturday Night Live
as Self - HostA late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...
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The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - GuestThe Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...
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The Mike Douglas Show
as SelfThe Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...
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What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery GuestFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...
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What's My Line?
as Self - PanelistFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...
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The Merv Griffin Show
as SelfThe Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...
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Wetten, dass..?
as SelfA long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British...
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Studio One
as Clyde SmithAn American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...
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The Ed Sullivan Show
as SelfThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...
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Chillers
as Self - HostBased on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the...
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ABC Stage 67
as Charles SnellABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety...
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Goodyear Television Playhouse
as JoeyThe Goodyear Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was telecast live on NBC...
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The Man Behind the Badge
as PedroThe Man Behind the Badge is the title of a half-hour American television police drama series...
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Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story
as TalleyrandNapoleon Bonaparte woos Josephine and makes her his empress.
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For the Term of His Natural Life
as Rev. James NorthIn 1830s England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing...
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The Glory Boys
as JimmySet in London, this three-part British miniseries was adapted by Gerald Seymour from his own...
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General Electric Theater
as West WindGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
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Patricia Highsmith's Tales
as HostThis show is an anthology of crime stories adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novels. Each...
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