Hollywood Remembers Anthony Perkins
The young Anthony Perkins started acting at the age of 15, influenced by his father, actor Osgood Perkins. He made his film debut aged 21 opposite Jean Simmons in The Actress (1951).
A string of performances on Broadway and in television led to his 1956 Oscar-nominated role in Friendly Persuasion as a Quaker caught up in the American Civil War and won further acclaim for his part as an emotionally-scarred fading baseball hero in Fear Strikes Out (1957). After portraying a series of gawky and troubled young men, he played Norman Bates in Hitchcocks cult classic Psycho (1960).
