Actor Anthony Perkins, remembered for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic thriller “Psycho,” passed away on Saturday afternoon in his Hollywood home. Perkins has starred in dozens of films and plays. He was 60 years old.
Anthony Perkins Cause Of Death
On Saturday night, Leslee Dart, a press agent who said she was speaking for the family, announced that Mr. Perkins had died from AIDS-related causes.
Mr. Perkins started as Hollywood’s next teen idol, but in one of his earliest films, “Psycho,” he created a persona that has become a part of American iconography; a persona he could never shake as an actor, and one he returned to more than a quarter of a century later, in the first of three sequels.
“Norman appears on request,” he said in an interview in 1989. “I would even say on demand. I can dial my own personal 800 number, and Norman will reply.”
According to Ms. Dart, as Mr. Perkins’ health declined last week, he expressed a desire to discuss it. His reasoning for keeping quiet was as follows: “I’m not too much at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of one old actor don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy old world,” a misquotation from “Casablanca.”
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Many people think this illness is God’s punishment for their sins, but I feel it was sent to teach us to have more empathy for one another.
“I have learned more about love, selflessness, and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.”
Mr. Perkins was born on April 4, 1932, in New York City. His father is the actor Osgood Perkins. His early dream was to become an actor, and he began his career in summer stock and television after performing in amateur shows. First attending Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, then transferring to Columbia University, where he made his film debut in 1953’s “The Actress,” he has been an actor ever since.
He auditioned for a role in Elia Kazan’s “East of Eden right before his 1954 graduation but lost out to another unknown young actor, James Dean. However, Mr. Kazan invited Mr. Perkins to step in for John Kerr in the role of Tom Lee, a sensitive adolescent on Broadway in “Tea and Sympathy.”
