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Anthony Perkins ( April 4 , 1932 – September 12 , 1992 ) was an American actor best known for his role as the Serial Killer Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock 's '' Psycho '' (1960). He was the son of American stage and film actor Osgood Perkins (James Ripley Osgood Perkins, 1891–1937) and his wife, Janet Esseltyn Rane. Perkins' first movie was ''The Actress'' ( 1953 ); he received an Academy Award nomination for his role in his second film, '' Friendly Persuasion '' ( 1956 ). After other acclaimed performances both in film and on Broadway , he starred as Norman Bates in the 1960 Film '' Psycho ''. Many people feel he deserved to win an Oscar for this role, but he was not nominated. At one point, he was considered for the lead role of Tony in West Side Story , due to his Broadway experience record, but the producers felt he was too old at 29 to play a teenager. He was offered the role of Chino, the female lead's embittered finance who shoots Tony at the end of the musical, but he turned it down for some unknown reason. Following the success of ''Psycho,'' he did have a decade-long successful career in Europe, where many fans did not associate Perkins with the Typecasting image of Norman Bates. He went on to create a critically-lauded portrayal of ''. He also played a few memorable characters, such as the chaplain in '' Catch-22 '' ( 1970 ). Despite these successes, most of his later work was Made-for-TV Movie s. Perkins also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1973 film '' The Last Of Sheila '' together with Composer / Lyricist Stephen Sondheim . PERSONAL LIFE Perkins was Bisexual , having had affairs with a number of men, including 1950s and 60s film star Tab Hunter , writer-model-actor Alan Helms , dancer Rudolf Nureyev and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale , with whom Perkins had a six-year relationship prior to his marriage to Berry Berenson . He claimed to have been exclusively Homosexual until his late thirties, when he met the actress Victoria Principal . Perkins died in 1992 of complications from AIDS , at age 60. His son, Osgood Perkins, credited as Oz Perkins , is also an actor and his other son, Elvis Perkins, is a musician. One day before the ninth anniversary of his death, his widow, Berry Berenson , died on American Airlines Flight 11 , the flight that was hijacked and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack s. QUOTE 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. FILMOGRAPHY , his most famous role.]]
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