Anthony Perkins’s Psycho III | 1986
Clip Name: Opening Scene
Anthony Perkins’s Psycho III | 1986
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid and Jeff Fahey
Directed by: Anthony Perkins
About this director
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and his Oscar-nominated role in Friendly Persuasion (1956). Perkins was born in New York City, the son of Janet Esselstyn (née Rane), and stage and film actor James Ripley Osgood Perkins. He is a descendant of a Mayflower passenger, John Howland. He attended The Brooks School, The Browne & Nichols School, Columbia University and Rollins College, having moved to Boston in 1942, five years after his father's death. Perkins made his film debut in The Actress (1953). He received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor and an Academy Award nomination for his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956). The tall (6'2") Perkins also portrayed the troubled former Boston Red Sox baseball player Jimmy Piersall in the 1957 true story Fear Strikes Out. Following this, he released three pop music albums in 1957 and 1958 on Epic and RCA as ...






