+ In his second film had been nominated Oscar for best actor
+ also filmed several films in Europe, but the best, the U.S. shot in
by H Ector FLORES ESPINOSA
Anthony Perkins had already 7 years in the movies and had worked in more than 8 films in 1960 as the magician of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, put him in the role of male star of the movie "Psycho", and that launched him to stardom as an actor, but also the film is considered one of the best in the famous British director plump.
Anthony Perkins in the role of the young man who kept a hotel owned by her mother, and she remained sitting on his couch even though he had already long time to have died, because he had mad up become a murderer, he won a lot of money and popularity.
But despite the great success he achieved this film, Alfred Hitchcock never wanted to do a sequel, much less a "remake" or repetition, but now in color. That's why -20 years later-when Hitchcock died, was filmed a sequel to this film and although it agreed to join Janet Leigh, believed that a sequel would impact. But there was fulfilled the omen of a good movie buff "sequels were ever good." And the tape failed.
However, now was the actor who was obsessed about it, and three years after that second part, now it was he who directed "Psycho III", but again failed, probably because even when they used the story based on the two sequels, the arrangements they made to the plot other writers, did not please the majority. But really, what happened was that it was impossible to find a comparison with a Hitchcock film, because the viewer only dedicated to finding comparisons. And it was not that. Maybe would have liked if it was titled differently and said it had not been based on that tape.
Anthony, born in New York an April 4, 1932, brought the film in the veins, because his father was the actor James Ripley Osgoon Perkins. And therefore no surprise that only the second film in which he had intervened, "Friendly Persuasion" in 1956, received an Oscar nomination as best actor. Even at that time it was published that was the favorite and was also the one that offered better performance than the other candidates for the Oscar.
Janet Leigh
Then he went to Europe where he worked under the guidance of several famous and in movies such as "Phaedra" based on a letter of Euripides, and then shoot " The process "based on a theme of Kafka and directed by Orson Welles, who won the Academy Award for criticism. But then nothing worked unless under orders from Mexican director Servando Gonzalez in the film "The fool killer" (Murderer of fools) where he showed as a cruel murderer. And since that time, Anthony was sealed to those papers, because many papers offered him evil or a murderer.
Alfred Hitchcock and Janet Leigh
While the world was not widely known that Anthony was bisexual, and much less at that time knew anything about AIDS, he had no problem to love on the screen to many beautiful and famous actresses. But he had many affairs with many men, like the famous actor Tab Hunter, or the dancer Rudolf Nureyev and choreographer Grover Dale, with whom she had a relationship of six years, even until shortly before the actor was married to Berry Berenson -sister of actress Marissa Berenson, "but when he went to actress Victoria Principal, came to testify that he was gay. And that unrestricted sexual life led him to contract AIDS, dying in 1992, when he was 60 years old. His son is actor Osgood Perkins Perkins called Ox, while his other son, Elvis Perkins, is dedicated to music. Their mother, Berry, died in the American Airlines Flight 11 that was crashed on one of the twin towers during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States.
At 43 years old Anthony Perkins was already considered a veteran actor who already had experience in film, such as playing the role of Jean Simons boyfriend in the comedy "The Actress" directed by George Cukor in 1953 as the son of Gary Cooper "The great temptation" that was a great melodrama, or the paranoid baseball player in "Overcoming Fear" or as a basketball hero in "Tall Story" with Jane Fonda. Or as the boyfriend of the beautiful brainless Hemburn Audrey in "The flower that did not die", or "Phedra" which is a passionate incestuous stepson of Melina Mercouri, until he came with his role as psychopath in "Psycho" because thereafter appeared in many movies like crazy, psychotic, or at least with tics or tartamudenado because he was an accomplice to a crime in "Pretty Poison", or a homosexual suicide in "Play it as it Lays", or lover Diana Ross in "Mahogandy." That's why he came to say "It's exhausting to keep that image. I still think it's good, sure, that people should see me in a different light and ...".
But it also had success in theater, because when the star was involved in "Equus" replaces Anthony Hopkins, was that the success that the audience gave a standing ovation.
Today we remember him as a great actor.
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