Prior to playing his best remembered role as Norman Bates in Psycho (1960), Perkins had been an innocuous, rather generic younger leading man, co-starring with the likes of Sophia Loren and Jane Fonda. After the release of Psycho, Perkins found ...
I have a lot of affection for Norman Bates and a lot of sympathy. So does the audience, I think. He's not just a monster. He's tortured. The real secret of the Psycho movies is that they're tragedies first and horror movies second.
His eternally boyish good looks.
Tony
Aries
New York City, New York, USA
(age 60)
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA