Biography
Gilbert Vincent Perkins (24 August 1907 – 28 March 1999) was an Australian film and television actor.
A champion athlete and trackman in his native northern Australia, Gil Perkins always wanted to get into films; as a teenager he virtually ran away from home, taking a job as a deck hand on a Norwegian freighter. He eventually landed in Hollywood in the late '20s, during the era of part-silent, part-talkie movies, and (because his accent was mistaken for English) he played young Englishmen in some of his first films. He soon drifted into stuntwork, regularly doubling cowboy star William Boyd and putting a red toupee over his own blond hair to double 'Red Skelton', among others. Some of his most notable stunt jobs were in the sci-fi/horror field. He doubled star Bruce Cabotthroughout King Kong (1933), stood in for Spencer Tracy as Mr. Hyde in Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde (1941) and replaced Bela Lugosi as the Monster in the climactic battle sequence of Frankenstein rencontre le loup-garou (1943). In addition to his feature films, Perkins turned up regularly in serials and on TV. On many occasions he worked with special effects and rigging departments, setting up large action scenes. By the 1960s he was doing more acting than stunts; he "officially" retired in 1972, although he took a number of subsequent jobs. - IMDb Mini Biography
Filmography
all 105
Movies 85
TV Shows 20
Legal Ladies: Pioneers of Law (2023)
Raging Bull (1980)
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
Framed (1975)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Walking Tall (1973)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Lost Flight (1970)
The Wrecking Crew (1968)
Here's Lucy (1968)
Mannix (1967)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Hawaii (1966)
Star Trek (1966)
Batman (1966)
Batman (1966)
Laredo (1965)
Lost in Space (1965)
The Great Race (1965)
Twilight of Honor (1963)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Kid Galahad (1962)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Pressure Point (1962)
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
The Virginian (1962)
Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Spartacus (1960)
Thriller (1960)
Gunmen from Laredo (1959)
Black Saddle (1959)
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
Peter Gunn (1958)
Violent Road (1958)
Teenage Monster (1958)
Baby Face Nelson (1957)
Perry Mason (1957)
Sugarfoot (1957)
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957)
The Tattered Dress (1957)
Teenage Thunder (1957)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
Guys and Dolls (1955)
I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Cheyenne (1955)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
East of Eden (1955)
I, the Jury (1953)
Brave Warrior (1952)
The Steel Fist (1952)
The Red Skelton Show (1951)
Roadblock (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951)
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Neptune's Daughter (1949)
Lust for Gold (1949)
The Lost Tribe (1949)
Kidnapped (1948)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Hollow Triumph (1948)
Souvenirs of Death (1948)
G-Men Never Forget (1948)
The Black Widow (1947)
Jesse James Rides Again (1947)
Twilight on the Rio Grande (1947)
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Traffic with the Devil (1946)
The Killers (1946)
The Fatal Witness (1945)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
Bathing Beauty (1944)
Arizona Trail (1943)
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
G-men vs. the Black Dragon (1943)
The Big Street (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Riders of Death Valley (1941)
Wildcat Bus (1940)
Northwest Passage (1940)
Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)
Blackmail (1939)
Second Fiddle (1939)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Dodge City (1939)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Mummy's Boys (1936)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
The Nitwits (1935)
The Informer (1935)
King Kong (1933)
Doughboys (1930)
The Delightful Rogue (1929)
Spite Marriage (1929)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1907-08-24
Deathday1999-03-28 (91 years old)
Birth PlaceMelbourne, Australia
CitizenshipsAustralia
Also Known AsGilbert Perkins, Gilbert Vincent Perkins, Gilbert V. Perkins
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