Gil Perkins
Acting
Born 1907-08-24
Died 1999-03-28
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
128 credits
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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
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Acting
42 credits
Perry Mason
Lassie
Star Trek
Batman
Mission: Impossible
Get Smart
The Red Skelton Show
The Virginian
The Beverly Hillbillies
Cheyenne
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Lost in Space
Thriller
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Here's Lucy
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sugarfoot
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Raging Bull
Spartacus
Cimarron Strip
Black Saddle
The Adventures of Kit Carson
King Kong
Mr. Lucky
How the West Was Won
East of Eden
The Alamo
Batman
What's Up, Doc?
Walking Tall
The Great Race
Mrs. Miniver
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Three Musketeers
His Kind of Woman
Kid Galahad
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Magnificent Ambersons
Father of the Bride
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24 credits
Mannix
Peter Gunn
77 Sunset Strip
Laredo
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
The Poseidon Adventure
Around the World in 80 Days
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
How the West Was Won
East of Eden
The Towering Inferno
The Alamo
The Killing
Fort Apache
Walking Tall
Guys and Dolls
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Sand Pebbles
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Killers
They Died with Their Boots On
His Kind of Woman
House of Frankenstein
The Wrecking Crew
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