Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1907-08-24
Day of Death
1999-03-28
Place of Birth
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Gil Perkins
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 (64)
Legal Ladies: Pioneers of Law
2023
Raging Bull
1980
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976
Walking Tall
1973
What's Up, Doc?
1972
Lost Flight
1970
Batman
1966
The Great Race
1965
Kid Galahad
1962
How the West Was Won
1962
Pressure Point
1962
Valley of the Dragons
1961
The Alamo
1960
Spartacus
1960
