Want to know the best Anthony Perkins movies? How about the worst Anthony Perkins movies? Curious about Anthony Perkins’s box office grosses or which Anthony Perkins movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Anthony Perkins movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
This Anthony Perkins movie page comes from a request from a huge Perkins fan, Gene S. from California. Anthony Perkins career was like a roller coaster. Lots of highs and lots of lows. The highs became legendary….while the lows are pretty much forgotten. Perkins was a very talented performer. Besides acting….he was an accomplished singer, a talented writer and even directed a couple of movies. Mainly known for his role as Norman Bates….I think you will see when looking at the following table that he gave many fine non Norman Bates performances.
His IMDb page shows 66 acting credits from 1953-1992. This page will rank 33 Anthony Perkins movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, some of his movies made outside of the Hollywood system and his straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings.
Anthony Perkins Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Anthony Perkins movies by co-stars of his moviess
- Sort Anthony Perkins movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Anthony Perkins movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Anthony Perkins movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Anthony Perkins movie received.
- Sort Anthony Perkins movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Anthony Perkins Table
- Seven Anthony Perkins movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 20.59% of his movies listed. Psycho (1960) was his biggest box office hit.
- An average Anthony Perkins movie grosses $71.40 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 22 Anthony Perkins movies are rated as good movies…or 66.66% of his movies. Psycho (1960) is his highest rated movie while Lovin’ Molly (1974) is his lowest rated movie.
- Ten Anthony Perkins movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 30.30% of his movies.
- One Anthony Perkins movie (Murder on the Orient Express) won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 3.03% of his movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 40.00. 13 Anthony Perkins movies scored higher that average….or 39.39% of his movies. Friendly Persuasion (1956) got the the highest UMR Score while Edge of Sanity (1989) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Anthony Perkins
1. Anthony Perkins was born in New York City, New York in 1932. His father, Osgood Perkins, was stage and film actor. His parents did not give him a middle name.
2. Anthony Perkins’ path to stardom…Cliff Notes style. Following in his father’s footsteps, Perkins decided to become an actor. Perkins first screen appearance was in one of Spencer Tracy’s weaker movies….The Actress (1953). Three years later his second screen appearance was much more successful. Perkins received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® nomination for playing Gary Cooper’s son in Friendly Persuasion (1956). In 1960 he starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho……his performance as Norman Bates secured his place in movie history forever.
3. Anthony Perkins won the Golden Globe® for Most Promising Newcomer in 1957.
4. Norman Bates a pop star? Yep! Anthony Perkins released 3 pop music albums in 1957 and 1958. His single “Moon-Light Swim” was a Top 40 Billboard hit….peaking at 24th.
5. Anthony Perkins played Norman Bates 4 times. Hitchcock’s Psycho in 1960, Psycho II in 1983, 1986’s Psycho III which was one of two films directed by Perkins and 1990’s Psycho IV which was a made for television movie. His performance as Norman Bates in 1960’s Psycho is ranked 4th on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
6. Anthony Perkins was married one time. He married Berinthia Berenson in 1973. They were married until Perkins’ death in 1992. They had two sons. Oz Perkins is an actor. Oz has 24 IMDb credits…including a small part in 2009’s Star Trek. Elvis Perkins is a musician…named after Elvis Presley. Anthony Perkins was a huge fan of Elvis.
7. Anthony Perkins died September 12th 1992. The superscription on his urn reads “Don’t Fence Me In”. One day short of the 9th anniversary of Perkins death….his widow died September 11th 2001. Berinthia Berenson was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 during the attacks of 9/11.
8. Anthony Perkins only wrote one screenplay. Perkins and composer Stephen Sondheim wrote the screenplay for 1973’s The Last of Sheila. They won the “Edgar” award at the Edgar Allan Poe Awards in 1974 for best mystery. This is a movie that is worth tracking down if you have not seen it.
9. Roles Anthony Perkins turned down, auditioned for or was seriously considered for: West Side Story (Tony role), The Godfather (James Caan and Robert Duvall roles), The Graduate (Dustin Hoffman role), Some Like It Hot (Tony Curtis role) and East of Eden (James Dean role). Perkins did take over James Dean’s role in 1957’s This Angry Age.
10. Check out Anthony Perkins‘ career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
I have not seen any of these movies, which I deem to be a failure on Cogerson’s part. Luckily, summer is coming, which means I have lots of time to watch all his great movies!
Hey Katie….I have failed….can you ever forgive me? We will have to watch Psycho in the near future. It most be hard walking around and not knowing who Norman Bates is….besides as television show.
Another good one. Psycho was a very movie – as I mentioned Janet Leigh said she never took a shower again!!! I saw that in 1960. The Black Hole was on TV a couple of months ago and I watched it once again. He played a pretty good role in Ffolkes – a bad guy. That was a good movie as well. Some of his movies have been missed by me. THANK YOU!
Hey BERN1960…..I imagine Psycho scared lots of people into taking baths. I think we saw The Black Hole at theaters together….as that seems like a movie that would have interested dad. Thanks as always for stopping by and commenting.
Is it just me or does Andrew Garfield look like he was separated at birth from Anthony Perkins?
Hey Norman….I can see the resemblance. Thanks for posting.
“We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you?” I’ve seen Hitchcock’s Psycho so many times I’ve practically memorized it. Nice work Bruce. Plenty of facts and stats on Tony Perkins here. I’ve seen 10 of the 33 films you’ve listed. Good to see Psycho at the top the moviescore charts. I don’t think I’ve seen Friendly Persuasion. I’m still waiting for The Black Hole to get a blu-ray release. Didn’t know Perkins was a big Elvis fan and his fan was in Star Trek. I can’t quite picture Norman Bates in Some Like it Hot. Voted Up.
Sorry I meant his ‘son’ was in Star Trek.
Hey Steve…got it. You know the next time I watch Star Trek I will be keeping an eye open for Oz Perkins.
You know when I was putting the movies into the database….I saw that Friendly Persuasion was close to Psycho. I thought “Steve will toast Cogerson Movie Score like a marshmallow at a camp fire if Psycho does not come up on top.”….I had my defense ready…..Friendly Persuasion got Perkins his only Oscar nomination…it is Perkin’s 4th biggest box office hit…..the only Perkins movie to pick up a Best Picture Oscar nomination….and led the way with 6 Oscar nominations…..not that you would have bought that……lol. Glad Psycho ended up first. Well we are tied at 10 in the Perkins tally count. Not sure we ended up tied before. Thanks as always…for the comment and the visit.
Nice selection. I have to admit I had no idea he had done so many movies. My dad used to love Catch-22. Funny I do not even remember his role in that one. I saw The Black Hole in theaters when I was 7. It is actually one of the first movies I remember. My final confession will be that I have not seen any of Pyscho movies. I have heard of them I just have never taken the time to watch any of them.
Hey Timlin33…..let’s see. Perkins has a small but memorable role in Catch-22. He plays the chaplain…Capt. Fr. A.T. Tappman in that one. The movie is filled with many memorable roles…my favorite is Orson Welles. I saw The Black Hole in theaters too. I was older than you but I still liked the movie. It was Disney’s first attempt to cash in on the Star Wars craze. Somewhere along the line they figured it was easier just to the buy the franchise….lol. Wow….I do not think there are too many film fans that have not seen Psycho. Hitchcock’s Psycho is a classic…..part two is entertaining…..part 3 is weak….and I never saw the television movie. Thanks for stopping by.