The Actor Behind Norman Bates Had A Troubled Life

[@sallyclay1974]

He had a good life! He swung both ways. Kept his personal life quiet. A great actor!

[@truecynic1270]

Hitchcock managed to find the perfect actors for each of his movies. Anthony Perkins was one of them.

[@Factinate]

Absolutely. Hitchcock had an incredible talent for casting the right actors for his films. Anthony Perkins' performance in "Psycho" was nothing short of iconic.

[@nikki9125]

Sadly he also harassed and tortured the women he cast when they turned him down.

[@truecynic1270]

@@nikki9125 Yes he certainly felt rejected but I wouldn't go so far to say he tortured them. Hitchcock certainly didn't treat them respectfully or kindly. I guess one needs to remember that he was an eccentric and sexually repressed man...at least his "female stars" got recognition and possibly a better salary.

[@SpenceCurry]

His perf in the foolkiller even better. Movie better as well. On dvd

[@lesliewells-ig5dl]

What he did to Tppi Hendren in Birds would qualify as torture ​@@truecynic1270

[@sharonconstan8234]

An admirable, complex guy. Glad he found and created love for himself later in life ❤

[@trevorroberts-o7q]

Now this is how to tell a concise and sympathetic life story. No click-baity sensationalism nor grainy photographs with extra dust and added scratches just a well-told tale with some appropriate shots from his whole interesting life . A shame he never again attained the acclaim of his role in "Psycho"

[@ckotcher1]

He was a great actor but he was never going to Eclipse being Norman Bates in psycho because he was just so damn good. He should have won for best actor at the Oscars. But the truth is? Hollywood is a small community. The studios found out both Rock Hudson and Tab were gay and needless to say? They were NOT happy. So Eddie “the bulldog” Mannix studio head at Warner Brothers (who was also portrayed by Bob Hoskins in the movie “Hollywoodland”) sat them down and said “we can’t have two closeted men at the studio” And because Rock was the more successful bigger box office draw, they more or less blacklisted poor Tab in Hollywood after that. My point is where there is smoke? There is 🔥. And Tony got caught up in all of that because he and Tab were so close. Tab really was the love of his life. Unfortunately for them the timing was awful. If they were alive today I really believe they would have gotten married instead of he and Berry. And Berry had to know he was gay but idk….denial is a powerful thing.

[@moiralauten6924]

Fascinating account, sensitively done. Thanks for not trying to fish us in with misleading titles or exaggerated details, and for using a real voice. Insightful, well written, and the photo timeline actually matched the dialogue :) well done. I've always been a Tony Perkins fan, thanks for this

[@keleziz76]

Well-done biography. Anthony Perkins maintained dignity in a fickle world. Handsome and talented.

[@PaulHFleming]

That's really bizarre how Anthony.Perkins life in his youth and movie character of Norman Bates parallel. Even the overly obsessive relations with his Mother.

[@RonaldMorgan-n7o]

He embraced Psycho later in life because he realized it was a classic and because of it he would be remembered forever.

[@orionwesley]

It's a shame that he and Hunter weren't allowed to be themselves and be a couple. I love how he went on to marry and have sons anyway, proving that life can go on even after one's heart is broken.

[@ndog2005]

A Huge Thank You, Loved Perkins es;p in the movie, Psycho, What a ending that movie had, Perkins was outstanding...

[@jeffbassin630]

This is a very sad story about an outstanding actor!

[@stephaniewilson6031]

I love Anthony Perkins❤❤❤ I watch Psycho and Psycho II just to see him perform🥹🥹

[@teampancakesD]

Rest in heavenly peace Tony. He was irreplaceable, truly one of a kind.

[@carolwest6095]

A beautiful man I wish we could except people for who they are like his wife excepted him. Don't fence me in on his headstone, says it all.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

*accept... _Not_ "except" you can say, (for example) "I take exception to your idea,/sentence,/approach (etc)" Or you can say, "I like most colours (etc) _except_ _navy blue" (for example) But if you say, "I can't (or can) _accept_ your idea (etc)" the spelling is different because the word has a _different_ meaning.

[@carolwest6095]

Accept, yes.

[@marysharvey]

Psycho was the first thriller of it’s type to be shown on television. I was young and loved scary movies, my mother hated them. My Dad and I watched Psycho together, while my mom shut herself into their bedroom. Later, my Dad took her to the movies to see it. She didn’t take a shower for months. One day she decided to shower instead of taking a bath. My Dad was in training camp for the Chargers at the time. Usually he only came home on weekends. This night he came home to surprise us. Learning my Mom was in the shower he took a butcher knives and opened the shower door meaning to tease her; she passed out cold. Perkins was a wonderful actor.

[@RaeLynn-z8r]

I absolutely loved this one. I didn't know most of his story

[@SharonMartinez]

An honorable man ❤ RIP.

[@HeardYa]

Tony had a WILD personal life in his youth: Rock Hudson, James Dean, Tab Hunter, Monty Clift. poss. Brando, not to mention numerous vice squad arrests hidden by the studios...TP was completely unbothered!

[@SuzyQ-vg3tc]

Sad that being gay was a “ruinous secret” at that time. Someone secretly testing his blood is disgusting. His early life seems to have informed his role in Psycho. No wonder his portrayal was infused with chilling excellence. I’m glad that he had a good marriage and happy family. You did a particularly great job on this one.

[@annalee117]

Beautiful man, beautiful person 💖 thanks for telling his story ❤

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

I feel bad for Anthony and Berry's sons. They had to go through so much in less than a decade.

[@Andy437]

Excellent channel- new sub from London UK👍

[@Factinate]

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[@charlieconnelly5514]

Great narration ,great video 👍

[@herminepursch2470]

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[@walkerpantera]

this was awesome and you read with objective compassion (if that's a thing) and I like it. Also there were tidbits i never heard of before in other docs about him. so kudos on that! and all in 20 minutes. thats like the sweet spot for my attention span. I need to join, I really do enjoy your vids and the consistency of the format and tone and storytelling.. 👍🏼

[@cardinalsfan8182]

A tortured genius.

[@bruce8808]

It not too surprising these that actors don't live up to the glitter and glamour in real life and have far worse troubles than they have in the roles they play. Its really sad. 😢

[@VixGB]

So handsome, he was not defined by his sexuality 🙏🏻 I didnt realise he had had a happy marriage with children. Their choice. Privacy is also a dignified choice! Salacious stories are repugnant and people who leak confidential information - shame.

[@nooneanymoore9971]

Very well said!

[@sandyg202]

Agree! The smile on all the photos with his wife in and of themselves tells the story of happiness...18 years worth, not bad!

[@ferociousgumby]

He sings a song from Greenwillow called Summertime Love (available on KZbin - please listen to it) that never fails to move me to tears. His voice is expressive and intuitively musical, and it's as if he is speaking to you (and ONLY you), which is extremely hard to do.

[@brendadrew834]

Well, Tony was bi-sexual and died of AIDS! His late wife, Berry Berenson, a photographer and fashion model, was my age and they both summered in Wellfleet, Cape Cod near where I lived and summered. Both died tragic deaths, he from AIDS and she died tragically on Flight 11 out of Boston on 9/11 , one of the planes that crashed into the WTC in NYC! She was on her way home to LA to her two sons! Both of them lost their two parents in horrible ways! May they both rest in peace~ I remember Tony when Hitchcock's "Psycho" first came out in the early 1960s, terrifying movie, esp the famous shower scene! So many were afraid to take showers after that it was that traumatic a scene!

[@Skr8955-f3c]

I was born in the 70's and still frequently think of the scene!!!

[@ckotcher1]

yeah, what happened to Barry was just awful. Unspeakable really. 💔…. The truth is is that Tony was gay not bisexual… But that doesn’t mean him and Barry didn’t love each other… She wasn’t just a beard like rock Hudson’s girlfriends but sadly yes, one of his boyfriends gave him the virus… very stuck with him and took care of him when he was dying ❤

[@brendadrew834]

@@ckotcher1 Isn't bi-sexual when a man has sex with both a man and a woman?

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

@@ckotcher1 He was bisexual. Obviously those kids came from somewhere, and it wasn't from a gay man.

[@ckotcher1]

@@ValleyoftheRogue no, hun. He was gay. A lot of gay men from that time, especially married women. in Tony ‘s case Tab Hunter was his real, true love, but they couldn’t be together because of their careers. I don’t doubt Tony loved Barry Berenson (his wife) in his own way but in his book he flat out says he’s not attracted to women. He had to dodge women right and left in his youth because he was a good looking guy! But he said it was constant anxiety, having to keep a secret. But also having to keep it from women and having to sneak around with Tab. so he went to his psychiatrist, and the psychiatrist was the one who told him he should get married to a woman and put his past behind him… And Barry already had a crush on him so there you go. it’s a lot like Freddie Mercury . He had that girlfriend for a long time, and he left everything to her in his will…. But they had been broken up for a long time at the time of his death, because in the 80s, he started freely and openly dating men. But he was 100% gay too.

[@kellypilon2422]

I first saw him in Mahogany and my “gaydar” went off immediately. Doubt it was a well kept secret.

[@HeardYa]

@@kellypilon2422 When I first saw Mahogany as a kid, I didn't even realize it was "creepy dude from PSYCHO"😂

[@mjaylith5232]

I wonder if his greatest success (Pycho) was his biggest regret because it changed his career forever.

[@RonaldMorgan-n7o]

He later answered if he knew how things would turn out, would he still have done it. He said yes because it was such a great role.

[@mjaylith5232]

@@RonaldMorgan-n7o It truly was, and no-one could have done it better.

[@KellyNewman-z5r]

if you only know him from Norman , its your loss. Perkins was Pitt , Ford big back in the 50s. and a recording artist 👍❤👍

[@ceolaalexander2418]

When I younger his character in the bates motel.scared the bemused out of me.he was good.RIP.

[@MotiveJayy]

An absolutely legend. Great story!

[@nooneanymoore9971]

2:58 this is Richard Benjamin...

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

Correct, and as of now he is still very much with us and still married to Paula Prentiss (since 1961).

[@calxtra5361]

how could someone have stolen his blood and had it tested just for their own enrichment and broken the patient-practioner privacy!??

[@elvampiro89]

Perkins starred in "Fear strikes out"

[@ferociousgumby]

3:28 OH MY.

[@jamesbach3535]

Wonderful actor

[@angloaust1575]

He didnt terrify the world Only people who saw the movie!

[@deanadiedrich9304]

Such a crying shame.. Anthony Perkins was a beautiful looking man! Any women would want!

[@jenniferflores3360]

Poor lady. Ends in 911 plane crash.

[@kathyjones5085]

His eyes look so evil in the thumb nail picture!

[@ninaharper6282]

I wonder if his feelings towards women was because of feelings stirred by his own mother that were disturbing, coupled by his guilt that his inner wish might have killed his father.

[@HeardYa]

@@ninaharper6282 Interesting tidbit: He always claimed that he was too shy to approach wmn, until Victoria Principal made a "man" of him in the early 70s

[@HeardYa]

@@ninaharper6282 During the filming of THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN

[@Curlyblonde]

He lived the role of Psycho. He was miscast in Westerns. He was too effeminate and milque-toast looking. He was better cast as weirdos in movies where he saw his greatest success.

[@HeardYa]

@@Curlyblonde Did you ever see THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN?

[@nancykaczmarz8874]

I thought he was fabulous in Tall Story with Jane fonda!

[@sandrakenney567]

I Thought Anthony was a great actor and i loved him in (PSYCHO) .REST IN PEACE ANTHONY .I HOPE YOUR AT PEACE AND GODBLESS YOU AMEN🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💐💐🌿🍃

[@NatalieMartinez-k7l]

Don't We All Have Some Troubled Life. At Some Time! 😏

[@jonmarc8078]

It’s CAR not Kerr (It rhymes with Star)

[@juliebarks3195]

AI. spoils so much good content

[@mkarnaze3689]

Sometimes the mis-pronounciation is funny, sometimes infuriating. Isn't there some way they can be edited, or do the publishers just not care.?

[@mkarnaze3689]

@@ferociousgumby understood, but shouldn't someone review and edit if necessary? Or, again, do the humans behind it just not care?

[@isabelgaynor2589]

Their relationship sure confused me. Interestingly enough in her interviews Berry came across as being excessively tom-boyish almost Annie Oakley like. Together they made quite A fascinating couple. Their boys were so cute during interviews. Wild and uninhibited and wrestling during one family interview and neither parent even attempted to settle them down. I had mixed feeling wanting to see a bit of parental discipline then remembering I had yearned for some freedom myself as a child. Tony and Berry were just so comfortable with each other and showed their boys such natural affection that it warmed my heart. Clearly it was no act for the cameras too.

[@josebenito15]

He had his unforgettable moment tidying up his Mother's Motel.. Hichtcock made the perfect choice for Norman Bates. Pity he wasn't able to enjoy his sexual orientation in the open and dying so young. Great actor, anyway 👍

[@cookshackcuisinista]

Where is our Scottish lad🎉🎉❤🎉?

[@Jenbug123]

Looks like Jordan Slansky lol

[@walcoman]

Absolutely did not know before watching this, but I already imagined he was a certified homosexual.

[@ryanrose1565]

I loved tony perkins. I am a gay man and it was so challenging for tony being gay. It was gay deal that was not accepting of gay lifestyle. I feel sorry for gay men in those days. Ryan r

[@spike16965]

Why is it always the good looking men In Hollywood that become gay😢

[@SpenceCurry]

Victoria principal could make this asexual straight

[@bobbiewallace4008]

Why is any of who someone prefers anyone's business? It's the way your brain is formed any Dr will tell you

[@juliestrom412]

He's almost as scary as Joe Biden 😮

[@HeardYa]

@@juliestrom412 But still less scarier than Trump😁

[@herminepursch2470]

You two just had to make it political. Why don't you just throw in religion too?

[@HeardYa]

@@herminepursch2470 Go and be blessed😁

[@sonnysmom6017]

Or you

[@herminepursch2470]

@@juliestrom412 people that make comments like you two are scary