Gil Perkins
- Acting
- August 24, 1907 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- March 28, 1999
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
Known for
Filmography
- Raging Bull · Cornerman (uncredited)
- FM · Stunts
- Sherlock Holmes in New York · Carriage Driver
- Framed · Stunt Coordinator
- The Towering Inferno · Stunts
- Walking Tall · 1st Bouncer, Stunt Coordinator
- The Poseidon Adventure · Stunts
- What's Up, Doc? · Jones' Driver
- Lost Flight · Australian
- The Wrecking Crew · Stunts
- Here's Lucy · Stuntman #1
- Mannix
- Cimarron Strip · Swede
- The Sand Pebbles · Stunts
- Hawaii · Stunt Coordinator
- Mission: Impossible · Russian Colonel
- Star Trek · Slave #3 (uncredited)
- Batman · Bluebeard
- Batman · Dicer, Cauliflower
- Get Smart · Waiter, KAOS Agent (uncredited)
- Laredo
- Lost in Space · Convixt
- The Great Race · Saloon Brawler (uncredited)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. · Dr. Armand Warshowsky
- Twilight of Honor · Stunts
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World · Stunts
- Kid Galahad · Freddie (uncredited)
- How the West Was Won · Henchman (uncredited), Stunts
- Pressure Point
- The Beverly Hillbillies · Pool Man
- The Virginian · Whitey, Hooded Man
- Valley of the Dragons · Tarn / Doctor
- The Alamo · Tennessean (uncredited), Stunts
- Spartacus · Slave Leader (uncredited)
- Thriller · Eddie, Mechanic
- Mr. Lucky · Hood (uncredited)
- Bonanza · Whitey
- Gunmen from Laredo
- Black Saddle · Sgt. Moffat, Assailant
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Peter Gunn
- Wanted: Dead or Alive · Sam (uncredited)
- Violent Road · Sheriff Sam Vincent
- Teenage Monster · Charles Cannon
- Baby Face Nelson · Duncan
- Perry Mason · Watchman
- Sugarfoot · Pete
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective · Dan Vale (uncredited)
- Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend · Ed Olsen (uncredited), Stunts
- The Tattered Dress · Juror (uncredited)
- The Wings of Eagles · Officer in Brawl (uncredited)
- Teenage Thunder · Sgt. Benson (as Gilbert Perkins)
- Around the World in 80 Days · Stunts
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre · U.S. Marshal
- The Killing · Stunts
- The Conqueror · Stunts
- Guys and Dolls · Stunts
- I Died a Thousand Times · Slim (uncredited), Stunts
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents · Bus Driver (uncredited)
- Cheyenne · Ranch Hand
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp · Railroad Worker
- The Phenix City Story · Wilson's Henchman (uncredited), Stunts
- The Prodigal · Citizen (uncredited), Stunts
- East of Eden · Lettuce Truck Worker (uncredited), Stunts
- Lassie · Mr. Nolan
- I, the Jury
- Hans Christian Andersen · Gendarme #2
- Brave Warrior · English Lieutenant (as Gilbert V. Perkins)
- Listen Judge · Officer Ryan (uncredited)
- The Steel Fist · First Organizer (uncredited)
- Texas Carnival · Stunts
- The Red Skelton Show · Willie's Brother-in-Law
- Roadblock · Patrolman (uncredited), Stunts
- His Kind of Woman · Seaman (uncredited), Stunts
- The Adventures of Kit Carson · Gil
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- The Fuller Brush Girl · Stunt Double
- The Flame and the Arrow · Guard (uncredited), Stunts
- Father of the Bride · Moving Man (uncredited)
- Wagon Master · Stunts