Gil Perkins

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-08-24 (92 years old)

Deathday

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 t...

Acting

1949

1962

How the West Was Won

as Henchman (uncredited)

1955

I Died a Thousand Times

as Slim (uncredited)

1948

Hollow Triumph

as Stansyck Hood Who Jumps Big Boy (uncredited)

1948

The Three Musketeers

as Felton (uncredited)

1947

1942

Mrs. Miniver

as Man in Tavern (uncredited)

1973

Walking Tall

as 1st Bouncer

1958

Violent Road

as Sheriff Sam Vincent

1957

The Tattered Dress

as Juror (uncredited)

1962

Kid Galahad

as Freddie (uncredited)

1966

Batman

as Bluebeard

1945

The Fatal Witness

as Detective (uncredited)

1957

1939

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

as Goebbels' Aide (uncredited)

1939

Second Fiddle

as Studio Grip

1961

Valley of the Dragons

as Tarn / Doctor

1958

Teenage Monster

as Charles Cannon

1936

Mummy's Boys

as Native Cop

1946

Traffic with the Devil

as Irate Motorist, Honking Horn (uncredited)

1939

1939

Blackmail

as Kearney - Oil Worker Blown Up (uncredited)

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Citizen (uncredited)

1955

East of Eden

as Lettuce Truck Worker (uncredited)

1960

Spartacus

as Slave Leader (uncredited)

1980

Raging Bull

as Cornerman (uncredited)

1952

Listen Judge

as Officer Ryan (uncredited)

1937

Captains Courageous

as Crewman (uncredited)

1935

Mutiny on the Bounty

as Able Bodied Seaman (uncredited)

1940

Wildcat Bus

as Wildcat Driver (uncredited)

1952

Brave Warrior

as English Lieutenant (as Gilbert V. Perkins)

1952

The Steel Fist

as First Organizer (uncredited)

1970

Lost Flight

as Australian

1951

Roadblock

as Patrolman (uncredited)

1943

Slightly Dangerous

as - (uncredited)

1935

A Feather in Her Hat

as Ticket Taker (uncredited)

1948

Souvenirs of Death

as Bouncer at Gambling House (uncredited)

1941

Hellzapoppin'

as Butler in Pool (uncredited)

1933

King Kong

as Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)

1950

Father of the Bride

as Moving Man (uncredited)

1976

Sherlock Holmes in New York

as Carriage Driver

1950

The Flame and the Arrow

as Guard (uncredited)

1957

Teenage Thunder

as Sgt. Benson (as Gilbert Perkins)

1948

Kidnapped

as Sailor (uncredited)

1942

The Big Street

as Mug at Mindy's (Uncredited)

1972

What's Up, Doc?

as Jones' Driver

1951

His Kind of Woman

as Seaman (uncredited)

1943

No Time for Love

as Diner at Pop Murphy's (uncredited)

1941

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Brawler (uncredited)

Production

1948

1949

Lust for Gold

as Stunts

1955

1950

The Fuller Brush Girl

as Stunt Double

1948

1944

1963

1973

Walking Tall

as Stunt Coordinator

1946

The Killers

as Stunts

1939

Dodge City

as Stunts

1951

1949

1940

1930

Doughboys

as Stunts

1951

Roadblock

as Stunts

1950

Wagon Master

as Stunts

1978

FM

as Stunts

1948

Fort Apache

as Stunts

1968

1966

1955

East of Eden

as Stunts

1966

Hawaii

as Stunt Coordinator

1929

1935

The Informer

as Stunts

1942

1975

Framed

as Stunt Coordinator

1942

1943

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