Osgood Perkins (May 16, 1892 – September 21, 1937) was an American actor.
Perkins was born James Osgood Ripley Perkins in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Helen Virginia (née Anthony) and Henry Phelps Perkins. Perkins made his Broadway debut in 1924 in the George S. Kaufman – Marc Connelly play Beggar on Horseback. Within the next dozen years he would appear in twenty-four productions, including The Front Page and Uncle Vanya.
Despite his success as a leading man in the theatre, Hollywood viewed him as a character actor. He appeared in twelve silent pictures, such as Puritan Passions, before graduating to talkies, including Scarface, The President Vanishes, I Dream Too Much, and Gold Diggers of 1937.
"The best actor I ever worked with was Osgood Perkins," Louise Brooks told Kevin Brownlow. "You know what makes an actor great to work with? Timing. You don't have to feel anything. It's like dancing with a perfect dancing partner. Osgood Perkins would give you a line so that you would react perfectly. It was timing -- because emotion means nothing." Brooks and Perkins appeared together in Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926).
Perkins married Janet Esselstyn Rane in 1922. They had one child, actor Anthony Perkins. Osgood died of a heart attack in Washington, D.C. at the age of forty-five.
External links
Osgood Perkins at the Internet Broadway Database
Osgood Perkins at the Internet Movie Database
Persondata
NAME
Perkins, Osgood
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Perkins, James Osgood Ripley
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Actor
DATE OF BIRTH
1892-5-16
PLACE OF BIRTH
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
DATE OF DEATH
1937-9-21
PLACE OF DEATH
Washington, D.C., United States
NewPP limit report
Preprocessor node count: 424/1000000
Post-expand include size: 2261/2048000 bytes
Template argument size: 1049/2048000 bytes
Expensive parser function count: 0/500
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood_Perkins"
Categories: 1892 births | 1937 deaths | American film actors | American stage actors | People from Boston, Massachusetts | Deaths by myocardial infarction
Views
Article
Discussion
Edit this page
History
Personal tools
Log in / create account
if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha();
Navigation
Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Search
Interaction
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact Wikipedia
Donate to Wikipedia
Help
Toolbox
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Printable version Permanent linkCite this page
This page was last modified on 25 August 2008, at 01:11.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();
