Gil Perkins
Acting
Born August 24, 1907 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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…
Known For · 40 titles
Perry Mason
Star Trek
Lassie
Peter Gunn
The Red Skelton Show
Mannix
Batman
The Virginian
Mission: Impossible
The Beverly Hillbillies
Get Smart
Cheyenne
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Thriller
Lost in Space
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Here's Lucy
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sugarfoot
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
77 Sunset Strip
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Laredo
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Black Saddle
Spartacus
Cimarron Strip
Mr. Lucky
Raging Bull
King Kong
How the West Was Won
The Three Musketeers
The Great Race
Batman
The Alamo
East of Eden
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mutiny on the Bounty