Gil Perkins
Also Known As: Gilbert Perkins, Gilbert Vincent Perkins, Gilbert V. 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 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
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Birthday: August 24, 1907
Deathday: March 28, 1999
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Gender: Male
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I, the Jury
Overview: After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the way, Hammer rides a fine line between gumshoe and a one-man jury, staying two-steps ahead of the law—and trying not to get bumped off in the process.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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The Lost Tribe
Overview: Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil it.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-19
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How the West Was Won
Overview: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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Legal Ladies: Pioneers of Law
Overview: This documentary explores some of the most famous women who have made an impact on law and the legal system in America. From Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Erin Brockovich, get ready to spend some time with the women who have shaped history. HistoryMovie.tv presents Legal Ladies: Pioneers of Law.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-16
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I Died a Thousand Times
Overview: After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-09
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Hollow Triumph
Overview: Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-18
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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The Black Widow
Overview: The Daily Clarion hires detective story writer Steve Colt to investigate the deaths of a group of scientists working on an atomic rocket development project. Behind the killings is fortune teller Sombra, a spy from an Asian country intent on world domination, who is determined to pilfer the atomic rocket by luring workers from the project to her parlor and killing them with black widow spider venom when they refuse to cooperate.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-01
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Mrs. Miniver
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
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Walking Tall
Overview: Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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Violent Road
Overview: Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-10
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Arizona Trail
Overview: A young cowboy returns home to help his father fight off a gang trying to take over the family ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-15
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The Tattered Dress
Overview: After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-14
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Pressure Point
Overview: An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-10
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Kid Galahad
Overview: After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-29
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Gunmen from Laredo
Overview: A framed Texas rancher escapes from prison for a showdown with a saloonkeeper.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Batman
Overview: The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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The Fatal Witness
Overview: A playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-15
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Baby Face Nelson
Overview: Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Overview: FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-06
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Second Fiddle
Overview: Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Valley of the Dragons
Overview: In 1881 Algeria, an American soldier and a French aristocrat are about to have a duel over a woman when a comet hurtling past the Earth draws them into its gravitational pull. The men find themselves transported to the moon, where they discover a prehistoric civilization inhabited by reptiles and humans.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-31
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Teenage Monster
Overview: In a little Western town, a boy is subjected to rays from a meteor. As a result, he grows into a teenaged, hairy, psychopathic killer. His mother hides him in her basement.
Genres: Western Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-08
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Mummy's Boys
Overview: Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-02
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Traffic with the Devil
Overview: This "Theater of Life" series short looks at traffic problems in Los Angeles, California, as described and experienced by Sgt. Charles Reineke, a traffic enforcement officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-31
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Overview: Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-13
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Blackmail
Overview: A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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The Nitwits
Overview: A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-07
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Overview: The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-10
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East of Eden
Overview: In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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Spartacus
Overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Genres: History War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Raging Bull
Overview: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-14
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Listen Judge
Overview: The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a charge of chicken stealing. They escape from the courtroom and wind up getting hired in the judges' house after their antics attempting to fix the doorbell cause the servants to quit. The boys are discovered when the cake they bakes explodes all over a political supporter of the judge and he loses his chance for re-election.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-06
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Captains Courageous
Overview: Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Overview: Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
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Wildcat Bus
Overview: A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-23
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Twilight on the Rio Grande
Overview: Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.
Genres: Adventure Music Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-31
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Brave Warrior
Overview: In Indiana of the early 1800s, conflict once again arises between the United States and Great Britain over territory and boundaries. Each side endeavors to gain the support of the Shawnee Indian tribes in the area. Governor William Henry Harrison enlists the aid of Steve Rubbell, whose friendship with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh goes back to childhood. Tecumseh's leadership of the Shawnee is contested by his brother, known as The Prophet, who sides with the British. Tecumseh, who grew up as a childhood playmate of Steve and of Laura McGregor, loves Steve as a brother and hopes to marry Laura. But Laura is in love with Steve. Laura's father, Shayne McGregor, secretly leads local support of the British against the Americans, even though it risks the life and love of his daughter. Everything comes to a head at the battle of Tippecanoe.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-31
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The Steel Fist
Overview: In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-06
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Riders of Death Valley
Overview: The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-01
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Lost Flight
Overview: The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."
Genres: TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-13
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Roadblock
Overview: An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-17
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Slightly Dangerous
Overview: Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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A Feather in Her Hat
Overview: After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Souvenirs of Death
Overview: This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on the battlefield by Germans during WWII makes its way into the hands of an American gangster.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-19
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Hellzapoppin'
Overview: Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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King Kong
Overview: Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-15
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Father of the Bride
Overview: Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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Sherlock Holmes in New York
Overview: An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-18
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The Flame and the Arrow
Overview: Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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Teenage Thunder
Overview: Teenagers rebel and race cars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Cloak and Dagger
Overview: Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-28
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Kidnapped
Overview: In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-28
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The Big Street
Overview: Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-13
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What's Up, Doc?
Overview: The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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His Kind of Woman
Overview: Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-15
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