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Gil Perkins
Acting
24 Aug 1907
† 28 Mar 1999
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 s...
Also Known As
Gilbert Perkins, Gilbert Vincent Perkins, Gilbert V. Perkins


































