Despite a varied career as a film actor in the United States and Europe, Americans will probably always remember Anthony Perkins (1932-1992) as the murderer Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and its sequels.
Like the fictional Bates, Perkins lived a tortured life. He struggled with his homosexuality and married despite affairs with Tab Hunter, Rudolf Nureyev, and others. He died of complications from AIDS in 1992.