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Movies starring Gil Perkins have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.
Spartacus - released in 1960 - is Gil Perkins's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 573 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Gil Perkins is Teenage Monster - released in 1958 - with a score of 38% based on 2 reviews.
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.
Gil Perkins has acted in films with Sol Gorss, Dale Van Sickel, Philo McCullough and Sam Harris.
Gil Perkins has worked with these film directors: Phil Karlson, Victor Fleming, John Ford and Jacques Tourneur.
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