Gil 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

Most Known For

Star Trek

as Slave #3 (uncredited)

Perry Mason

as Watchman

Mission: Impossible

as Russian Colonel

Batman

as Dicer

Batman

as Cauliflower

Batman

as Jury Foreman

Batman

as Henchman (uncredited)

The Red Skelton Show

Get Smart

as Waiter

Get Smart

as KAOS Agent (uncredited)

Get Smart

as Kane (uncredited)

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as U.S. Marshal

Mannix

The Virginian

as Whitey

The Virginian

as Hooded Man

Cheyenne

as Ranch Hand

Lost in Space

as Convixt

The Beverly Hillbillies

as Pool Man

77 Sunset Strip

Thriller

as Eddie