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Anthony Perkins Movies

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Introduction:
"Anthony Perkins will always be remembered for "Psycho", but he played many roles. This quiz is on some of his movies and roles from 1953-1989. (Oh, yes, "Psycho" is here, too)."


1. Did Anthony Perkins make his movie debut in the Spencer Tracy and Jean Simmons film, "The Actress" (1953), which was about a young woman whose dream was to be a star on Broadway?
    Yes
    No


2. Based on Jessamyn West's novel, what was the name of the 1956 movie in which Anthony Perkins played Josh Birdwell, a young Quaker whose peaceful way of life was threatened by the Civil War?
    Keys to the Kingdom
    The Shepherd of the Hills
    Keeper of the Bees
    Friendly Persuasion


3. Anthony Perkins played Eben Cabot, a young man who had a passionate love affair with his young, sultry stepmother, in "Desire Under the Elms" (1958). What beautiful actress played the stepmother?
    Sophia Loren
    Gina Lollobrigida
    Elizabeth Taylor
    Kim Novak


4. A boy's best friend isn't always his mother. What was the name of the oddball innkeeper that Anthony Perkins played in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller, "Psycho"?
    Answer: (first and last name, just first name, or just surname)


5. In what 1972 WWII-era comedy did Alan Arkin play John Yossarian, a bomber pilot who was trying to get certified as insane, and Anthony Perkins play Chaplain A.T. Tappman?
    Catch-22
    From Here to Eternity
    M*A*S*H
    Pearl Harbor


6. What was the name of the 1972 movie that featured Paul Newman as an unorthodox dispenser of Wild West justice, and Anthony Perkins as the Rev. Mr. La Salle?
    The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
    The Hanging Tree
    Hang'em High
    Judge Dredd


7. Hercule Poirot woke up to find the train stopped in deep snow, and that a murder had been committed, in "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974). What was the name of the character that Anthony Perkins played in this clever mystery based on the book by Agatha Christie?
    Colonel Arbuthnot
    Hector Williard MacQueen
    Count Andrenyi
    Mr. Beddoes


8. Anthony Perkins played Dr. Alex Durant in which 1979 Disney sci-fi thriller about a spaceship full of scientists who encountered a spacecraft which had a mad genius for a captain, and a strange humanoid crew?
    The Black Hole
    Flight of the Navigator
    Tron
    Moon Pilot


9. In what kinky 1984 movie did Anthony Perkins play Rev. Peter Shayne, a street preacher obsessed with a prostitute called China Blue?
    Crimes of Passion
    Body Double
    Body Heat
    Sex, Lies, and Videotape


10. What was the name of the shocking 1989 horror film in which Anthony Perkins played Henry Jekyll, a doctor whose drug experiments turned him into the murderous and perverted Jack Hyde?
    My Blood Runs Cold
    The Razor's Edge
    Edge of Sanity
    From Hell


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