Gil Perkins

Gil Perkins is an actor, born 1907. Their work on CrossBinge spans TV and films, including Batman, with ratings and cross-media recommendations.

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…