Anthony Perkins

One day before the ninth anniversary of his death, his widow, Berry Berenson, died on American Airlines Flight 11, the flight that was hijacked and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. Recently he's been casted to play Marvin's voice in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. His son, Osgood Perkins, credited as Oz Perkins, is also an actor. Although he has never married, he has been romantically linked to Rima Horton since their days at the Chelsea College of Art. Horton is a politician affiliated with the Labour Party. Perkins died in 1992 of complications from AIDS. He also "narrated" the song Bell on the album Tubular Bells II. Dale married actress Anita Morris only 10 days before the Perkins-Berenson nuptials (Dale and Morris's son is television actor James Badge Dale). Rickman has recently been immortalised in a song composed by English musician Adam Leonard.

Perkins was bisexual, having had affairs with a number of men, including 1950s and 60s film star Tab Hunter, writer-model-actor Alan Helms, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale, with whom Perkins had a six-year relationship prior to his marriage to Berry Berenson. In recent years he has come to the attention of a younger audience through his appearances as the apparently-villainous Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies. He went on to star in (and even direct) the sequels and prequel to Psycho and also played a few memorable characters, such as the chaplain in Catch-22 (1970), but most of his later work was made-for-TV movies or films made outside the USA. He plays mostly period roles in British movies, while on the Hollywood screen he is typecast as the over-the-top villain. After other acclaimed performances both in film and on Broadway, he starred in the 1960 film Psycho, which led to his being typecast as the crazy killer (Lovin' Molly notwithstanding). He made a particular impression as the male lead in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and became known to television audiences playing the role of Mr Slope in the BBC's 1980s adaptation of Barchester Towers. Perkins's first movie was The Actress (1953); he received an Academy Award nomination for his role in his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956). Since then, he has been a constant presence on the British stage.

He was the son of American stage and film actor Osgood Perkins (James Ripley Osgood Perkins, 1891-1937) and his wife, Janet. Born in Hammersmith, London to a working-class family, Rickman was a graphic designer before entering the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London in the early seventies. Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 - September 12, 1992) was an American actor best known for his role as the maniacal murderer, Norman Bates, in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born February 21, 1946) is a British stage and screen actor. Die Hard (1988), as Hans Gruber. January Man (1989), as Ed, the painter.

Quigley Down Under (1990), as Alan Marston, an unscrupulous ranch owner. Truly Madly Deeply (1991). Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), as the Sheriff of Nottingham. Close My Eyes (1991).

Mesmer (1994), as Franz Mesmer. An Awfully Big Adventure (1995). Sense and Sensibility (1995), as Colonel Brandon. Rasputin (1996), as Grigori Rasputin.

Michael Collins (1996), as Eamon de Valera. The Winter Guest (1997). Judas Kiss (1998), as Detective David Friedman. Dark Harbor (1998), as David Weinberg.

Dogma (1999), as Metatron. Galaxy Quest (1999), as Alexander Dane. Blow Dry (2001), as Phil Allen. Harry Potter series, as Professor Severus Snape.

Love Actually (2003), as Harry. Alfred Blalock. Something the Lord Made (2004), as Dr.