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...See full bio »
It was the Depression and MONEY that made me a stuntman . . . I had a pretty good education, and I always thought, even when I WAS a stuntman, that I wasn't particularly proud of it.
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Co-founder of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures in 1960.
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