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 partsilent parttalkie 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 scifihorror 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 loupgarou 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
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