Osgood Perkins
Date of birth: 1892-05-15
Place of birth: Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: James Ridley Osgood Perkins
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Osgood Perkins (May 16, 1892 – September 21, 1937) was an American actor. Perkins was born James Ripley Osgood Perkins in West Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Helen Virginia (née Anthony) and Henry Phelps Perkins. He is a descendant of a Mayflower passenger John Howland. Perkins made his Broadway debut in 1924 in the George S. Kaufman – Marc Connelly play Beggar on Horseback. Within the next dozen years he would appear in 24 productions, including The Front Page and Uncle Vanya. Description above from the Wikipedia article Osgood Perkins licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Scarface
1932-04-09
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots
Puritan Passions
1923-09-09
Goody Rickby has a child out of wedlock, but it dies when the father, Gillead Wingate, refuses to ac
Secret of the Chateau
1934-12-03
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable
Kansas City Princess
1934-09-14
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie
Madame du Barry
1934-10-13
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry ch
Tarnished Lady
1931-05-01
Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity eve
I Dream Too Much
1935-11-29
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evenin
The President Vanishes
1934-11-17
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American pol
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
1926-03-19
Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps
Syncopation
1929-03-23
Benny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as
Wild, Wild Susan
1925-08-04
Wealthy New York girl, Susan Van Dusen, in search of thrills and laughter, leaves home and finds wor
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936-12-28
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a go
Second Fiddle
1923-01-14
Jim Bradley has always played second fiddle in his family -- while his older brother, Herbert, goes
Mother's Boy
1929-07-01
Young Irish lad Tommy O'Day lives in a poor section of New York's Lower East Side, and is blessed wi
Knockout Reilly
1927-04-16
A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worke
Grit
1924-01-07
Two former childhood gang members, "Kid" Hart and Orchid McGonigle, attempt to go straight, despite