JAMES OSGOOD RIPLEY PERKINS
Anthony's father Osgood was born on 16th May 1892, in Boston, Massachusetts. He made his Broadway debut in 1924 in the play Beggar on Horseback. Within the next dozen years he would become an extremely popular stage actor and appear in twenty-four stage productions. Despite his success as a leading man in the theatre, Hollywood merely viewed him as a character actor. He appeared in twelve silent pictures, before graduating to 'talkies', the most memorable of which was the original Scarface in 1932. He married Janet Esselstyn Rane in 1922, and died of a heart attack on 21st September 1937 aged just 45, immediately following a road show performance of Susan and God in Washington D.C.
FILMOGRAPHY
1936 Gold Diggers of 1937
1935 I Dream Too Much
1934 Secret of the Chateau
1934 The President Vanishes (aka Strange Conspiracy (UK)
1934 Kansas City Princess (aka The Kansas Princess (UK)
1934 Madame DuBarry
1932 Scarface
1931 Tarnished Lady
1929 Mother's Boy
1929 Syncopation
1927 Knockout Reilly
1927 High Hat
1926 Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
1925 Wild, Wild Susan
1924 The Puritans
1924 Peter Stuyvesant
1924 Grit
1923 Puritan Passions
1923 Second Fiddle
1922 The Cradle Buster
To see all stage performances see his iBdb.com page.
With Paul Muni in Scarface, 1932
With Lee Tracy in stage play The Front Page, 1928
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