Gil Perkins

Gil Perkins was an Australian actor who worked in film and television, born in Melbourne in 1907 and died in 1999. He went to Hollywood, where he altered his Australian accent to sound British so he could play British characters. His first screen work was as an extra in The Divine Lady in 1929, and his first credited part came in Journey's End the following year. He became a regular stuntman for William Boyd and performed stunts for Bruce Cabot in King Kong and for Spencer Tracy in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He also worked for Universal Pictures on Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. Perkins acted and performed stunts in many features and TV shows, including an appearance as Mingo in the western series Cheyenne in 1956. He did special effects work for action sequences, played a gladiator in Demetrius and the Gladiators, and was 50 when he portrayed the teenage monster in Teenage Monster in 1958.