Unforgettable as "Norman Bates", Perkins also played a wonderfully deranged preacher in the movie "Crimes of Passion" with Kathleen Turner as a prostitute named "China Blue" whom he was obsessed with.

norman bates certainly was a bad man but he also played that crazy photogragher in mahogany with diana ross. i hope that was the name of the movie

Except for Psycho, I can most often recall him specializing in playing some type of victim. Come to think of it, Norman Bates would actually qualify on some level as a victim too...but a really PO'd one.