Perkins, Osgood
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Perkins, Osgood (1892–1937), actor. Born in West Newton, Massachusetts, he was educated at Harvard, fought in World War I, and worked in films before making his late debut in a small part in
Beggar on Horseback (1924). For a time thereafter he drifted between larger roles in short‐run plays and supporting roles in minor hits, among them Joe Cobb in
Spread Eagle (1927). Perkins's career‐making role was the cynical, gimlet‐eyed newspaper editor Walter Burns in
The Front Page (1928). Twelve years after the play closed Brooks
Atkinson wrote that he could still see Perkins “cutting through the uproar like a bright, sharp penknife, and peeling off the layers of the plot as he went along.” Subsequent successes came as Michael Astroff in
Uncle Vanya (1930), the acid‐tongued secretary Samuel Gillespie in
Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1931), novelist Kenneth Bixby in
Goodbye Again (1932), Sganarelle in
The School for Husbands (1933), pilot Jake Lee in
Ceiling Zero (1935), and the fortune‐hunting Kenneth Rice in
End of Summer (1936).
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