To play the part of a college basketball star, Anthony Perkins worked out at the Warner Bros. gym for an hour and half. The film was based on a stage play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

Anthony Perkins in Alfred Hitchcock Psycho 1960 Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh) and shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and its aftermath, in which a private investigat