If I ask you quickly to name one person who had their career destroyed by one self inflicted act, you might think of Jennifer Grey.

Her whole career came crashing down because of the nose job she got.

Was she A list though?

Was she ever going to be A+ list or was her inevitable slide, just hastened by the procedure.

I would argue the biggest career slide was in this former A+ list actor who was an Oscar winner/nominee and could sing on Broadway as easily as he could be the lead in a dramatic movie or television role.

Our actor was closeted and thought he could cure himself from being gay so he submitted to electroshock therapy and then forced himself to hook up with actresses.

The electroshock therapy changed who he was as an actor and changed his appearance and his cadence and he never got the same kind of work after.

That led him to abandon trying to be heterosexual which led him back to men and an early death due to AIDS.

Anthony Perkins

Anthony Perkins, 60, Dies; Star of ‘Psycho’ Had AIDS – 1992

Anthony Perkins, the haunting, lanky character actor who achieved his greatest fame as deranged motel keeper Norman Bates in the classic Hitchcock thriller “Psycho,” died Saturday of complications of AIDS, a family spokeswoman said.

Perkins, 60, died peacefully in his Hollywood home in the company of his wife, Berry Berenson Perkins, and two sons, Osgood, 18, and Elvis, 16, according to spokeswoman Leslee Dart. Several of the actor’s close friends also were present, having gathered during the week as his condition worsened, Dart said.

However, the spokeswoman said she was unaware of how long Perkins had been ill or how he contracted the AIDS virus.

Long regarded as a private, even mysterious figure in Hollywood, Perkins managed to keep his illness a secret even to the end, addressing it only in a personal statement prepared shortly before his death.

Those remarks, read Saturday by Dart, hinted at Perkins’ disenchantment with the entertainment world. – Source

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