Barbara Hale

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Barbara Hale is an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street on more than 250 episodes of the long-running Perry Mason television series and later reprising the role in 30 made-for-TV movies. Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, to Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener, and his wife, Wilma Colvin. She is of Scots-Irish ancestry. Hale graduated from high school in Rockford, Illinois, then attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, planning to become an artist. Her performing career began in Chicago when she started modeling to pay for her education. She moved to Hollywood in 1943, and made her first screen appearances playing small parts (often uncredited). Hale was under contract to RKO Radio Pictures through the late 1940s. She appeared in Higher and Higher (1943) with Frank Sinatra; played leading lady to Robert Mitchum in West of the Pecos (1945); enjoyed top billing in both Lady Luck (1946) opposite Robert Young and The Window (1949) with Arthur Kennedy; and co-starred in Jolson Sings Again (1949), with Larry Parks playing Al Jolson and Hale as Jolson's wife, Ellen Clark. She played the top-billed title role in Lorna Doone (1951) and portrayed Julia Hancock in The Far Horizons (1955) with Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston. Her flourishing movie career more or less ended when Hale accepted her best known role, Della Street, secretary to attorney Perry Mason, in the TV series with Raymond Burr. The show ran from 1957 to 1966, and she reprised the role in several television movies. Her last performance to date was in 2000 at age 78. In 1967 she guest starred on the ABC series Custer. Hale also had a featured role in the 1970 ensemble film Airport, playing the wife of a jetliner pilot (Dean Martin).

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  • wc Gender: Female
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1922-04-18
  • event Death Date 2017-01-26
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 12.1
  • info Birth Place DeKalb, Illinois, USA
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6.5

Airport

1970-03-25

6.9

The Window

1949-05-10

5.5

The Houston Story

1956-02-01

6.4

Last of the Comanches

1953-02-01

5.5

The Clay Pigeon

1949-03-03

5.8

7th Cavalry

1956-12-01

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Jolson Sings Again

1949-08-17

6.1

Higher and Higher

1943-12-31

6.2

The Boy with Green Hair

1948-11-26

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The Falcon in Hollywood

1944-12-08

5.5

The Falcon Out West

1944-03-17

5.3

Seminole

1953-03-20

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Chester, Yesterday’s Horse

1973-03-04

3.9

The Giant Spider Invasion

1975-10-01

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Perry Mason Returns

1985-12-01

7.5

Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter

1991-01-06

6.8

Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives

1993-12-17

7.4

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

1990-05-20

6.2

The Far Horizons

1955-07-04

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss

1993-11-29

7.9

Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride

1992-10-30

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin

1991-05-14

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo

1992-05-05

6.5

Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster

1991-02-11

7.3

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal

1993-02-19

5.4

First Yank into Tokyo

1945-09-05

7.1

Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel

1987-11-15

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit

1987-05-24

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The Oklahoman

1957-05-19

5.5

A Lion Is in the Streets

1953-09-23

4.1

West of the Pecos

1945-08-10

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The Jackpot

1950-11-01

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The Red, White, and Black

1970-12-16

5.2

Buckskin

1968-05-01

4.9

And Baby Makes Three

1949-12-02

5.2

The Lone Hand

1953-05-20

4.6

Lorna Doone

1951-05-31

6.5

The First Time

1952-01-31

7.1

Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host

1993-05-21

6.9

Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor

1994-11-09

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun

1986-05-29

7.5

Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester

1995-04-10

7.2

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

1987-02-23

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star

1986-11-08

6.9

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake

1988-05-15

6.8

Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam

1987-10-04

6.7

Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder

1989-04-09

7.1

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen

1990-01-21

7.2

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson

1989-02-12

7.2

Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin

1989-11-09

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception

1990-03-11

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter

1990-09-30

7.3

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace

1988-02-28

7.3

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle

1994-05-10

7.4

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion

1991-09-24

6.6

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing

1992-03-01

5.4

Lady Luck

1946-10-30

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Heavenly Days

1944-10-20

5.5

Emergency Wedding

1950-11-15

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Slim Carter

1957-11-01

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Meet the Governor

1955-10-05

4.2

A Likely Story

1947-04-18

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Unchained

1955-08-25

5.8

The Iron Major

1943-10-31

5.2

Government Girl

1943-11-05

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Desert Hell

1958-06-25

5

Prunes and Politics

1944-01-07

6.4

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

1943-05-10

5

Around the World

1943-11-27

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Goin' to Town

1944-09-01

6

The Young Runaways

1978-05-28

6.4

The Seventh Victim

1943-08-21

6.9

Big Wednesday

1978-05-26

6

The Flight of the Grey Wolf

1976-03-14

6.5

Marcus Welby, M.D.

1969-09-23

7.7

Perry Mason

1957-09-21

6

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

6.2

Lassie

1954-09-12

7

The Ford Television Theatre

1952-10-02

5

The Millionaire

1955-01-19

7

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951-10-05

3

Climax!

1954-10-07

6.2

Letter to Loretta

1953-09-20

6.5

Screen Director's Playhouse

1955-10-05

7.1

Adam-12

1968-09-21

6

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

7

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951-10-05

5.2

The Doris Day Show

1968-09-24

7.6

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954-10-27

6.5

Dinah!

1974-10-21

7

The Ford Television Theatre

1952-10-02

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Studio 57

1954-09-21