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Raymond Burr and other cast members on the set of Perry Mason, from the front cover of Look magazine (October 10, 1961) "Perry Mason was television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series," wrote TV historian Tim Brooks. [67]: 590 "It remains, I think, the best detective series ever made for television," wrote film historian Jon Tuska.
Barbara Hale (April 18, 1922 – January 26, 2017) was an American actress who portrayed legal secretary Della Street in the dramatic television series Perry Mason (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She reprised the role in 30 Perry Mason made-for-television movies (1985–1995).
Between 1985 and 1988, Katt starred in nine Perry Mason television films, playing the role of private detective Paul Drake Jr., son of Paul Drake, a fictional private detective in the Perry Mason television series and the Perry Mason series of detective stories written by Erle Stanley Gardner; Katt co-starred with his mother Barbara Hale, who ...
Audiences can draw a straight line from the new CBS show through to the original “Matlock” to “Perry Mason.” “Perry Mason,” whose titular attorney defends falsely accused people in ...
Holland Taylor, playing Della's fill-in assistant, had co-starred as one of the prime suspects in the first Mason movie, Perry Mason Returns, 10 years prior. That gave Taylor and Hale the distinction of being the only two actors to have appeared in both the first and last Perry Mason movies of any kind.
Williams did star as a former Navy frogman in Assignment: Underwater, which ran for just one season. He played a variety of roles on Perry Mason, in which his wife Barbara Hale co-starred as Raymond Burr's secretary Della Street. In a 1962 episode, "The Case of the Crippled Cougar," he played defendant Mike Preston.
This is a list of episodes for Perry Mason, an American legal drama series that aired on CBS television for nine seasons (September 21, 1957 – May 22, 1966). The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner.
Perry Mason is a fictional character, an American criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason features in 82 novels and four short stories, all of which involve a client being charged with murder, usually involving a preliminary hearing or jury trial. Typically ...