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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).
Most Popular Barbara Hale Trailers
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28 February 1988
Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence.
23 February 1987
Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.
08 November 1986
An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to contain a live round.
12 February 1989
Ken Malansky, a law student of Perry Mason's, is accused of murdering a fellow student. Perry is reluctant to take on his case as the victim was the son of a close friend.
11 March 1990
Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspected of being a Nazi SS Officer.
04 October 1987
Perry investigates the murder of a former madam and uncovers a multimillion dollar banking fraud in the process.
21 January 1990
The chief suspects in the murder of an author are the numerous colleagues whom he continuously plagiarized.
01 March 1992
A painter, believed to be dead, returns to make allegations that a gallery owner is selling counterfeits of his work.
15 May 1988
A woman suddenly disappears after an early morning walk, and her husband is accused of murder.
30 September 1990
A young woman from Las Vegas wants Perry Mason to defend her father.
09 November 1989
A hockey player of friend of Ken Malansky's is accused of murdering a team owner. Perry takes the case.
10 April 1995
Attorney Bill McKenzie takes the case when his niece is framed for the murder of a popular and demanding sitcom star.
19 February 1993
The owner of a cosmetics company is unveiling a new cream which she claims she's been using. She's been keeping her age a secret and now reveals that she's 60 and owes her appearance to the cream.
20 March 1953
Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
10 May 1949
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him.
23 September 1953
A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
01 February 1953
It's 1876 and all the Indians are at peace except the Comanches lead by Black Cloud. When Black Cloud wipes out a town, only six soldiers are left and they head for the nearest fort.
29 May 1986
A priest is murdered and the main suspect is a nun.
17 December 1993
Anthony Caruso, an old friend of Perry Mason, comes to Denver on the request of Dee Morrison. She's married to famed photographer David Morrison, who wants to shoot a photo featuring his former models.
14 May 1991
David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children.
24 September 1991
An editor of a fashion magazine writes a column that destroys careers. She is also a brutal employer.
01 December 1956
An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
31 October 1943
William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero.
10 May 1943
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
05 September 1945
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
03 March 1949
Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII.
17 March 1944
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.
01 May 1968
A Montana marshal fights a land baron out to parch homesteaders with a spite dam.
27 November 1943
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
29 November 1993
On the set of a popular daytime soap opera 'Mile High', actress Kris Buckner is being forced off by co-star Mark Stratton.
31 January 1952
A married couple welcomes their first child.
09 November 1994
The alleged suicide of a gubernatorial candidate triggers a series of mysterious deaths leading to the governor's mansion, and "Wild" Bill McKenzie, a friend of Perry Mason, is on the case.
06 January 1991
Perry is at TV station "KGGY" to be interviewed but thanks to the interference of main anchor-person Brett Huston the interview is pulled.
20 May 1990
Perry Mason defends the husband of a famous rock singer who was found being killed after having had a tremendous discussion with her husband and her manager.
19 May 1957
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter.
09 April 1989
A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case.
11 February 1991
A gangster who has commited all kinds of crimes is accused to have killed his wife. As he was not the murderer in this case Perry Mason intents to find the killer.
10 May 1994
A former associate of Perry Mason returns to handle the defense of a world-class chess player accused of murdering a prominent TV personality.
01 November 1957
Hughie Mack, a not so nice western singer, is discovered by Clover Doyle as the next movie cowboy hero.
25 August 1955
This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California.
15 November 1950
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients.
30 October 1992
Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old friend of his. But after the ceremony the uncle of the bride is dead.
20 May 1953
Zachary Hallock and his son Joshua are farmers who live in a frontier town that suffers the assaults of a band of outlaws.
31 December 1943
A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss's fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.
21 May 1993
Dr Sheila Carlin is good friends with Della who calls Perry in when she is being pestered by someone.
05 November 1943
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
24 May 1987
Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private assistant and the two remaining staff at the hotel to discuss business.
26 November 1948
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work.
31 May 1951
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.
08 December 1944
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor.
18 April 1947
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
04 July 1955
Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
05 May 1992
Sleazy talk show host Ted Mayne writes a tell-all book, which enrages and embarrasses several very prominent women.
25 March 1970
An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.
01 November 1950
Bill Lawrence wins a bevy of prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them in order to pay the taxes incurred.
07 January 1944
Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him.
30 October 1946
A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
26 May 1978
Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
01 February 1956
A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.
15 November 1987
Perry is suing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della.
