Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale (April 18, 1922 - January 26, 2017) was 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 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).
Fotos
Películas (75)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
1995 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
1994 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
1994 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
1993 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss
1993 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host
1993 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
1992 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
1992 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing
1992 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion
1991 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
1991 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster
1991 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
1991 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
1990 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
1990 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
1990 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
1990 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
1989 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
1989 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
1989 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
1988 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
1988 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
1987 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
1987 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
1987 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
1987 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
1986 · Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
1986 · Della Street
Perry Mason Returns
1985 · Della Street
The Young Runaways
1978 · Mrs. Ogle
Big Wednesday
1978 · Mrs. Barlow
The Flight of the Grey Wolf
1976 · Mrs Hanson
The Giant Spider Invasion
1975 · Dr. Jenny Langer
Chester, Yesterday’s Horse
1973 · Mrs. Belle Kincaid
The Red, White, and Black
1970 · Mrs. Alice Grierson
Airport
1970 · Sarah Demerest
Buckskin
1968 · Sarah Cody
Desert Hell
1958 · Celie Edwards
Slim Carter
1957 · Allie Hanneman
The Oklahoman
1957 · Anne
7th Cavalry
1956 · Martha Kellogg
The Country Husband
1956 · Mrs. Julia Wiley
The Houston Story
1956 · Zoe Crane
Meet the Governor
1955 · June Waters
Unchained
1955 · Mary Davitt
The Far Horizons
1955 · Julia Hancock
A Lion Is in the Streets
1953 · Verity Wade Martin
The Lone Hand
1953 · Sarah Jane Skaggs
Seminole
1953 · Revere
Last of the Comanches
1953 · Julia Lanning
The First Time
1952 · Betsey Bennett
Lorna Doone
1951 · Lorna Doone
Emergency Wedding
1950 · Dr. Helen Hunt
The Jackpot
1950 · Amy Lawrence
And Baby Makes Three
1949 · Jacqueline 'Jackie' Walsh
Jolson Sings Again
1949 · Ellen Clark
The Window
1949 · Mary Woodry
The Clay Pigeon
1949 · Martha Gregory
The Boy with Green Hair
1948 · Miss Brand
A Likely Story
1947 · Vicki
Lady Luck
1946 · Mary Audrey
First Yank into Tokyo
1945 · Abby Drake
West of the Pecos
1945 · Rill Lambeth
The Falcon in Hollywood
1944 · Peggy Callahan
Heavenly Days
1944 · Angie
Goin' to Town
1944 · Patty
The Falcon Out West
1944 · Marion Colby
Prunes and Politics
1944 · Miss Barlow
Higher and Higher
1943 · Katherine
Around the World
1943 · Barbara Hale
Government Girl
1943 · Girl in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
The Iron Major
1943 · Sarah Cavanaugh
The Seventh Victim
1943 · Subway Passenger (Uncredited)
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
1943 · Girl seeking donations from Gildersleeve
Series (16)
Perry Mason Returns
1985 · Della Street
Dinah!
1974 · Self
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969 · Marjorie Brandon
The Doris Day Show
1968 · Thelma King
Adam-12
1968 · Bonnie Jessup
Perry Mason
1957 · Della Street
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955 · June Waters
The Millionaire
1955 · Kathy Munson / Marian Munson
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Mrs. Ogle
Climax!
1954 · Mamie Eunson
Studio 57
1954 · Ruth
Lassie
1954
Letter to Loretta
1953 · Mrs. Strawn
General Electric Theater
1953 · Ellen Newman, Lorraine
The Ford Television Theatre
1952 · Marta Linden, Katherine Charles, Nora White
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Ginny Morgan