Barbara Hale
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1922-04-18
- Décès:
- 2017-01-26
- Lieu de naissance:
- DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Biographie
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).
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Filmographie
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
Perry Mason : Échec à la dame
Perry Mason : Les Dames de cœur
Perry Mason : Baiser mortel
Perry Mason : Meurtre en FM
Perry Mason : La Formule magique
Perry Mason : Le Mariage compromis
Perry Mason : La Robe rouge
Perry Mason : L'Affaire des tableaux posthumes
Perry Mason : Un éditorial de trop
Perry Mason : Le Cercueil de verre
Perry Mason : L'Affaire du complot diabolique
Perry Mason : L'Affaire des ambitions perdues
Perry Mason : La Gamine insupportable
Perry Mason : La Dernière Note
Perry Mason : Nostalgie meurtrière
Perry Mason : Le Verre empoisonné
Perry Mason : Le Mauvais Joueur
Perry Mason : Meurtre à Broadway
Perry Mason : Meurtre en circuit fermé
Perry Mason : La Dame du lac
Perry Mason : La Femme qui en savait trop
Perry Mason : L'Affaire des feuilles à scandales
Perry Mason : Qui a tué Madame ?
Perry Mason : Le Mauvais Esprit
Perry Mason : L'Affaire de l'amour perdu
Perry Mason : Meurtre en direct
Perry Mason : Meurtre à l'archevêché
Perry Mason : Le retour de Perry Mason
Perry Mason
The Young Runaways
Graffiti Party
The Flight of the Grey Wolf
L'Invasion des araignées géantes
Dinah!
Chester, Yesterday’s Horse
The Red, White, and Black
Airport
Marcus Welby, M.D.
The Doris Day Show
Auto-patrouille
Buckskin
Desert Hell
Slim Carter
Perry Mason
Fureur sur l'Oklahoma
La Mission du Capitaine Benson
The Country Husband
The Houston Story
Meet the Governor
Screen Director's Playhouse
Unchained
Horizons lointains
The Millionaire
Le Monde merveilleux de Disney (Disneyland - Walt Disney Présente - Le Monde Merveilleux De Disney En Couleurs )
Climax!
Studio 57
Lassie
A Lion Is in the Streets
Letter to Loretta
Le Solitaire des Rocheuses
L'expédition du Fort King
Le Sabre et la Flèche
General Electric Theater
The Ford Television Theatre
The First Time
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Lorna Doone
Emergency Wedding
Gare au percepteur
And Baby Makes Three
Je chante pour vous
Une Incroyable histoire
Le Pigeon d'argile
Le Garçon aux cheveux verts
A Likely Story
Lady Luck
Le Premier Américain à Tokyo
A l'ouest du Pecos
Le Faucon à Hollywood
Heavenly Days
Goin' to Town
The Falcon Out West
Prunes and Politics
Amour et swing
Around the World
L'Exubérante Smoky
The Iron Major
La Septième Victime
Gildersleeve's Bad Day