Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, United States on April 18th, 1922 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 94, Barbara Hale biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Barbara Hale (April 18, 1922 – January 26, 2017) was an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street in the television series Perry Mason (1957–1966), winning her a 1959 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
She starred in 30 Perry Mason films for television (1985–1995).
The Window (1949), in which she starred as the mother of a boy who witnesses a murder, was one of her film roles.
Early life
Barbara Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, to Wilma (née Colvin) and Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener. Juanita, Hale's younger sister, was named. The family had ancestry of Scotch-Irish origins. Hale was a member of Rockford High School's final graduating class in 1940 and moved to Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, aspiring to be an artist. Her acting career began in Chicago when she began paying for her education.
Private life and death
Hale met actor Bill Williams (birth name Herman August Katt) in 1945 during the filming of West of the Pecos. They were married for 46 years beginning on June 22, 1946, until Williams' death from cancer on September 21, 1992. Jodi and Juanita, and William Katt, the couple's son, had two children, and Jodi and Juanita. In the 1960s, Williams appeared on four episodes of Perry Mason.
In nine of Perry Mason TV films from 1985 to 1988, Katt played detective Paul Drake, Jr. Hale appeared in Katt's series The Greatest American Hero, in which Katt appeared in the title role, aka Ralph Hinkley; Hale appeared in the 1982 film "Who's Woo in America." In the 1978 film Big Wednesday, she also appeared in her mother.
Hale, a bladder cancer survivor, became a Bahá Faith follower.
Hale, 94, died of persistent pulmonary disease at her Sherman Oaks, California, on January 26, 2017. She is married next to her husband in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
Career
Hale went to Hollywood in 1943 and was under RKO Radio Pictures' new directorship. In Gildersleeve's Bad Day, she made her first screen appearance (uncredited) in this film. She continued to make minor uncredited appearances in films until her first credit role in Higher and Higher (1943) (even singing with him in the film). Hale appeared in films including West of the Pecos (1945) with Robert Mitchum (1945) — opposite Robert Young in her second film as the leading man (1946) and "her fifth A picture" — and The Window (1949). She received rave reviews for her co-starring appearance in the musical biography Jolson Sings Again (1949). She and Parks were teamed up for subsequent films.
Lorna Doone (1951); the film The Jackpot (1951) (also 1951); the film The Lion Is in the Streets (1953) with James Cagney (also 1953); and the Westerns Seminole (1957) continued Hale's prolific films during that decade. Hale's last leading role in a motion picture will be in the latter film, co-starring Joel McCrea. After this time, she was not in film again, but she did appear in the 1970 film Airport as the wife of an airline pilot (played by Dean Martin). Hale's last appearance in a film was in 1978's Big Wednesday as Mrs. Barlow, the mother of the character played by Hale's real-life son William Katt.
Hale was considering retirement from acting when she accepted her best known role, as legal secretary Della Street, starring Raymond Burr as the titular character. With 271 episodes produced, the show ran for nine seasons from 1957 to 1966. Hale received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Hale and Burr (by then the only remaining cast members of the original series) reprised their roles for the TV show Perry Mason Returns in 1985. The film was such a success that no further 29 films were released before 1995. Hale continued her role as Della in the four telefilms released after Burr's death in 1993, subtitled A Perry Mason Mystery (and starring Anthony Caruso in the first film and Hal Holbrook as "Wild" Bill McKenzie in the remaining three). Hale is therefore the only actor to appear in all 30 films.
Hale's career has been inextricably linked to that of Perry Mason co-star Burr; she appeared in "Murder Impromptu," a 1971 episode of his new series Ironside, in which she appeared.
Burr's last on-screen appearance was a TV biographical documentary that aired in 2000.
Hale's radio appearances were limited; she appeared in one episode of Voice of the Army (1947), Lux Radio Theatre (1950), and Proudly We Hail (syndicated), as well as five episodes of Family Theater (1950-1954).