Barbara Hale

Barbara Hale

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).

Peran Terkenal

Tentang

Stage Name: Barbara Hale

Peran: Acting

Reputasi: 1.0801

Jenis Kelamin: Perempuan

Tanggal Lahir: 1922-04-18

Lokasi Lahir: DeKalb, Illinois, USA

Riwayat Perfilman

1985

Perry Mason Returns

Della Street

1985

Perry Mason Returns

Della Street

1978

The Young Runaways

Mrs. Ogle

1978

Big Wednesday

Mrs. Barlow

1975

The Giant Spider Invasion

Dr. Jenny Langer

1974

Dinah!

Self

1973

Chester, Yesterday’s Horse

Mrs. Belle Kincaid

1970

The Red, White, and Black

Mrs. Alice Grierson

1970

Airport

Sarah Demerest

1969

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marjorie Brandon

1968

The Doris Day Show

Thelma King

1968

Adam-12

Bonnie Jessup

1968

Buckskin

Sarah Cody

1958

Desert Hell

Celie Edwards

1957

Slim Carter

Allie Hanneman

1957

Perry Mason

Della Street

1957

The Oklahoman

Anne

1956

7th Cavalry

Martha Kellogg

1956

The Houston Story

Zoe Crane

1955

Meet the Governor

June Waters

1955

Unchained

Mary Davitt

1955

The Far Horizons

Julia Hancock

1955

The Millionaire

Kathy Munson / Marian Munson

1954

Climax!

Mamie Eunson

1954

Studio 57

Ruth

1953

Letter to Loretta

Mrs. Strawn

1953

The Lone Hand

Sarah Jane Skaggs

1953

Seminole

Revere

1953

Last of the Comanches

Julia Lanning

1953

General Electric Theater

Ellen Newman

1952

The Ford Television Theatre

Katherine Charles

1952

The First Time

Betsey Bennett

1951

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone

1950

Emergency Wedding

Dr. Helen Hunt

1950

The Jackpot

Amy Lawrence

1949

And Baby Makes Three

Jacqueline 'Jackie' Walsh

1949

Jolson Sings Again

Ellen Clark

1949

The Window

Mary Woodry

1949

The Clay Pigeon

Martha Gregory

1947

A Likely Story

Vicki

1946

Lady Luck

Mary Audrey

1945

First Yank into Tokyo

Abby Drake

1945

West of the Pecos

Rill Lambeth

1944

The Falcon in Hollywood

Peggy Callahan

1944

Heavenly Days

Angie

1944

Goin' to Town

Patty

1944

The Falcon Out West

Marion Colby

1944

Prunes and Politics

Miss Barlow

1943

Higher and Higher

Katherine

1943

Around the World

Barbara Hale

1943

Government Girl

Girl in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

1943

The Iron Major

Sarah Cavanaugh

1943

The Seventh Victim

Subway Passenger (Uncredited)

1943

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

Girl seeking donations from Gildersleeve