Barbara Hale
75 movies · 15 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 18, 1922
- Died
- Jan 26, 2017 (age 94)
- Place of birth
- DeKalb, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Барбара Хейл · باربارا هیل
Biography
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).
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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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Known for
Barbara Hale: movies and TV shows
Acting (90)
- 1995 Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
as Della Street
- 1994 Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
as Della Street
- 1994 Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
as Della Street
- 1993 Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
as Della Street
- 1993 Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss
as Della Street
- 1993 Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host
as Della Street
- 1993 Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
as Della Street
- 1992 Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
as Della Street
- 1992 Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
as Della Street
- 1992 Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing
as Della Street
- 1991 Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion
as Della Street
- 1991 Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
as Della Street
- 1991 Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster
as Della Street
- 1991 Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
as Della Street
- 1990 Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
as Della Street
- 1990 Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
as Della Street
- 1990 Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
as Della Street
- 1990 Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
as Della Street
- 1989 Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
as Della Street
- 1989 Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
as Della Street
- 1989 Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
as Della Street
- 1988 Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
as Della Street
- 1988 Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
as Della Street
- 1987 Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
as Della Street
- 1987 Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
as Della Street
- 1987 Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
as Della Street
- 1987 Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
as Della Street
- 1986 Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
as Della Street
- 1986 Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
as Della Street
- 1985 Perry Mason Returns
as Della Street
- 1985
- 1978 The Young Runaways
as Mrs. Ogle
- 1978 Big Wednesday
as Mrs. Barlow
- 1976 The Flight of the Grey Wolf
as Mrs Hanson
- 1975 The Giant Spider Invasion
as Dr. Jenny Langer
- 1973 Chester, Yesterday’s Horse
as Mrs. Belle Kincaid
- 1970 The Red, White, and Black
as Mrs. Alice Grierson
- 1970 Airport
as Sarah Demerest
- 1969
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968 Buckskin
as Sarah Cody
- 1958 Desert Hell
as Celie Edwards
- 1957 Slim Carter
as Allie Hanneman
- 1957
- 1957 The Oklahoman
as Anne
- 1956 7th Cavalry
as Martha Kellogg
- 1956 The Country Husband
as Mrs. Julia Wiley
- 1956 The Houston Story
as Zoe Crane
- 1955 Meet the Governor
as June Waters
- 1955
- 1955 Unchained
as Mary Davitt
- 1955 The Far Horizons
as Julia Hancock
- 1955
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954
- 1953 A Lion Is in the Streets
as Verity Wade Martin
- 1953
- 1953 The Lone Hand
as Sarah Jane Skaggs
- 1953 Seminole
as Revere
- 1953 Last of the Comanches
as Julia Lanning
- 1953
- 1952
- 1952 The First Time
as Betsey Bennett
- 1951
- 1951 Lorna Doone
as Lorna Doone
- 1950 Emergency Wedding
as Dr. Helen Hunt
- 1950 The Jackpot
as Amy Lawrence
- 1949 And Baby Makes Three
as Jacqueline 'Jackie' Walsh
- 1949 Jolson Sings Again
as Ellen Clark
- 1949 The Window
as Mary Woodry
- 1949 The Clay Pigeon
as Martha Gregory
- 1948 The Boy with Green Hair
as Miss Brand
- 1947 A Likely Story
as Vicki
- 1946 Lady Luck
as Mary Audrey
- 1945 First Yank into Tokyo
as Abby Drake
- 1945 West of the Pecos
as Rill Lambeth
- 1944 The Falcon in Hollywood
as Peggy Callahan
- 1944 Heavenly Days
as Angie
- 1944 Goin' to Town
as Patty
- 1944 The Falcon Out West
as Marion Colby
- 1944 Prunes and Politics
as Miss Barlow
- 1943 Higher and Higher
as Katherine
- 1943 Around the World
as Barbara Hale
- 1943 Government Girl
as Girl in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
- 1943 The Iron Major
as Sarah Cavanaugh
- 1943 The Seventh Victim
as Subway Passenger (Uncredited)
- 1943 Gildersleeve's Bad Day
as Girl seeking donations from Gildersleeve
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1974 Dinah!
1 episode