
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).
- Known ForActing
- Born18 April 1922 (age 103)
- Place of BirthDeKalb, Illinois, USA
Barbara Hale

- Known ForActing
- Born18 April 1922 (age 103)
- Place of BirthDeKalb, Illinois, USA

Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
1995

Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
1994

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
1994

Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
1993

Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss
1993

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993

Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host
1993

Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
1992

Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
1992

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing
1992

Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
1991

Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
1991

Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster
1991

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion
1991

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
1990

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
1990

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
1990

Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
1990

Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
1989

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
1989

Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
1989

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
1988

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
1988

Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
1987

Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
1987

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
1987

Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
1987

Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
1986

Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
1986

Perry Mason Returns
1985

The Young Runaways
1978

Big Wednesday
1978

The Flight of the Grey Wolf
1976

The Giant Spider Invasion
1975

Chester, Yesterday’s Horse
1973

Airport
1970

The Red, White, and Black
1970

Buckskin
1968

Desert Hell
1958

The Oklahoman
1957

Slim Carter
1957

The Houston Story
1956

7th Cavalry
1956

The Country Husband
1956

The Far Horizons
1955
Meet the Governor
1955

Unchained
1955

Last of the Comanches
1953

Seminole
1953

A Lion Is in the Streets
1953

The Lone Hand
1953

The First Time
1952

Lorna Doone
1951

The Jackpot
1950

Emergency Wedding
1950

The Window
1949

The Clay Pigeon
1949

Jolson Sings Again
1949

And Baby Makes Three
1949

The Boy with Green Hair
1948

A Likely Story
1947

Lady Luck
1946

First Yank into Tokyo
1945

West of the Pecos
1945

The Falcon in Hollywood
1944

The Falcon Out West
1944

Heavenly Days
1944

Prunes and Politics
1944

Goin' to Town
1944

Higher and Higher
1943

The Iron Major
1943

Government Girl
1943

Gildersleeve's Bad Day
1943

Around the World
1943
