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person_profile-Barbara Hale

Barbara Hale Died at age: 94

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Barbara Hale

Date of Birth:

Apr 18, 1922

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jan 26, 2017

Biography of

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).

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Filmography of

Barbara Hale

Found 72 Movies in total

... 1995

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... 1989

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... 1987

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... 1987

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... 1986

... 1986

Perry Mason Returns

Della Street ( Actor )

... 1985

The Young Runaways

Mrs. Ogle ( Actor )

... 1978

Big Wednesday

Mrs. Barlow ( Actor )

... 1978

The Flight of the Grey Wolf

Mrs Hanson ( Actor )

... 1976

The Giant Spider Invasion

Dr. Jenny Langer ( Actor )

... 1975

Chester, Yesterday’s Horse

Mrs. Belle Kincaid ( Actor )

... 1973

The Red, White, and Black

Mrs. Alice Grierson ( Actor )

... 1970

Airport

Sarah Demerest ( Actor )

... 1970

Buckskin

Sarah Cody ( Actor )

... 1968

Desert Hell

Celie Edwards ( Actor )

... 1958

Slim Carter

Allie Hanneman ( Actor )

... 1957

The Oklahoman

Anne ( Actor )

... 1957

7th Cavalry

Martha Kellogg ( Actor )

... 1956

The Houston Story

Zoe Crane ( Actor )

... 1956

Unchained

Mary Davitt ( Actor )

... 1955

The Far Horizons

Julia Hancock ( Actor )

... 1955

A Lion Is in the Streets

Verity Wade ( Actor )

... 1953

The Lone Hand

Sarah Jane Skaggs ( Actor )

... 1953

Seminole

Revere ( Actor )

... 1953

Last of the Comanches

Julia Lanning ( Actor )

... 1953

The First Time

Betsey Bennett ( Actor )

... 1952

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone ( Actor )

... 1951

Emergency Wedding

Dr. Helen Hunt ( Actor )

... 1950

The Jackpot

Amy Lawrence ( Actor )

... 1950

And Baby Makes Three

Jacqueline 'Jackie' Walsh ( Actor )

... 1949

Jolson Sings Again

Ellen Clark ( Actor )

... 1949

The Window

Mary Woodry ( Actor )

... 1949

The Clay Pigeon

Martha Gregory ( Actor )

... 1949

The Boy with Green Hair

Miss Brand ( Actor )

... 1948

A Likely Story

Vicki ( Actor )

... 1947

Lady Luck

Mary Audrey ( Actor )

... 1946

First Yank into Tokyo

Abby Drake ( Actor )

... 1945

West of the Pecos

Rill Lambeth ( Actor )

... 1945

The Falcon in Hollywood

Peggy Callahan ( Actor )

... 1944

Heavenly Days

Angie ( Actor )

... 1944

Goin' to Town

Patty ( Actor )

... 1944

The Falcon Out West

Marion Colby ( Actor )

... 1944

Higher and Higher

Katherine ( Actor )

... 1943

Around the World

Barbara Hale ( Actor )

... 1943

Government Girl

Girl in Hotel Lobby (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

The Iron Major

Sarah Cavanaugh ( Actor )

... 1943

The Seventh Victim

Subway Passenger (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

Girl seeking donations from Gildersleeve ( Actor )

... 1943