Barbara Hale
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- 18 aprile 1922 · DeKalb, Illinois, USA
- 26 gennaio 2017
Biografia
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).
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Filmografia
- Perry Mason - Il caso Jokester · Della Street
- Perry Mason: dietro la facciata · Della Street
- Perry Mason: serata col morto · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Poker di streghe · Della Street
- Perry Mason - Il bacio che uccide · Della Street
- Perry Mason: L'ospite d'onore · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Elisir di morte · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Fiori d'arancio · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Morte di un dongiovanni · Della Street
- Perry Mason: L'arte di morire · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Scandali di carta · Della Street
- Perry Mason: La bara di vetro · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Omicidio sull'asfalto · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Va in onda la morte · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Una ragazza intraprendente · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Morte a tempo di rock · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Crimini di guerra · Della Street
- Perry Mason. Furto d'autore · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Campioni senza valore · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Partitura mortale · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Arringa finale · Della Street
- Perry Mason: La donna del lago · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Un fotogramma dal cielo · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Morte di un editore · Della Street
- Perry Mason: La signora di mezzanotte · Della Street
- Perry Mason: Lo spirito del male · Della Street
- Perry Mason - Per un antico amore · Della Street
- Perry Mason - Assassinio in diretta · Della Street
- Perry Mason e la novizia · Della Street
- Il ritorno di Perry Mason · Della Street
- Perry Mason Returns · Della Street
- The Young Runaways · Mrs. Ogle
- Un mercoledì da leoni · Mrs. Barlow
- The Flight of the Grey Wolf · Mrs Hanson
- L'invasione dei ragni giganti · Dr. Jenny Langer
- Dinah! · In persona
- Chester, Yesterday’s Horse · Mrs. Belle Kincaid
- The Red, White, and Black · Mrs. Alice Grierson
- Airport · Sarah Demerest
- Marcus Welby · Marjorie Brandon
- The Doris Day Show · Thelma King
- Adam-12 · Bonnie Jessup
- Buckskin · Sarah Cody
- Desert Hell · Celie Edwards
- Slim Carter · Allie Hanneman
- Perry Mason · Della Street
- Petrolio rosso · Anne
- 7 cavalleria · Martha Kellogg
- The Country Husband · Mrs. Julia Wiley
- I banditi del petrolio · Zoe Crane
- Meet the Governor · June Waters
- Screen Director's Playhouse · June Waters
- Senza catene · Mary Davitt
- I due capitani · Julia Hancock
- The Millionaire · Kathy Munson / Marian Munson
- The Wonderful World of Disney · Mrs. Ogle
- Climax! · Mamie Eunson
- Studio 57 · Ruth
- Lassie
- Un leone per la strada · Verity Wade Martin
- Letter to Loretta · Mrs. Strawn
- Il complice segreto · Sarah Jane Skaggs
- Seminole · Revere
- Nuvola nera · Julia Lanning
- General Electric Theater · Ellen Newman, Lorraine
- The Ford Television Theatre · Marta Linden, Katherine Charles
- The First Time · Betsey Bennett
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars · Ginny Morgan
- Lorna Doone · Lorna Doone
- Emergency Wedding · Dr. Helen Hunt
- La fortuna si diverte · Amy Lawrence
- E col bambino fanno tre · Jacqueline 'Jackie' Walsh
- Non c'è passione più grande · Ellen Clark
- La finestra socchiusa · Mary Woodry
- Bersaglio umano · Martha Gregory
- Il ragazzo dai capelli verdi · Miss Brand
- A Likely Story · Vicki
- Lady Luck · Mary Audrey
- First Yank into Tokyo · Abby Drake
- La bella avventura · Rill Lambeth