Barbara Hale actress
- All known tv series 18
- Total known movies 74
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 Jolsons 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).
Mary Woodry
Movie 1949
Zoe Crane
Movie 1956
Julia Lanning
Movie 1953
Martha Gregory
Movie 1949
Ellen Clark
Movie 1949
Miss Brand
Movie 1948
Marion Colby
Movie 1944
Mrs. Belle Kincaid
Movie 1973
Dr. Jenny Langer
Movie 1975
Della Street
Movie 1991
Della Street
Movie 1993
Della Street
Movie 1990
Julia Hancock
Movie 1955
Della Street
Movie 1993
Della Street
Movie 1992
Della Street
Movie 1991
Abby Drake
Movie 1945
Verity Wade
Movie 1953
Rill Lambeth
Movie 1945
Amy Lawrence
Movie 1950
Mrs. Alice Grierson
Movie 1970
Jacqueline 'Jackie' Walsh
Movie 1949
Lorna Doone
Movie 1951
Betsey Bennett
Movie 1952
Della Street
Movie 1993
Della Street
Movie 1987
Della Street
Movie 1988
Della Street
Movie 1989
Della Street
Movie 1990
Della Street
Movie 1990
Della Street
Movie 1994
Angie
Movie 1944
Dr. Helen Hunt
Movie 1950
Allie Hanneman
Movie 1957
June Waters
Movie 1955
Vicki
Movie 1947
Mary Davitt
Movie 1955
Sarah Cavanaugh
Movie 1943
Girl in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Movie 1943
Celie Edwards
Movie 1958
Miss Barlow
Movie 1944
Girl seeking donations from Gildersleeve
Movie 1943
Barbara Hale
Movie 1943
Patty
Movie 1944
Mrs. Ogle
Movie 1978
Subway Passenger (Uncredited)
Movie 1943
Mrs Hanson
Movie 1976
Marjorie Brandon
Tv 1969
Tv 1954
Marta Linden
Tv 1952
Kathy Munson / Marian Munson
Tv 1955
Ginny Morgan
Tv 1951
Mamie Eunson
Tv 1954
Mrs. Strawn
Tv 1953
June Waters
Tv 1955
Bonnie Jessup
Tv 1968
Tv 1951
Thelma King
Tv 1968
Mrs. Ogle
Tv 1954
Self
Tv 1974
Katherine Charles
Tv 1952
