Barbara Hale
Acting1922-04-18DeKalb, Illinois, USA
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).
出演作品（90）
Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
The Wonderful World of Disney
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
Perry Mason
Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
The Ford Television Theatre
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
Perry Mason Returns
The Jackpot
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
Adam-12
Perry Mason Returns
The Window
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
Big Wednesday
Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
The First Time
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
Dinah!
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Letter to Loretta
Screen Director's Playhouse
大空港
The Seventh Victim
Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster
Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
General Electric Theater
Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
The Far Horizons
Last of the Comanches
The Boy with Green Hair
Lassie
Jolson Sings Again
Higher and Higher
The Falcon in Hollywood
The Young Runaways
The Flight of the Grey Wolf
7th Cavalry
The Doris Day Show
The Oklahoman
The Lone Hand
The Houston Story
The Clay Pigeon
Emergency Wedding
Seminole
First Yank into Tokyo
Buckskin
Lady Luck
The Iron Major
Government Girl
The Falcon Out West
A Lion Is in the Streets
Prunes and Politics
Around the World
The Millionaire
Lorna Doone
A Likely Story
And Baby Makes Three
The Giant Spider Invasion
West of the Pecos
Climax!
Chester, Yesterday’s Horse
The Red, White, and Black
Heavenly Days
Slim Carter
Unchained
Desert Hell
Goin' to Town
The Country Husband
Studio 57