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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 18, 1922
Died
January 26, 2017
Place of Birth
DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Барбара Хейл
- باربارا هیل
Barbara Hale
1.6 Popularity
Biography
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 For
7.5
Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
1995
6.3
Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
1994
7.3
Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
1994
6.6
Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
1993
7.6
Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss
1993
7.1
Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host
1993
7.3
Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993
7.9
Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
1992
7.0
Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
1992
6.6
Della Street
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing
1992
Credits
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
as Della Street
1995
7.5
Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
as Della Street
1994
6.3
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
as Della Street
1994
7.3
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
as Della Street
1993
6.6
Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss
as Della Street
1993
7.6
Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host
as Della Street
1993
7.1
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
as Della Street
1993
7.3
Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride
as Della Street
1992
7.9
Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo
as Della Street
1992
7.0
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing
as Della Street
1992
6.6
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion
as Della Street
1991
7.4
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
as Della Street
1991
7.3
Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster
as Della Street
1991
6.5
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
as Della Street
1991
6.2
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
as Della Street
1990
7.0
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
as Della Street
1990
7.3
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
as Della Street
1990
6.8
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
as Della Street
1990
7.1
Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
as Della Street
1989
6.4
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
as Della Street
1989
6.5
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
as Della Street
1989
7.1
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
as Della Street
1988
6.8
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
as Della Street
1988
7.1
Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
as Della Street
1987
7.1
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
as Della Street
1987
6.7
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
as Della Street
1987
7.7
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
as Della Street
1987
7.2
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
as Della Street
1986
7.0
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
as Della Street
1986
6.9
Perry Mason Returns
as Della Street
1985
7.0
Perry Mason Returns
as Della Street
1985
7.0
The Young Runaways
as Mrs. Ogle
1978
6.0
Big Wednesday
as Mrs. Barlow
1978
6.9
The Flight of the Grey Wolf
as Mrs Hanson
1976
6.0
The Giant Spider Invasion
as Dr. Jenny Langer
1975
4.1
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Chester, Yesterday’s Horse
as Mrs. Belle Kincaid
1973
0.0
The Red, White, and Black
as Mrs. Alice Grierson
1970
0.0
Airport
as Sarah Demerest
1970
6.5
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Marjorie Brandon
1969
6.5
The Doris Day Show
as Thelma King
1968
5.8
Adam-12
as Bonnie Jessup
1968
7.0
Buckskin
as Sarah Cody
1968
5.4
Desert Hell
as Celie Edwards
1958
0.0
Slim Carter
as Allie Hanneman
1957
0.0
Perry Mason
as Della Street
1957
7.7
The Oklahoman
as Anne
1957
5.6
7th Cavalry
as Martha Kellogg
1956
5.9
The Country Husband
as Mrs. Julia Wiley
1956
0.0
The Houston Story
as Zoe Crane
1956
5.5
Screen Director's Playhouse
as June Waters
1955
6.5
🎬
Meet the Governor
as June Waters
1955
0.0
Unchained
as Mary Davitt
1955
0.0
The Far Horizons
as Julia Hancock
1955
6.2
The Millionaire
as Kathy Munson / Marian Munson
1955
5.0
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Mrs. Ogle
1954
7.8
Climax!
as Mamie Eunson
1954
3.3
Studio 57
as Ruth
1954
0.0
Lassie
1954
6.1
A Lion Is in the Streets
as Verity Wade
1953
5.1
Letter to Loretta
as Mrs. Strawn
1953
6.5
The Lone Hand
as Sarah Jane Skaggs
1953
5.6
Seminole
as Revere
1953
5.4
Last of the Comanches
as Julia Lanning
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Ellen Newman
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Lorraine
1953
6.4
The Ford Television Theatre
as Marta Linden
1952
7.3
The Ford Television Theatre
as Katherine Charles
1952
7.3
The First Time
as Betsey Bennett
1952
6.8
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Ginny Morgan
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Lorna Doone
as Lorna Doone
1951
4.4
Emergency Wedding
as Dr. Helen Hunt
1950
5.5
The Jackpot
as Amy Lawrence
1950
6.9
And Baby Makes Three
as Jacqueline 'Jackie' Walsh
1949
4.1
Jolson Sings Again
as Ellen Clark
1949
6.0
The Window
as Mary Woodry
1949
6.9
The Clay Pigeon
as Martha Gregory
1949
5.5
The Boy with Green Hair
as Miss Brand
1948
6.2
A Likely Story
as Vicki
1947
4.2
Lady Luck
as Mary Audrey
1946
5.4
First Yank into Tokyo
as Abby Drake
1945
5.4
West of the Pecos
as Rill Lambeth
1945
3.8
The Falcon in Hollywood
as Peggy Callahan
1944
6.0
Heavenly Days
as Angie
1944
0.0
Goin' to Town
as Patty
1944
0.0
The Falcon Out West
as Marion Colby
1944
5.2
Prunes and Politics
as Miss Barlow
1944
5.0
Higher and Higher
as Katherine
1943
6.0
Around the World
as Barbara Hale
1943
5.0
Government Girl
as Girl in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
1943
5.2
The Iron Major
as Sarah Cavanaugh
1943
5.3
The Seventh Victim
as Subway Passenger (Uncredited)
1943
6.5
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
as Girl seeking donations from Gildersleeve
1943
6.4