Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr (1917–1993) was a Canadian-American actor best known for playing defense attorney Perry Mason and detective Robert Ironside on television.

Perry Mason: A fictional Los Angeles defense attorney created by writer Erle Stanley Gardner. Burr’s defining television role was this attorney, whom he played from 1957 to 1966.
Perry Mason (1957 TV series): An American legal drama television series starring Raymond Burr as defense attorney Perry Mason. This long-running series established Burr’s best-known role and public image.
New Westminster: A city in British Columbia, Canada, on the Fraser River east of Vancouver. Burr was born in New Westminster in 1917.
Perry Mason revival films: A series of television films that reunited Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale as Perry Mason and Della Street. Burr returned to his signature role in these films beginning in 1985.
Ironside: A television crime drama about San Francisco police consultant Robert T. Ironside, who uses a wheelchair. Burr starred as the title detective in this series from 1967 to 1975.
Ironside (TV series): An American police drama television series starring Raymond Burr as wheelchair-using detective Robert T. Ironside. Its title role gave Burr a second major television identity after Perry Mason.
California Players: A repertory theater company based in Pasadena, California. Burr performed with this company before establishing himself in film and television.
Perry Mason (2020 TV series): An HBO period crime drama that depicts Perry Mason as a struggling private investigator before his legal career. Its darker origin story differs from the polished attorney persona Burr made familiar.
Erle Stanley Gardner: An American lawyer and writer who created the fictional detective Perry Mason. Gardner’s novels supplied the character Burr brought to television.
Rear Window: A 1954 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which a photographer suspects a neighbor of murder. Burr played the suspected neighbor, Lars Thorwald, in one of his notable film roles.

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