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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• 1995Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester — Della Street
• 1994Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor — Della Street
• 1994Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle — Della Street
• 1993Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss — Della Street
• 1993Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal — Della Street
• 1993Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host — Della Street
• 1993Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives — Della Street
• 1992Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing — Della Street
• 1992Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride — Della Street
• 1992Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo — Della Street
• 1991Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion — Della Street
• 1991Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin — Della Street
• 1991Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster — Della Street
• 1991Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter — Della Street
• 1990Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter — Della Street
• 1990Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception — Della Street
• 1990Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen — Della Street
• 1990Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer — Della Street
• 1989Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin — Della Street
• 1989Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson — Della Street
• 1989Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder — Della Street
• 1988Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace — Della Street
• 1988Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake — Della Street
• 1987Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love — Della Street
• 1987Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam — Della Street
• 1987Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel — Della Street
• 1987Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit — Della Street
• 1986Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun — Della Street
• 1986Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star — Della Street
• 1985Perry Mason Returns — Della Street
• Perry Mason Returns — Della Street
• 1978Big Wednesday — Mrs. Barlow
• 1978The Young Runaways — Mrs. Ogle
• 1976The Flight of the Grey Wolf — Mrs Hanson
• 1975The Giant Spider Invasion — Dr. Jenny Langer
• 1973Chester, Yesterday’s Horse — Mrs. Belle Kincaid
• 1970The Red, White, and Black — Mrs. Alice Grierson
• 1970Аеропорт — Sarah Demerest
• Marcus Welby, M.D. — Marjorie Brandon
• Adam-12 — Bonnie Jessup
• 1968Buckskin — Sarah Cody
• The Doris Day Show — Thelma King
• 1958Desert Hell — Celie Edwards
• 1957Slim Carter — Allie Hanneman
• 1957The Oklahoman — Anne
• Перрі Мейсон — Della Street
• 19567th Cavalry — Martha Kellogg
• 1956The Country Husband — Mrs. Julia Wiley
• 1956The Houston Story — Zoe Crane
• 1955Meet the Governor — June Waters
• Screen Director's Playhouse — June Waters
• 1955The Far Horizons — Julia Hancock
• The Millionaire — Kathy Munson / Marian Munson
• 1955Unchained — Mary Davitt
• Climax! — Mamie Eunson
• Lassie
• Studio 57 — Ruth
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Mrs. Ogle
• 1953A Lion Is in the Streets — Verity Wade Martin
• General Electric Theater — Ellen Newman, Lorraine
• 1953Last of the Comanches — Julia Lanning
• Letter to Loretta — Mrs. Strawn
• 1953Seminole — Revere
• 1953The Lone Hand — Sarah Jane Skaggs
• 1952The First Time — Betsey Bennett
• The Ford Television Theatre — Marta Linden, Katherine Charles, Nora White
• 1951Lorna Doone — Lorna Doone
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Ginny Morgan
• 1950Emergency Wedding — Dr. Helen Hunt
• 1950The Jackpot — Amy Lawrence
• 1949And Baby Makes Three — Jacqueline 'Jackie' Walsh
• 1949Jolson Sings Again — Ellen Clark
• 1949The Clay Pigeon — Martha Gregory
• 1949The Window — Mary Woodry
• 1948The Boy with Green Hair — Miss Brand
• 1947A Likely Story — Vicki
• 1946Lady Luck — Mary Audrey
• 1945First Yank into Tokyo — Abby Drake
• 1945West of the Pecos — Rill Lambeth
• 1944Goin' to Town — Patty
• 1944Heavenly Days — Angie
• 1944Prunes and Politics — Miss Barlow
• 1944The Falcon Out West — Marion Colby
• 1944The Falcon in Hollywood — Peggy Callahan
• 1943Around the World — Barbara Hale
• 1943Gildersleeve's Bad Day — Girl seeking donations from Gildersleeve
• 1943Government Girl — Girl in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
• 1943Higher and Higher — Katherine
• 1943The Iron Major — Sarah Cavanaugh
• 1943The Seventh Victim — Subway Passenger (Uncredited)

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