Barbara Hale

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1922-04-18 (95 years old)

Deathday

2017-01-26

Place of Birth

DeKalb, Illinois, USA

Barbara Hale

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 s...

Acting

1970

Airport

as Sarah Demerest

1949

The Window

as Mary Woodry

1956

The Houston Story

as Zoe Crane

1953

Last of the Comanches

as Julia Lanning

1949

The Clay Pigeon

as Martha Gregory

1956

7th Cavalry

as Martha Kellogg

1949

Jolson Sings Again

as Ellen Clark

1943

Higher and Higher

as Katherine

1948

1944

The Falcon in Hollywood

as Peggy Callahan

1944

The Falcon Out West

as Marion Colby

1953

Seminole

as Revere

1973

Chester, Yesterday’s Horse

as Mrs. Belle Kincaid

1975

The Giant Spider Invasion

as Dr. Jenny Langer

1985

Perry Mason Returns

as Della Street

1955

The Far Horizons

as Julia Hancock

1945

1957

1953

1945

West of the Pecos

as Rill Lambeth

1950

The Jackpot

as Amy Lawrence

1970

The Red, White, and Black

as Mrs. Alice Grierson

1968

Buckskin

as Sarah Cody

1949

And Baby Makes Three

as Jacqueline 'Jackie' Walsh

1953

The Lone Hand

as Sarah Jane Skaggs

1951

Lorna Doone

as Lorna Doone

1952

The First Time

as Betsey Bennett

1946

Lady Luck

as Mary Audrey

1944

1950

Emergency Wedding

as Dr. Helen Hunt

1957

Slim Carter

as Allie Hanneman

1955

Meet the Governor

as June Waters

1947

1955

Unchained

as Mary Davitt

1943

The Iron Major

as Sarah Cavanaugh

1943

Government Girl

as Girl in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

1958

Desert Hell

as Celie Edwards

1944

Prunes and Politics

as Miss Barlow

1943

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

as Girl seeking donations from Gildersleeve

1943

Around the World

as Barbara Hale

1944

1978

The Young Runaways

as Mrs. Ogle

1943

The Seventh Victim

as Subway Passenger (Uncredited)

1978

Big Wednesday

as Mrs. Barlow

1956

The Country Husband

as Mrs. Julia Wiley

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