Raymond Burr

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-05-21 (76 years old)

Deathday

1993-09-12

Place of Birth

New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

Raymond Burr

Biography

Raymond William Stacey Burr (May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993) was a Canadian actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. His early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television and in film, usually as the villain. He won two Emmy Awards in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons between 1957 and 1966. His second hit series, Ironside, earned him six Emmy nominations, and two Golden Globe nominations. He is also known for his role as Steve Martin in both Godzilla, King of the Monsters! and Godzilla 1985. In addition to acting, Burr owned an or...

Acting

1954

Rear Window

as Lars Thorwald

1956

Crime of Passion

as Inspector Tony Pope

1982

Airplane II: The Sequel

as Judge D.C. Simonton

1951

Bride of the Gorilla

as Barney Chavez

1953

The Blue Gardenia

as Harry Prebble

1978

The Bastard

as Narrator (voice)

1951

A Place in the Sun

as District Attorney R. Frank Marlowe

1948

Pitfall

as MacDonald

1949

Red Light

as Nick Cherney

1949

Abandoned

as Kerric

1951

His Kind of Woman

as Nick Ferraro

1948

Raw Deal

as Rick Coyle

1949

Love Happy

as Alphonse Zoto

1948

Adventures of Don Juan

as Capitão Alvarez

1991

Delirious

as Carter Hedison

1957

Affair in Havana

as Mallabee

1956

A Cry in the Night

as Harold Loftus

1947

Desperate

as Walt Radak

1948

Station West

as Lawyer Mark Bristow

1952

Horizons West

as Cord Hardin

1950

Unmasked

as Roger Lewis

1954

They Were So Young

as Jaime Coltos

1951

The Whip Hand

as Steve Loomis

1948

1948

Ruthless

as Pete Vendig

1956

Please Murder Me

as Attorney Craig Carlson

1950

Borderline

as Pete Ritchie

1985

Godzilla 1985

as Steven Martin

1981

Out of the Blue

as Dr. Brean

1985

Perry Mason Returns

as Perry Mason

1947

Code of the West

as Boyd Carter

1955

Count Three and Pray

as Yancey Huggins

1954

Gorilla at Large

as Cy Miller

1946

San Quentin

as Jeff Torrance

1948

Sleep, My Love

as Detective Sergeant Strake

1949

Black Magic

as Alexandre Dumas, Jr.

1952

Mara Maru

as Brock Benedict

1954

1956

1976

The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena

as Himself (Narrator) (voice)

1951

The Magic Carpet

as Boreg al Buzzar

1954

Passion

as Captain Rodriguez

1951

FBI Girl

as Blake

1950

Key to the City

as Les Taggart

1956

The Brass Legend

as Tris Hatten

1953

Serpent of the Nile

as Mark Antony

1949

Bride of Vengeance

as Michelotto

1952

Meet Danny Wilson

as Nick Driscoll

1954

Khyber Patrol

as Ahmed Shir

1968

P.J.

as William Orbison

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1956

Ride The High Iron

as Ziggy Moline

1951

M

as Pottsy

1972

Survival of Spaceship Earth

as Self - Narrator

1948

Fighting Father Dunne

as Attorney in Trial Montage

1951

New Mexico

as Pvt. Anderson

1976

Kingston

as R.B. Kingston

1952

A Star Shall Rise

as Balthazar

1980

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

as Jonash Sabastian

1979

Love's Savage Fury

as Lyle Taggart, Sr.

1955

A Man Alone

as Stanley

1956

1992

Grass Roots

as Judge Boggs

1954

Thunder Pass

as Tulsa

1957

The Greer Case

as Lester Friedman

1977

Godzilla

as Steve Martin

1960

Desire in the Dust

as Col. Ben Marquand

1953

1946

Without Reservations

as Paul Gill (uncredited)

1967

Ironside

as Robert Ironside

1973

Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John

as Angelo Roncalli, Pope John XXIII

1968

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

as Self (uncredited)

1980

The Return

as Dr. Kramer

2016

FantastiCozzi

as (archive footage)

1993

The Return of Ironside

as Robert T. Dacier

1978

The Jordan Chance

as Frank Jordan

1968

Split Second to an Epitaph

as Robert Ironside

1961

1971

1954

2018

Godzilla Resurrection

as Steve Martin

Production

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