Who was perry mason married to in real life
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Biography
1917 - 1993
“Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.”
– Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr was born on May 21, 1917 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. While he was a youngster, his father moved the family to China for five years. His parents divorced when he was six and Burr moved with his mother to Vallejo, CA. As a young man, Burr dropped out of school and took odd jobs to support his mother and younger siblings during the Great Depression. He found work as a ranch hand, a deputy sheriff, and even a nightclub singer before beginning his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1937. Burr made his Broadway debut in 1941, then his film debut in “San Quentin” (1946). He appeared in more than 90 films, including “Rear Window”, “A Place in the Sun”, “The Blue Gardenia”, “A Cry in the Night” – and the western audience release of the science-fiction classic “Godzilla” – before landing the role of defense attorney Perry Mason for 271 episodes of the eponymously titled television series from 1957-1966. The landmark role won
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Raymond Burr
American-Canadian actor (1917–1993)
Raymond Burr | |
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Burr in 1968 | |
| Born | Raymond William Stacy Burr (1917-05-21)May 21, 1917 New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada |
| Died | September 12, 1993(1993-09-12) (aged 76) Healdsburg, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Fraser Cemetery |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1934–1993 |
| Spouse | Isabella Ward (m. 1948; div. 1952) |
| Partner | Robert Benevides (1960–1993) |
Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993) was a Canadian actor who had a lengthy Hollywood film career and portrayed the title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.
Burr's early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television, and film, usually as the villain. He portrayed the suspected murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rear Window (1954), and he also had a role in the 1956 film Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, which he reprised in the 1985 film Godzilla 1985. He won Emmy Awards for
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Ironside (1967 TV series)
American television crime drama (1967–1975)
This article is about the original 1967–1975 television series. For the remake, see Ironside (2013 TV series).
Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over eight seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside (usually addressed by the title "Chief Ironside"), a consultant to the San Francisco police department (formerly chief of detectives), who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation. The character debuted on March 28, 1967, in a TV movie titled Ironside. When the series was broadcast in the United Kingdom, from late 1967 onward, it was broadcast as A Man Called Ironside. The show earned Burr six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.[1]
Ironside was a production of Burr's Harbour Productions Unlimited in association with Universal Television.
Plot
The series revolves around former San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr), a Navy veteran,
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