Entertainment & Arts
Art for Cal Poly: Actor Raymond Burr, 74, and his business partner Robert Benevides have donated a $1.1-million art and antique furniture collection to Cal Poly Pomona, where, two years ago, they established the Raymond Burr Orchid Collection.
Jan. 21, 1992
Television
Just about the last thing on producer Dean Hargrove’s mind is even thinking of trying to replace the late Raymond Burr as TV’s “Perry Mason.”
Nov. 25, 1993
Raymond Burr, who began his dramatic career portraying an unsavory assortment of hoodlums, killers and villains, and climaxed it as the legendary attorney who defended them, died Sunday night at his Sonoma County ranch.
Sept. 13, 1993
Perry Mason has a confession.
Feb. 11, 1989
“I have been very, very fortunate,” Barbara Hale says. “V ery blessed, honey.”
Dec. 12, 1993
Actor Raymond Burr, who plays TV’s quintessential TV lawyer Perry Mason, will venture into syndicated television for the first time this fall as host of a daily, half-hour series dramatizing court cases.
July 4, 1989
Charles Macaulay, an actor and director who was prominent in legitimate theater but is best remembered for his role as a hapless prosecutor facing the perpetually successful Raymond Burr in a number of “Perry Mason” movies, has died.
Aug. 19, 1999
A buff, self-reliant Blair Underwood is an NYPD detective in a wheelchair, filling a role similar to Raymond Burr’s in NBC series.
Oct. 2, 2013
Archives
You could have sworn it was Perry Mason himself--that huge, glowering figure who was firing such enigmatic questions as “What’s the temperature in here?”
May 26, 1988
Perry Mason turned up once again with one of his plodding two-hour vehicles on March 11.
April 1, 1990