Barbara Hale

Highest Rated: 100% Jolson Sings Again (1949)

Lowest Rated: 67% Big Wednesday (1978)

Birthday: Apr 18, 1922

Birthplace: Not Available

According to her Rockford, Illinois, high-school yearbook, Barbara Hale hoped to make a career for herself as a commercial artist. Instead, she found herself posing for artists as a professional model. This led to a movie contract at RKO Radio, where she worked her way up from "B"s like The Falcon in Hollywood (1945) to such top-of-the-bill attractions as A Likely Story (1947) and The Boy With Green Hair (1949). She continued to enjoy star billing at Columbia, where among other films she essayed the title role in Lorna Doone (1952). Her popularity dipped a bit in the mid-1950s, but she regained her following in the Emmy-winning role of super-efficient legal secretary Della Street on the Perry Mason TV series. She played Della on a weekly basis from 1957 through 1966, and later appeared in the irregularly scheduled Perry Mason two-hour TV movies of the 1980s and 1990s. The widow of movie leading man Bill Williams, Barbara Hale was the mother of actor/director William Katt. Hale died in 2017, at age 94.

Photos

View All Photos (2)

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor	Della Street	—	1994
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle	Della Street	—	1994
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss	Actor	—	1993
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host	Della Street	—	1993
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal	Della Street	—	1993
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride	Della Street	—	1992
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo	Della Street	—	1992
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing	Della Street	—	1992
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion	Della Street	—	1991
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin	Della Street	—	1991
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster	Della Street	—	1991
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter	Della Street	—	1991
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter	Della Street	—	1990
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer	Della Street	—	1990
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception	Della Street	—	1990
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen	Della Street	—	1990
No Score Yet	The Defense Never Rests	Actor	—	1990
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin	Della Street	—	1989
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder	Della Street	—	1989
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson	Della Street	—	1989
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake	Della Street	—	1988
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace	Della Street	—	1988
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel	Della Street	—	1987
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam	Della Street	—	1987
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit	Della Street	—	1987
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love	Della Street	—	1987
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star	Della Street	—	1986
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun	Della Street	—	1986
No Score Yet	Perry Mason Returns	Della Street	—	1985
67%	Big Wednesday	Mrs. Barlow	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Flight of the Grey Wolf	Mrs. Hanson	—	1976
No Score Yet	Giant Spider Invasion	Dr. Jenny Langer	—	1975
73%	Airport	Mrs. Sarah Demerest	—	1970
No Score Yet	Buffalo Soldier	Mrs. Grierson	—	1970
No Score Yet	Buckskin	Sarah	—	1968
No Score Yet	The Oklahoman	Anne Barnes	—	1957
No Score Yet	7th Cavalry	Martha Kellogg	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Houston Story	Actor	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Far Horizons	Julia Hancock	—	1955
No Score Yet	Seminole	Revere	—	1953
No Score Yet	Last Of The Comanches	Julia Lanning	—	1953
No Score Yet	A Lion Is In The Streets	Actor	—	1953
80%	A Lion Is in the Streets	Verity	—	1953
No Score Yet	The First Time	Betsey Bennet	—	1952
No Score Yet	The Jackpot	Amy Lawrence	—	1950
100%	Jolson Sings Again	Ellen Clark	—	1949
100%	The Window	Mrs. Mary Woodry	—	1949
No Score Yet	The Clay Pigeon	Martha Gregory	—	1949
78%	The Boy with Green Hair	Miss Brand	—	1948
No Score Yet	A Likely Story	Vickie North	—	1947
No Score Yet	Lady Luck	Mary Audrey	—	1946
No Score Yet	First Yank Into Tokyo	Abby Drake	—	1945
No Score Yet	West of the Pecos	Rill Lambeth	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Falcon in Hollywood	Peggy Callahan	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Falcon Out West	Actor	—	1944
No Score Yet	Goin' to Town	Patty	—	1944
No Score Yet	Higher and Higher	Catherine Keating	—	1943
No Score Yet	Around the World	Barbara	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Iron Major	Sarah Cavanaugh	—	1943
94%	The Seventh Victim	Young Lover	—	1943
No Score Yet	Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event	Girl at Airport (uncredited)	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Falcon in Danger	Actor	—	1943

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
76%	Perry Mason 2020	Della Street	2020
No Score Yet	Marcus Welby, M.D. 1969-1976	Marjorie	1974
No Score Yet	Ironside 1967-1975	Actor	1971 1970
No Score Yet	Perry Mason 1957-1966	Della Street	1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957

Quotes from Barbara Hale's Characters

No quotes approved yet.

On Dvd & Streaming