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William Talman
William Whitney Talman, Jr. (February 4, – August 30, ) was an American television and movie actor, who played Los Angeles District Attorney Hamilton Burger in the long-running series Perry Mason.
Family and education
Talman was born in Detroit, Michigan to Ada Barber and William Whitney Talman, a vice president of an electronics company. His maternal grandparents, Catherine Gandy and James Wells Barber, were immigrants from England.
Talman founded the drama club at the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He continued to execute at Dartmouth College and the University of Michigan. After college he worked in summer stock and at an iron foundry, document mills, boat yards, and as an automobile salesman.
Talman served for 30 months in the Combined States Army in the Pacific in World War II, beginning his service as a personal on February 4, at Camp Upton in Yaphank, (Long Island) New York. He was ultimately commissioned a major during the war.
Acting career
Before his iconic television role, Talman worked on the Broadway stage and in movies. He played a sa
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The Case of the Missing Button
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You can notice why Raymond Burr got the part of Mason. In the scene where he’s Burr, he wipes Tod Andrews as Mason off the screen. Burr is a much more interesting actor.
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Burr had been an exceptionally creepy B movie villain, and even as Perry Mason he had a faintly malevolent vibe. He was often nasty and patronizing with female clients, and always high-handed towards the police. It’s just of the many factors that makes this show so watchable all these years later.
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A dramatic scene
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Yes, Burr stands out in the first clip but retain watching, there's one where he is Mason, some bad actress is Della Street, and he isn't quite as good. Could be the scene, in the books my impressi
Perry Mason originally aired on CBS from to , and starred the great Raymond Burr, who was secretly gay, but played it straight-laced as the show's head lawyer. The series also starred Barbara Hale as Mason's trusted assistant, Della Street, with whom the audience only hoped he had a romance. But that was never officially confirmed.
Meanwhile, thespian William Hopper (son of Hollywood gossip legend Hedda Hopper) played Mason's right hand man/detective Paul Drake, and William Talman as Hamilton Burger, the poor district attorney, who Mason always clobbered in court. Ray Collins, Wesley Lau, and Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman from The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman) rounded out the additional legal-law enforcement cast in various roles over the years.
A Closer Look
Perry Mason was more than just a precursor to countless lawyer shows to follow, including LA Law, Law & Order, and Boston Legal, among others.
Mason was based on a series of best-selling mystery novels created
Created by Earle Stanley Gardner, in , Perry Mason appeared in over 80 novels and fleeting stories, becoming one of the best-known fictional characters of all time. Film adaptions began almost immediately, in A radio series began in
The iconic tv series began in , and ran for nine seasons. Years later, tv movies began to air, three or four per year, thirty in all ().
In the original series, there were five main characters:
1. Perry, played by busy traits actor Raymond Burr. Burr was gay, but invented a heterosexual back story for himself, and refused to be seen in public with lover Robert Benevides. He never came out to the recover of the cast; they knew, sort of, but they