Raymond Burr

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 orchid business and had begun to grow a vineyard. He was a collector of wines and art, and was very fond of cooking. After his death from cancer in 1993, Burr's personal life came into question as details of his known biography appeared to be unverifiable. Gradually, it was revealed that Burr had possibly contrived a life story that hid his homosexuality. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raymond Burr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, 1917-05-21

Died: 1993-09-12

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1946	Without Reservations	Paul Gill (uncredited)	63
2	1946	San Quentin	Jeff Torrance	63
3	1947	Code of the West	Boyd Carter	50
4	1947	Desperate	Walt Radak	65
5	1948	I Love Trouble	Herb	63
6	1948	Sleep, My Love	Detective Sergeant Strake	64
7	1948	Ruthless	Pete Vendig	57
8	1948	Fighting Father Dunne	Attorney in Trial Montage	60
9	1948	Raw Deal	Rick Coyle	67
10	1948	Pitfall	MacDonald	69
11	1948	Station West	Lawyer Mark Bristow	61
12	1948	Walk a Crooked Mile	Krebs	58
13	1948	Adventures of Don Juan	Capitão Alvarez	64
14	1949	Bride of Vengeance	Michelotto	45
15	1949	Black Magic	Alexandre Dumas, Jr.	63
16	1949	Red Light	Nick Cherney	55
17	1949	Love Happy	Alphonse Zoto	57
18	1949	Abandoned	Kerric	62
19	1950	Unmasked	Roger Lewis	52
20	1950	Key to the City	Les Taggart	61
21	1950	Borderline	Pete Ritchie	55
22	1951	M	Pottsy	63
23	1951	New Mexico	Pvt. Anderson	35
24	1951	A Place in the Sun	District Attorney R. Frank Marlowe	73
25	1951	His Kind of Woman	Nick Ferraro	67
26	1951	Bride of the Gorilla	Barney Chavez	48
27	1951	The Whip Hand	Steve Loomis	56
28	1951	The Magic Carpet	Boreg al Buzzar	47
29	1951	FBI Girl	Blake	59
30	1952	Meet Danny Wilson	Nick Driscoll	40
31	1952	Mara Maru	Brock Benedict	48
32	1952	Horizons West	Cord Hardin	57
33	1952	A Star Shall Rise	Balthazar	0
34	1953	The Bandits of Corsica	Jonatto	58
35	1953	The Blue Gardenia	Harry Prebble	66
36	1953	Serpent of the Nile	Mark Antony	70
37	1953	Tarzan and the She-Devil	Vargo	48
38	1953	Fort Algiers	Amir	55
39	1954	Casanova's Big Night	Bragadin	61
40	1954	Gorilla at Large	Cy Miller	56
41	1954	Rear Window	Lars Thorwald	84
42	1954	Khyber Patrol	Ahmed Shir	70
43	1954	Thunder Pass	Tulsa	60
44	1954	A Star Is Born World Premiere	Self	80
45	1954	Passion	Captain Rodriguez	52
46	1954	They Were So Young	Jaime Coltos	44
47	1955	You're Never Too Young	Noonan	65
48	1955	Count Three and Pray	Yancey Huggins	48
49	1955	A Man Alone	Stanley	56
50	1956	The House Without a Name	Doctor	0
51	1956	Please Murder Me	Attorney Craig Carlson	60
52	1956	Great Day in the Morning	Jumbo Means	59
53	1956	Godzilla, King of the Monsters!	Steve Martin	66
54	1956	Secret of Treasure Mountain	Cash Larsen	30
55	1956	A Cry in the Night	Harold Loftus	52
56	1956	The Brass Legend	Tris Hatten	62
57	1956	Ride The High Iron	Ziggy Moline	0
58	1956	Crime of Passion	Inspektor Pope	62
59	1957	The Greer Case	Lester Friedman	0
60	1957	Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean	Steve Martin	89
61	1957	Affair in Havana	Mallabee	52
62	1960	Desire in the Dust	Col. Ben Marquand	40
63	1961	Interrupted Morning	Narrator	0
64	1967	Ironside	Robert Ironside	50
65	1968	P.J.	William Orbison	52
66	1968	Split Second to an Epitaph	Robert Ironside	0
67	1968	The Dean Martin Christmas Show	Self (uncredited)	76
68	1971	The Priest Killer	Ironside	0
69	1971	Festival at Ford's	Self	0
70	1972	Survival of Spaceship Earth	Self - Narrator	0
71	1973	Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John	Angelo Roncalli, Pope John XXIII	0
72	1976	Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence	Arthur Mallory	0
73	1976	The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena	Himself (Narrator) (voice)	60
74	1976	Kingston	R.B. Kingston	0
75	1977	Godzilla	Steve Martin	68
76	1977	Aliens from Spaceship Earth	Self	0
77	1978	Tomorrow Never Comes	Burke	58
78	1978	The Bastard	Narrator (voice)	50
79	1978	The Jordan Chance	Frank Jordan	0
80	1979	Love's Savage Fury	Lyle Taggart, Sr.	43
81	1979	Disaster on the Coastliner	Estes Hill	53
82	1980	The Return	Dr. Kramer	59
83	1980	The Curse of King Tut's Tomb	Jonash Sabastian	43
84	1980	The Night the City Screamed	The Mayor	50
85	1981	Out of the Blue	Dr. Brean	69
86	1982	Airplane II: The Sequel	Judge D.C. Simonton	61
87	1983	Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	65
88	1985	Godzilla 1985	Steven Martin	68
89	1985	Perry Mason Returns	Perry Mason	70
90	1986	Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun	Perry Mason	69
91	1986	Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star	Perry Mason	70
92	1987	Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love	Perry Mason	72
93	1987	Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit	Perry Mason	77
94	1987	Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam	Perry Mason	68
95	1987	Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel	Perry Mason	71
96	1988	Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace	Perry Mason	72
97	1988	Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake	Perry Mason	69
98	1989	Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson	Perry Mason	72
99	1989	Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder	Perry Mason	67
100	1989	Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin	Perry Mason	71
101	1990	Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen	Perry Mason	71
102	1990	Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception	Perry Mason	70
103	1990	Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer	Perry Mason	73
104	1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self	40
105	1990	Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter	Perry Mason	70
106	1991	Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter	Perry Mason	74
107	1991	Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster	Perry Mason	65
108	1991	Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin	Perry Mason	73
109	1991	Delirious	Carter Hedison	56
110	1991	Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion	Perry Mason	74
111	1991	Showdown at Williams Creek	The Judge	62
112	1992	Grass Roots	Judge Boggs	0
113	1992	Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing	Perry Mason	66
114	1992	Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo	Perry Mason	70
115	1992	Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride	Perry Mason	79
116	1993	Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal	Perry Mason	73
117	1993	The Return of Ironside	Robert T. Dacier	48
118	1993	Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host	Perry Mason	71
119	1993	Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss	Perry Mason	76
120	1999	Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	76
121	2016	FantastiCozzi	(archive footage)	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	66
2	1949	The Emmy Awards	Self	75
3	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
4	1950	Lux Video Theatre		60
5	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Colby	60
6	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Dan Reynolds	60
7	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Major Blakestone	60
8	1951	Tales of Tomorrow		60
9	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Dr. Sutton	70
10	1951	Dragnet		65
11	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Gonzales	61
12	1952	The Ford Television Theatre	Red Lefwick	70
13	1952	Mr. & Mrs. North	Charles	48
14	1953	The Oscars	Self	70
15	1954	Climax!	Lieutenant Shea	30
16	1954	Climax!	Philip Moran	30
17	1954	Climax!	Sergeant Ben Gurnick	30
18	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour	Major Tetley	52
19	1957	Perry Mason	Perry Mason	77
20	1967	Ironside	Robert Ironside	69
21	1968	It Takes a Thief	S.I.A. Bureau Chief	70
22	1968	The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show	Self	0
23	1969	The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour	Self	58
24	1970	The Don Knotts Show	Self	0
25	1970	The Flip Wilson Show	Self	48
26	1973	Keep US Beautiful	self	0
27	1974	Dinah!	Self	65
28	1976	Donny & Marie	Self	65
29	1976	The Sonny and Cher Show	Self	60
30	1976	The Captain and Tennille	Self	55
31	1977	Kingston: Confidential	R.B. Kingston	50
32	1977	The Love Boat	Malcolm Dwyer	63
33	1977	79 Park Avenue	Armand Perfido	48
34	1978	Centennial	James Clark	77
35	1979	Eischied	Police Commissioner	60
36	1979	The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo	The Godfather	51
37	1981	Peter and Paul	Herod Agrippa I	70