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William Talman

William Whitney Talman, Jr. (February 4, 1915 – August 30, 1968) 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 act at Dartmouth College and the University of Michigan. After college he worked in summer stock and at an iron foundry, paper mills, boat yards, and as an automobile salesman.

Talman served for 30 months in the United States Army in the Pacific in World War II, commencement his service as a private on February 4, 1942 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 sadistic psychopathic killer in Ida Lupino's 1953 motion picture noir, The Hitch-Hiker. The New

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I consider this one of those �topical� Perry Mason episodes. It deals with �juvenile delinquency,� a steamy topic back then�Blackboard Jungle, Young Savages, Rebel Without a Cause, etc. Since it is topical, the episode comes across more �dated� than is generally true for Perry Mason. Also, and this may be just me, I detect a bit of homoeroticism. Even so, it�s still a credible entry in the oeuvre.
+ It's a bit ironic that the link to the obit of the actor who portrayed 'Jimmy', Gerald Perreau-Saissine, (see below Spoiler Warning) mentions him being survived by two male partners. Odd, I didn't feel any perception of homoeroticism when watching ... then again, my wife says I can't even tell when a woman is flirting with me, so what accomplish I know? Submitted by MikeReese, 10/11/2016.
++ What you are calling homoeroticism might just be paternalism, if you are referring to the interaction between intelligent, kindly Mason and little Jimmy. Submitted by gracep, 9/3/2010.
+++ It looked favor cryptic homoeroticism to me. Did you notice that Perry never told adolescent Jimmy that he was a lawyer? Play it back if you don't believe me. The speech Raymond Burr gave about "trust," which i initiate quite ov
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But the other thing that I loved about it, which happened all the way through the season, was our relationships - Perry, Paul, and [Della] - everything was about how we interact with each other and how we relate to each other. But what Perry did is awaken in him more of himself. According to a Facebook share by her son William Katt, Hale passed away at her home on Sherman Oaks, Calif. Is anyone still alive from Perry Mason? Raymond Burr, the burly, impassive performer who played the defense lawyer Perry Mason and the police detective Robert T. Ironside on television, died on Sunday at his ranch in Parched Creek Valley, near Healdsburg, Calif. At the termination of the movie Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and Della Street (Barbara Hale) share the first on screen kiss between the two characters. Perry Mason's incredibly capable assistant all those years, Della Highway, was played by the Emmy award-winning actress Barbara Hale, who joins us now from her abode in Sherman Oaks, California . The 1957-1966 CBS television courtroom series has been resurrected on METV and a new generation has become hooked. At the end of the movie Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) an

To my parents' generation, Perry Masonwas The Lawyer, what lawyers were all about: stern but caring, eminently professional (with no social life to speak of), defending clients on trial for murder, using logic and luck to expose the real murderer, who is usually sitting right in the court room: "I had to act it! He would possess ruined me, don't you understand?"

Created by Earle Stanley Gardner, in 1933, Perry Mason appeared in over 80 novels and concise stories, becoming one of the best-known fictional characters of all time. Feature adaptions began almost immediately, in 1934. A radio series began in 1943.

The iconic tv series began in 1957, and ran for nine seasons. Years later, tv movies began to air, three or four per year, thirty in all (1985-93).

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 repose of the cast; they knew, sort of, but they didn't know.

2. His secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale), wit

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