Healdsburg, California
Raymond William Stacy Burr was the son of a trade agent and his family moved often when he was young. The Burrs lived in China for a short time but upon returning to Canada in 1923 his parents divorced. This brought another move for Burr, this time to his grandparents’ place in California with his mother and two siblings. It was hard for the family to make ends meet so he took on a variety of jobs to help out. He was a ranch hand in Roswell, New Mexico, a deputy sheriff, a photo salesman and, unbelievably, a singer in various nightclubs.
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Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
San Quentin (1946)
Without Reservations (1946)
Code of the West (1947)
Desperate (1947)
Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Sleep My Love (1948)
Ruthless (1948)
Raw Deal (1948)
Pitfall (1948)
I Love Trouble (1948)
The Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Fighting Father Dunne (1948)
Station West (1948)
The Red Light (1949)
Black Magic (1949)
Bride of Vengeance (1949)
Abandoned (1949)
Criss Cross (1949)
Love Happy (1949)
Unmasked (1950)
Key to the City (1950)
Borderline (1950)
The Whip Hand (1951)
New Mexico (1951)
The Magic Carpet (1951)
M (1951)
FBI Girl (1951)
Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
A Star Shall Rise (1952)
Meet Danny Wilson (1952)
Horizons West (1952)
Mara Maru (1952)
Tarzan and the She Devil (1953)
Fort Algiers (1953)
Blue Gardenia (1953)
Bandits of Corsica (1953)
Thunder Pass (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Khyber Patrol (1954)
Gorilla at Large (1954)
Casanova’s Big Night (1954)
Serpent of the Nile (1954)
Passion (1954)
They Were So Young (1955)
You’re Never Too Young (1955)
The Oxbow Incident (TV-1955)
A Man Alone (1955)
Count Three and Pray (1955)
The Secret of Treasure Mountain (1956)
Please Murder Me (1956)
Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)
The Brass Legend (1956)
Great Day in the Morning (1956)
A City in the Night (1956)
Ride the High Iron (1956)
Crime of Passion (1957)
Affair in Havana (1957)
Desire in the Dust (1960)
P.J. (1968)
The Jordan Chance (TV-1978)
Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)
The Bastard (narrator, TV-1978)
Love’s Savage Fury (TV-1979)
Disaster on the Coastliner (TV-1979)
The Return (1980)
Out of the Blue (1980)
The Night the City Screamed (TV-1980)
The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb (TV-1980)
Peter and Paul (TV-1981)
Airplane II – The Sequel (1982)
Gojira (1984)
The Return of Godzilla (1985)
The Seas is at Our Gates (narrator, 1985)
Perry Mason Returns (TV-1985)
Showdown at Williams Creek (1991)
Delirious (1991)
Grass Roots (TV-1992)
Please Note: After PERRY MASON RETURNS in 1985, Raymond Burr went on to star in another 24 Perry Mason Made-for-Television Movies. They are:
The Case of the Shooting Star (TV-1986)
The Case of the Notorious Nun (TV-1986)
The Case of Lost Love (TV-1987)
The Case of the Sinister Spirit (TV-1987)
The Case of the Murdered Madam (TV-1987)
The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel (TV-1987)
The Case of the Avenging Ace (TV-1988)
The Case of the Lady in the Lake (TV-1988)
The Case of the Lethal Lesson (TV-1989)
The Case of the Musical Murder (TV-1989)
The Case of the All-Star Assassin (TV-1989)
The Case of the Poisoned Pen (TV-1990)
The Case of the Desperate Deception (TV-1990)
The Case of the Silenced Singer (TV-1990)
The Case of the Ruthless Reporter (TV-1991)
The Case of the Maligned Mobster (TV-1991)
The Case of the Glass Coffin (TV-1991)
The Case of the Fatal Fashion (TV-1991)
The Case of the Fatal Framing (TV-1992)
The Case of the Reckless Romeo (TV-1992)
The Case of the Heartbroken Bride (TV-1992)
The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (TV-1993)
The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host (TV-1993)
The Case of the Killer Kiss (TV-1993)
TV Series – Cast:
Perry Mason (1957-1965)
Ironside (1967-1974)
Kingston: Confidential (1977)
Harold Robbins’ 79 Park Avenue (1977, mini-series)
Centennial (1978, mini-series)
Trial By Jury (1987)
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