Raymond Burr Filmography

Born:
May 21, 1917 in New Westminster, BC, Canada
Occupation:
Actor
Biography:
In the first ten years of his life, Raymond Burr moved from town to town with his mother, a single parent who supported her little family by playing the organ in movie houses and churches. An unusually large child, he was able to land odd jobs that would normally go to adults. He worked as a ranch...Read More

  • The Return of Ironside

    Actors: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson, Don Mitchell, Elizabeth Baur

    Synopsis: In this feature-length reprise of the popular '70s police drama Ironside Raymond Burr returns as the wheelchair-bound police chief. This time, he is drawn out of retirement by a puzzling murder and the San Francisco police department's need to find a new chief. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1993

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin Deep Scandal

    Actors: Raymond Burr

    Synopsis: The murder of a cosmetics company tycoon leads lawyer Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) into a strange case involving a new anti-aging concoction. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1993

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride

    Actors: Diane Baker, Linda Blair, Raymond Burr, Ronny Cox, Stephen Stills, Heather McAdam

    Synopsis: The first "Perry Mason" TV movie of the 1992-93 season, The Case of the Heartbroken Bride was the 23rd such production. The wedding of pop star Heather McAdam is disrupted by a drunken interloper. When the party crasher is murdered, Heather is nabbed for the killing. Among the special guest Read More

    1992

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo

    Actors: Raymond Burr, Amy Steel

    Synopsis: Television fans fed up with the state of TV talk shows might get a kick from the 1992 Perry Mason TV movie The Case of the Reckless Romeo. The title character, a video personality who's just written a tell-all autobiography, is played by none other than Geraldo Rivera. When the future O.J. Read More

    1992

  • Grass Roots

    Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Mel Harris, Reginald VelJohnson, John Glover, Katherine Helmond

    Synopsis: A made for TV, two-part series, this is the story of a Southern attorney who suddenly finds himself embroiled in politics, a particularly controversial murder trial and a public battle with a vindictive journalist -- all at the same time. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

    1992

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing

    Synopsis: When the invincible Perry Mason takes on the case of a photographer who is accused of murdering a famous artist, he discovers the case is complicated by forgery. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

    1992

  • Delirious

    Actors: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, Robert Wagner, Dylan Baker

    Synopsis: John Candy plays Jack Gable, a soap-opera writer who finds himself trapped inside his own television program with a magic typewriter in this toothless comedy. Jack finds himself embroiled in protecting his beloved Laura (Emma Samms), an actress who plays Rachel Hedison in Jack's show -- "Beyond Read More

    8/9/91

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason takes the case for a TV reporter falsely accused of killing the station's ego-maniacal anchorman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1991

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason proves that a famous illusionist is innocent of deliberately killing his assistant during a spectacular stage stunt. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1991

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster

    Actors: Raymond Burr, Paul Anka, Mike Nader, Mason Adams, Barbara Hale

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason must reevaluate his legal principles when an old buddy asks him to represent the gangster suspected of murdering his wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1991

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion

    Actors: Scott Baio, Raymond Burr, Valerie Harper, Diana Muldaur

    Synopsis: Raymond Burr once more takes on a murder case and once more reveals the genuine killer at the very last moment in Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion. The setting is the world of high fashion, but that doesn't stop the writers from throwing in a few mobsters for good measure. The victim Read More

    1991

  • Showdown at Williams Creek

    Synopsis: Based on a true story, Showdown at Williams Creek is about a British soldier named John Brown (Tom Burlinson), who moves to America's Wild West, settling in the Montana territory with the hopes of making a fortune. However, things don't go entirely as planned in America, as he has to survive not Read More

    1991

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason begins representing an author who is accused of killing her conniving ex-husband at a mystery writers convention. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1990

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason listens to the pleas of a 13-year-old girl and helps her father who was falsely accused of murdering a gambler. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1990

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a former student who is accused of murdering a singing star. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1990

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a Marine Officer who is accused of killing a Nazi war criminal. He is the prime suspect because the Nazi had treated his mother terribly at a concentration camp. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1990

  • The Defense Never Rests

    Synopsis: Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) comes to the defense of his secretary friend in this made-for-TV production. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1990

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason and his assistant help a stage manager who is the prime suspect in the murder of the director who recently fired him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1989

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason has a conflict with an old friend after he begins representing the law student who is the prime suspect in the murder of his friend's son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1989

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason must help a wounded hockey star who has been accused of killing an important sports figure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1989

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason must prove that the man whose murder conviction he upheld when he was an Appellate Court judge is really innocent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1988

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake

    Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, David Hasselhoff, William Katt

    Synopsis: Raymond Burr, as ever, stars in this TV-movie continuation of the Perry Mason saga. Once more pulled out of semi-retirement, Perry takes on the case of a wealthy man (David Hasselhoff) accused of murdering his heiress wife. Of course, this has nothing to do with the Klaus von Bulow affair. As was Read More

    1988

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason begins representing a friend of Della's after he is accused of murdering an old madam who is also his wife. As the intrepid attorney investigates, he soon exposes a multi-million dollar banking fraud. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1987

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel

    Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, David Ogden Stiers, Susan Wilder

    Synopsis: The last of the four Perry Mason movies telecast in 1987, The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel rounds up veterans Raymond Burr (as Mason) and Barbara Hale (as Della Street), with comparative newcomers William Katt (as Paul Drake Jr.) and David Ogden Stiers (as the "Hamilton Burger"-style Read More

    1987

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit

    Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason takes the case of a publisher implicated in the strange murder of a horror novelist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1987

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

    Actors: Gene Barry, Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, Jean Simmons

    Synopsis: The Case of the Lost Love was the fourth of the Perry Mason TV movies of the 1980s. Raymond Burr plays Mason (you're surprised?), who while out of town at a lawyer's conference is reunited with Jean Simmons, his lady friend of 30 years past. Simmons has come up in the world, and is about to be Read More

    1987

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun

    Actors: Raymond Burr, William Katt

    Synopsis: Following the excellent ratings response to the 1985 "reunion" special Perry Mason Returns, producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove quickly assembled a second two-hour Mason TV movie in 1986. Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun finds Mason (Raymond Burr), now a judge, briefly stepping Read More

    1986

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star

    Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, Joe Penny, William Katt, Ron Glass

    Synopsis: Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is once more dragged out of retirement to defend a murder suspect. This time the defendant is an obnoxious actor (Joe Penny) who was seen by an audience of millions in the act of shooting a vitriolic TV talk show host (Allan Thicke). The actor claims the shooting was a Read More

    1986

  • Perry Mason Returns

    Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale

    Synopsis: In the first of a series of made-for-TV films shot two decades after the original Perry Mason television series ended in 1966, Mason (Raymond Burr), now an Appellate Court Judge, must step down from the bench in order to defend his longtime secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale) against murder Read More

    1985

  • Godzilla 1985: The Legend is Reborn

    Synopsis: Nearly ten years after his last screen appearance (in 1975's Terror of Mecha-Godzilla), the Tokyo Terror stomps again -- albeit awkwardly -- in Toho Studios' highly-publicized bid to reestablish the Green Guy's popularity in Japan and overseas. More a remake of the 1956 classic Godzilla: King of the Monsters Read More

    12/15/84

  • Airplane II: The Sequel

    Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, William Shatner

    Synopsis: With the Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker team absent, this sequel to the cash-cow 1980 spoof Airplane once again finds garrulous man-with-a-past Ted Striker (Robert Hays) compelled to take over the controls of crippled aircraft, all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Read More

    1982

  • Peter and Paul

    Actors: Robert Foxworth, Anthony Hopkins

    Synopsis: This 1981 motion picture follows in the footsteps of the first Christians, led by Peter and Paul, during three decades of evangelizing in the Mediterranean region. The 195-minute version of the original TV miniseries begins in Jerusalem four years after the death of Jesus Christ when Stephen, a Read More

    1981

  • Out of the Blue

    Actors: Linda Manz, Sharon Farrell, Dennis Hopper, Raymond Burr, Don Gordon

    Synopsis: Out of the Blue captures the turbulence of youth culture of the early '80s by presenting a three-person nuclear family that is about to implode. In a prologue, Don Barnes (Dennis Hopper), a school bus driver, is drunkenly distracted one day behind the wheel, resulting in a horrible accident. He Read More

    1981

  • The Return

    Actors: Neville Brand, Raymond Burr, Jan-Michael Vincent, Cybill Shepherd, Martin Landau

    Synopsis: The bottom-drawer science fiction cheapie was originally released as The Return. In a dusty New Mexico town, two children and an old man witness the arrival (via poor special effects) of an alien spacecraft. The phenomenon has such a profound effect on the lives of the witnesses that they Read More

    1980

  • The Night the City Screamed

    Actors: Raymond Burr, Robert Culp, Georg Stanford Brown

    Synopsis: A big-city blackout galvanizes the plot of the made-for-TV The Night the City Screamed. Recreating recent events in New York City, the film details a crime spree that runs unchecked throughout the darkened metropolis. Mayor Raymond Burr tries to stem the tide of robberies and rapes, even as he Read More

    1980

  • The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

    Synopsis: Originally made for television, the film centers on an Egyptian archaeological expedition, and the discovery of the tomb of the famed Pharaoh. After it is opened, disturbing events mark the trip. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1980

  • Never Look Down

    Synopsis: This compelling video chronicles the life of Jim Fortner who was born without legs below the knees and went on to become a successful high school football coach. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1979

  • Disaster on the Coastliner

    Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Robert Fuller, Pat Hingle, Yvette Mimieux, William Shatner

    Synopsis: It's Airplane on the rails in the made-for-TV Disaster on the Coastliner. A crazed engineer holds his employers responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter. He gets even by setting two passenger trains on an irrevocable collision course. Salvation comes from a most unexpected corner in Read More

    1979

  • Love's Savage Fury

    Synopsis: A made-for-TV drama clearly inspired by Gone With the Wind, Love's Savage Fury is an account of a Southern belle and two Union prison escapees who vie for a hidden treasure. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

    1979

  • The Jordan Chance

    Synopsis: Raymond Burr attempted a return to weekly television in this feature-length pilot for the proposed series The Jordan Chance. Having spent seven years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, attorney Frank Jordan (Burr) dedicates his life to defending others who have been falsely accused. To this Read More

    1978

  • Centennial

    Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

    Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

    1978

  • The Bastard

    Synopsis: Produced for the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" series, The Bastard is the first of John Jakes' "Kent Family Chronicles" (followed by The Rebels and The Seekers). Presented in two parts, the story begins in 1771, with 17-year-old French commoner Philippe Charboneau (Andrew Stevens) discovering Read More

    1978

  • Aliens from Spaceship Earth

    Synopsis: Aliens from Spaceship Earth is a "four-waller" documentary from the Chariot of the Gods? school of speculative filmmaking. Are there, or have their ever been, extraterrestrials in our midst? This program speculates that there are, and that such aliens have taken distinctly human form - that of Read More

    1977

  • 79 Park Avenue

    Actors: Barbara Barrie

    Synopsis: The formal title for this TV mini-series was Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue, just in case you might mistake it for William Makepeace Thackeray's 79 Park Avenue. Originally presented in three parts, this adaptation of the Robbins best-seller stars Lesley Ann Warren as Marja Fludjicki, a Read More

    1977

  • Tomorrow Never Comes

    Actors: Oliver Reed, Susan George, Raymond Burr, John Ireland, Stephen McHattie

    Synopsis: This police melodrama is set in a coastal resort where a young man becomes insanely jealous after learning that his girl has been with another. He takes her hostage in the town hotel and threatens to kill her. Now a hot-tempered police chief and his peace-loving lieutenant must somehow team-up to Read More

    1977

  • The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena

    Synopsis: Raymond Burr narrates this documentary that examines unexplained mysteries involving the power of the mind. The film explores psychic healing and acupuncture and looks at the life of famed psychic Edgar Cayce. Interviewed are mentalist Uri Geller and psychic/astrologer Jeanne Dixon. ~ Brian Gusse Read More

    1977

  • Incircumstantial Evidence

    1976

  • Kingston: The Power Play

    Synopsis: This TV film stars Raymond Burr as R. B. Kingston, a fiercely independent free-lance journalist. Kingston's boss, publishing mogul Lenka Peterson, asks him to find out why the editorial policy of one of her newspapers has changed so radically. Kingston agrees to do Ms. Peterson's legwork--but only Read More

    1976

  • Mallory

    Synopsis: Raymond Burr stars again as a lawyer, this time named Arthur Mallory. No Perry Mason he, Mallory has been on the outs since being falsely accused of perjury. Eventually cleared, Mallory lives hand to mouth as a public defender, with a heightened sense of fair play when it comes to the downtrodden. Read More

    1976

  • Ironside: Season 08

    Synopsis: The eighth and final season of Ironside finds wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) continuing to purge San Francisco of criminals and murderers with the help of his assistants Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway), policewoman Fran Belding (Elizabeth Baur) and aspiring lawyer Mark Read More

    1974

  • Ironside: Season 07

    Synopsis: Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside shows no signs of slowing down his battle against crime, corruption and persecution in Season Seven of Ironside. Likewise not slacking in their duties are the members of Ironside's team: police sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway), aspiring lawyer Mark Read More

    1973

  • Ironside: Season 06

    Synopsis: Season Six of Ironside opens with the two-part "Five Days in the Death of Sgt. Brown, in which the title character (played by Don Galloway) is felled by a sniper's bullet and faces the same fate--permanent confinement in a wheelchair--as his boss, private detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Read More

    1972

  • Ironside: Nightmare Trip

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: En route to Los Angeles to pick up a prisoner, Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) runs into trouble in a small town. Losing his temper with a pair of hostile local cops, Ed ends up booked on a misdemeanor, thrown into jail, and subjected to some rough treatment at the hands of the local constabulary. Read More

    1972

  • Ironside: Death by the Numbers

    Synopsis: Raymond Burr tackles what amounts to a triple role in this episode, in which Chief Ironside investigates a series of murders that share a common bond. Each of four victims had in his possession a numbered disk: the current holder of Disk Number Five is none other than the police commissioner (Gene Read More

    1972

  • Ironside: Achilles' Heel

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Ironside star Raymond Burr makes his TV directorial debut in this episode, in which Chief Ironside comes to the aid of a troubled Federal judge and the judge's son. Slated to preside over a well-publicized fraud case, Judge Van Buren (William Windom) is approached by "certain parties" and told to Read More

    1972

  • Survival of Spaceship Earth

    1972

  • Ironside: Season 05

    Synopsis: Season Five of Ironside opens with the two-hour "The Priest Killer", which is actually the pilot for the George Kennedy TV vehicle Sarge, and as such is not included in the current Ironside syndication package. Otherwise, it's business as usual for wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside Read More

    1971

  • The Priest Killer

    Actors: George Kennedy

    Synopsis: The Priest Killer was the second TV pilot film starring George Kennedy as Sarge, a cop-turned-priest-turned-amateur-cop (the first was The Badge or the Cross). This second effort served as the first 2-hour episode of the Sarge series proper on September 14, 1971. The case at hand: an unknown Read More

    1971

  • Ironside: Season 04

    Synopsis: Season Four of Ironside finds the titular wheelchair-bound detective (Raymond Burr) continuing to hunt down criminals and help those who can't help themselves, assisted by his bodyguard (and now law student) Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) and police sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway). Likewise very much Read More

    1970

  • Split Second to an Epitaph

    Synopsis: In this drama, the second in the "Ironside" series, the Chief becomes marked for murder after he witnesses the execution of hospital security guard. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1970

  • Goodbye to Yesteryear

    Synopsis: The chief of detectives who is requested to locate the kidnapped daughter of a friend encounters the friend's jealous husband. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1970

  • Ironside: Season 03

    Synopsis: Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) continues to round up miscreants and champion the underdog in season three of the TV cop series bearing his name. Likewise still in harness are the members of Ironside's support team: his loyal bodyguard-aide Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) Read More

    1969

  • P.J.

    Actors: George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters, Wilfrid Hyde-White

    Synopsis: In this detective drama, a struggling private detective is hired to protect a millionaire's mistress. After repeated attempts on her life, the PI moves her, the tycoon, and his family to the Bahamas. There, another attempt is made to kill the mistress, but this time the detective kills the Read More

    1968

  • Ironside: Season 02

    Synopsis: Drug pushers, thrill killers, civil-rights militants, college activists, illegal abortionists, phony psychics, and good cops gone bad--these are but a few of the story elements in the second season of Ironside. Though confined to a wheelchair, former San Francisco police chief turned private Read More

    1968

  • Ironside

    Actors: Raymond Burr, Wally Cox, Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson

    Synopsis: In this 2-hour "NBC World Premiere" pilot film for the TV series Ironside, we learn how San Francisco chief-of-detectives Robert Ironside (Raymond Burr) came to be confined to a wheelchair. Felled by a sniper's bullet, Ironside is retained by the force as a special officer for the Frisco Read More

    1967

  • Ironside: Season 01

    Synopsis: It was a decided advantage for Ironside that the two-hour TV movie which launched the series in March of 1967 was so popular. This enabled the series to begin its first season without resorting to long-winded explanations as to how Robert Ironside (Raymond Burr), chief of detectives for the San Read More

    1967

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Dead Ringer

    Synopsis: Raymond Burr essays a dual role in this offbeat episode, appearing as both Perry Mason and Mason's evil lookalike, a scurrilous merchant seaman named Grimes. It seems that someone has hired Grimes to pose as Mason in order to discredit the lawyer's testimony in a hearing over a million-dollar Read More

    1966

  • Perry Mason: Season 09

    Synopsis: Show business is full of ironies. Back in 1961, the NBC western Bonanza was moved from a Saturday to a Sunday slot to avoid the heavy competiton of the popular CBS legal drama Perry Mason. By 1965, Bonanza was riding high in the ratings and the nine-year-old Perry Mason was slowly withering. Thus Read More

    1965

  • Perry Mason: Season 08

    Synopsis: Perry Mason may have slipped out of the "Top Thirty" TV series during its seventh season on the air, but CBS decided to renew it for an eighth year all the same, acknowledging the fact that the series still had a loyal cotillion of fans and strong sponsor support. That Raymond Burr was growing Read More

    1964

  • Perry Mason: Season 07

    Synopsis: Although Perry Mason was showing signs of fatigue as the series entered its seventh season, the producers were able to stir up a great deal of publicity and audience interest with the announcement that, in the season's fourth episode "The Case of the Deadly Verdict", the unthinkable would happen Read More

    1963

  • Perry Mason: Season 06

    Synopsis: As a move to bolster up CBS' sagging Thursday-night schedule, the network's evergreen legal drama Perry Mason was moved from its traditional Saturday night slot in the fall of 1962, going head-to-head with ABC's popular sitcom lineup and the NBC hit Doctor Kildare. Unfortunately, to paraphrase the Read More

    1962

  • Perry Mason: Season 05

    Synopsis: Season Five of Perry Mason marked the series' last stand in its traditional Saturday-night timeslot. Though ratings were quite good (the series ended the season in the Top Five), the CBS executives thought that the show would be more valuable on Thursdays, where the network had been Read More

    1961

  • Perry Mason: Season 04