Barbara Hale is best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street
on more than 250 episodes of the long-running Perry Mason CBS
television series and later reprising the role in 30 made-for-TV
movies.
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ACTRESS BARBARA HALE TURNED 90 TODAY
WILLIAM HOLDEN WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1918
William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981)
Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy
Award for Best Actor in 1974. He is one of the most popular and well
known movie stars of all time, Holden was one of the biggest box office
draws of the 1950s, he was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the
Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961) and appeared on the American
Film Institute‘s 100 Years…100 Stars list as number 25. He starred
in some of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of all time,
including such blockbusters as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957),
The Wild Bunch (1969), The Towering Inferno (1974), and Network
(1976).
CLASSIC RADIO PROGRAM
The radio series Gunsmoke aired from April 26, 1952 until June 18, 1961, on
the CBS radio network..
William Conrad (right) chats with producer Norman MacDonnell,
who with John Meston, created Gunsmoke. He produced the
radio version and eight years of the TV version.
Parley Baer ("Chester"), Georgia Ellis ("Miss Kitty") and Howard
MacNear ("Doc Adams")
Air date: September 21, 1958
CHARACTER ACTOR DEAD AT 80
Luke Askew (March 26, 1932 – March 29, 2012)
Luke Askew was a character actor for more than 40 years. He
is best known for his role in the 1969 film Easy Rider. Askew
made his film debut in the 1967 Otto Preminger film Hurry
Sundown. He was a native of Macon, Georgia, later moving
to Lake Oswego, Oregon. He died Thursday, March 29 at
his Lake Oswego home of lung cancer.
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MAX VON SYDOW IS 83 TODAY
Actor Max Von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow in Lund, Skåne,
Sweden. He has starred in many films and had supporting roles in
dozens more. Von Sydow is bet remembered for his portrayal of
Jesus The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), and as Father Merrin
in The Exorcist (1973).
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