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Raymond William Stacey Burr (May 21 1917 – September 12, 1993) was an Emmy-nominated actor and vintner, perhaps best known for his roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.
<p>The oldest of three children, Burr was born in New Westminister, British Columbia, Canada, to William Johnston Burr, an Irish hardware salesman from County Cork Ireland , and his wife Minerva (Smith), a concert pianist and music teacher who immigrated to Canada from Chicago, Illinois in 1914.
<p>Burr began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1937. In 1941, he landed his first Broadway role in “Crazy with the Heart”. He became a contract player at RKO studio, playing mostly villains. He had roles in over 60 movies between 1946 and 1957. Burr received favourable notice for his role as a prosecutor in the 1951 film A Place in the Sun, co-starring Montgomery Clift, and perhaps his best-known film role of the period was in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, starring James Stewart.
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