Perry Mason (TV film series) Raymond Burr starred as Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer Perry Mason, a character created by American author and attorney Erle Stanley Gardner. Television producer Dean Hargrove resurrected the Perry Mason character in a series of television films for NBC beginning in 1985. Dean Hargrove was able to bring back the two then-surviving major stars, Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale (reprising their roles as Mason and Della Street) for the first telefilm, "Perry Mason Returns", in which Mason resigns his position as an appellate court judge to defend Street on a murder charge. William Katt, Hale's own son, was cast as
Jeff Burr Jeff Burr Jeff Burr (born 1963, in Aurora, Ohio) is an American film director, writer, and producer best known for his work in horror sequels, such as "Stepfather II", "", "Puppet Master 4" and "", and "". Jeff Burr was born in Aurora, Ohio, in 1963. He grew up in rural Dalton, Georgia, where he avidly read horror fanzines like "Castle of Frankenstein", "The Monster Times", and "Famous Monsters", and eventually began making his own Super-8 films. Burr attended the University of Southern California (USC) (with R. A. Mihailoff who played Leatherface in "Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III"). He