Raymond Burr series followed on CBS. The two-hour premiere of "The Jordan Chance" aroused little interest. On January 20, 1987, Burr hosted the television special that later served as the pilot for the long-running series "Unsolved Mysteries". In 1985, Burr was approached by producers Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman to star in a made-for-TV movie, "Perry Mason Returns". The same week, Burr recalled, he was asked to reprise the role he played in "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956), in a low-budget film that would be titled "Godzilla 1985". "When they asked me to do it a second time, I said, 'Certainly,'
Dorothy Burr Thompson Dorothy Burr Thompson Dorothy Burr Thompson (August 19, 1900 – May 10, 2001) was a classical archaeologist and art historian at Bryn Mawr College and a leading authority on Hellenistic terracotta figurines. Thompson was the elder of two daughters of a prominent Philadelphia family. Her father was attorney Charles Henry Burr Jr. and her mother was novelist and biographer Anna Robeson Brown. Her grandfather was noted orator and lawyer Henry Armitt Brown. Early in life Thompson studied the Classics, attending Miss Hill's School in Center City, Pa., and The Latin School in Philadelphia. She began her study of Latin at