But for many TV viewers, Burr is Perry Mason. The actor played the crusading defense attorney from 1957 to 1966, and again in a series of TV movies from the mid-80s through the early ‘90s.

Burr died in 1993, not long after making his 26th Perry Mason film. Paul Sorvino starred in one film, as lawyer Anthony Caruso, and Hal Holbrook starred in the other as Bill "Wild Bill" McKenzie.