Barbara Hale, R.I.P.

Actress Barbara Hale, best known for playing Della Street on Perry Mason from 1957 to 1966 and again in the Perry Mason TV movies from 1985-1995, has passed away at the age of 94.

Some of Hale's other TV credits include The Millionaire, Lassie, Adam-12 and Marcus Welby, M.D. Hale would reunite with Perry Mason himself Raymond Burr in a 1971 episode of Ironside and would also appear in The Greatest American Hero which starred her son William Katt. Hale and Katt would also appear together in the Perry Mason TV movies.

I did not know Hale was a member of the Bahai faith.

Here's a clip of a pre-Perry Mason Barbara Hale singing in the 1956 movie The Houston Story with Gene Barry. R.I.P.