Coordinates	45°30′″N73°40′″N
name	Angela Lansbury
birth name	Angela Brigid Lansbury
birth date	October 16, 1925
birth place	Poplar, London, United Kingdom
occupation	Actress, singer, television producer, writer
years active	1944-present
spouse	Richard Cromwell (1945–46; divorced)Peter Shaw (1949–2003; his death)}}

Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born 16 October 1925) is an English actress and singer in theatre, television and motion pictures, whose career has spanned eight decades. Her first film appearance was in the film ''Gaslight'' (1944) as a conniving maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Among her other films are ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (1962), ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' (1971) ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1991) and ''Anastasia'' (1997).

She expanded her repertoire to Broadway musicals and television in the 1950s and was particularly successful in Broadway productions of ''Gypsy'', ''Mame'' and ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street''. Lansbury is perhaps best known to modern audiences for her twelve-year run starring as writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the American television series ''Murder, She Wrote'' (1984–1996). Her recent roles include Lady Adelaide Stitch in the film ''Nanny McPhee'' (2005), Leona Mullen in the 2007 Broadway play ''Deuce'', Madame Arcati in the 2009 Broadway revival of the play ''Blithe Spirit'' and Madame Armfeldt in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical ''A Little Night Music''.

Respected for her versatility, Lansbury has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, and has been nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and eighteen Emmy Awards.

Early life

Lansbury was born in Poplar, London, to Irish-born actress Moyna MacGill and timber merchant and politician Edgar Lansbury, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and former mayor of the London Borough of Poplar. Her paternal grandfather was the Labour Party leader George Lansbury. She is the elder sister of twins Edgar Lansbury and Bruce Lansbury, both producers, and a cousin of the late English animator and puppeteer Oliver Postgate. Her cousin, the academic Coral Lansbury, was the mother of former Australian federal Opposition Leader and republican Malcolm Turnbull.

Her earliest theatrical influences were the teenaged actress Deanna Durbin, screen star Irene Dunne and Lansbury's mother, who encouraged her daughter's ambition by taking her to plays at the Old Vic. She attended South Hampstead High School for Girls, the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art from 1939 to 1940, and the Feagin School of Dramatic Art in New York from 1940 to 1942. Following her father's death from stomach cancer in 1934, her mother became involved with a Scotsman named Leckie Forbes, and the two merged their families under one roof in Hampstead. A former colonel with the British Army in India, Forbes proved to be a jealous and suspicious tyrant who ruled the household with an iron fist.

Just prior to the London blitz, Lansbury's mother took her children to New York City. When her mother settled in Hollywood following a tour of a Noël Coward play, Lansbury (and later her brothers) joined her there. Lansbury worked at the Bullocks Wilshire department store in Los Angeles. At one of the parties that her mother hosted for British émigré performers in their Laurel Canyon home, Lansbury met the casting director for the upcoming film ''Gaslight'' (1944), and he offered her the part of Nancy Oliver, Ingrid Bergman's conniving maid. This was the 18-year-old Lansbury's first film role. She was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the following year gained another nomination for her performance as the doomed Sibyl Vane in the film ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1945).

Career

Theatre

On Broadway, Lansbury first appeared in the plays ''Hotel Paradiso'' (1957) and ''A Taste of Honey'' (1960). Her first musical was the short-lived ''Anyone Can Whistle'' (1964) by Stephen Sondheim.

In 1966, she played the title role in the musical ''Mame'', Jerry Herman's musical adaptation of the novel ''Auntie Mame''. ''Mame'' opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in May 1966, with Stanley Kauffmann writing in the ''New York Times'', "Miss Lansbury is a singing-dancing actress, not a singer or dancer who also acts...In this marathon role she has wit, poise, warmth, and a very taking coolth [sic]." Lansbury received her first Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.

Lansbury won her second Tony Award for her performance in ''Dear World'' (1969). In 1971, Lansbury was cast in the title role in the musical ''Prettybelle''. After a difficult rehearsal period, the show opened to brutal reviews in tryouts in Boston, where it closed within a week. In 1982, a recording of the show was released by Varèse Sarabande.

In 1973, the first revival of ''Gypsy'' opened in London's West End, with Lansbury starring as Rose. In September 1974, the same production opened at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre. Lansbury received her third Tony for her performance in ''Gypsy''. In December 1975, she portrayed Gertrude in the Royal National Theatre, London, production of ''Hamlet'', directed by Peter Hall.

During the summer of 1976, she repeated the title role in ''Mame'' at The Muny, St. Louis, Missouri. She was a three-week replacement for the role of Anna in the Broadway revival of ''The King and I'', in April 1978.

Lansbury starred as Mrs. Lovett in the original 1979 production of Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller ''Sweeney Todd''. ''The New York Times'' reviewer noted that "Her songs ... are awesomely difficult and she does them awesomely well. Her voice is a visible voice; you can follow it amid any confusion". She later played the role in the first U.S. tour, from 1980 to 1981, which was taped for television while playing in Los Angeles and broadcast on September 12, 1982. She won another Tony Award for Actress in a Musical for this role.

She had been cast in the lead role in the 2001 Kander and Ebb musical ''The Visit'', but she withdrew from the show before it opened because of her husband's declining health. Lansbury returned to Broadway after an absence of twenty-three years in ''Deuce'', a play by Terrence McNally. The play opened at the Music Box Theatre in May 2007 in a limited run of eighteen weeks. Lansbury received a nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her role.

She played the role of Madame Arcati in the 2009 Broadway revival of ''Blithe Spirit'', at the Shubert Theatre in March 2009. ''The New York Times'' praised her performance, for which she won several awards, including the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (her fifth Tony). Lansbury starred as Madame Armfeldt in the first Broadway revival of ''A Little Night Music'', which opened in December 2009 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. She left the show on June 20, 2010. For this role, she received a 2010 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Film and television

Lansbury has enjoyed a long and varied career, sometimes in roles older than her actual age, appearing in such films as ''Gaslight'' (1944), ''The Harvey Girls'' (1946), ''Samson and Delilah'' (1949) and Disney's ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' (1971). She had a prominent supporting role in the 1962 film ''The Manchurian Candidate'' in which she portrayed the invidious Mrs. Iselin. She received acclaim for her performance, several industry awards and an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress. Lansbury also starred in several dramas before and during her years of Broadway success, including ''The World of Henry Orient'' (1964) and ''Something for Everyone'' (1970).

Lansbury received her much coverage in the media because of her popularity from, and association with, ''Mame'' on Broadway in the 1960s. She used her fame to benefit humanitarian causes. For example, when appearing as a guest on the Sunday night CBS-TV show ''What's My Line?'', she made a plea for viewers to contribute to the 1966 Muscular Dystrophy Association fund-raising drive, chaired by Jerry Lewis.

After many years performing mostly on the stage, Lansbury returned to film in ''Death on the Nile'' (1978) and then portrayed Miss Marple in ''The Mirror Crack'd'' (1980). She began doing character voice work in the years that followed in animated films such as ''The Last Unicorn'' (1982) and ''Anastasia'' (1997), and as the singing teapot Mrs. Potts in the 1991 Disney hit, ''Beauty and the Beast'', in which she performed the title song. She reprised this role in ''Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas'' (1997) and in the video game ''Kingdom Hearts II'' (2006). Lansbury made her first theatrical film appearance since ''The Company of Wolves'' (1984) as Aunt Adelaide in ''Nanny McPhee'' in 2005.

Lansbury starred opposite Laurence Olivier in a BBC adaptation of the Broadway play, ''A Talent for Murder'' (1983), which she described as "a rushed job" in which she participated solely to work with Olivier. Afterwards, Lansbury continued to work in the mystery genre and achieved fame as mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher on the U.S. television series ''Murder, She Wrote'' (1984–1996). It became one of the longest-running detective drama series in television history. She assumed ownership of the series and acted as executive producer for the last four seasons. Her brother Bruce became the supervising producer, her son Anthony and step-son David were executive producers, and her husband assisted in running the production company, Corymore Productions. ''Murder, She Wrote'' made her one of the highest-paid actresses in the world.

Although she was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, she has never won; nor did she win any of the eighteen Emmy Awards for which she was nominated over a thirty-three-year period. She holds the record for the most Primetime Emmy losses by a performer, Reflecting on this in 2007, she stated that she was at first "terribly disappointed, but subsequently very glad that [she] did not win", because she believes that she would have otherwise had a less successful career. However, she has received the Golden Globe and People's Choice awards for television and film work.

Lansbury co-starred in ''Mr. Popper's Penguins'', opposite Jim Carrey, released in June 2011. She is also scheduled to appear in another film, ''Adaline'', portraying Katherine Heigl's daughter.

Writing

She has written books including co-authoring, with Mimi Avins, ''Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves – My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being'' (1990).

Personal life

In 1945, Lansbury married American actor Richard Cromwell when he was 35 and she was 19. Unbeknownst to her, Cromwell was bisexual, and the marriage dissolved after a year, but the two remained friends. In 1949, Lansbury married British-born actor and businessman Peter Shaw. She had two children, Anthony Peter Shaw born 1952 and Deidre Angela Shaw born 1953. Shaw was instrumental in guiding and managing Lansbury's career. They were married for 54 years until his death in January 2003.

Lansbury became a naturalized US citizen in 1951.

She is the mother of two, stepmother of one and a grandmother. A fire destroyed the family's Malibu home in September 1970, prompting a move to a rural area of County Cork in Ireland. Her daughter and son-in-law, a chef, are restaurateurs in West Los Angeles. Her son Anthony Shaw, after a brief fling with acting, became producer/director of ''Murder, She Wrote'' and currently is a television executive and director.

Lansbury's half-sister Isolde was married to Peter Ustinov for some years, but they divorced in 1946. Lansbury and Ustinov appeared together once in ''Death on the Nile'' (1978). She is related by marriage to actress Ally Sheedy, ex-wife of her nephew David Lansbury. Both her brothers, twins Bruce and Edgar, are successful theatre producers: Edgar was instrumental in bringing ''Godspell'' to Broadway, and Bruce Lansbury was a television producer for such shows as ''The Wild Wild West'' and ''Mission: Impossible''.

Lansbury was a long-time resident of Brentwood, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, where she supported various philanthropies. She had knee-replacement surgery on July 14, 2005. She also had two hip replacement surgeries. In 2006, she moved to New York City, purchasing a condominium at a reported cost of $2 million. The following year, she returned to Broadway in ''Deuce'', opposite Marian Seldes. Lansbury's papers are housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

Credits

+ Film
! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1944		Nancy Oliver	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1944		Edwina Brown
1945	''''	Sibyl Vane	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion PictureNominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1946	''''	Em
1946	''''	Dusty Millard
1946	''Till the Clouds Roll By''	London Specialty	performs "How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?" by Jerome Kern
1947	''''	Clotilde de Marelle
1947	''If Winter Comes''	Mabel Sabre
1948		Kay Thorndyke
1948	''''	Queen Anne
1948	''Tenth Avenue Angel''	Susan Bratten
1949	''''	Audrey Quail
1949		Semadar
1951	''Kind Lady''	Mrs. Edwards
1952		Leslie
1953	''Remains to Be Seen''	Valeska Chauvel
1954	''''	Doris Hillman
1955	''''	Madame Valentine
1955	''''	Tally Dickinsen
1956	''''	Princess Gwendolyn
1956	''Please Murder Me''	Myra Leeds
1958	''''	Minnie Littlejohn
1958		Mabel Claremont
1959	''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll''	Pearl
1960	''''	Mavis Pruitt
1960	''''	Countess Lina
1961	''Blue Hawaii''	Sarah Lee Gates
1962		Marguerite Laurier	voice (uncredited)
1962		Annabell Willart	National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for ''The Manchurian Candidate'')
1962	''''	Mrs. Iselin	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion PictureNational Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for ''All Fall Down'')Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1963	''In the Cool of the Day''	Sybil Logan
1964	''''	Isabel Boyd
1964	''Dear Heart''	Phyllis
1965	''''	Claudia
1965		Lady Blystone
1965		Mama Jean Bello
1966	''Mister Buddwing''	Gloria
1970		Countess Herthe von Ornstein	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1971	''Bedknobs and Broomsticks''	Miss Eglantine Price	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1978		Salome Otterbourne	National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1979	''''	Miss Froy
1980	''''	Miss Jane Marple	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
1982	''''	Mommy Fortuna	voice
1983	''''	Ruth
1984	''Ingrid''	Herself
1984	''''	Granny
1991		Mrs. Potts	voice
1997	''Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas''	Mrs. Potts	voice; direct-to-video midquel
1997		Dowager Empress Marie	voice
1999	''Fantasia 2000''	Herself – Hostess
2003	''Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There''	Herself
2005	''Nanny McPhee''	Great Aunt Adelaide
2011		Mrs. Van Gundy

+ Theatre
! Production	! Role	! Venue	Dates	Notes
''Hotel Paradiso''	Marcelle (Madame Cot)	Broadway	April – July 1957
''''	Helen	Broadway	October 1960 – May 1961
''Anyone Can Whistle''	Cora Hoover Hooper	Broadway	April 1964	musical debut
	Mame Dennis	Broadway	May 1966 – March 1968 (to August 1968 on tour)
''Dear World''	Countess Aurelia	Broadway	February 1969 – May 1969	Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical
''Prettybelle''	Prettybelle Sweet	Boston	February 1971
''All Over''	The Mistress	West End	1972
	Mama Rose Hovick	West End;Broadway	May 1973 – March 1974;September 1974 – January 1975
''Hamlet''	Gertrude	West End	1975–1976	National Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre & Lyttleton Theatre
''''	Anna Leonowens	Broadway	April 1978	Nominated—Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical
	Mrs. Nellie Lovett	Broadway	March 1979 – March 1980(including U.S. tour from October 1980 – August 1981)
''''	Lillian	Broadway	December 1982
''Mame''	Mame Dennis	Broadway	July – August 1983	revival
	Leona Mullen	Broadway	April – August 2007
	Madame Arcati	Broadway	March 2009 – July 2009
''''	Madame Armfeldt	Broadway	December 2009 – June 2010

+ Television
! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1962	''''	Alvera Dunlear
1982	''Little Gloria... Happy at Last''	Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
1983	''''	Amanda Fenwick	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
1983		Mrs. Nellie Lovett	CableACE Awards
1984	''''	Ann Royce McClain
1984		Aunt Hortense Boutin
1984–1996	''[[Murder, She Wrote''	Jessica Fletcher
1986	''Rage of Angels: The Story Continues''	Marchesa Allabrandi
1988		Nan Moore
1989	''''	Penelope Keeling
1990	''''	Agatha McGee
1992	''Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris''	Mrs. Ada Harris
1992	''''	Herself
1996	''Mrs. Santa Claus''	Mrs. Santa Claus
1997	''Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest''	Jessica Fletcher
1999	''''	Mrs. Emily Pollifax
2000	''Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For''	Jessica Fletcher
2001	''Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man''	Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
2003	''Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle''	Jessica Fletcher
2004	''''	Dora
2005	''Law & Order: Trial by Jury'' and''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''	Eleanor Duvall
2008	''Heidi 4 Paws''	Grandmamma	voice

Bibliography

Lansbury, Angela; Avins, Mimi (1990). ''Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves – My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being''. Delacorte Press (New York City). ISBN 978-0-385-30223-4.

Honors and awards

Tony Awards

Lansbury has won five Tony Awards, tying Julie Harris for the most any performer has received (although Harris has won six Tony Awards, one is a Special Tony Award):

1966 – Best Actress in a Musical for ''Mame''

1969 – Best Actress in a Musical for ''Dear World''

1975 – Best Actress in a Musical for ''Gypsy''

1979 – Best Actress in a Musical for ''Sweeney Todd''

2009 – Best Featured Actress in a Play for ''Blithe Spirit''

In addition, she was nominated in 2007 for her leading role in the play ''Deuce'' for the Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play and in 2010 for her featured role in the revival of the musical ''A Little Night Music'' for the Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical.

Honorary awards and recognition

Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1968)

In 1994, Queen Elizabeth appointed her a Commander of the Order of the British Empire "for services to the dramatic arts".

Awarded Disney Legend in 1995.

In 1996, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.

Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (1996)

Television Critics Association Awards — Career Achievement Award (1996)

In 1997, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for film (North side of the 6600 block of Hollywood Boulevard) and one for television (West side of the 1500 block of Vine Street). She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. The New Dramatists Lifetime Achievement Award (2000) The Acting Company's First Lifetime Achievement Award (2002).

BAFTA Awards – Britannia Award for Lifetime Achievement (2003)

The Actor's Fund of America Lifetime Achievement (2004) The Doctor of Humane Letters ''honoris causa'' degree from the University of Miami (2008). She was also the guest speaker at the commencement ceremony. George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, UCLA Spring Sing, 1988.

Drama League Awards – The Unique Contribution to the Theatre Award (2009)

Drama League Honors (2010) Signature Theatre Sondheim Award (2010) Honorary Chairman of the American Theatre Wing (2010)

See also

List of American film actresses

List of American television actresses

List of British actors and actresses

List of people from Los Angeles

List of people from New York City

List of people from Tower Hamlets

References

Further reading

External links

Angela Lansbury Archive of American Television Interview recorded 15 September 1998

Angela Lansbury on American Theatre Wing's Downstage Center

Angela Lansbury Collection at Boston University

2009 Michael Portantiere interview with Angela Lansbury by ''The Sondheim Review''

Literature on Angela Lansbury

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Coordinates	45°30′″N73°40′″N
name	Raymond Burr
birth name	Raymond William Stacey Burr
birth date	May 21, 1917
birth place	New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
death date	September 12, 1993
death place	Healdsburg, California, U.S.
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Raymond William Stacey Burr (May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993) was a Canadian actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas ''Perry Mason'' and ''Ironside''. His early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television and in film, usually as the villain. He won two Emmy Awards in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons between 1957 and 1966. His second hit series, ''Ironside'', earned him six Emmy nominations, and two Golden Globe nominations. He is also widely known for his role as Steve Martin in both ''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!'' and ''Godzilla 1985''.

In addition to acting, Burr owned an orchid business and had begun to grow a vineyard. He was a collector of wines and art, and was very fond of cooking.

After his death from cancer in 1993, Burr's personal life came into question as details of his known biography appeared to be unverifiable.

Early life

Burr was born Raymond William Stacey Burr in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada to William Johnston Burr (1889–1985), an Irish hardware salesman, and his wife Minerva (née Smith, 1892–1974), a concert pianist and music teacher, who was of English and Scottish descent. After his parents divorced, Burr moved to Vallejo, California with his mother and younger siblings, Geraldine and James Edmond. He attended a military academy for a while and graduated from Berkeley High School.

In later years, Burr freely invented stories of a happy childhood. He told the ''Modesto Bee'' in 1986, for example, that when he was twelve and a half years old, his mother sent him to New Mexico for a year to work as a ranch hand. He was already his full adult height and rather large and "had fallen in with a group of college-aged kids who didn't realize how young Raymond was, and they let him tag along with them in activities and situations far too sophisticated for him to handle." He developed a passion for growing things and, while still a teenager, joined the Civilian Conservation Corps for a year. Throughout his teenage years he had some acting work, making his stage debut at age 12 with a Vancouver stock company.

Burr may have served in the Coast Guard, but never in the the United States Navy as he and his publicists later claimed. Nor was he seriously wounded in the stomach during the Battle of Okinawa in the latter stages of World War II. Other invented biographical details that were made include years of college education at a variety of institutions, world travel, an acting tour of the United Kingdom, and success in high school athletics. Such claims were accepted as fact by the press during his lifetime and by his first biographer.

Early career

In 1937, Burr began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse. In 1941, he landed his first Broadway role in ''Crazy with the Heat'', becoming a contract player at RKO studio, playing one of the greatest film noir heavies in ''Raw Deal'' (1948).

Burr appeared in over 60 movies between 1946 and 1957. In 1976, Richard Schickel cited his performance in ''Pitfall'' (1948) as a prototype of ''film noir'' in contrast with the appealing television characters for which Burr later became famous. He received favorable notice for his role as an aggressive prosecutor in ''A Place in the Sun'' (1951), co-starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Shelly Winters. Perhaps his best-known film role of the period was that of a suspected murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Rear Window'' (1954), starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. In 1955, he took on the part of Steve Martin in ''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!''.

Burr emerged as a prolific television character actor in the early to mid 1950s. He made his guest-starring television debut on an episode of ''The Amazing Mr. Malone''. This part led to other roles in such programs as ''Dragnet'', ''Chesterfield Sound Off Time'', ''Four Star Playhouse'', ''Mr. & Mrs. North'', ''Schlitz Playhouse of Stars'', ''The Ford Television Theatre'' and ''Lux Video Theatre''.

During this time, Burr's distinctive voice could also be heard on network radio, appearing alongside Jack Webb in the short-lived ''Pat Novak for Hire'' on ABC radio, as well as in early episodes of NBC's ''Dragnet''. He also made guest appearances on other Los Angeles-based shows, such as ''Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar'' and landed a starring role in CBS's ''Fort Laramie'' (1956), which depicted nineteenth-century life at old Fort Laramie. One year later, Burr became a television star as Perry Mason.

''Perry Mason'' and ''Ironside''

In 1956, Burr auditioned for the role of District Attorney Hamilton Burger in ''Perry Mason'', a new courtroom drama based on the highly successful novels written and created by Erle Stanley Gardner that was to air on CBS. William Talman tried out for the title role. The producers of the show allowed Burr to try for the title role and when Gardner, who was present at the audition, saw him he declared, "He is Perry Mason." Mason eventually became the role with which Burr was most closely identified. The series ran from 1957 to 1966, and Burr won Emmy Awards in 1959 and 1961 for his performance as Perry Mason. The series has been re-run in syndication ever since. In 2006, the first season became available on DVD. Though Burr's character is often said never to have lost a case, he did lose two murder cases in early episodes of the series, once when his client misled him and another time when his client was later cleared.

In the early 1960s, Burr narrated one film and appeared in several others sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service. They were designed to educate the public about accident prevention.

Burr moved from CBS to Universal Studios, where he played the title role in the television drama ''Ironside'', which ran on NBC. In the pilot episode, San Francisco Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside is wounded by a sniper during an attempt on his life and is left an invalid in a wheelchair. This role gave Burr another hit series, the first crime drama show ever to star a disabled police officer. The show, which ran from 1967 to 1975, earned Burr six Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. Burr's weight, always an issue for him in getting roles, became a public relations problem when Johnny Carson began making jokes about him during his ''Tonight Show'' monologues. Burr refused to appear as Carson's guest from then on and told ''Us Weekly'' years later: "I have been asked a number of times to do his show and I won't do it. Because I like NBC. He's doing an NBC show. If I went on I'd have some things to say, not just about the bad jokes he's done about me, but bad jokes he does about everybody who can't fight back because they aren't there. And that wouldn't be good for NBC." In later life his distinctive physique and manner could be used as a reference that would be universally recognized. One journal for librarians published a writer's opinion that "asking persons without cataloging experience to design automated catalogs...is as practical as asking Raymond Burr to pole vault."

NBC failed in two attempts to launch Burr as the star of a new series. In a two-hour television movie format, ''Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence'' aired in February 1976 with Burr again in the role of the lawyer who outwits the district attorney. Despite good reviews for Burr, the critical reception was poor and NBC decided against developing it into a series. In 1977, Burr starred in the short-lived TV series ''Kingston: Confidential'', a critical failure that was scheduled opposite the extraordinarily popular ''Charlie's Angels''. It was cancelled after thirteen weeks. Burr took on a shorter project next, playing an underworld boss in a six-hour miniseries, ''79 Park Avenue'' One last attempt to launch a series followed on CBS. The two-hour premiere of ''The Jourdan Chance'' aroused little interest.

In 1985, Burr was approached by producers Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman to star in a made-for-TV movie ''Perry Mason Returns''. Burr recalled in a 1986 interview, "They asked me to do a new "Godzilla" the same week they asked me to do another Perry Mason, so I did them both." He agreed to do the Mason movie if Barbara Hale returned to reprise her role as Della Street. Hale agreed and when ''Perry Mason Returns'' aired in December 1985, her character became the defendant. The rest of the original cast had died, but Hale's real-life son William Katt played the role of Paul Drake, Jr. The movie was so successful Burr made 26 more before his death. Many episodes were filmed in and around Denver, Colorado.

By 1993, when Burr signed with NBC for another season of Mason films, he was using a wheelchair full-time because of his failing health. In his final Mason movie, ''The Case of the Killer Kiss'', he was shown either sitting or standing while leaning on a table, but only once standing unsupported for a few seconds. Twelve more Mason movies were scheduled before Burr's death, including one scheduled to film the month he died.

In 1993, as he had with the Perry Mason TV movies, Burr decided to do an ''Ironside'' reunion movie. In May of that year, ''The Return of Ironside'' aired, reuniting the entire original cast of the 1967-1975 series. Burr's cancer precluded any further such reunions.

Other work

In 1973, Burr starred in one-hour television drama, ''Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John''. He portrayed Archbishop Angelo Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII, as he tried to prevent the forced return of Jewish children from Istanbul to Nazi Germany.

Burr co-starred in such TV films as ''Eischied: Only The Pretty Girls Die'' and ''Disaster On The Coastliner'' (both 1979), ''The Curse of King Tut's Tomb'' and ''The Night the City Screamed'' (both 1980), and ''Peter and Paul'' (1981). He also had a supporting role in Dennis Hopper's controversial film ''Out of the Blue'' (1980) and spoofed his Perry Mason image in ''Airplane II: The Sequel'' (1982).

Burr reprised his 1955 role in ''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!'' in ''Godzilla 1985: The Legend Is Reborn''. The film won Burr a nomination for a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor. Burr delivered the film's closing lines: "For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain."

Burr also worked as media spokesman for the now-defunct British Columbia-based real estate company Block Bros. in TV, radio, and print ads during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In 1983, he made a rare stage appearance when he starred in the thriller ''Underground'' at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto and after a UK tour, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London.

On January 20, 1987, he hosted the television special that later served as the pilot for the long-running series ''Unsolved Mysteries''.

Personal life

Burr married actress Isabella ("Bella") Ward on January 10, 1949. They lived together for less than a year and divorced after four years. Neither remarried. At various times in his career, Burr or his managers offered biographical details that appear spurious or unverifiable. These include marriage to a Scottish actress named Annette Sutherland, supposedly killed in the same plane crash as Leslie Howard. A son named Michael Evan was said to have resulted from another invented marriage to Laura Andrina Morgan. Burr provided the only evidence of the boy's existence and death from leukemia at age 10. As late as 1991, Burr told ''Parade'' magazine that when he realized his son was dying, he took him on a one-year tour of the United States. He said, "Before my boy left, before his time was gone, I wanted him to see the beauty of his country and its people." His publicist knew that Burr worked in Hollywood throughout the year he said he was touring with his son. As with Burr's claims to have served in the U.S. military, many of these fictions were believed and widely reported.

In the late 1950s, Burr was rumored to be romantically involved with Natalie Wood. Wood's agent sent her on public dates so she could be noticed by directors and producers and so that the actors could present themselves in public as heterosexuals. The dates also helped to disguise Wood's intimate relationship with Robert Wagner, a married man. Burr felt enough attraction to Wood to resent Warner Bros.' decision to promote her attachment to Tab Hunter instead. Robert Benevides later said: "He was a little bitter about it. He was really in love with her, I guess."

Sexual orientation

In the mid 1950s, Burr met Robert Benevides (b. 1930), a young actor and Korean War veteran, on the set of ''Perry Mason''. According to Benevides they became a couple about 1960 and he gave up acting in 1963 and later became a production consultant for 21 of the ''Perry Mason'' TV movies. Together they owned and operated an orchid business and then a vineyard, in the Dry Creek Valley. They were partners until Burr's death in 1993. Burr left Benevides his entire estate, including "all my jewelry, clothing, books, works of art,...and other items of a personal nature."

Later accounts of Burr's life explain he hid his sexuality to protect his career. In 2000, AP reporter Bob Thomas recalled the situation:

Art Marks, a producer of ''Perry Mason'', recalled Burr's talk of wives and children: "I know he was just putting on a show....That was my gut feeling. I think the wives and the loving women, the Natalie Wood thing, were a bit of a cover." In 2006, Dean Hargrove, who worked on ''Perry Mason Returns'', said: "I had always assumed that Raymond was gay, because he had a relationship with Robert Benevides for a very long time. Whether or not he had relationships with women, I had no idea. I did know that I had trouble keeping track of whether he was married or not in these stories. Raymond had the ability to mythologize himself, to some extent, and some of his stories about his past...tended to grow as time went by."

A 2007 memoir by actor Paul Picerni described several experiences with Burr about 1951 on the set of ''A Place in the Sun'', when he felt Burr expressed sexual interest in him. He wrote: "I saw him staring at me. With his big blue eyes. And with this strange expression on his face. For the first time in my life, I felt like a DAME. Then it hit me: He'd been giving me all this bullshit about his wife and his two kids in London, when in fact he was gay, and he was makin' a move on me!" He remembered Burr "was a great guy and very subtle in his homosexuality."

Hobbies

Burr had many hobbies over the course of his life: cultivating orchids, collecting wine, art, stamps, and seashells. He was interested in cooking, flying, sailing, and fishing. According to A&E; Biography, Burr was also an avid reader with a retentive memory. He was also among the earliest importers and breeders of Portuguese Water Dogs in the United States.

He developed his interest in cultivating and hybridizing orchids into an orchid business with Benevides. Over twenty years, their company, Sea God Nurseries, had nurseries in Fiji, Hawaii, the Azores, and California, and was responsible for adding more than 1,500 new orchids to the worldwide catalog. Burr named one the "Barbara Hale Orchid" after his ''Perry Mason'' costar. Together Burr and Benevides cultivated Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Port grapes, as well as orchids, at Burr's farmland holdings in Sonoma County, California. After Burr's death, Benevides named the property after Burr: "I finally decided it should be called Raymond Burr Vineyards. He didn't want it named after him, I know that. We had talked about that possibility and he didn't like that at all, but we're making great wines now. It's a memorial to him, to his idea, and I think it deserves to be named after him." The land is still in production and is known as the Raymond Burr Vineyards.

In 1965, Burr purchased the Naitauba, a island in Fiji. There, he and Benevides oversaw the raising of copra (coconut meat) and cattle, as well as orchids. They spent two months a year there and Burr planned to retire there permanently. Medical problems made that impossible and he sold the property in 1983.

Philanthropy

Burr was a well-known philanthropist. He gave enormous sums of money, including his salaries from the Perry Mason movies, to charity. He was also known for sharing his wealth with friends. He sponsored 26 foster children through the Foster Parents' Plan or Save The Children, many with the greatest medical needs. He also gave money and some of his Perry Mason scripts to the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. Burr raised money for the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum in Sanibel, Florida, donating a considerable collection of Fijian cowries and cones from his island in the Fijis. In 1993, Sonoma State University awarded Burr an honorary doctorate. He supported medical and education institutions in Denver, and in 1993, the University of Colorado awarded him an honorary doctorate for his acting work. Burr also founded financed the American Fijian Foundation that funded academic research, including efforts to develop a dictionary of the language.

Burr made repeated trips on behalf of the United Service Organizations (USO). He toured both Korea and Vietnam during wartime and once spent six months touring Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. He sometimes organized his own troupe and toured bases both in the U.S. and overseas, often small installations that the USO did not serve, like one tour of Greenland, Baffinland, Newfoundland, and Labrador. Returning from Vietnam in 1965, he made a speaking tour of the U.S. to advocate an intensified war effort. As the war became more controversial, he modified his tone, called for more attention to the sacrifice of the troops, and said: "My only position on the war is that I wish it were over." In October 1967, NBC aired ''Raymond Burr Visits Vietnam'', a documentary of one of his visits that received mixed reviews, ranging from "The impressions he came up with are neither weighty nor particularly revealing" (''Chicago Tribune'') to "His questions...were intelligent and elicited some interesting replies." (''Los Angeles Times'').

Illness and death

During the filming of his last Perry Mason movie in the spring of 1993, Raymond Burr fell ill. A Viacom spokesman told the media that the illness might be related to the malignant kidney that Burr had removed that February. It was determined that the cancer had spread to his liver and was at that point inoperable. Burr threw several "goodbye parties" before his death on September 12, 1993, at his Sonoma County, California ranch near Healdsburg. He was 76 years old.

Burr was interred with his parents at Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. On October 1, 1993, a gathering of about 600 family members and friends of Burr mourned him at a memorial service at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. The private memorial was attended by Robert Benevides, Barbara Hale, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Barbara Anderson, Elizabeth Baur, Dean Hargrove, William R. Moses, and Christian I. Nyby II.

R. William Ide III, president of the American Bar Association, paid tribute to the way Burr's ''Perry Mason'' presented lawyers "in a professional and dignified manner" and helped "to educate many people who previously had not had access to the justice system." Though lawyers once complained of the character's implausibly perfect track record, Ide complimented Burr because he "strove for such authenticity in his courtroom characterizations that we regard his passing as though we lost one of our own." The ''New York Times'' added that Mason "made the presumption of innocence real...[and] also made lawyers look good. Not long before Burr died, Mason was named second after F. Lee Bailey in a poll that asked Americans to name the attorney, fictional or not, they most admired.

Because Burr had not revealed his homosexuality during his lifetime, initial press accounts gave it sensational treatment. The ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' reported that ''People'' magazine was preparing a story on Burr's "secret life" and asked: "Are the inevitable rumors true?" The Sunday Mail invented a feminine Burr "wearing a pink frilly apron and doing the ironing. He fussed around like the woman of the house."

Burr bequeathed his estate to Robert Benevides and excluded all relatives, including a sister, nieces, and nephews. His will was challenged by a niece and nephew, Minerva and James, the children of his late brother, James E. Burr, without success. The tabloids estimated that the estate was worth $32 million, but Benevides' attorney, John Hopkins said that was an overestimate.

Recognition

Burr won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series twice, in 1959 and 1961, for his performance as Perry Mason. He was also nominated a further seven times, once for ''Mason'' and six times for ''Ironside''. For the latter role, he was also nominated twice for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama.

The Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, awards the Raymond Burr Award for Excellence in Criminal Law.

Burr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6656 Hollywood Blvd.

In 2008, Canada Post issued a postage stamp in its "Canadians in Hollywood" series featuring Burr.

Burr received the 2009 Canadian Legends Award and a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto. The induction ceremony was held on September 12, 2009.

The garden at the entrance to the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum in Florida honors Burr, who was a benefactor and fund-raiser for the Museum.

The Raymond Burr Performing Arts Centre in New Westminster, British Columbia, opened in October 2000, near a city block bearing the Burr family name, and closed in 2006. Originally a movie theatre, under ownership of the Famous Players chain (as the Columbia Theatre), it was an intimate, 238-seat theatre. Initial plans included expanding the venue to a 650-seat regional performing arts facility. When in operation, it was the custom to have a picture of Raymond Burr included somewhere on each set, with the first toast on the opening night of every production always dedicated to his memory. The Centre was commonly referred to as the "Burr Theatre," or simply as "the Burr." It is owned by the City of New Westminster, which placed it for sale on 15 June 2009.

Selected filmography

''Ironside (TV series) ''The Bold Ones: The New Doctors'' ''Kingston: Confidential'' ''The Love Boat'' ''Peter and Paul'' ''Perry Mason'' television movies ''The Return of Ironside''

colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"	Film
		! Film	! Role	! Notes
1947		Walt Radak
	''Sleep, My Love''	Detective Sgt. Strake
	MacDonald
	Rick Coyle
''Adventures of Don Juan''	Capt. Alvarez
		Alexandre Dumas, Jr.
''Red Light''	Nick Cherney
	Kerric
		Pete Ritchie
	Les Taggart
''Love Happy''	Alphonse Zoto
	''A Place in the Sun''	District Attorney R. Frank Marlow
''His Kind of Woman''	Nick Ferraro
''Bride of the Gorilla''	Barney Chavez
1952		Nick Driscoll alias Joe Martell
	''The Blue Gardenia''	Harry Prebble
''Serpent of the Nile''	Mark Antony
''Tarzan and the She-Devil''	Vargo
	''Casanova's Big Night''	Bragadin
''Gorilla at Large''	Cy Miller
''Rear Window''	Lars Thorwald
	''You're Never Too Young''	Noonan
	Yancey Huggins
	''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!''	Steve Martin
''Please Murder Me''	Attorney Craig Carlson
1957		Police Inspector Anthony "Tony" Pope
1960	''Desire in the Dust''	Col. Ben Marquand
1977	''The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena''	host of documentary
		Jonash Sebastian
	Dr. Kramer
	Dr. Brean
1982	''Airplane II: The Sequel''	Judge D.C. Simonton
1985	''Godzilla 1985''	Steve Martin
1991		Carter Hedison
Television
! Year	! Title	! Role	! Notes
1957–1966	Perry Mason (TV series)>Perry Mason''	Perry Mason
1967–1975	Ironside'' ||	Robert T. Ironside	194 episodes
1972	|	Robert T. Ironside	1 episode
1977	|	R.B. Kingston	13 episodes
rowspan="4">1979	|	Malcolm Dwyer	2 episodes
''Centennial (TV miniseries)	Centennial''	Herman Bockweiss
''Eischied''	Police Commissioner
''The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo''	The Godfather
1981	|	Herod Agrippa I	Television movie
1985-1993	|	Perry Mason	26 movies
1993	|	Robert T. Ironside	Television movie

See also

List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards

References

Sources

External links

Raymond Burr Vineyards

Raymond Burr at the MBC Encyclopedia of Television

Complete biography of Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr Performing Arts Centre - New Westminster, BC

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name	Dick Foran
birth date	June 18, 1910
birth place	Flemington, New Jersey, U.S.
death date	August 10, 1979
death place	Panorama City, California, U.S.
birth name	John Nicholas Foran
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John Nicholas 'Dick' Foran (June 18, 1910 – August 10, 1979) was an American actor, known for his performances in western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures.

Life and career

Foran was born in Flemington, New Jersey, the first of five sons to Arthur F. and Elizabeth Foran. His father Arthur F. Foran would go on to serve in the New Jersey Senate, as would his younger brother, Walter E. Foran. Foran was a bright student while growing up, a good athlete in high school with a fine singing voice and often sang in the church choir. After graduation he attended the Hun School, a college preparatory school in nearby Princeton, and then enrolled at Princeton University pursuing a degree in geology. He played on the football team while taking courses in the arts where he develop an interest in the theater.

Foran studied music at the ''Leibling Studio'' in New York before singing on radio. After becoming a lead singer in a band and later forming his own orchestra, Foran was hired by Warner Bros. as a supporting actor (he was six feet two, with red hair). He would also croon when called upon in films such as ''Change of Heart'' (1934) with Janet Gaynor made for Fox Film Corporation. His handsome appearance and good natured personality made him a natural choice for the supporting cast. He first appeared as a singing cowboy in his first starring role in ''Moonlight on the Prairie'' (1935). Other singing cowboy features included ''Song of the Saddle'' (1936), ''Guns of the Pecos'' (1937), ''Empty Holsters'' (1937) and ''Cowboy from Brooklyn'' (1938).

In 1938, Foran moved to Universal Studios and acted in many different genres of film from horror to comedies with Abbott and Costello such as ''Ride 'Em Cowboy'' (1942).

In 1943, Foran starred on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hart musical comedy ''A Connecticut Yankee'', based on Mark Twain's ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court''.

He appeared in at least four episodes of ''Science Fiction Theatre'' (1955). One of these, "The Miracle Hour" (aired December 22, 1956), is about a man who never gives up hope that his fiancee's blind six-year-old son won't have to spend the holidays in darkness. The show featured Jean Byron as the fiancee and Charles Herbert as the child. He appeared three times (1955–1956) as Father Brophy on the ABC anthology series, ''Crossroads''. He also guest starred as a lawman in the episode "The Third Rider" in the first season (1957) of the ABC western series ''Maverick'', with Jack Kelly.

Throughout his career, he starred in ''The Petrified Forest'' (1936), ''The Sisters'' (1938), ''Rangers of Fortune'' (1940), ''The Mummy's Hand'' (1940), and ''Keep 'Em Flying'' (1941). In 1954, Foran guest starred on NBC's ''Justice'', a legal drama starring Dane Clark and Gary Merrill, on CBS's ''The Public Defender'' starring Reed Hadley and Hugh Beaumont, and on NBC's ''The Martha Raye Show'', a comedy/variety show starring comedienne Martha Raye.

One of his last movie roles was a small one in ''Donovan's Reef'' (1963), starring his long-time friend John Wayne. His final film appearance was as the prospector "Old Timer" in the sentimental film, ''Brighty of the Grand Canyon'' (1967) with Joseph Cotten, Pat Conway, and Karl Swenson.

Foran has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is buried in San Fernando Mission Cemetery.

References

External links

"Dick Foran, 'The Singing Cowboy'", The Old Corral

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Coordinates	45°30′″N73°40′″N
birth name	James Eugene Carrey
birth date	January 17, 1962
birth place	Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
occupation	Actor, comedian
years active	1979–present
spouse	(divorced) (divorced)
website	JimCarrey.com
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James Eugene "Jim" Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian American actor and comedian. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and has also been nominated on four occasions. Carrey began comedy in 1979, performing at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, Ontario. After gaining prominence in 1981, he began working at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles where he was soon noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who immediately signed him to open his tour performances. Carrey, long interested in film and television, developed a close friendship with comedian Damon Wayans, which landed him a role in the sketch comedy hit ''In Living Color'', in which he portrayed various characters during the show's 1990 season.

Having had little success in television movies and several low-budget films, Carrey was cast as the title character in ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' which premiered in February, 1994, making more than $72 million domestically despite receiving mixed critical reception. The film spawned a sequel, ''Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls'' (1995), in which he reprised the role of Ventura. High profile roles followed when he was cast as Stanley Ipkiss in ''The Mask'' (1994) for which he gained a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and as Lloyd Christmas in the comedy film ''Dumb and Dumber'' (1994).

Between 1996 and 1999, Carrey continued his success after earning lead roles in several highly popular films including ''The Cable Guy'' (1996), ''Liar Liar'' (1997), in which he was nominated for another Golden Globe Award and in the critically acclaimed films ''The Truman Show'' and ''Man on the Moon'', in 1998 and 1999, respectively. Both films earned Carrey Golden Globe awards. Since earning both awards, Carrey continued to star in comedy films, including ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas'' (2000) where he played the title character, ''Bruce Almighty'' (2003) where he portrayed the role of unlucky TV reporter Bruce Nolan, ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'' (2004), ''Fun with Dick and Jane'' (2005), ''Yes Man'' (2008), and ''A Christmas Carol'' (2009). Carrey has also taken on more serious roles including Joel Barish in ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' (2004) alongside Kate Winslet and Kirsten Dunst, which earned him another Golden Globe nomination, and Steven Jay Russell in ''I Love You Phillip Morris'' (2009) alongside Ewan McGregor.

Early life

Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, the son of Kathleen (née Oram), a homemaker, and Percy Carrey, a musician and accountant. He has three older siblings, John, Patricia, and Rita. He was raised Roman Catholic. His mother was of French, Irish, and Scottish descent and his father was of French Canadian ancestry (the family's original surname was ''Carré''). After his family moved to Scarborough, Ontario, when Carrey was 14 years old, he attended Blessed Trinity Catholic School, in North York, for two years, enrolled at Agincourt Collegiate Institute for another year, then briefly attended Northview Heights Secondary School for the remainder of his high school career (all together, he spent three years in Grade 10).

Carrey lived in Burlington, Ontario, for eight years and attended Aldershot High School, where he once opened for 1980s new wave band Spoons. In a ''Hamilton Spectator'' interview (February 2007), Carrey remarked, "If my career in show business hadn't panned out I would probably be working today in Hamilton, Ontario at the Dofasco steel mill." When looking across the Burlington Bay toward Hamilton, he could see the mills and thought, "Those were where the great jobs were." At this point, he already had experience working in a science testing facility in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Career

Comedy

In 1979, under the management of Leatrice Spevack, Carrey started doing stand-up comedy at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, where he rose to become a headliner in February 1981, shortly after his 19th birthday. One reviewer in the ''Toronto Star'' raved that Carrey was "a genuine star coming to life." In the early 1980s, Carrey moved to Los Angeles and started working at The Comedy Store, where he was noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who signed the young comedian to open Dangerfield's tour performances.

Carrey then turned his attention to the film and television industries, auditioning to be a cast member for the 1980–1981 season of NBC's ''Saturday Night Live.'' Carrey was not selected for the position (although he did host the show in May 1996, and again in January 2011). Joel Schumacher had him audition for a role in ''D.C. Cab,'' though in the end, nothing ever came of it. His first lead role on television was Skip Tarkenton, a young animation producer on NBC's short-lived ''The Duck Factory,'' airing from April 12, 1984, to July 11, 1984, and offering a behind-the-scenes look at the crew that produced a children's cartoon. Carrey continued working in smaller film and television roles, which led to a friendship with fellow comedian Damon Wayans, who co-starred with Carrey as an extraterrestrial in 1989's ''Earth Girls Are Easy.'' When Wayans' brother Keenen began developing a sketch comedy show for Fox called ''In Living Color,'' Carrey was hired as a cast member, whose unusual characters included masochistic, accident-prone safety inspector Fire Marshall Bill, and masculine female bodybuilder Vera de Milo.

Film

Carrey made his film debut in ''Rubberface'' (1981), which was released as ''Introducing...Janet.'' Later that year, he won the leading role in Damian Lee's Canadian skiing comedy ''Copper Mountain,'' which included his impersonation of Sammy Davis Jr. Since the film had a less than one hour runtime consisting largely of musical performances by Rita Coolidge and Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, it was not considered a genuine feature film. Two years later, in 1985, Carrey saw his first major starring role in the dark comedy ''Once Bitten,'' in the role of Mark Kendall, a teen virgin pursued by a 400-year-old female vampire, played by Lauren Hutton. After supporting roles in films such as ''Peggy Sue Got Married'' (1986), ''Earth Girls Are Easy'' (1988), and ''The Dead Pool'' (1988), Carrey did not experience true stardom until starring in the 1994 comedy ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,'' which premiered only months before ''In Living Color'' ended. ''Ace Ventura'' was panned by critics, and earned Carrey a 1995 Golden Raspberry Award nomination as Worst New Star. But the film was as embraced by fans as it was derided by critics. The Ventura character became a pop icon, and the film made Carrey a superstar. It was a commercial success, as were his two other starring roles from that year: ''The Mask'' and ''Dumb and Dumber''. In 1995, Carrey appeared as the Riddler in ''Batman Forever'' and reprised his role as Ace Ventura in ''Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.'' Both films were successful at the box office and earned Carrey multi-million-dollar paychecks. Carrey earned $20 million for his next film, ''The Cable Guy'' (directed by Ben Stiller), a record sum for a comedy actor. The film did not do well with critics, but Carrey quickly rebounded with the successful ''Liar Liar,'' a return to his trademark comedy style.

Carrey took a slight pay cut to play a more serious role to star in the critically praised science-fiction film ''The Truman Show'' (1998), a change of pace that led to forecasts of Academy Award nominations. Although the movie was nominated for three other awards, Carrey did not personally receive a nomination, leading him to joke that "it's an honor just to be nominated...oh no," during his appearance on the Oscar telecast. However, Carrey did win a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama and an MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance. That same year, Carrey appeared as a fictionalized version of himself on the final episode of Garry Shandling's ''The Larry Sanders Show'', in which he deliberately ripped into Shandling's character. In 1999, Carrey won the role of comedian Andy Kaufman in ''Man on the Moon.'' Despite critical acclaim, he was not nominated for an Academy Award, but again won a Best Actor Golden Globe award for the second consecutive year. In 2000, Carrey reteamed with the Farrelly Brothers, who had directed him in ''Dumb and Dumber,'' in their comedy, ''Me, Myself & Irene,'' about a state trooper with multiple personalities who romances a woman played by Renée Zellweger. The film grossed $24 million on its opening weekend and $90 million by the end of its domestic run.

In 2003, Carrey reteamed with Tom Shadyac for the financially successful comedy ''Bruce Almighty''. Earning over $242 million in the U.S. and over $484 million worldwide, this film became the second highest grossing live-action comedy of all time. His performance in ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' in 2004 earned high praise from critics, who again predicted that Carrey would receive an Oscar nomination; the film did win for Best Original Screenplay, and co-star Kate Winslet received an Oscar nomination for her performance. (Carrey was also nominated for a sixth Golden Globe for his performance).

In 2004, he played the villainous Count Olaf in ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'', which was based on the popular children's novels of the same name. He was also inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame that year. In 2005, Carrey starred in a remake of ''Fun with Dick and Jane'', playing Dick, a husband who becomes a bank robber after he loses his job. In 2007, Carrey reunited with Joel Schumacher, director of ''Batman Forever'', for ''The Number 23'', a psychological thriller co-starring Virginia Madsen and Danny Huston. In the film, Carrey plays a man who becomes obsessed with the number 23, after finding a book about a man with the same obsession. Carrey has stated that he finds the prospect of reprising a character to be considerably less enticing than taking on a new role. The only time he has reprised a role was with Ace Ventura. (Sequels to ''Bruce Almighty'', ''Dumb and Dumber'', and ''The Mask'' have all been released without Carrey's involvement.) As of December 2010, Carrey's films grossed over $2.3 billion in total.

In 2010, Carrey was the narrator of the documentary film, ''Under the Sea 3D''.

Personal life

Family and relationships

Carrey has been married twice, first to former actress and Comedy Store waitress Melissa Womer on March 28, 1987; the two were divorced in late 1995. Their only child, a daughter named Jane Erin Carrey, was born on September 6, 1987, in Los Angeles County. After his separation from Womer in 1994, Carrey began dating his ''Dumb and Dumber'' co-star Lauren Holly. They were married on September 23, 1996; the marriage lasted less than a year.

In December 2005, Carrey began dating actress and model Jenny McCarthy. They made their relationship public in June 2006. She announced on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' on April 2, 2008, that the two were then living together, but had no plans to marry; as they do not need a "piece of paper." In April 2010, Carrey and McCarthy ended their near five-year relationship.

In Los Angeles on February 27, 2010, Carrey announced via his Twitter account that he had become a grandfather when his daughter Jane gave birth to her first child with musician husband Alex Santana, who performs in the band Blood Money under the stage name Nitro. He announced that his grandson's name was Jackson Riley Santana.

On the 11th season of the reality show singing competition ''American Idol'', Carrey's daughter Jane auditioned during the January 22, 2012 episode. Jane was put through to the Hollywood round.

Citizenship

Carrey received U.S. citizenship in October 2004 and remains a dual citizen of both the United States and his native Canada.

Depression

Carrey discussed his bouts of depression in a November 2004 interview on ''60 Minutes''.

Friendship with Eckhart Tolle

Carrey is a great admirer and friend of author Eckhart Tolle, and in June 2009, Carrey gave an introduction for Tolle when together they headlined the first conference of the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment.

Beliefs

Carrey has been a critic of the scientific consensus that no evidence links the childhood MMR vaccination to the development of autism, and wrote an article questioning the merits of vaccination and vaccine research for the ''Huffington Post''. With former partner Jenny McCarthy, Carrey led a "Green Our Vaccines" march in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the removal of toxins from children's vaccines, out of a belief that children had received "too many vaccines, too soon, many of which are toxic".

Filmography

Title	Year	Role	Notes
''The Sex and Violence Family Hour''	1980	Various roles
''All in Good Taste''	1981	Ralph Parker
! scope="row"	1983	Bobby Todd
! scope="row"	1984	Lane Bidlekoff
! scope="row"	1985	Mark Kendall
''Peggy Sue Got Married''	1986	Walter Getz
''The Dead Pool''	1988	Johnny Squares
! scope="row"	1989	Comedian
''Earth Girls Are Easy''	1989	Wiploc
''High Strung''	1991	Death
''Doing Time on Maple Drive''	1992	Tim Carter
! scope="row"	1992	The Exterminator	Voice role
''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective''	1994	Ace Ventura
! scope="row"	1994		London Critics Circle Film Award for Newcomer of the Year (also for ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'')Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic PerformanceNominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence (shared with Cameron Diaz)
''Dumb and Dumber''	1994	Lloyd Christmas	MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic PerformanceMTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (shared with Lauren Holly)Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Jeff Daniels)
''Batman Forever''	1995		Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
''Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls''	1995	Ace Ventura
''The Cable Guy''	1996	Ernie "Chip" Douglas	Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie ActorMTV Movie Award for Best Comedic PerformanceMTV Movie Award for Best VillainNominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Fight (shared with Matthew Broderick)
''Liar Liar''	1997	Fletcher Reede	Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor - ComedyMTV Movie Award for Best Comedic PerformanceNominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated - Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actor
''The Truman Show''	1998	Truman Burbank
''Simon Birch''	1998	Adult Joe Wenteworth
! scope="row"	1999	Andy Kaufman / Tony Clifton	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best ActorGolden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated - American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor (Leading Role)Nominated - Canadian Comedy Award for Film - Male PerformanceNominated - London Critics Circle Film Award for Actor of the Year (also for '' ''[[Me, Myself & Irene">How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film)
''[[Me, Myself & Irene''	2000	Officer Charlie Baileygates/Hank	Teen Choice Award for Wipeout Scene of the SummerNominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic PerformanceNominated - Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor - Comedy/Romance
! scope="row"	2000	The Grinch
! scope="row"	2001	Peter Appleton
! scope="row"	2003	The driver	2-minute short film
''Bruce Almighty''	2003	Bruce Nolan	Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie ActorMTV Movie Award, Mexico, for Most Divine Miracle in a MovieTeen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor - ComedyNominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic PerformanceNominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (shared with Jennifer Aniston)Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Chemistry (shared with Morgan Freeman)
''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind''	2004	Joel Barish	San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorWashington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best EnsembleNominated - BAFTA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading RoleNominated - Empire Award for Best ActorNominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated - Online Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated - People's Choice Award for Favorite Leading ManNominated - People's Choice Award for Favorite On-Screen Chemistry (shared with Kate Winslet)Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Actor, Musical or Comedy FilmNominated - Saturn Award for Best Actor
''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events''	2004	Count Olaf	People's Choice Award for Favorite Funny Male StarTeen Choice Award for Choice Movie Bad GuyNominated - MTV Movie Award for Best VillainNominated - Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie ActorNominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Action/Adventure/ThrillerNominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Liar
! scope="row"	2005	Dick Harper	Nominated - Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie ActorNominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Actor: Comedy
''The Number 23''	2007	Walter Sparrow / Fingerling
! scope="row"	2008		Voice roleNominated - Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie
! scope="row"	2008	Carl Allen	MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic PerformancePeople's Choice Award for Favorite Funny Male StarNominated - Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie ActorNominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: ComedyNominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Hissy FitNominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Rockstar Moment
''I Love You Phillip Morris''	2009	Steven Jay Russell
! scope="row"	2009	Ebenezer ScroogeGhost of Christmas PastGhost of Christmas PresentGhost of Christmas Yet to Come
''Under the Sea 3D	2009	Narrator
! scope="row"	2011	Tom Popper
	2013	Steve Haines	''pre-production''

Television

! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1980	''The All-Night Show''	Various voices	(voice only)
1981	''Rubberface''	Tony Moroni	Television movie
		Jerry Lewis Impersonator	Television series (uncredited)
''The Duck Factory''	Skip Tarkenton	Television series
1989	''Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All''	Brad Peters	Television movie
1990	''In Living Color''	Various roles	Television series
1992	''Doing Time on Maple Drive''	Tim Carter	Television movie
1994	''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''	Himself	Television series (two episodes)
2011		Finger Lakes guy	Episode: "Search Committee"Nominated - People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Guest Star

Other appearances

! Year	! Song	! Album
1998	"I Am the Walrus"

Other accolades

|- |2001 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Motion Picture Star in a Comedy | |- |2003 | rowspan="2"| Teen Choice Awards | rowspan="2"| Choice Comedian | |- |2004 | |- |rowspan=2| 2005 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Funny Male Star | |- | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Comedian | |- |2006 | MTV Movie Awards | MTV Generation Award | |- |2009 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Funny Male Star | |- |2012 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite TV Guest Star | |}

References

Further reading

External links

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birth name	Betty Lynn Buckley
birth date	July 03, 1947
birth place	Big Spring, Texas, U.S.
occupation	Actress, singer
years active	1969–present
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Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is an American theater, film and television actress and singer. She is a Tony Award winner and Grammy Award nominee.

Early life

Betty Lynn Buckley was born in Big Spring, Texas and raised in Fort Worth, the daughter of Betty Bob (née Diltz), a dancer and journalist, and Ernest Lynn Buckley, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force and former dean of engineering at South Dakota State University. She is the oldest of their four children. She has three brothers—Norman Buckley is a film editor and TV director. While a student at Texas Christian University (TCU), she was crowned "Miss Fort Worth" in 1966 and was runner-up in the Miss Texas competition. Buckley was then invited to perform at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, and it was there that she was spotted by a talent scout. After returning to TCU to earn her college degree, she toured Asia to visit soldiers wounded in the Vietnam War. After this, she worked for a time as a reporter for the Fort Worth newspaper, but went to New York City in 1969, where she landed the role of Martha Jefferson in ''1776'' her first day in town.

Career

Stage and screen career

Buckley made her Broadway debut in 1969 in the musical ''1776''; she has been called "The Voice of Broadway" by ''New York'' magazine. Her rendition of "Memory" in Andrew Lloyd Webber's ''Cats'' established her reputation. She is perhaps best known for the 1977–81 TV dramedy ''Eight is Enough''. She joined the show in its second season when the original star, Diana Hyland, died after the first four episodes of season one. Hyland's character (Joan Bradford) died, and Buckley was cast as the widower's new romantic interest, Sandra Sue Abbott (nicknamed Abby), who would become stepmother of the eight children to which the series' title refers.

Buckley also appeared in the original movie version of ''Carrie'' in 1976. She played Miss Collins, Carrie's gym teacher; in 1987, she appeared as Margaret White in the musical adaptation of the film. In 1977, she recorded an uncredited solo on the song "Walking in Space", in the movie ''Hair''.

She played the role of a country singer in Bruce Beresford's film ''Tender Mercies'' (1982), in which she sang the song "Over You".

She also appeared in the Woody Allen film ''Another Woman'' (1988) and in Roman Polanski's ''Frantic'' (1988). In 2001–03, she played a role in seasons 4–6 of the HBO series ''Oz''. She also has guest-starred in a number of television series, including ''Without a Trace'', ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', and ''Monk''. She guest-starred in a Christmas special of the TV series ''Remember WENN'', in which she sang "You Make It Christmas".

Buckley sang "Memory" from ''Cats'' at the Kennedy Center Honors in December 2006 as part of the tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber. In 2007, Buckley appeared with Quintessence at Lincoln Center in its Great American Songbook series.

In 2008, Buckley played "Mrs. Jones" in M. Night Shyamalan's ''The Happening'' opposite Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel. She appeared as "Marion Leckie", mother of Robert Leckie in the HBO series ''The Pacific'', produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, which aired in 2010.

Buckley also appeared in the 18th episode of Melrose Place in 2010 as a food critic cast by her brother Norman Buckley, who directed the episode. She has recently filmed a guest star appearance in an episode of the new Fox series ''The Chicago Code." Most recently she appeared on "Pretty Little Liars" as Regina Marin, also directed by her brother Norman.

Buckley participated in a reading of the musical ''Ruthless!'' in September, 2010, playing the role of Sylvia St. Croix/Ruth DelMarco.

In 2011 Buckley starred in the Dallas Theater Center production of ''Arsenic and Old Lace'' by Joseph Kesselring with Tovah Feldshuh.

Music career

Buckley has recorded 12 solo albums and gives concerts and makes guest solo appearances across the U.S. each year. She is also a composer; her first recording contains mostly songs she wrote. She is also featured on many Broadway compilation recordings, and on the original cast recordings of 1776, Cats, the Promises, Promises London recording, Triumph of Love and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. She has been twice nominated for a Grammy Award.

Her albums, ''Quintessence'' and ''1967'', were released by Playbill Records in February 2008. ''Quintessence'' features jazz arrangements of standards by her longtime collaborator, jazz pianist Kenny Werner. ''1967'' is a recording made when Miss Buckley was just 19, produced by T-Bone Burnett.

Her new album "Ghostlight" was produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett and will be released in 2012.

Personal life

Buckley was married in 1972, divorced in 1979, and has no children. She lives on a ranch in Texas and participates in NCHA cutting horse competitions while continuing to appear in films, television and theater and to sing concerts in a wide variety of venues.

Buckley has also taught song interpretation and scene study for over 40 years. She conducts master classes in Fort Worth, New York City, Los Angeles and other cities around the country. "No matter what your career, to communicate at your best is absolutely vital, whether it's to one person, a group or an entire audience. But most people get nervous, forgetful and too fearful to express themselves," says Buckley. "I'll help you redefine that fear and use it to your advantage. We'll talk about the dynamics of communication, the essence of common respect, and training your mind to focus on your behalf."

Buckley's official website contains her concert and theater schedule, a detailed biography and timeline, and summaries of her singing and acting accomplishments.

Broadway credits

''1776'' (1969)—her Broadway debut as Martha Jefferson.

''Promises, Promises'' (London) (1970)

''Pippin'' (1972)

''Cats'' (1982)—Tony Award for featured actress in a musical in 1983 for playing Grizabella

''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' (1985) as Miss Alice Nutting/Edwin Drood/Dick Datchery

''Song and Dance'' (1986)

''Carrie - The Musical'' (1988) as Carrie's mother Margaret White

''Sunset Boulevard'' (1994)—In Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptation of the film, as Norma Desmond, the aging silent screen diva in London and on Broadway

''Triumph of Love'' (1997)—Tony Nomination for Best Actress in a Musical

Off-Broadway credits

''White's Lies'' (2010) as Mrs. White.

References

T.v eight is enough play the stepmother.

External links

Betty Buckley's Official web site

Official Website for Carrie The Musical

TonyAwards.com Interview with Betty Buckley

AMC Interview with Betty Buckley about ''The Happening''

Sony BMG Masterworks Betty Buckley Podcast

Category:1947 births Category:Actors from Texas Category:American female singers Category:American film actors Category:American musical theatre actors Category:Cats (musical) Category:Daytime Emmy Award winners Category:Living people Category:People from Fort Worth, Texas Category:Texas Christian University alumni Category:Tony Award winners

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