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Perry Mason

When I realized that Thorwald was played by Raymond Burr, I found it funny. On Perry Mason, he's the good guy and he fights for justice. In Rear Window, he's such a mean guy and a murderer. He kills his wife, kills a poor little helpless dog, and then he tries to throw Jimmy Stewart out the window.

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There should've been a PM episode where Thorwald comes to Perry, needing a lawyer. Of course, Burr would've played both parts.



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Yes, but they would have needed Super Panavision to get them both in one shot.

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Special effects would be needed for that.

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I think he played bad guys in a number of movies before gaining fame as a good guy in Perry Mason and Ironsides. He was scary looking before we started to see him as the rescuer of the falsely accused. Perry Mason is my all time favorite TV series except for Star Treks. What wonderful shows they were.

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Whenever I have seen Raymond Burr in the films of the 1940s and 1950S, he seemed to have played the bad guy every time. I don't know if there were any exceptions in his early film career?

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He played Peter, the Apostle, in "Triumphant Hour" in 1953. His character from Godzilla (1956), the reporter/narrator, wasn't evil, either. Whether his character in "Crime of Passion" (1956) is a bad guy or not is open to debate. He's not the classic Burr psycho, but he has a questionable work ethic and is quite callous toward the end. The lawyer he played in "Please murder me" (1956) was flawed, but honest.

You may cross-examine.

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Thanks for some Raymond Burr non-baddie roles to look out for from the 1950s.

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He was Mason's evil twin.

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Haha. I love Perry Mason, and I didn't realize that was Raymond Burr until I started watching the thing in the bonus features where they talk about the movie. I can't believe I watched the whole thing and didn't realize that was Raymond Burr. But he looked so different, didn't he?!

Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.--Stephen King
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