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- Sep. 27, 1993: Died:Raymond Burr
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Sep. 27, 1993 Attack Of The Video Games
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 22
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- <p> DIED. RAYMOND BURR, 76, actor; at his ranch near Healdsburg
- in Northern California. As television's Perry Mason, Burr had
- a towering bulk and thundering baritone that terrified malefactors,
- who routinely confessed all in the face of his withering accusations.
- The Canadian-born Burr started his career playing film heavies,
- including the murderous husband spied upon by James Stewart
- in Rear Window. But his claim to fame rested on the Mason series,
- which ran from 1957 to 1966. Burr returned to series TV as the
- crotchety, wheelchair-bound crime solver Ironside. But a highly
- successful 1985 TV movie, Perry Mason Returns, led to 25 more.
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