The Perry Mason Database

This database contains the names of the actors in the Perry Mason TV series along with their episodes and roles. It also contains their Internet Movie Database link and, where available, birth and death dates. You will find this data displayed in interesting ways on this site. If you have any ideas for use of the database on the site, please let us know.

There are 1902 unique actors in the database. Of these, 631 are female (33.2%) and 1271 are male (66.8%). There are 7 actors who have alternate names. See Credits Anomalies for information about these actors. There are 72 actors who have names that are sometimes spelled slightly differently. These variant names are shown in the Actors Lists with applicable episodes flagged by an asterisk. Names shown in the Cast Lists are as they appear in the episode credits. Note that only 1732 actors have birth dates and 1481 have death dates in the database. Actors without these dates are necessarily excluded from date-related tables.

#112 Jean Howell

Interactive 1: Birth and Death By Date

Enter numbers for the desired Month and Day and click Submit or use the "next/previous" buttons. Click the to go to the actor's Actor Page. Click the actor's name to go to the actor's IMDb page. Mouse over the for an episode list. Mouse over the for a picture. Note: JavaScript must be enabled. Mouse over the picture at the right for the episode number from whence it came and the actor's name. The picture was randomly chosen from those available for this date.

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5 Actors Born on November 21

Name Born Died Age
Actor Page Bud Perkins Nov 21, 1916 Feb 23, 1989 72
Actor Page Lawrence Green Nov 21, 1917 Jul 27, 1984 66
Actor Page Steve Brodie pic Nov 21, 1919 Jan 9, 1992 72
Actor Page Jean Howell pic Nov 21, 1927 Jul 23, 1996 68
Actor Page Louis Elias Nov 21, 1933 Dec 13, 2017 84

3 Actors Died on November 21

Name Born Died Age
Actor Page John Barclay May 12, 1892 Nov 21, 1978 86
Actor Page Harry von Zell pic Jul 11, 1906 Nov 21, 1981 75
Actor Page Jack Orrison Oct 12, 1909 Nov 21, 1988 79