America's favorite crime-solving lawyer, Perry Mason, was a character created by lawyer-turned-author Erle Stanley Gardner (1890-1970). Eventually featured in over 80 popular books, Gardner's creation had a modest success in films and...

Used as a transferred name to someone who is thought to be acting like the fictional character created by Erle Stanley Gardner for a long series of crime novels, in St Urbain’s Horseman, by Mordecai Richler. Mason is an investigating lawyer, and...

Perry Mason is a fictional defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. He appeared in over 80 novels and short stories, most of which involved his client being put on trial for murder. Typically, he was able to...

Debbie Reynolds helps "Perry Mason" set a precedent tonight. Not one of the legal sort, but what is believed to be the first episode of the series to sound a strong musical theme, with a star entertainer to carry the tunes. In...

People still carry monogrammed cigarette cases in "Perry Mason" movies, and a lucky thing they do, or there'd be no incriminating clues left at crime sites. NBC's "Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love," at 9 tonight on Channel 4, is the fourth...

Herman Brix, the Olympic shot putter who played Tarzan in a 1935 movie, has died. He was 100.Brix, who used the name Bruce Bennett for many of his movies, died Saturday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center of complications from a broken hip, son Christopher said.Brix,...

Herman Brix, an Olympic shot-putting medalist-turned-actor who played Tarzan in a 1930s movie, has died. He was 100.Brix, who used the name Bruce Bennett for many of his movies, died of complications from a broken hip on Saturday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, his son...