Raymond Burr Miller, Ron; Bawden, James
Conversations with Legendary Television Stars,
07/2019
Book Chapter
Raymond Burr was a Canadian-born actor who learned his craft in theater and radio before coming to Hollywood in the 1940s as a character actor whose specialty was supporting roles as a “heavy,” no ...doubt because of his husky build and his deep, sonorous speaking voice. Burr was soon established as one of the screen’s most reliable villains, especially in grim films noir like Raw Deal (1948), Blue Gardenia (1953), Gorilla at Large (1954), and, most memorably, as the wife killer who menaces James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954).
But it may have been his bravura performance as
