Perry Mason is back ... there were closeted gay actors working on television when Burr landed the lead role of Mason in 1957. Hayden Rorke (I Dream of Jeannie), Richard Deacon (The Dick Van ...

But for many TV viewers, Burr is Perry Mason. The actor played the crusading defense attorney from 1957 to 1966, and again in a series of TV movies from the mid-80s through the early ‘90s.