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Katt was born in Los Angeles to actors Bill Williams (birth name Herman August Wilhelm Katt) and Barbara Hale. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley and began acting as a teenager, sometimes appearing with his parents. [1] He graduated from Army and Navy Academy, Carlsbad, California.
Hale's son William Katt played detective Paul Drake, Jr., alongside Hale in nine of the Perry Mason TV movies from 1985 to 1988. Hale in turn guest-starred on Katt's series, The Greatest American Hero in which Katt played the title role, aka Ralph Hinkley; Hale played Hinkley's mother in the 1982 episode, "Who's Woo in America".
Williams married actress Barbara Hale on June 22, 1946. [2] They met during the filming of West of the Pecos and had two daughters, Jodi and Juanita, and a son, actor William Katt. [citation needed] Bill Williams died of a brain tumor at age 77 in 1992 [3] and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills). [4]
Barbara Hale, mother of William Katt, plays a small role in the film. A 1940s film star but best known as Della Street from the long-running Perry Mason television series, this was Hale's last appearance in a feature film.
Both Barbara Hale and William R. Moses reprised their roles for all four films, although in the final film in 1995, Hale contributed only a small cameo with Holland Taylor substituting for her. Hale said that continuing the series was suggested by Burr. "Raymond was so concerned that the crew keep working - we'd been with the same crew for six ...
Hale agreed, and when Perry Mason Returns aired in December 1985, her character became the defendant. [67] The rest of the principal cast had died, but Hale's real-life son William Katt played the role of Paul Drake Jr. [67] The movie was so successful that Burr made a total of 26 Perry Mason television movies before his death. [16]
The First Time is a 1952 American comedy drama film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Robert Cummings, Barbara Hale and Jeff Donnell. [1] It was distributed by Columbia Pictures . [ 2 ]
Ralph's mother (William Katt's real-life mother, Barbara Hale) comes for a visit, and announces that she is engaged to be married to Philip Kabala, a much younger man. Kabala has a shady background, though, and a bunch of thugs mistake Ralph for the fiancé.