Hamilton Burger is the fictional Los Angeles County District Attorney (D.A.) in the series of novels, films, and radio and television programs featuring Perry Mason, the fictional defense attorney created by Erle Stanley Gardner.
William Talman (right) as Hamilton Burger, with Raymond Burr in the CBS-TV series Perry Mason (1957–66)
Perry Mason is a fictional character, an American criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason features in 82 novels and 4 short stories, all of which involve a client being charged with murder, usually involving a preliminary hearing or jury trial. Typically, Mason establishes his client's innocence by finding the real murderer. The character was inspired by famed Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Earl Rogers.
Robert W. Douglass illustrated "The Case of the Crying Swallow" for the August 1947 issue of The American Magazine
Warren William as Perry Mason in The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935), with Genevieve Tobin and Patricia Ellis
Donald Woods portrayed Perry Mason in The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
William Hopper and Raymond Burr in the CBS-TV series Perry Mason (1957–1966)
