question: Name the Canadian-American actor known for his roles in television dramas 'Perry Mason' and 'Ironside' and who starred in the 1951 adventure film The Magic Carpet?
answer: Raymond Burr
context: Title: Legal drama
  Passage: A legal drama or a courtroom drama is a subgenre of drama and crime fiction.  Law enforcement, crime, detective-based mystery solving, lawyer work, civil litigation, etc., are all possible focuses of legal dramas.  Common subgenres of legal dramas include detective dramas, police dramas, courtroom dramas, legal thrillers, etc.  Legal dramas appear in many forms of media, including novels, plays, television shows, and films. Legal drama sometimes overlap with crime drama, most notably in the case of "Law & Order".  Most crime drama focus on crime investigation and does not feature the court room.  An early example of this overlapping form was Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason, in which the eponymous trial lawyer would usually defend his clients from their murder charges by investigating the crime before the trial, and dramatically revealing the actual perpetrator during the closing courtroom scene, by calling some other person to the stand and interrogating him or her into confessing in open court:
  Title: Perry Mason (TV movies)
  Passage: The Perry Mason TV movies (1985–95) are a successful series of 30 television films aired on NBC as a sequel to the popular CBS-TV series "Perry Mason".  After a hiatus of nearly 20 years, Raymond Burr reprised his role as Los Angeles defense attorney Perry Mason in 26 of the television films.  Following Burr's death in 1993, Paul Sorvino and Hal Holbrook starred in the remaining four that aired from 1993 to 1995.
  Title: The New Perry Mason
  Passage: The New Perry Mason is a 1970s TV series that was a revival of the long-running hit television series of the 1950s and '60s about Erle Stanley Gardner's brilliant defense attorney.  While several production personnel had worked on the original "Perry Mason" series (including executive producer Cornwell Jackson, producers Ernie Frankel and Art Seid, and director Arthur Marks), the series was made without the participation of any members of the original cast, with Monte Markham taking over the role that Raymond Burr played in the original series.  Produced by 20th Century Fox Television, it aired Sundays at 7:30 pm (EST) on CBS, the same network which had aired the original series, during the 1973-74 season.  A total of 15 episodes were produced and aired.
  Title: Sharon Acker
  Passage: Sharon Acker (born April 2, 1935) is a Canadian film, stage, and television actress and model.  Acker appeared mostly on television in Canada and the United States from 1956–1992.  She played Della Street, Perry Mason’s loyal secretary in "The New Perry Mason".  Her film roles include "Lucky Jim", "Point Blank" and "Don't Let the Angels Fall".
  Title: Barbara Hale
  Passage: Barbara Hale (April 18, 1922 – January 26, 2017) was an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street on more than 270 episodes of the long-running "Perry Mason" television series from 1957 to 1966, earning her a 1959 Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.  She reprised the role in 30 Perry Mason movies for television.  Her many film roles included "The Window" (1949), in which she starred as the mother of a boy who witnesses a murder.
  Title: William Katt
  Passage: William Theodore Katt (born February 16, 1951) is an American film and television actor, voice artist and musician best known as the star of the television series "The Greatest American Hero".  He first became known for playing Tommy Ross, the ill-fated prom date of Carrie White in the film version of "Carrie" (1976) and subsequently starred in films such as "First Love" (1977), "Big Wednesday" (1978) and "" (1979).  Between 1985 and 1988, he starred in nine Perry Mason television films alongside his mother Barbara Hale, who reprised her role as Della Street from the television series "Perry Mason".
  Title: The Magic Carpet (film)
  Passage: The Magic Carpet is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Lew Landers and written by David Mathews.  The film stars Lucille Ball, John Agar, Patricia Medina, George Tobias, Raymond Burr, Gregory Gaye, Rick Vallin and Gary Klein.  The film was released on October 18, 1951, by Columbia Pictures.  The film opened in Los Angeles on October 18, 1951, three days after "I Love Lucy" premiered.
  Title: Fintan Meyler
  Passage: Fintan Meyler (born Gertrude Anne Meyler; December 14, 1929 - July 23, 2005) was born in Ireland, as one of seven children.  Her brother Thomas Meyler's grandson is Ben Meyler a well known child.  Meyler began studying acting at the Gate Theatre in Dublin.  Meyler entered and won a beauty pageant, who sent her to New York City for two weeks.  Meyler never left.  Eventually, she made her way to California.  Her first TV role was on "Matinee Theater".  Under the name Fintan Meyler, she starred in over 30 different TV shows.  She portrayed memorable characters in shows, such as "The Donna Reed Show", "Perry Mason", "Bonanza", "Have Gun - Will Travel" and "Gunsmoke".  In the 1959 "Perry Mason" episode "The Case of the Howling Dog", she played three-time murderer Thelma Brent.
  Title: Raymond Burr
  Passage: Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917September 12, 1993) was a Canadian-American actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas "Perry Mason" and "Ironside".  He was prominently involved in multiple charitable endeavors, such as working on behalf of the United Service Organizations.
  Title: Paul Lukather
  Passage: Paul Lukather (1926 - 9 October 2014) was an actor and voice-over artist who was mostly known as giving voice-overs for many video games including "Legacy of Kain" series where he voiced Vorador.  He also had a role in "" where he did the English voice-over for President James Johnson.  Lukather made dozens of television appearances on "Perry Mason", "The Fugitive", "The F.B.I.", "", "Cannon", and many others.  In 1966 he guest starred on "Perry Mason" as defendant 'Duke' Maronek in "The Case of the Misguided Model".
citations: Raymond Burr The Magic Carpet (film)