Hamilton Burger is the fictional Los Angeles district attorney who is the nemesis of Perry Mason in the long-running series of novels, films, and radio and television programs featuring the fictional defense attorney created by Erle Stanley Gardner. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West A district attorney (DA is in some US jurisdictions the title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of alleged criminals Perry Mason is a fictional character a defense Attorney who originally was the main character in numerous pieces of Detective fiction authored by A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic In most Litigation under the Common law Adversarial system the Defendant, perhaps with the assistance of counsel, may allege or present Erle Stanley Gardner ( July 17, 1889 Malden Massachusetts – March 11, 1970 Temecula California The name is a pun, since shortening "Hamilton" to "Ham", a popular nickname, would produce "Hamburger". A hamburger (or burger) is a Sandwich consisting of a cooked ground Meat Patty, usually Beef, placed in a sliced bun or between In the novels Gardner sometimes played on this pun by referring to him as "Ham Burger, the big beefy DA. " In the earliest novels of the series, the surname of the district attorney is in fact "Hamburger", and not yet "Burger".
Critics have suggested that Burger must have been the most incompetent lawyer in history {see Mad Magazine parody "The Day Perry Mason Lost a Case"!!), as his cases inevitably involved prosecuting the wrong, innocent person who was defended by Mason, who always in the end revealed the true criminal through a series of courtroom tricks (which largely would not have been allowed in a real-life trial). The word critic comes from the Greek el κριτικός ( el-Latn kritikós) "able to discern" which in turn derives from the word Mad is a monthly American Humor Magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952 A parody (ˈpɛɹədiː US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK) in contemporary usage is a work created to mock comment on or poke fun at an original work its subject In the sociological field, crime is the breach of a rule or Law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a Punishment Burger's bag of tricks was comparatively empty, chiefly comprising indignant exclamations of, "Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial!" Once Mason had outed the true perpetrator, Burger always joined in Mason's motion to the judge to dismiss the charges against Mason's client so that Burger could then charge the actual wrongdoer. A judge, or justice, is an Official who presides over a Court of law Burger was probably most famously portrayed (in the long-running original Perry Mason television series) by actor William Talman, who was replaced briefly after he was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and indecent exposure. An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works William Whitney Talman Jr ( February 4 1915 &ndash August 30 1968) was an American Television and movie actor Cannabis, also known as marijuana or marihuana, or ganja (from Hindi / Sanskrit: गांजा gānjā hemp) is a See also Public indecency, Exhibitionism Indecent exposure is the deliberate exposure by a person of a portion or portions of his or her own body under Talman returned to the show after all charges against him were dropped.
Not known to many is the fact that Burger did actually defeat Mason twice on the television series—once in "The Case of the Terrified Typist" and again in "The Case of the Deadly Verdict. " In addition, in "The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe," Burger figured out the true culprit (after some nudging in the right direction by Perry). In the TV series the closest Burger has to having Perry Mason "arrested" is when he has Mason cited for causing a trash fire within city limits {Part of Mason's plan to free an innocent client}!
Trivia
- On The Red Green Show episode The Real Estate Project, Red, Harold, and Winston were in the "Ask the Experts" scene, and Harold describes how the district attorney on the show never won a case. The Red Green Show is a Television Comedy that aired on CBC Television in Canada and on PBS in the United States Red said his name was "Ham" burger, Harold then said "no, it's true," Red then said that that was his name.
References
Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933), and about eighty more novels by this author.
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