Weblike eugene o'neill's father doomed to playing the count of monte cristo for much of his professional career, raymond burr may well have felt suffocated by the. Webraymond burr, who began his dramatic career portraying an unsavory assortment of hoodlums, killers and villains, and climaxed it as the legendary attorney. Webrear window is a 1954 american mystery thriller film directed by alfred hitchcock and written by john michael hayes based on cornell woolrich 's 1942 short story it had to.

Raymond burr's more memorable roles in higher profile films included the lawyer in a place in the sun (1951) with montgomery clift and.