Sharon Acker, Actress in 'Point Blank' and 'Perry Mason,' Dies at 87

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Hollywood Reporter (via msn)

Story by Mike Barnes • 3h ago

Sharon Acker, the Canadian actress who portrayed Lee Marvin’s unfaithful wife in the 1967 neo-noir classic Point Blank and the right-hand woman Della Street opposite Monte Markham on a rebooted Perry Mason in the 1970s, has died. She was 87.

Acker died March 16 in a retirement home in her native Toronto, her daughter Kim Everest, a casting director, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Star Trek fans know Acker for her January 1969 turn as Odona, a desperate woman from an overpopulated planet, on the third-season episode “The Mark of Gideon.”

She also starred on a 1976-77 CBS adaptation of Executive Suite, playing the wife of Mitchell Ryan‘s Dan Walling. (Acker and Ryan assumed the parts performed by William Holden and June Allyson in the 1954 MGM film directed by Robert Wise.)



Sharon Acker with Lee Marvin in 1967’s ‘Point Blank’
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[ZonkerHarris]

1. RIP

[Tikki]

2. One of the young 70's TV and movie actresses I enjoyed so much.

rip...dear lady.

I realize she had a much longer career, but as a young housewife in the 70'S I loved
the shows with actresses I would see often.

One thing I remember about Sharon Acker was her chestnut colored hair.

I guess she had different hair colors for different roles...but her chestnut color was the best.


Tikki

[elleng]

3. Della Street!

Watched an episode of Perry Mason this week. She's so RATIONAL!

[FormerOstrich]

4. Barbara Hale

Barbara Hale is Della Street. I don't think I am aware of the "rebooted Perry Mason" from the '70s. I am a huge Perry Mason fan.

Not to distract from Sharon Acker....