Murray Hamilton played a nightclub owner "very friendly" with a "dame" with a twist in the first season of Perry Mason.
Murray Hamilton and fellow guest star Constance Ford were both 34 at the time this was filmed. Perry Mason, season 1, episode 24, "The Case of the Deadly Double" first aired March 1, 1958.
Murray Hamilton does his usual: wears a suit and tie, sits at a desk, smokes, looks awkward with a woman, retains his dignity being shorter than the other men, tries to cover his Southern accent and fails, makes those expressions you know from other performances, and has great hair.
This being Perry Mason, Murray gets to do some courtroom drama, before he did "Anatomy of a Murder"
My favorite Murray Hamilton character performance being in "The Drowning Pool," I felt it here:
His "Graduate" style outburst, nearly a decade before:
