The Perry Mason and Point Blank Star, Sharon Acker, Has Passed Away at the Age of 87

Canadian actress Sharon Acker, who played Della Street opposite Monte Markham in the 1970s Perry Mason remake as well as Lee Marvin’s cheating wife in the 1967 neo-noir classic Point Blank, has passed away. She lived to be 87 years old.

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Her daughter, casting director Kim Everest, informed The Hollywood Reporter that Acker passed away on March 16 in a retirement home in her hometown of Toronto.

In the Star Trek episode “The Mark of Gideon” from the third season, Acker played Odona, a desperate lady from an overpopulated planet, in January of 1969.

In a CBS remake of Executive Suite from 1976–1977, she played Dan Walling’s wife, likewise portrayed by Mitchell Ryan. (In the 1954 MGM film directed by Robert Wise, Acker and Ryan stepped into the roles originated by William Holden and June Allyson.)

In John Boorman’s Point Blank, after Acker’s character shoots Marvin’s Walker and leaves him for dead during a courier robbery on Alcatraz, Acker teams up with John Vernon’s Mal Reese. When Walker comes back for payback and his half of the wealth, he brutally assaults her and shoots up her bed.

CBS revived the Perry Mason series with Markham and Acker in 1973, seven years after the original series featuring Raymond Burr as the famous defense attorney and Barbara Hale as his faithful assistant ended after nine seasons. But, after only 15 episodes, it was discontinued.

Sharon Eileen Acker was born on April 2, 1935, in Toronto. She was adopted when she was 9 years old. She pursued art education at Northern Vocational School, Davisville Public School, and John Fisher Public School, from which she graduated in 1953.

She joined the Stratford Shakespeare Festival company in 1956, playing as Anne Page opposite future Star Trek co-star William Shatner in a performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor, and she played instructor Mrs. Stacey on a 1956 CBC rendition of Anne of Green Gables.

She made her film début with Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas in Lucky Jim (1957), shot in Europe, where she had previously performed with the Stratford company in Henry V. She was signed to a seven-year contract by British producers John and Ray Boulting, who found her “freshly alluring,” but she ended the relationship once she got married and had a child.

At home, she was a regular on the popular CBC series Festival, and in 1961 she played Lady MacDuff in Paul Almond’s five-part production of Macbeth, which also starred Sean Connery and Zoe Caldwell.

Boorman cast her in Point Blank, her first American role, after watching her on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She and Angie Dickinson, who played her sister in the film, modeled “Well-Dressed Moll Styles in Alcatraz” for the August 1967 issue of Life magazine to promote the film.

After that, she was welcomed as a guest star on shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation, Get Smart, It Takes a Thief, and the original series of The Wild Wild West.

In the Canadian drama Don’t Let the Angels Fall (1969), which was shown in competition at Cannes, Acker played a divorcee who had a brief affair with a businessman (Arthur Hill). She was named that year’s “Film Star of Future” by the Motion Picture Exhibitors of Canada.

In the 1970 NBC drama The Bold Ones: The Senator, she played the wife of Hal Holbrook’s idealistic character, Senator Hays Stowe.

Alias Smith and Jones, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Mod Squad, Marcus Welby, M.D., Cannon, Barnaby Jones, The Streets of San Francisco, The Rockford Files, Police Story, and Quincy, M.E. are just some of the television shows that Acker has appeared in.

Her final film was the 1981 horror flick Happy Birthday to Me, and her last television appearance was in 1992 on The Young and the Restless. After a successful acting career, she and her late second husband Peter Elkington moved back to Canada, where they shared a home in Muskoka, Ontario, where she could pursue her lifelong interest in painting and sculpture.

In 2001, Elkington passed away. Kim and Gillian, as well as grandchild Alexis, great-granddaughter Berkeley, and stepdaughters Kim and Caitlin, are among her surviving family members.

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