Primetime Emmy winner · birth-card coordinate
Raymond Burr's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs
The Creative Messenger
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Emmy.
In the record
Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993) was a Canadian actor who had a lengthy Hollywood film career and portrayed the title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. The birth-card coordinate for May 21 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1959 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (Perry Mason); 1961 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (Perry Mason) win.
Primetime Emmy Lead record
- 1959 Lead performer (pre-genre split) — Perry Mason as Perry Mason (pre genre split)
- 1961 Lead performer (pre-genre split) — Perry Mason as Perry Mason (pre genre split)
The Jack of Clubs coordinate
Raymond Burr's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Emmy and not a verdict on Raymond Burr. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.
Raymond Burr in the public record
Burr's early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television, and film, usually as the villain. He portrayed the suspected murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rear Window (1954), and he also had a role in the 1956 film Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, which he reprised in the 1985 film Godzilla 1985. He won Emmy Awards for acting in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons (1957–1966) and reprised in a series of 26 Perry Mason TV movies (1985–1993). His second TV series, Ironside, earned him six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations. Burr died from liver cancer in 1993, and his personal life came into question, as many details of his biography appeared to be unverifiable.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Raymond Burr (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Raymond Burr's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♣ — Birth Card: The Creative Messenger
- 10♥ — Karma — Environment: The Community Heart
- J♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Successful Messenger
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 7♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Questioning Mind
- 9♦ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Universal Provider
- 8♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Emotional Powerhouse
- K♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Wealthy King
- 6♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Nurturing Creator
- 6♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Responsible Mind
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for J♣, 10♥, J♦, 7♠, 9♦, 8♥, K♦, 2♣, K♣, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 6♣, 6♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Emmy.
Other Emmy winners with this card
- Barbara Babcock — 1981 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Hill Street Blues)
- Barbara Bain — 1967 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Mission: Impossible); 1968 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Mission: Impossible); 1969 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Mission: Impossible)
- Debra Messing — 2003 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Will & Grace)
- Jean Smart — 2021 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Hacks); 2022 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Hacks); 2024 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Hacks); 2025 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Hacks)
- Ron Leibman — 1979 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Kaz)
- Sarah Jessica Parker — 2004 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Sex and the City)
- Tom Selleck — 1984 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Magnum, P.I.)
FAQ
- What is Raymond Burr's birth card?
- The Jack of Clubs. May 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Emmy?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Raymond Burr's dates come from?
- Birth date 1917-05-21 is the day-precision date on Raymond Burr's Wikipedia article infobox or lead, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Lead Actor/Actress wins come from the Primetime Emmy drama and comedy Wikipedia lists, which compile Television Academy (emmys.com) results. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Television Academy / Emmys (emmys.com) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Raymond Burr; winner list) + Wikidata CC0 (Q336877). Birth date 1917-05-21 is the Wikipedia day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).