- George Reeves
George Reeves (January 5, 1914 - June 16, 1959) was an American actor, best known for his role as Superman in the 1950s television program "Adventures of Superman" and his controversial death at the age of 45. - Noel Neill
Noel Neill (born November 25, 1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American actress. She has played Lois Lane, or characters "connected" with Lois Lane, in more venues and instances than any other actress. *She first played the role in the 1948 and 1950 Saturday movie serials with Kirk Alyn playing Clark Kent/Superman. *She continued to play the role in the television program "Adventures of Superman" (from the second season on) opposite George Reeves. - Jack Larson
Jack Edward Larson (born February 8, 1928 in Los Angeles), graduated from Montebello High School in 1945, is an American actor, librettist, screenwriter and producer. He was raised in Pasadena, California. He is best known for his portrayal of Jimmy Olsen in the TV series "Adventures of Superman". He has said that he found the role of the cub reporter to be a handicap due to its typecasting of him. He has not done much acting since then, … - Dan Jurgens
Dan Jurgens (born June 27, 1959) is an American writer and artist of comic books. He is best known for creating the superhero Booster Gold, and for his lengthy runs on the "Superman" titles "Adventures of Superman" and Superman (vol. 2), particularly during "The Death of Superman" storyline. Other series he has been associated with include "The Sensational Spider-Man" (Vol. 1), "Thor" (vol. - Phyllis Coates
Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell on January 15, 1927 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American actress. After finishing high school she went to Los Angeles to study at UCLA. However, a chance meeting with entertainner Ken Murray in a Hollywood restaurant resulted in her working in his vaudeville show as a chorus girl. She later performed as one of Earl Carroll's showgirls at his Earl Carroll Theatre. - Jerry Ordway
Jerry Ordway (born November 28, 1957) is an American writer, penciller and inker of comic books best known for his work on DC Comics' "All-Star Squadron", "Infinity Inc.", "Adventures of Superman", Superman, and "The Power of Shazam!" starring Captain Marvel. He inked George Perez's pencils on the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" minseries in 1985. As a writer he has worked on "Adventures of Superman", … - John Hamilton
John Hamilton (January 16, 1886 - October 15, 1958) was an American actor, who appeared in many movies and television programs. He is probably best remembered for his role as the blustery newspaper editor Perry White on the 1950s television program "Adventures of Superman". - Joe Casey
Joe Casey is an American comic book writer. He has worked on titles such as "Wildcats 3.0", "Uncanny X-Men", "The Intimates", "Adventures of Superman", and "G.I. Joe: America's Elite", among others. During Joe Casey's run at Marvel Comics people started to recognize his talent as a writer, especially in regard to his work on the book "Cable". He took the story in a totally different direction then had been previously established. - Robert Shayne
Robert Shayne (October 4, 1900 - November 29, 1992) was an American actor. He was born Robert Shaen Dawe. He played many character roles in movies and television, but he is best remembered for his portrayal of the recurring character Police Inspector William "Bill" Henderson, on the 1950s TV series, "Adventures of Superman". He appeared sporadically in the early episodes of the series. As the program evolved, especially in the color episodes, … - Tom Grummett
Thomas "Tom" Grummett is a Canadian comic book artist and penciller. He is best known for his work as penciller on titles such as "The New Titans", "Adventures of Superman", "Superboy", "Power Company", "Robin" and "New Thunderbolts". He, along with writer Karl Kesel, created the new Superboy in "Adventures of Superman" #501 in 1993. He is currently the regular penciller on "New Thunderbolts", … - Mort Weisinger
Mortimer Weisinger (1915-1978) was an American magazine and comic book editor. He is most famous as the editor of the Superman line of comic books for DC Comics during the Silver age of comic books. He also co-created such long-running features as Aquaman and Green Arrow, as well as Johnny Quick, served as story editor for "Adventures of Superman" television series, and compiled the often-revised paperback "1001 Valuable Things You Can Get Free". - Yanick Paquette
Yanick Paquette is a penciller in North American comics. He has worked for Antarctic Press, Topps, DC Comics and Marvel Comics since 1994. Among the titles he has worked on are: Checklist: "ABC A-Z", "Adventures of Superman", "Areala Warrior Nun", "Avengers", "Codename Knock-Out", "Gambit", "Gen¹³", "JLA", "Negation", "Power Company", "Space: Above And Beyond", … - Dabbs Greer
Robert William "Dabbs" Greer) was an American character actor who performed many diverse supporting roles in film and television for about 50 years. Greer, a Missouri native, died April 28, 2007 at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena California after a battle with kidney and heart disease. Greer was born in Fairview, Missouri and attended Drury University, where he was a member of Theta Kappa Nu. His Southern voice fitted well in shows featuring rustic characters, … - Doris Singleton
Doris Singleton (born September 28, 1919) is an American actress who is best remembered as Lucy Ricardo's nearsighted neighbor, Caroline Appleby, on "I Love Lucy". During her long and distinguished career, Doris also guest starred on several other television shows including "Angel", "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Hogan's Heroes". - Pierre Watkin
Pierre Watkin (born 29 December 1889 in Sioux City, Iowa - died 3 February 1960 in Hollywood, California) was an American actor. He was a character actor in many films and TV series from the 1930s through the 1950s, especially westerns. He is perhaps best remembered for his connection to the serial and TV versions of "Superman". He played Perry White in both of the "Superman" serials of the late-1940s, … - Jeff Corey
Jeff Corey (August 10, 1914 - August 16, 2002) was an American stage and screen actor who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. After a Shakespearean stint in New York in the late 1930s, Corey made the move to Hollywood in 1940, where he became a highly respected character actor. One of his early TV appearances was in the pilot for "Adventures of Superman", … - Christina Weir
Christina Weir is a writer of comic books and television. She writes with her husband, Nunzio DeFilippis, whom she met while they were both students at Vassar College. The two have written for two seasons on HBO's "Arli$$", and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel's "Kim Possible". In comics, they have written several graphic novels and miniseries for independent publisher Oni Press, including "Skinwalker, Three Strikes, Maria's Wedding, The Tomb, … - Nunzio Defilippis
Nunzio DeFilippis is an American writer of comic books and television. He writes with his wife, Christina Weir, whom he met while they were both students at Vassar College. The two have written for two seasons on HBO's "Arli$$", and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel's "Kim Possible". In comics, they have written several graphic novels and miniseries for independent publisher Oni Press, including "Skinwalker, Three Strikes, Maria's Wedding, … - Ben Welden
Ben Welden (1901-1997) was an American actor who starred mostly in various comedic movies and television shows. He appeared in a large number of films and TV shows during his career. Short, balding and somewhat rotund, he often literally played a "heavy", frequently in a somewhat comical or slightly dim-witted way, offsetting the sinister nature of his character's actions. Fans of "Adventures of Superman" remember him well, as he appeared in eight episodes, … - Hugh Beaumont
Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor, television director, and ordained Methodist minister. He is best known for his portrayal of the character Ward Cleaver on the popular TV series "Leave It to Beaver" from 1957 to 1963. Beaumont was born in Lawrence, Kansas, to Ethel Adaline Whitney and Edward H. Beaumont, a little over three months after the couple married. After graduating from high school, he attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, … - Lew Landers
Lew Landers (January 2, 1901-December 16, 1962) was probably one of the American film industry's most prolific directors. He began making films in the 1930s, one of his first was the Boris Karloff/Bela Lugosi film "The Raven" (1935). Landers directed many different kinds of movies including Westerns, comedy and horror films. He worked for every major film studio during his over 150 films. - Bill Kennedy
Willard "Bill" Kennedy was an American actor, voice artist, and host of the long-running Detroit based television show "Bill Kennedy at the Movies." Kennedy's voice is heard doing the opening narration of the television series "Adventures of Superman." Kennedy had been a Warner Bros. contract player in the 1940s and appeared in dozens of Hollywood movies from 1941 through 1955. He was often cast as a police officer or detective. - Denver Pyle
Denver Dell Pyle was an American film and television actor. - Herb Vigran
Herbert "Herb" Vigran (June 5, 1910, Cincinnati, Ohio - November 29, 1986, Los Angeles, California) was a well known character actor in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1980s. Vigran's family moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana where he grew up. He graduated with a law degree from Indiana University Law School but later chose to pursue acting. After starting out on Broadway, he soon moved to Hollywood and performed in radio shows with the likes of Jack Benny, … - Billy Curtis
Billy Curtis (1909-1988) was an American film and television actor. He was a dwarf who had a 50-year career in a variety of roles. He was born on 27 June 1909 in Springfield, Massachusetts and died 9 November 1988 in Dayton, Nevada of a heart attack. According to the IMDb site, his birth name was Luigi Curto, and his height was 4 feet 2 inches (1.27 meters). The bulk of his work was in the western and science fiction genres. - Vic Perrin
Vic Perrin (April 26, 1916 - July 4, 1989) was an American actor and voice artist. He is best remembered as the "Control Voice" in the original version of the TV series "The Outer Limits" (1963 - 1965). During the 1940s and 1950s, Perrin was a regular performer on old-time radio, appearing in many shows. He was a regular guest star on the radio version of Gunsmoke and wrote at least one script for that show. - Persuader
The Persuader is name of two fictional characters featured in comic books published by DC Comics. Nyeun Chun Ti first appeared in "Adventure Comics" #352 (January 1967), and was created by Jim Shooter and Curt Swan. Cole Parker first appeared in "Adventures of Superman" #598 (January 2002), and was created by Joe Casey and Pete Woods. - Harry W. Gerstad
Harry W. Gerstad (June 11, 1909 - July 17, 2002) was a film editor who sometimes directed films. The Academy Award-winning editor also worked on television. He edited as well as directed for the 1950s program "Adventures of Superman". In the 1960s he worked for Bing Crosby productions and Batjac Productions. Gerstad retired to Palm Springs, Florida in 1973. Gerstad's editing work included films "The Spiral Staircase" (1946), "Crossfire" (1947), … - Peter Brocco
Peter Brocco (January 16, 1903 - December 20, 1992) was an American film and TV character actor for nearly 60 years. He appeared as a criminal type in several episodes of "Adventures of Superman". He holds the distinction of having been killed off in two of them, a relative rarity for villains in the series. In the first, "The Secret of Superman", he deduces that Kent is Superman, but is killed in a police shootout soon after. - Claude Akins
Claude Marion Akins was an American actor (born May 25, 1926, in Nelson, Georgia - died January 27, 1994, in Altadena, California). Powerful in appearance and voice, Akins could be counted on to play the clever (or less than clever) tough guy, on the side of good or bad, in movies and television. He is best remembered as Sheriff Lobo in the 1970s TV series "B.J. and the Bear", and later "The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo", a spinoff series. - John Banner
John Banner (January 28, 1910, (Vienna) - January 28, 1973, (Vienna)) was a Jewish Austrian actor. Ironically, he is best known for his role as a World War II German soldier, the comedic Sgt. Hans Schultz on the television situation comedy "Hogan's Heroes". On this show, he had this famous saying "I know nothing! Nothing!" Banner was born in Vienna, Austria. - Leon Askin
Leon Askin was an Austrian actor. Askin was born Leon Aschkenasy into a Jewish family in Vienna, the son of Malvine (Susman) and Samuel Aschkenazy. Askin already wanted to be an actor as a child. His dream came true, and in the 1930s he worked as a cabaret artist and director at the "ABC Theatre" in Vienna: in this position he also helped the career of the writer Jura Soyfer get off the ground in 1935. - Elisha Cook Jr.
Character actor Elisha Vanslyck Cook, Jr. (born December 26, 1903 in San Francisco, California, USA, died May 18, 1995 in Big Pine, California) made a career playing cowardly villains and neurotics, earning the nickname "Hollywood's lightest heavy." Cook started out in vaudeville and then became a Broadway actor. In 1936 he settled in Hollywood and, after playing a series of college-aged parts, began a long stint playing weaklings or sadistic loser-hoods. - Billy Gray
Billy Gray (born January 131938 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor best known as a child actor during the 1950s. He was frequently seen in film and television in the 1950s. One early memorable role was as the boy who is befriended by the alien (Michael Rennie) in the 1951 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still". He appeared in an episode of "Adventures of Superman" called "Shot in the Dark", filmed in 1953. - Jonathan Hale
Jonathan Hale (March 21, 1891 - February 28, 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor. He committed suicide in 1966. He was well known as Dagwood Bumstead's boss, Julius Caesar Dithers, in the "Blondie" film series in the 1940s. Fans of the TV series "Adventures of Superman" remember Hale for key roles in two different episodes: *"The Evil Three", in which a he played a murderous "Southern Colonel"-type character *"Panic in the Sky", … - Robert H. Justman
Robert H. Justman (born 1926) has worked in Hollywood as a producer, director, production manager, assistant director, and production assistant since the early 1950s. He has worked on many television series including "Lassie", "The Life of Riley", "Adventures of Superman", "The Outer Limits", "Then Came Bronson", "Mission: Impossible" and many others. He was one of the pioneers behind "Star Trek", … - Trevor Bardette
Trevor Bardette (19 November 1902 - 28 November 1977) was an American film actor. He was born in Nashville, Arkansas. He made over 172 movies and seventy-two TV appearances in his career. He had a couple of memorable episodes in "Adventures of Superman". In the 1951 show, "The Human Bomb", he played the sinister title character. In the 1954 episode, "Great Caesar's Ghost", he again played the title character, or more accurately, … - Allene Roberts
Allene Roberts (born September 1, 1928) was born in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. She starred in twelve movies between 1947 and 1954 and appeared on TV in "Four Star Theater", "Adventures of Superman" and "Dragnet". She now resides in Huntsville, Alabama. - Robert Leslie Bellem
Robert Leslie Bellem was a prolific American pulp magazine writer, best known for his creation of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. He was born in either 1894 or 1902, and died in 1968. Before becoming a writer he worked in Los Angeles as a newspaper reporter, radio announcer and film extra. After the demise of the pulps, Bellem switched to writing for television, including a number of scripts for "The Lone Ranger", "The Adventures of Superman" (1950s version), … - Lois Hall
Lois Hall born 22 August 1926 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota; died 21 December 2006 in Los Angeles, California. Hall's previous television appearances include "Studio One", "The Cisco Kid", "The Lone Ranger", "Adventures of Superman", "Marcus Welby, M.D.", the penultimate episode of "Little House on the Prairie" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
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