Monday, November 9, 2015

Adventures of Superman (1952-1958 Series): Where are They Now?


Note: this post has been splintered off of DC Comics Live Action Actors 1950s-1960s – Where are They Now? in order to give it more expanded coverage. http://saneinsanities.blogspot.ca/2012/02/dc-comics-live-action-actors-1950s.html

* = Newly added name. Specific titles noted only for 2013-on. Information derived from the imdb. Characters in 3+ episodes and/or from the comics noted.

Bill Kennedy (Announcer): died in 1991.
George Reeves (Superman):
died in 1959.
John Hamilton (Perry White):
died in 1958.
Jack Larson (Jimmy Olson):
died in 2015; Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel (nd) in post-production; as Self: Pioneers of Television (1 episode 2013).
* Robert Shayne (Inspector Henderson):
died in 1992.
Phyllis Coates (first Lois Lane):
last known acting role in 1996; as Archival Material/Self in 2011.
Noel Neill (second Lois Lane):
last known acting role in 2006 but Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel (nd) in post-production; as Self, completed: Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story (2014).
Phil Tead (Prof. Pepperwinkle):
died in 1974.
Various Characters:
Ben Welden: died in 1997.
Herb Vigran:
died in 1986.
Richard Reeves:
died in 1967.
Billy Nelson:
died in 1979.
Pierre Watkin:
died in 1960.
Sid Tomack:
died in 1962.
Jack Littlefield:
died in 1991.
* Dan Seymour: died in 1993.
* Rick Vallin: died in 1977.
* Leonard Mudie: died in 1965.
* John Eldredge: died in 1961.
* John Phillips: last known acting role in 1991, then 1962 before that.
* Walter Reed: died in 2001.
* Richard Benedict: died in 1984.
* Sterling Holloway: died in 1992.
* Peter Brocco: died in 1992.
* Keith Richards: died in 1987.
* Peter Mamakos: died in 2008.
* John Doucette: died in 1994.
* Allene Roberts: last known acting role in 1957, as Self in 1995.
* Philip Van Zandt: died in 1958.
* Mauritz Hugo: died in 1974.
* Dick Elliott: died in 1961.
* Paul Burke: died in 2009.
* Jan Arvan: died in 1979.
* Frank Richards: died in 1992.
* John Harmon: died in 1985.
* John Kellogg: died in 2000.
* Ted Hecht: died in 1969.
* Paul Fix: died in 1983.
* Jack Daly: died in 1968.
* Rudolph Anders: died in 1987.
* Jack Narz: died in 2008.
* Milton Frome: died in 1989.
* Dabbs Greer: died in 2007.
* Selmer Jackson: died in 1971.
* Raymond Hatton: died in 1971.
* William Challee: died in 1989.
* Aline Towne (Lara, etc): died in 1996.
* George Khoury: died in 1983.
* Lane Bradford: died in 1973.
* George Chandler: died in 1985.
* Patrick Aherne: died in 1970.
* Lyn Thomas: died in 2004.
* Billy Curtis: died in 1988.
* Myron Healey: died in 2005.
* Stanley Andrews: died in 1969.
* Joey Ray: died in 1958.
* Jim Hayward: died in 1981.
Characters from the comics in first episode only:
* Ross Elliott (Jor-El): died in 1996.
* Frances Morris (Sarah Kent): died in 2003.
* Tom Fadden (Eben Kent): died in 1980.
* Jeffrey Silver (Teenaged Clark Kent): last known acting role in 1961.

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