Jack Larson

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Jack Larson (born February 8, 1928 in Los Angeles , † September 20, 2015 in Brentwood , Los Angeles) was an American actor , film producer and author .

Life

Jack Larson (2013)

His parents were Anita Calicoff Larson and George Larson. Larson attended Montebello High School in California. As a schoolboy he got a studio contract with Warner Brothers , later he was part of the US Marines as a sailor. He has worked as a theater and film actor in various film, television and theater roles in the United States. A wide audience, he was in the television series The Adventures of Superman (dt. Superman - knight in shining armor ) from the 1950s known in the Larson the part of Jimmy Olsen took over. In the 2006 Superman film Superman Returns he had a cameo appearance as the bartender Bo.

In later years he mainly worked as a playwright and was able to build a successful second career. The composer Virgil Thomson commissioned Larson to write the libretto for his opera Lord Byron , which debuted at the Juilliard Theater in New York in 1972.

His life partner until his death was the American film director and screenwriter James Bridges (1936-1993), whom he met in 1957 while filming Johnny Trouble . They worked together on several film projects. Previously, Larson had been the partner of Montgomery Clift at times . Larson died in September 2015 at the age of 87 in his Los Angeles home, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939 .

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

  • 1948: Fighter Squadron - Lieutenant 'Shorty' Kirk
  • 1949: Flame of Youth - boy
  • 1950: Redwood Forest Trail - Tommy
  • 1950: A Wonderful Life (short film) - Richard Wood (aged 16)
  • 1950: Trial Without Jury - Dusty
  • 1951: Fighting Coast Guard - Newsboy
  • 1951: On the Loose - Charleston Bit
  • 1951: Starlift - Will
  • 1952: Kid Monk Baroni - Angelo
  • 1952: In the dozen nubile (Belles on Their Toes) - Packy Talbot
  • 1952: Battle Zone Pacific - Cpl. James O'Doole
  • 1952: Sturmgeschwader Komet (Flat Top) - Sailor
  • 1952: Superman ( Adventures of Superman ; TV series, 101 episodes) - Jimmy Olsen / Collins
  • 1953: Star of Texas - Henchman John Jenkins
  • 1953: Three Sailors and a Girl - Sailor
  • 1953: Man Crazy - Bob
  • 1954: Stamp Day for Superman (short film) - Jimmy Olsen
  • 1954: About Mrs. Leslie - Buddy Boyd
  • 1955–1957: Navy Log (TV series, 4 episodes) - Gordon / Freddie / John Crawford / Herbie
  • 1957: Johnny Trouble - Eddie Landis
  • 1960: The Millionaire (1 episode) - Buzz
  • 1965: Gomer Pyle, USMC (1 episode) - Tommy
  • 1991: Superboy (1 episode) - Lou Lamont
  • 1996: Superman - The Adventures of Lois & Clark (1 episode) - older Jimmy Olsen
  • 2006: Superman Returns - Bo, the bartender
  • 2009: Bob's New Suit - Edward McIntyre
  • 2010: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 episode) - Dewey Butler
  • 2016: Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel - Uncle Jimmy Williamson (final film role)

As a producer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Go-Star-com: Jack Larson played "Jimmy Olsen" on the hit '50s TV show, The Adventures of Superman
  2. ↑ a b Justin Moyer: Jack Larson, gay actor tormented by Jimmy Olsen role on TV's 'Superman,' dead at 87. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Independent: Jack Larson: Actor who played Jimmy Olsen to George Reeves' Superman but gave up his career to write for the stage, September 25, 2015
  4. ^ New Documentary Shows Another Side to Montgomery Clift. September 22, 2018, accessed November 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Pathak, GS, Raj Bahadur Gour, Gopalkrishna Vijaivargiya, Mohamed Valiulla, KL Shrimali: Speech of Shri GS Pathak, Vice-President of India . In: Journal of The Indian Institute of Architects . July / September, 1974, ISSN  0019-4913 ( architexturez.net [accessed November 13, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Larson, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film actor and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 2015
Place of death Brentwood , Los Angeles