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Kirk Alyn. Actor: Daughter of Don Q. Starting his show business career as a chorus boy on Broadway and an entertainer in vaudeville, Kirk Alyn played bit parts and minor supporting roles in several low-budget films before getting his big break playing the title role in the serial Superman (1948).
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- Oxford, New Jersey, USA
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- The Woodlands, Texas, USA
Browse 56 kirk alyn photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. Kirk Alyn is the young man who won the pretty singer known as Hollywood's "dead pan." Virginia first won fame as one of the stars in "Meet the...
Kirk Alyn (born John Feggo Jr.; October 8, 1910 – March 14, 1999) was an American actor, best known for being the first actor to play the DC Comics character Superman in live-action for the 1948 movie serial Superman and its 1950 sequel Atom Man vs. Superman, as well as fellow DC Comics characters Blackhawk from the Blackhawk movie serial in 1952, and Lois Lane's father Sam Lane in 1978's ...
May 5, 2020 · So here’s a reminder about film’s first Superman, Kirk Alyn. Kirk Alyn portrayed the Man of Steel in two 15-part movie serials in 1948 and 1950. Columbia Pictures hired him because he looked like Superman’s mild-mannered, comic book alter ego, Clark Kent, and had dance training that helped him to dive out of windows and leap over cameras.
Kirk Alyn. Actor: Radar Patrol vs. Spy King. Starting his show business career as a chorus boy on Broadway and an entertainer in vaudeville, Kirk Alyn played bit parts and minor supporting roles in several low-budget films before getting his big break playing the title role in the serial Superman (1948). He wasn't able to sustain a film career after the serial ended, however, and after small ...
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- March 14, 1999
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Mar 20, 1999 · Kirk Alyn, a dancer and B-movie actor whose muscular physique won him the first film role of Superman in the 1940's, died on Sunday in a hospital near his home in the Woodlands, Tex., just north ...
