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Santa Monica, California, US. Occupation (s) Film and television actor. Years active. 1939–1977. Spouse. Vera Duke [1] (m. 1948) Tristram Chockley Coffin [2] (August 13, 1909 – March 26, 1990) was a former film and television actor from the latter 1930s through the 1970s, usually in Westerns or other B-movie action- adventure productions.
Apr 1, 1990 · Tris Coffin, a character actor and sometimes leading man who appeared in literally hundreds of low budget Westerns, movie serials and television shows, died Monday, his wife, Vera, said.
Suave and dapper, Tristram Coffin was one of the best dressed and handsomest heavies to work in westerns. In a Hollywood career spanning over 30 years, Coffin’s work ran the gamut of all film genres—he even got to be the hero in Republic’s “King of the Rocketmen” serial and TV’s “26 Men” (‘57-‘59) which co-starred Kelo Henderson who remembers Tris as “an accomplished ...
Tristram Chalkley Coffin was born August 13, 1909 in Mammoth, Juab County, Utah to Edwin and Elizabeth Christie Coffin. Father Edwin C. Coffin was a silver mine Superintendent, Secretary Treasurer of a coal company, and later, a hardware manufacturer's rep. Tris' uncle was Pulitzer Prize winning poet and writer Robert Peter Tristram Coffin (1892 - 1955).
Tristram Coffin. Actor: King of the Rocket Men. Tristram Coffin was born in a Utah mining community, grew up in Salt Lake City, and started acting while in high school. He later continued acting with traveling stock companies. Having earned a degree in speech at the University of Washington, he worked as a news analyst and sportscaster until a ...
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Tristram Coffin. Actor: King of the Rocket Men. Tristram Coffin was born in a Utah mining community, grew up in Salt Lake City, and started acting while in high school. He later continued acting with traveling stock companies. Having earned a degree in speech at the University of Washington, he worked as a news analyst and sportscaster until a Hollywood talent scout approached him with the ...
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By 1939, the tall, silver-mustached Coffin was well on his way to becoming one of the screen's most prolific character actors. Generally cast as crooked lawyers, shifty business executives, and gang bosses in B-pictures, Coffin projected a pleasanter image in A-films, where he often played soft-spoken doctors and educators.
