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Kirk Alyn

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American actor (1910-1999)

United StatesActorsLived 1910 to 1999 · aged 88
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Kirk Alyn 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.

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Alyn (right) and Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan in the film The Trap (1946).Alyn (right) and Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan in the film The Trap (1946).

Filmography 39

Superman1978 · ★ 7.2
When Worlds Collide1951 · ★ 6.4
The Three Musketeers1948 · ★ 6.8
Action in the North Atlantic1943 · ★ 7.1
You Were Never Lovelier1942 · ★ 7.1
A Guy Named Joe1944 · ★ 6.7
The Time of Their Lives1946 · ★ 7.1
The Eddy Duchin Story1956
Scalps1983
Beginning of the End1957
Superman1948
The Trap1946
Gambling House1950
Atom Man vs. Superman1950
Banning1967
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'1982
Fast and Loose1930
No Time to Be Young1957
Time Warp1981
Aerial Gunner1943
The Girl Who Dared1944
Blackhawk1952
Mystery Broadcast1943
Swing Shift Maisie1943
Lucky Jordan1942
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel1988
Forty Thieves1944
Private Lessons1934
Call of the Rockies1944
Radar Patrol vs. Spy King1949
Overland Mail Robbery1943
The Halloween Planet1981
Pistol Packin' Mama1943
Daughter of Don Q1946
Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc.1949
The Man from the Rio Grande1943
The Story of Superman1989
Little Miss Broadway1947
Superbman: The Other Movie1981

48 credits on file

Television 9

The Donna Reed Show1958
Battlestar Galactica1978
Naked City1958
Highway Patrol1955
Dennis the Menace1959
Superpowered: The DC Story2023
Lux Video Theatre1950
The Adventures of Kit Carson1951
Buffalo Bill Jr.1955

Awards 1

1974Inkpot Award

In their orbit 1

Connected to Kirk 6

Betty WrightAlso in Little Miss Broadway (1947)Dorothy DandridgeAlso in Lucky Jordan (1942)Frank MorganAlso in Fast and Loose (1930)Chester MorrisAlso in Aerial Gunner (1943)Anne JeffreysAlso in Overland Mail Robbery (1943)Peggie CastleAlso in Beginning of the End (1957)

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Kirk Alyn 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 Superman.

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Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1910 to 1999 · aged 88
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25 languages

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