Kirk Alyn
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Inkpot Award Award
Inkpot Award 1 won
- 1974 Inkpot Award Won
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Kirk Alyn (1910–1999) was an American actor, best known for being the first actor to play Superman in live-action in Superman serial and Atom Man vs. Superman as well as Blackhawk in the Blackhawk serial, and Sam Lane in Superman: The Movie.
Alyn started as a chorus boy for Broadway plays, appearing in notable musicals such as Girl Crazy, Of Thee I Sing, and Hellzapoppin' during the 1930s.
He also worked as a singer and dancer in vaudeville before relocating to Hollywood during the early 1940s to act for feature movies, but he was successful only in gaining bit parts for low-budget movies before obtaining the role of Superman in 1948. During World War II he served in the United States Navy.
Alyn also featured in movie serials, including Federal Agents Vs. Underworld Inc., Radar Patrol Vs. Spy King and Blackhawk. Alyn played Superman for the first live-action Superman movie serial, released in 1948. The serial consisted of 15 episodes which recounted Superman’s arrival on Earth, getting a job as a reporter at the Daily Planet newspaper, and meeting Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.
After playing Superman, he again suffered casting problems. Apart from featuring in some similar comic book-type serials, he had few roles in television series and movies, some even uncredited, until he retired.
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Filmography
Acting
43 credits
Naked City
Highway Patrol
Superman
Battlestar Galactica
Superpowered: The DC Story
Lux Video Theatre
The Three Musketeers
Action in the North Atlantic
When Worlds Collide
You Were Never Lovelier
The Eddy Duchin Story
The Time of Their Lives
Banning
A Guy Named Joe
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
The Trap
Superman
Swing Shift Maisie
Beginning of the End
No Time to Be Young
Gambling House
Lucky Jordan
Atom Man vs. Superman
Superbman: The Other Movie
Call of the Rockies
The Girl Who Dared
Scalps
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
Fast and Loose
Radar Patrol vs. Spy King
Overland Mail Robbery
Aerial Gunner
Forty Thieves
Little Miss Broadway
Daughter of Don Q
Mystery Broadcast
Pistol Packin' Mama
Blackhawk
The Halloween Planet
Private Lessons
The Man from the Rio Grande
The Story of Superman
Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc.
Other credits
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