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Kirk Alyn is a Actor American born on 8 october 1910
Kirk Alyn (October 8, 1910 – March 14, 1999) was an American actor, best known for being the first actor to play the DC Comics character Superman on screen in the 1948 film serial Superman, and its 1950 sequel Atom Man vs. Superman.
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Birth name John Feggo, Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 8 october 1910
Death 14 march 1999 (at 88 years) at The Woodlands (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 8 october 1910
Death 14 march 1999 (at 88 years) at The Woodlands (USA)
Biography
When he first went to Hollywood, Alyn met another dancer/actress, Virginia O'Brien. They were married in 1942, and had one son and two daughters. They were divorced in 1955.Usually with
Filmography of Kirk Alyn (24 films)
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Scalps (1983)
, 1h22Directed by Fred Olen Ray
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Kirk Alyn, Carroll Borland, Forrest J Ackerman
Roles Prof. Manchen
Rating39%
Six college archeology students work on a dig in the California desert, despite the warnings of a professor and the town drunk. When the group digs around in an Indian burial ground for artifacts, they unleash the evil spirit of Black Claw. The spirit possesses one of the group and begins slaughtering them one by one.
Superman (1978)
, 2h17Directed by Richard Donner, John Glen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Time travel films, Superman films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Ned Beatty
Roles Sam Lane (uncredited)
Rating73%
On the planet Krypton, using evidence provided by scientist Jor-El, the Ruling Council sentences three attempted insurrectionists, General Zod, Ursa, and Non, to "eternal living death" in the Phantom Zone. Despite his eminence, Jor-El is unable to convince the Council of his belief that Krypton will soon be destroyed when its sun explodes. To save his infant son, Kal-El, Jor-El launches a spacecraft containing him toward Earth, a distant planet with a suitable atmosphere, and where Kal-El's dense molecular structure will give him superhuman powers. Shortly after the launch, Krypton is destroyed.
No Time to Be Young (1957)
, 1h22Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Robert Vaughn, Roger Smith, Tom Pittman, Merry Anders, Kirk Alyn, Joanna Barnes
Roles Mike
Rating58%
Beginning of the End (1957)
, 1h16Directed by Bert I. Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Natural horror films, Films about insects, Giant monster films, Musical films, Disaster films
Actors Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Richard Benedict, James Seay, Than Wyenn
Roles Bomber Pilot
Rating39%
The film opens with newspaper photojournalist Audrey Aimes (Castle) accidentally stumbling upon a small town in Illinois which has been inexplicably destroyed. All 150 people in the town are missing, and the evidence indicates they are dead. Incredibly, the local fields are also barren, as if a swarm of locusts had eaten all the crops. Aimes suspects that the military is covering something up, and travels to a nearby United States Department of Agriculture experimental farm to learn what creature might have caused the agricultural destruction. She meets Dr. Ed Wainwright (Graves), who is experimenting with radiation as a means of growing gigantic fruits and vegetables to end world hunger. Dr. Wainwright reports that there have been a number of mysterious incidents nearby, and that locusts have eaten all the radioactive wheat stored in a nearby grain silo.
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
, 2h3Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Piano
Actors Kim Novak, Tyrone Power, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore, Shepperd Strudwick, Jack Albertson
Roles Young Man at Wadsworths' Party (uncredited)
Rating67%
Fresh out of pharmacy school, young Eddy Duchin travels to New York in the 1920s to take a job playing piano for bandleader Leo Reisman's orchestra. But upon arrival, Eddy learns there is no such job.
Blackhawk (1952)
, 4h2Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred F. Sears
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Kirk Alyn, John Crawford, Michael Fox, Carol Forman, Don C. Harvey, Rick Vallin
Roles Blackhawk
Rating61%
A flying squadron of World War II veterans, The International Brotherhood, is a private flying investigative force led by Blackhawk. They uncover a gang of underworld henchmen, led by the notorious foreign spy Laska, who reports to The Leader, a mystery man. During the a serial's 15 chapters, Blackhawk and his flying squadron set about bringing these criminals to justice.
When Worlds Collide (1951)
, 1h23Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Impact events in fiction, Space opera, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Larry Keating, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt, Rachel Ames
Roles Rioter Bringing Guns (uncredited)
Rating65%
Pilot David Randall is paid to fly top-secret photographs from South African astronomer Dr. Emery Bronson to Dr. Cole Hendron in the United States. Hendron, with the assistance of his daughter Joyce, confirms their worst fears: Bronson has discovered a rogue star named Bellus that is on a collision course with Earth.
Gambling House (1950)
, 1h20Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix, Cleo Moore, Ann Doran, Eleanor Audley
Roles FBI Man (uncredited)
Rating60%
A gangster, Joe Farrow, kills a man after a game of craps, then offers gambler Marc Fury a payment of $50,000 if he will take the rap and stand trial. Farrow tries to renege on the money, so Fury steals a ledger with information that could put Farrow behind bars.
Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)
, 4h12Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Films about children, Superman films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Kirk Alyn, Lyle Talbot, Noel Neill, Tommy Bond, Chuck Roberson, Pierre Watkin
Roles Superman, alias Clark Kent
Rating66%
Lex Luthor, the Atom Man, invents a number of deadly devices to plague the city, including a disintegrating machine which can reduce people to their basic atoms and reassemble them in another place. But Superman manages to thwart each scheme. Since Kryptonite can rob Superman of his powers, Luthor decides to create a synthetic Kryptonite and putters about obtaining the necessary ingredients: plutonium, radium and the undefined 'etc.' Luthor places the Kryptonite at the launching of a ship, with Superman in attendance. He is exposed to the Kryptonite and passes out. Superman is taken off in an ambulance driven by Luthor's henchmen, and he is now under the control of Luthor. Superman is placed in a device, a lever is pulled, and the Man of Steel vanishes into "The Empty Doom" (which bears a similarity to the Phantom Zone of the comic books). Most of chapter 7 is a repeat of the origin story from chapter 1 of Columbia's first "Superman" serial, and this serial also finds a way to work in stock footage from Ken Maynard's 1936 Avenging Waters (also directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet). The serial features several elements re-used in later Superman features: the Man of Steel is exposed to synthetic Kryptonite during a public function, as he is in the motion picture Superman III. When he escapes from "The Empty Doom", the headline of the Daily Planet proclaims: Superman Returns, the title of the 2006 Superman movie.
Directed by Fred C. Brannon
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Kirk Alyn, Roy Barcroft, Rosemary LaPlanche, Carol Forman, Tristram "Tris" Coffin
Roles Inspector David Worth
Rating55%
Nila, an Abistahnian criminal, and Spade Gordon, an American gangster, conspire to form a super-mob dubbed Underworld, Incorporated, funded by the treasure of Kurigal I of Abistahn, instructions for the location of which are contained in hieroglyphics written on two golden statues in the shape of hands, found in Kurigal's tomb. When the professor in charge of the tomb's dig disappears under mysterious circumstances while translating the writing on one of the hands back at his American office, a team of special government agents led by David Worth and his aide Steve Evans, assisted by the professor's aide Laura Keith, set out to find the professor and the now-missing hands.
Radar Patrol vs. Spy King (1949)
Directed by Fred C. Brannon
Origin USA
Genres Action, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Kirk Alyn, George J. Lewis, Anthony Warde, Tristram "Tris" Coffin, John Crawford
Roles Chris Calvert
Rating52%
John Baroda, a neo-Nazi and his alter ego, The Spy King and his aide Nitra, are part of a sabotaging team for a vast defense system of radar stations along the US borders. Radar Defense Bureau operative Chris Calvert comes to the rescue of radar scientist, Joan Hughes, who has been kidnapped by Baroda's henchmen...
The Three Musketeers (1948)
, 2h5Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Gene Kelly, Van Heflin, June Allyson, Vincent Price, Lana Turner, Angela Lansbury
Roles Aramis' Friend (uncredited)
Rating70%
D'Artagnan (Gene Kelly), an inexperienced Gascon youth, travels to Paris to join the elite King's Musketeers. On his way, he encounters a mysterious lady at a roadside inn. When he picks a fight with one of her escorts, she becomes suspicious and has him knocked unconscious. His letter of introduction from his father to de Treville (Reginald Owen), the commander of the Musketeers, is burned. When he awakens, he continues on to the city.
Superman (1948)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr
Genres Science fiction, Action, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about children, Films about journalists, Superman films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Carol Forman, Tommy Bond, Forrest Taylor, George Meeker
Roles Superman, alias Clark Kent
Rating67%
Superman is sent to Earth by his parents just as the planet Krypton blows up and is later raised as Clark Kent by a farm couple. They discover that he has great powers so they send him off to use his powers to help those in need. After his foster parents die, the Man of Steel heads to Metropolis under the bespectacled guise of Kent and joins the staff of the Daily Planet in order to be close to the news. Soon after he is sent out to get the scoop on a new rock that a man has found that he calls Kryptonite and Clark passes out, the director thinks that he died but when he sat up, he was wrong. Then and there Superman discovered that his weakness is Kryptonite. Whenever emergencies happen, he responds in his true identity as Superman. This first serial revolves around the nefarious plot of a villain who calls herself the Spider Lady.
Daughter of Don Q (1946)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Lorna Gray, Kirk Alyn, LeRoy Mason, Roy Barcroft, Eddie Parker, Tom Steele
Roles Cliff Roberts
Rating65%
Delores Quantero is the descendant of Zorro-style hero, Don Quantero, who was granted land by the Spanish crown. This grant, which is still legally valid, now covers the business district of the city. Another descendant, Carlos Manning, has discovered the existence of this document and plots to inherit the fortune by murdering his relatives.
The Time of Their Lives (1946)
, 1h22Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Ghost films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Gale Sondergaard, Binnie Barnes, Ann Gillis
Roles Dandy at Party (uncredited)
Rating75%
The time is 1780, and Horatio Prim (Lou Costello) is a master tinker. He travels to the estate of Tom Danbury (Jess Barker) with a letter of commendation from General George Washington. He plans to present this letter to Danbury, hoping it will persuade the wealthy man to let Horatio marry Nora O'Leary (Anne Gillis), Danbury's housemaid. Unfortunately, Horatio has a romantic rival in Cuthbert Greenway (Bud Abbott), Danbury's butler, who is very fond of Nora and intends to prevent Horatio from presenting his letter, which Nora has taken for safekeeping.