Jack Edward Larson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jack Larson was raised in Pasadena, California, and attended Pasadena Junior College (by coincidence, exactly like his Adventures of Superman (1952) co-star George Reeves). He was a contract player at Warner Bros. Typecast as Jimmy Olsen, Larson found it virtually impossible to get other acting roles after the series went off the air and retired ...
[on being best known for playing Jimmy Olsen in Adventures of Superman (1952)] I feel completely at peace with that. You are blessed in life if you can give people pleasure and happiness. That's all I've ever tried to do with my work. If I've learned anything from my career, it's that you don't really know the value of what you're doing. So, you had better do your best with whatever is at hand. You never know what will outlive you.
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[Why he hasn't gone to fan events since a 1988 Cleveland celebration of the 50th anniversary of Adventures of Superman (1952)] . . . thousands of people [were] coming at us with pictures to autograph and Sharpie pens. And I had this beautiful white linen suit from Venice, made at the Piazza San Marco. The best cleaners in Brentwood couldn't get the ink stains out of that suit.
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He is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.
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Larson had a dog named Max.
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His father was born in Colorado, of Swedish and English descent. His mother was born in Ohio, to a Russian Jewish father, Nathan Calicoff, and a German Jewish mother, Theresa Allenberg.
In 2006, he told The New York Times that he quit acting in 1961 on the advice of his then-boyfriend Montgomery Clift. Larson had gone to an audition for producer Mervyn LeRoy, who had rejected Larson right away because he had played Jimmy Olsen. Clift counseled Larson not to put himself in that situation any longer, so Larson concentrated instead on producing and writing, becoming the first playwright to win a Rockefeller Foundation grant.
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He was a contract player at Warner Brothers.
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Like George Reeves, Larson claimed that he did not want to do the role of Jimmy Olsen in the Adventures of Superman (1952) television series. His agent told him to do the role, take the money and that it would probably never be seen.
Was the life-partner of writer/director James Bridges of Urban Cowboy (1980) and The China Syndrome (1979) fame. Their relationship lasted over thirty years until Bridges' death in 1993.
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Participates in a UCLA scholarship program established in the name of his life partner, the late writer/director James Bridges, for young directors.
Famed as Jimmy Olsen on TV's Adventures of Superman (1952), he is also a well-respected playwright and opera librettist whose collaborators include Virgil Thomson.
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