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Phyllis Coates
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Actor Born: 1925 in Odessa, TX Biography:Born on her family's cattle ranch in Texas, American actress "Phyllis Coates" left home to attend UCLA. Shortly afterward she secured a dancing job with Ken Murray's Blackouts, a long-running LA-based stage review. She later danced for producer "Earl Carroll" and in a USO tour of Anything Goes. Through the auspices of her first husband, director "Richard Bare", Phyllis entered films in 1948 as leading lady of Warner Bros.' "Behind the Eight-Ball" short subjects series, playing Mrs. Joe McDoakes ("George O'Hanlon"). Coates stayed with the "Eight-Ball" series even after her marriage to Bare ended, and also appeared in supporting parts in such Warners features as "Look for the Silver Lining" (1949). In 1951, Coates was cast as reporter Lois Lane in Lippert Productions' "B"-feature "Superman and the Mole Men", wherein "George Reeves" played the dual role of Superman and Clark Kent for the first time.... Full Biography
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