Jackie Kelk
| Jack Kelk | |
|---|---|
 Kelk in 1947. | |
| Born |
August 6, 1923 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died |
September 5, 2002 (aged 79) Rancho Mirage, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian |
| Years active | 1931–1960 |
Jackie Kelk (August 6, 1923 – September 5, 2002) was an American radio actor and stand-up comedian, best known as Homer Brown in The Aldrich Family and as the original voice of Jimmy Olsen on The Adventures of Superman.
Biography
He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1935, he co-starred as Prince Rudolph on Broadway opposite Montgomery Clift's Prince Peter and Mary Boland's Queen in Jubilee.
In the early 1940s, Kelk played Pete on the radio soap opera Mother of Mine.[1] He played Jimmy Olsen from 1940-1947 on the radio show The Adventures of Superman and Homer, best friend of Henry Aldrich on the teenage radio comedy THE ALDRICH FAMILY.
He starred as Young Mr. Bobbin in the NBC-TV sitcom and several other series including Leave it to Beaver and The Donna Reed Show. As a young child in the early 1930s he was part of the cast of an Our Gang imitation called Penrod playing a snobby bow-tied boy named "Georgie Bassett". This character "Penrod" was based on the Penrod books by Booth Tarkington.
He died in 2002 of a lung infection.
References
- ↑ "Thursday's Highlights" (PDF). Radio and Television Mirror 15 (2): 44. December 1940. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
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