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RIP Superman’s first TV Lois Lane Phyllis Coates
Phyllis Coates, who played Lois Lane for the first season of George Reeves’ Superman in the 50s, has died aged 96. Coates played Lois in Superman vs the Mole Men […]
Phyllis Coates, who played Lois Lane for the first season of George Reeves’ Superman in the 50s, has died aged 96.
Coates played Lois in Superman vs the Mole Men for the cinema and was persuaded to sign up for the TV version; however she refused to return for the second year, and was replaced by Noel Neill. Coates returned to the Superman universe for the 90s series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in which she played Lois’ mother.
Her other genre work included a 1955 episode of Science Fiction Theater, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, and The Incredible Petrified World.
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