Things You Didn’t Know About The Adventures Of Superman

Jack Larson Struggled to Find Work Following Superman’s Cancelation

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Jack Larson originally didn’t want to play the young newspaper reporter Jimmy Olsen in The Adventures of Superman because he feared the role would typecast him. However, he eventually took it on because his agent told him it would probably never be picked up and he would get a decent paycheck.

After the show was canceled, Larson struggled to find other acting roles, thus proving his original theory about being typecast. He eventually gave up acting and turned into a producer and playwright of The Candied House, Chuck, and The Astronaut’s Tale. He was also the first playwright to be awarded a grant by the Rockefeller Foundation.