Jack Larson Movies and Career Information

Jack Edward Larson (born February 8, 1928) is an American actor, librettist, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of photographer/cub reporter Jimmy Olsen on the TV series Adventures of Superman. He has at times claimed 1933 as his birth year. He was born in Los Angeles, California, was reared in Pasadena, and graduated from Montebello High School in 1945 at the age of seventeen. Larson has said that he found the role of the cub reporter to be a handicap due to its typecasting of him. He has not done much acting since then, mostly behind-the-scenes work such as writing and production. However, he has always been willing to sit for interviews about the Superman series and his connection to it, and in recent years has had a number of cameos that pay subtle tribute to his character and the series: Among his other work, Larson wrote the libretto to the opera Lord Byron to music by Virgil Thomson. In a TV appearance after Adventures of Superman, he had a guest role as a corporal on Gomer Pyle USMC. Larson's most recently appeared in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on the NBC network on January 6, 2010, at 9:00 pm EST. In this