He took a stance against the Vietnam war when it wasn't popular to do so!!!

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He looked great 👌🏻

Looked great. 👍

☝️Looked really good. 👆

Yeah, it's obvious Dave had a lot of respect for Jack Larson here.

Same here!

ME TOO. And I'm also 71!!

Me too and I'm 77. I have the complete set of the DVD's.

Me too. I'm 67. When I got married, my wife came to understand that she had to watch every episode of every season of "Superman." I don't think she minded, though. She began saying things like, "Golly, Superman, are we glad to see you!"

I loved that show along with the Rifleman

Yes !! Yes he was. It’s terrible that he got so typecast. And got no residuals from Superman. What a joke. That wouldn’t happen today.

@@stevescontriano860 That wasn't 'today', and the residual system is ridiculous. I still get resids from shows I did in the mid-eighties. Can you imagine how ridiculously intricate that residual system has to be to distribute even small resids (I got one recently for $.86)?

May I ask who you are please. I’m intrigued !! Thank You !! Jack ???

@@stevescontriano860 I believe it's b/c contracts were written that way. Actors didn't demand it b/c nobody thought re-runs would amount to anything. I understand Jerry Lewis had it in his contracts for movies, a very smart move.

It’s funny that he is sounds like a very bright person in Jimmy Olsen’s body.

And gay, not that it matters. Simply FYI.

That would explain the goofy bow tie.

​@@georgepruitt637 I knew someone would mention that. Who cares

@@georgepruitt637 No wonder He wasn't interested in Lois Lane. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Well said.

Exactly

He had the same smile.

I saw this when it first aired and that’s exactly what I thought after seeing it and taped it.

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So true.

True. just ordinary conversations can be interesting when it comes from celebrities we've known from media all of our lives.

You are correct. He had nothing to sell. Would love to have seen him interviewed by someone like Dick Cavett

Alby 52, Yes, a very down to earth actor.

Alby 52 Your condolences for the Superman cast are very thoughtful, but you should have had the decency to spell Noel Neill's name correctly. Pathetic.

​​@@michaelmantle6043 shut up. Rude jerk.

What's god????

And Phyllis Coates was the best Lois Lane...she played the part as a quite aggressive female reporter...she was ahead of her time, in that regard...She also was quite a babe!

@@curbozerboomer1773.....and that woman could SCREAM! She's still alive now, in her nineties!

Comic book acting

@@howiecricket52 And she's the only one left from the show

Funny how Lois and Jimmy never noticed that........

He must be the luckiest guy in the world, not a scratch. He must weigh a ton

TV Stations have bean airing reruns of Adventures of Superman long before 1978.

I really don't know how he got so type cast because he really was a talented actor, and actually played the original Corporal under Frank Sutton's Sergeant Carter on Gomer Pyle USMC in it's beginning seasons, for one episode. I think he chose not to continue with the show because he didn't want to get involved with another TV series, although I understand, but I think that might have been a career mistake as that role would have brought him out his type casting. He was a very convincing Marine Corporal

Would LOVE to view it!!!

Unfortunately residuals were several decades away. The only way an actor could really get rich in those days was if he owned the show. William Boyd mortgaged everything he had to buy up his old "Hopalong Cassidy" movies and edited them into TV shows. He made huge money doing that.

@@daveconleyportfolio5192 You can thank Ronald Reagan for that. He was the president of the screen actors guild and SCREWED many famous actors & actresses out of residuals. The Three Stooges were the most well known as being screwed out of royalties related to their short subject films. Thank you Ronnie.

I think you have it backwards. He didn’t screw performers out of residuals. When he was president of the Screen Actors Guild, Ronald Reagan staged a showdown with studio executives and won the creation of the residual payment system that lives today. @@martinlutherbling424

@@martinlutherbling424 He thought they were a buncha commies lol

I substituted nothing. This is what aired. This was just over a month into Late Night’s run, where long clips were used, simply to fill airtime, because, at this time, guests were difficult to book.

Phyllis Coates was the hottest ... unfortunately she only played the first season... due to her decision to leave.. and then was replaced.. still hot @ 90+ years...

Me too!! I had a big crush on Jimmy Olsen...the the relationship between Jimmy Olsen and Clark Kent was over the top for me..

@@michaelgasiciel9317 as a kid, I always liked Noel better, she seem more likable as Phyllis was too rigid and serious. Phyllis was definitely a more serious actress and beautiful...her Lois was no nonsense...and I enjoy her episodes more today and appreciate her acting contrasting to Noel's which was more fun and friendly for kid viewers.

@@michaelgasiciel9317 Phyllis had been a successful pin-up girl, during the mid-to late 1940s...She made a few movies in the 1950s, after her stint as Lois Lane, but her career never really took off. She was a fabulous-looking woman.

@@michaelgasiciel9317 Phyllis Coates turned 96 in January! The last surviving cast member...

Jack did do an episode of Lois and Clark, and also appeared as a bartender in the film SUPERMAN RETURNS starring Brandon Routh.

@@bikefixer Thank you.

He did appear on the Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. episode "PFC Gomer Pyle" (1965).

@@StevieStitches I remembered he was in one episode of Gomer Pyle, but I had no idea which one. Thank you so much. You identified which episode, and I looked it up on KZfaq and watched it, something I wanted to do for years. Thanks again.

I just saw that episode just recently. At the end when he was holding back Sgt. Carter he was Jimmy all over again.

Seems like Larson wasn't being offered much because he was too typecast. So not only were the parts not coming, but what he was offered was not interesting enough (or financially viable) for him to continue, especially since he had a (sounds like) greater love for writing over acting. He was very successful as the latter, and apparently happier for it.

Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) often spoke of this.

You can thank Ronald Reagan for that. He was the president of the screen actors guild and SCREWED many famous actors & actresses out of residuals. The Three Stooges were the most well known as being screwed out of royalties related to their short subject films. Thank you Ronnie.

@@martinlutherbling424 True, Reagan destroyed millions of people’s lives. He was a psychopath. I think everyone involved in a movie should get residuals. They are the ones who created the program. I looked on Prime to see what a season of Superman cost. It was $16!!! And not a penny of that will go to the people who made the program popular. Like I said in my earlier post the people who are making millions off shows are non talent crooks. They do absolutely nothing. Same for Prime and other streaming services. It doesn’t cost anything to add programs to their databases. I’m so sick of greed and capitalism. We should tax the hell out of the extremely rich and impose extremely tough regulations on corporations. The tax rate under Eisenhower was 91%. That’s what we need to return to and we need to force corporations to pay workers livable wages. And give residuals to all actors and production teams even if it is a small percentage. Those percentages would add up over a person’s career so they could retire without worrying about affordable housing or healthcare. But to do that we need to throw all corporate owned politicians out of office and replace them with progressives. Progressives are the only ones who work for other people. Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive. So was FDR. Todays republicans would call them communists and socialists today. But republicans don’t even know what those words mean. They’re brainwashed dolts. Outlaw greed!

Oh, you buy the suicide story?

To this day, the death of Reeves is controversial.

I don't! I believe Jack just gave an easy answer, to an uninformed Letterman; &, his equally, mostly uninformed audience. Far more tragically tjough, is that as one commenter said here, that he doesn't even care; whatever the subject: typecasting; shady deaths; residuals, ballet; opera; writing, theatre; plays; acting; literature; silent movies; Etc.; for nearly all Americans, they do NOT care; except, for beer, hotdogs, football, sports, sex, pop culture tv., cartoons, violence; &, all things: mindless; lazy; very stupid; &, braindead.

Noel Neil followed him 10 months later in 2016 in her 90's. I find it odd that Phyllis Coates is her age now just turned 94 on Jan 15th...Lois before Noel in that series, but Noel was the original Lois with Kirk Allyn prior serials and that's how they selected her after Phyllis quit.

Phyllis recently passed away on Oct 11, 2023 at the ripe age of 96, RIP...

41 years. Passed away in 2015.

Jeepers is the word

@@SueProv It’s the Ricky Ricardo pronunciation.

Just say it...he was gay

@@spaniardsrmoors6817 No wonder He wasn't interested in Lois Lane. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁