Phyllis Coates(1927-2023)
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, Phyllis Coates moved to Hollywood as a
teenager with intentions of enrolling at UCLA. A chance encounter with
Ken Murray in a Hollywood & Vine
restaurant landed her in the comedian's vaudeville show. She started
out as a chorus girl and worked her way up to doing skits before moving
on to work for veteran showman
Earl Carroll and later touring with
the USO. Coates got some of her first motion picture experience in
comedy short subjects at Warner Brothers and then graduated to roles in
early
'50s
films. After a one-season stint with the Man of Steel
(George Reeves
on
Superman (1952)),
she began to divide her time among TV, B-movie assignments and serials
at Republic.
