Phyllis Coates’s 2 children: Meet Laura and Zoe

Phyllis Coates, who first portrayed Clark Kent’s leading lady for the 1951 film ‘Superman and the Mole Men’, died of natural causes.

Coates was cast in The Lone Ranger in 1953, and in 1955 in “The Woman in the White Mask”. She was cast in 1955 as Madge in the CBS sitcom Professional Father.

Phyllis Coates’s 2 children: Meet Laura and Zoe

Phyllis Coates has died at age 96. Phyllis’s daughter Laura Press confirmed the news. The death was “very peaceful,” she added. Coates leaves behind three children, namely Laura, Zoe, and the other one name is not known.

Phyllis married jazz pianist Robert Nelms in 1950, gave birth to a daughter, and divorced in 1953. Coates’ last acting project was as part of a video titled Hollywood: The Movie, in 1996.

Coates is the daughter of William Robert Rush Stell and Lorraine “LuLizzieJack Teel. After graduating from Odessa High School, she moved to Los Angeles with her mother. Coates attended Los Angeles City College.