Phyllis Coates, a former actress in the United States with a more than fifty-year career, was born on January 15, 1927, in Wichita Falls, Texas. After finishing high school in Odessa, she relocated to Los Angeles with her mother. Coates attended L.A. City College. Coates died on October 11, 2023, at the age of 96, of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills.
Coates’ most famous role was as reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men, as well as the first season of the television series Adventures of Superman. Coates continued to work as a freelancer while also appearing in several low-budget films, many of which were westerns, serials, and TV shows as both a regular and a guest star.
Who is Phyllis Coates’s ex-husband, Norman Tokar, and why divorce?
American director, actor, and occasionally writer and producer of serial television and feature films, Norman Tokar was also a director. On November 25, 1919, he was born, and on April 6, 1979, he died. Tokar produced many of the early episodes of Leave it to Beaver, but throughout the 1950s and 1970s, he had the most success as a director, helming over a dozen films for Walt Disney Productions. On April 6, 1979, Tokar suffered a heart attack while resting in his studio apartment in Hollywood, California.
Phyllis Coates was married to Norman Tokar from 1955 to 1960. But no reason for the couple’s divorce has yet been disclosed.
