Jackie Kelk

Jackie Kelk was born on August 6, 1923 and was an American radio actor and comedian, best known for playing Homer Brown in the series The Aldrich Family, as well as for being the original voice of Jimmy Olsen in The Adventures of Superman.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, as a child in the early 1930s, he was part of the cast of a series that imitated those of The Gang, and called Penrod, playing the role of "Georgie Bassett." "Penrod" was a production based on the books by Booth Tarkington.

In the theater field, in 1935 he acted on the Broadway circuit in Jubilee, a musical in which Montgomery Clift and Mary Boland also performed.

In the early 1940s, Kelk was Pete in the radio serial Mother of Mine. In addition, between 1940 and 1947 he voiced Jimmy Olsen in another radio series, The Adventures of Superman, and was also Homer, the best friend of Henry Aldrich, in the radio comedy The Aldrich Family.

On the small screen he starred in the sitcom Young Mr. Bobbin, produced by NBC, in addition to working on several other series, including Leave it to Beaver and The Donna Reed Show.

Kelk died in 2002 in Rancho Mirage, California, from a lung infection. He was buried in Lakeview Cemetery in New Canaan, Connecticut.