Tristram Coffin

• Born: 1910
• Died: Mar 26, 1990
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '40s-'50s
• Major Genres: Western, Action
• Career Highlights: Desert Vigilante, The Old Frontier, Desperadoes of Dodge City
• First Major Screen Credit: Overland Mail (1939)

Biography

The namesake nephew of American journalist Tris Coffin, actor Tristram Coffin set his stage career in motion at age 14. By 1939, the tall, silver-mustached Coffin was well on his way to becoming one of the screen's most prolific character actors. Generally cast as crooked lawyers, shifty business executives, and gang bosses in B-pictures, Coffin projected a pleasanter image in A-films, where he often played soft-spoken doctors and educators. In 1949, he essayed his one-and-only film starring role: heroic Jeff King in the Republic serial King of the Rocket Men. Even busier on TV than in films (he was virtually a regular "guest villain" on the Superman series), Tristram Coffin starred as Captain Ryning of the Arizona Rangers in the weekly syndicated Western 26 Men (1957-1958). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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