Philip Coolidge (August 5, 1908 â€" May 23, 1967) was an American film
and stage actor.Born August 5, 1908, in Concord, Massachusetts, he
made his first film, Boomerang, in 1947. In later films, he had roles
as a self-protective small-town mayor in Inherit the Wind (1960), as
Dr. Cross in North by Northwest (1959), and as Wilbur Peterson in It
Happened to Jane (1959). Rarely a leading character, he played
Thockmorton, the shopkeeper in the Twilight Zone 1962 episode "A Piano
in the House" and also he played William Windom's assistant, Mr.
Cooper, in the first season of the 1960s TV series The Farmer's
Daughter.Coolidge died of lung cancer at the age of 58 on May 23,
1967, in Los Angeles, California.
and stage actor.Born August 5, 1908, in Concord, Massachusetts, he
made his first film, Boomerang, in 1947. In later films, he had roles
as a self-protective small-town mayor in Inherit the Wind (1960), as
Dr. Cross in North by Northwest (1959), and as Wilbur Peterson in It
Happened to Jane (1959). Rarely a leading character, he played
Thockmorton, the shopkeeper in the Twilight Zone 1962 episode "A Piano
in the House" and also he played William Windom's assistant, Mr.
Cooper, in the first season of the 1960s TV series The Farmer's
Daughter.Coolidge died of lung cancer at the age of 58 on May 23,
1967, in Los Angeles, California.
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