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alexcat ([personal profile] alexcat) wrote2019-03-26 02:14 am

Day 26 - DC Character - Jimmy Olsen

Jimmy Olsen

I remember Jimmy as a fresh faced boy in the Adventures of Superman on television. He was playd by Jack Larson and I really like Mechad Brooks as James Olsen on Supergirl.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic Jack Larsen

Image and video hosting by TinyPic Mechad Brooks

James Bartholomew Olsen, better known as Jimmy Olsen, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Olsen is a young photojournalist working for the Daily Planet. He is close friends with Lois Lane and Clark Kent/Superman, and has a good working relationship with his boss Perry White. Olsen looks up to his coworkers as role models and parent figures.

He has appeared in most other media adaptations of Superman. He was portrayed by Tommy Bond in the two Superman film serials, Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950). Jack Larson played the character on the Adventures of Superman television show. Marc McClure in the Superman films of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the 1984 film Supergirl. Michael Landes in the first season of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Justin Whalin in the subsequent three seasons. Sam Huntington in the 2006 film Superman Returns, Aaron Ashmore in The CW's Smallville and Michael Cassidy in the 2016 film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. In the series Supergirl, he is portrayed by Mehcad Brooks.

Wikipedia has more about Jimmy.

To read more go to The Superman Wiki.

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