Career
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 Doctor Cross in North by Northwest (1959), and as Wilbur Peterson in lieutenant 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 television series The Farmer"s Daughter.
Coolidge died at the age of 58 on May 23, 1967.
