body, is said to have arisen during its live broadcast and walked off stage. The event was widely covered in the media of the day, later becoming an urban legend that was attributed to Peter Lorre in the Climax! series adaptation of Casino Royale. Coffin also appeared in another episode of Climax!, "Escape From Fear", in 1955. He also appeared in comedies, including episodes of Father Knows Best, Hey, Jeannie!, I Love Lucy, Batman, and Walter Brennan's The Real McCoys. Personal life Coffin married model Vera Duke, nee Veta Hetman, on January 6, 1948, in California. Coffin died of lung cancer on March 26, 1990, in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 80. His ashes were scattered at sea. Coffin was a Mormon. Partial filmography Overland Mail (1939) West of Pinto Basin (1940) Hidden Enemy (1940) Forbidden Trails (1941) Roaring Frontiers (1941) Let's Go Collegiate (1941) Tonto Basin Outlaws (1941) The Corpse Vanishes (1942) Police Bullets (1942) The Crime Smasher (1943) Under Nevada Skies (1946) Swing the Western Way (1946) The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (1946) Rio Grande Raiders (1946) Louisiana (1947) Valley of Fear (1947) California Firebrand (1948) King of the Rocket Men (1949) Radar Secret Service (1950) Square Dance Katy (1950) Undercover Girl (1950) The Lady Pays Off (1951) According to Mrs. Hoyle (1951) Northwest Territory (1951) ‘’Adventures of Superman’’ (1951) Smoky Canyon (1952) The Kid from Broken Gun (1952) Fireman Save My Child (1954) Creature with the Atom Brain (1955) The Night the World Exploded (1957) The Silent Witness (1962) The Crawling Hand (1963) Iron Angel (1964) Good Neighbor Sam (1964) Zebra in the Kitchen (1965) The Barefoot Executive (1971) Night Call Nurses (1972) References External links 1909 births 1990 deaths American male film actors American male television actors Male Western (genre) film actors University of Washington alumni Male actors from Greater Los Angeles Male actors from Salt Lake City People from Juab County, Utah 20th-century American male actors Western (genre) television actors Deaths from lung cancer in California American Latter Day Saints