Jackie Kelk is an American radio actor and stand-up comedian, born in Brooklyn, NY. He played Jimmy Olsen

Jimmy Olsen

Jimmy Olsen is a fictional character who appears mainly in DC Comics’ Superman stories. Olsen is a young photojournalist working for the Daily Planet. He is close friends with Lois Lane, Clark Kent/Superman and Perry White...

 in the first seven years of the radio show The Adventures of Superman

The Adventures of Superman (radio)

The Adventures of Superman was a long running radio serial that originally aired from 1940 to 1951, adapted from the DC Comics character. ....

and Homer, best friend of Henry Aldrich

Henry Aldrich

Henry Aldrich was an English theologian and philosopher.-Life:Aldrich was educated at Westminster School under Dr Richard Busby. In 1662, he entered Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1689 was made Dean in succession to the Roman Catholic John Massey, who had fled to the Continent. In 1692, he...

 on the teenage radio comedy of the same name. He starred as Young Mr. Bobbin

Young Mr. Bobbin

Young Mr. Bobbin is an American television situation comedy that aired live on the NBC network during the 1951-1952 season.-Synopsis:The series stars Jackie Kelk as Alexander Hawthorne Bobbin, a young high school graduate that lived with his maiden aunts and was in love with the girl next door,...

 in the NBC-TV sitcom and several other series including Leave it to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive but often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood...

 and The Donna Reed Show

The Donna Reed Show

The Donna Reed Show is an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the upper middle class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz appears as her pediatrician husband Alex, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children Mary and Jeff. The show originally aired on ABC at 10 pm from September...

. As a young child in the early 1930s he was part of the cast of an Our Gang imitation called Penrod playing a snobby bow-tied boy named "Georgie Bassett". He died in 2002 of a lung infection.