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2 unusual facts about Perry White


Electric Earthquake

Later, at the Daily Planet, a Native American man warns Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and Perry White that they must run a report that Manhattan belongs to his people and should be given back to them.

Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes

In the present day, Perry White discusses how Clark Kent needs to better his social life when he hears cries for help with his super-hearing.


Character arc

Other characters have their eventual character arc alluded to but never explicitly defined or realized onscreen, such as Perry White's rise to editor of the Daily Planet and Pete Ross's ascension to Vice President of the United States.

Pierre Watkin

Watkin portrayed Perry White in both of the Superman serials of the late-1940s, which starred Kirk Alyn as the title character and Noel Neill as Lois Lane.


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Pierre Watkin

He played a couple of different characters in episodes of the television series, Adventures of Superman, in which John Hamilton had been cast as Perry White.

Robert J. Wilke

And in 1953 Wilke, playing a henchman for an East European counterfeiter, shoved John Hamilton and George Reeves into side-by-side steam cabinets, locks them in, turns up the thermostat to charbroil and leaves them to bake in "Perry White's Scoop", an episode of the still popular series Adventures of Superman.