Tristram Coffin

Biography

Tristram Chalkley Coffin was an American film and television actor who made his mark in B-movie Westerns and action-adventure productions from the latter 1930s through the 1970s. His notable roles include Dist. Atty. MacGraw in "Creature with the Atom Brain" (1955) and Jeff King in Republic Pictures' influential serial "King of the Rocket Men" (1949). Coffin's work spanned multiple movie serials during the 1940s, cementing his status as a staple of pulp cinema.