Thomas Carr

Thomas Carr was an American actor and film director whose career stretched from silent pictures to television. Born in Philadelphia in 1907 into an acting family, he took up the profession in 1915 and for decades played small supporting parts in low budget Hollywood movies, although he never became a star as an actor. He shifted to directing in 1945, making B movies for Poverty Row, many of them Westerns. In 1948 he shared directing duties with Spencer Gordon Bennet on the live action Superman serial. He also directed dozens of episodes of Adventures of Superman, including Stamp Day for Superman. Through the 1950s and 1960s he worked on numerous television series, handling installments of Rawhide, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Trackdown, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Stagecoach West, Lassie, and Daniel Boone. Carr retired from directing in 1968.