Philip Coolidge
Philip Coolidge (August 5, 1908 – May 23, 1967) was an American film and stage actor. Career. Philip Coolidge was born on August 5, 1908, in Concord, Massachusetts. He started his career as an actor at the theater in Broadway (New York) — from "Our Town of Thornton Wilder" (1938, with Frank Craven and Martha Scott) to "Hamlet" of William Shakespeare (1964, with Richard Burton and Alfred Drake). He made his first film, "Boomerang", in 1947. In later films, he had roles as a self-protective small-town mayor in "Inherit the Wind" (1960), as Dr. Cross in "North by  Northwest" (1959), and as Wilbur Peterson in "It Happened to Jane" (1959). Rarely a leading character, he played "Throckmorton", the shopkeeper in the "Twilight Zone" 1962 episode "A Piano in the House" and also he played William Windom's assistant, "Mr. Cooper", in the first season of the 1960s TV series "The Farmer's Daughter". Death. Coolidge died of lung cancer at the age of 58 on May 23, 1967, in Los Angeles, California.