Sid Tomack

His film career included: A Wave, a WAC and a Marine, The Thrill of Brazil, Blind Spot, Blondie's Holiday, For the Love of Rusty, A Double Life, I Love Trouble, My Girl Tisa, Hollow Triumph, Homicide for Three, Force of Evil, Knock on Any Door, Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture, The Crime Doctor's Diary, Make Believe Ballroom, The Doctor and the Girl, Abandoned, Side Street, Love That Brute, The Fuller Brush Girl, Never Trust a Gambler, Joe Palooka in Triple Cross, Reunion in Reno, Hoodlum Empire, Somebody Loves Me, Living It Up, The Girl Rush, The Kettles in the Ozarks, These Wilder Years, Too Much, Too Soon, The Space Children, Wake Me When It's Over, The Wackiest Ship in the Army and Sail a Crooked Ship, among others.^[1]

Tomack played Chester A. Riley's friend and neighbor Jim Gillis in the first version of The Life of Riley (starring Jackie Gleason).^[2] He played Al, Irma Peterson's deadbeat boyfriend, in My Friend Irma.^[3] He also played Knobby Walsh, the fight manager of Joe Palooka, in the first thirteen episodes of the syndicated series, The Joe Palooka Story.^[4] Tomack also played villainous roles in several episodes of The Adventures of Superman in the 1950s, including "The Defeat Of Superman" and "Blackmail." He guest-starred on four episodes of Perry Mason. He was also on The Donna Reed Show.

Living in the Desert Park Estates neighborhood of Palm Springs, California,^[5] Tomack died on November 12, 1962, in Palm Springs at age 55.^[6] He was buried in Desert Memorial Park, in Cathedral City, California.^{[citation needed]} Tomack was Jewish.^[7]