Jor-El has passed. Actor Robert Rockwell has died at the age of 82. The newspaper obits (like this one) are noting that he was the second member of the cast of Our Miss Brooks to leave us in as many weeks, after Richard Crenna. Rockwell played Mr. Boynton on that show, and performed countless other roles on other shows and on the stage. But a lot of us remember that he was Superman's father, Jor-El, in the 1952 origin episode of the Superman TV show starring George Reeves. It was probably only a forgotten day's work to an actor with such a prolific career. But some of us will never forget it.