George Reeves, a struggling actor at the time, came into the role with very little awareness of the character and certainly no sense of how it would impact his life - not all of it for the good ...

But not even Lane could have imagined that Mannix was referring to the death of George Reeves, the “Original Superman.” The 45-year-old actor had been known across the nation as Superman for ...

The characters involved range from colorful to drunk to suspicious, having by now taken any secrets they may be hiding to their graves In the early morning hours of June 16, 1959, George Reeves ...

Reeves was born on January 5, 1914, in Woolstock, Iowa as George Keefer Brewer. His parents, Don and Helen Lescher Brewer, divorced months later and Helen moved with her son to Pasadena California.

None of these stories has a more bizarre ending than the one told about George Reeves, TV's Superman, who allegedly met with an accidental death while attempting to duplicate a feat possible only ...

1959: __ Los Angeles police arrive at the home of 45-year-old actor George Reeves, famous for his role as TV's Superman, and find him naked and dead of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled as a ...

Before he became famous on TV’s Adventures of Superman, George Reeves had the distinction of appearing in two films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In Gone With the Wind ...

Superman.” She was Lois No. 2 In 1952, when “Adventures of Superman” was created for television, another actress, Phyllis Coates, was cast as Lois, along with George Reeves as Superman.

Oh sure, there were some killjoy adults who tried to tell you it was an actor named George Reeves in that costume with the big S in the center. But kids knew the “truth.” He was “faster than ...

Superman (1950). George Reeves followed in Superman & the Mole Men (1951) and then was the man of steel in The Adventures of Superman, which ran on TV for seven seasons, starting in 1952.