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Superman: Christopher Reeve
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Reeve won worldwide fame in four Superman films from 1978 to 1987 before hanging up his cape and moving on to other acting pursuits. After leaving Juilliard, he joined the television soap opera "Love of Life" before winning a role in the 1976 Broadway play, "A Matter of Gravity," starring Katharine Hepburn. He appeared in more than 100 plays.
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In 1951 a television series was commissioned, Adventures of Superman starring George Reeves, with the pilot episode of the series gaining a theatrical release as Superman and the Mole Men. The series ran for a 104 episodes, from 1952–1958. The next adaptation of Superman occurred in 1966, when Superman was adapted for the stage in the Broadway musical It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman. The play wasn't successful, closing after 128 performances,[103] although a cast album recording was released.[104] However, in 1975 the play was remade for television. Superman was again animated, this time for television, in the series "The New Adventures of Superman". 68 shorts were made and broadcast between 1966 and 1969. Bud Collyer again provided the voice for Superman.
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His athletic, 6-foot-4-inch frame and love of adventure made him a natural, if largely unknown, choice for the title role in the first "Superman" movie in 1978. He insisted on performing his own stunts. Although he reprised the role three times, Reeve often worried about being
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