• Reeves was born January 5, 1914,[7][8] as George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, the son of Donald Carl Brewer and Helen Lescher.
  • When I was a kid, George Reeves was Superman. ... In addition to those things, here are some things you might not have known about George Reeves.
  • While this may have been the final act for George Reeves’ Superman, it was the first act in what would become one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the role.
  • George Reeves and Marjorie Weaver in Man at Large (1941). George Reeves, Jan Clayton, and Grant Mitchell in Father Is a Prince (1940).
  • George Reeves (January 5, 1914 – June 16, 1959) was an American actor best known for his role as Superman in the 1950s television program titled 'Adventures of...
  • 1940 Soundie: George Reeves, Amigo, we go riding tonight. ... Adventures of Sir Galahad, George Reeves 1949 movie serial chapter ending.
  • The official ruling was suicide. In the 1950s, millions of TV viewers knew actor George Reeves as Superman, the Man of Steel, both indestructible and invincible.
  • Because of this, it was widely assumed at the time that the former Superman had died by suicide — but some people speculated that George Reeves was murdered.
  • George went to bed at 12:30 a.m. Around 1, two friends came by for a visit. Reeves usually had an open door policy, but not after midnight.
  • George Reeves’ mother Helen Bessolo never accepted the official verdict and hired private investigators to to reopen the investigation into his death.