Job Actor
Years active 1933-1959
Top Roles Lt. Thompson, Maj. Drewery's Union Telegrapher, Harold, Lt. John Summers, Jack O'Keefe
Top GenresDrama, Action, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Western
Top TopicsBook-Based, Romance (Drama), Femme Fatale
Top Collaborators (Producer), (Producer), ,
Shares birthday with Jane Wyman, Harry Kurnitz, Robert Duvall  see more..

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Winged Victory

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Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind

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So Proudly We Hail!

So Proudly We Hail!

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George Reeves Overview:

Actor, George Reeves, was born George Keefer Brewer on Jan 5, 1914 in Woolstock, IA. Reeves died at the age of 45 on Jun 16, 1959 in Beverly Hills, CA and was laid to rest in Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum in Altadena, Los Angeles County, CA.

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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George Reeves Quotes:

[last lines]
Nevada Jim: [to Johnny] I'm goin' back to huntin' buffalo where a man can use his brains. My young friend Buffalo Bill is comin' along with me.
[to Bill]
Nevada Jim: Ain't yuh, hunh?
Johnny Frey: [to Bill] So, you've been believin' ol' Nevady's lies all along?
Nevada Jim: Hunh?
Bill 'Billy' Cody: Buffalo Bill Cody? It's got kinda a nice sound, doesn't it, Johnny?

Superman: You're not going to shoot those little creatures. In the first place, they haven't done you any harm. In the second place, they may be radioactive.

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George Reeves on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame

6709 Hollywood Blvd.


Ceremony Date: Feb 8, 1960
Category: Television
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George Reeves Facts
Personally defended Noel Neill when she replaced Phyllis Coates as Lois Lane in the second season of the Superman TV series when he felt the director was being too harsh with her. He also defended Robert Shayne, who played Inspector Henderson, when Shayne was accused of being a radical during the 1950s witch hunt and was in danger of losing his job. Producer Whitney Ellsworth also defended Shayne along with Reeves.
Was somewhat depressed over his identification with the role of Superman because he felt that it prevented him from being able to take on more challenging roles.
A false story has also circulated that Reeves had signed a five-picture deal with Paramount studios just prior to his death, this given as evidence that his life was on an upbeat and thus, presumably, he could not have been depressed enough to take his own life. Whether he did so or not, there is no truth to the rumor that he had a deal of any size or number of pictures with Paramount or any other studio at the time of his death. Paramount, like all the major studios in the 1950s, was jettisoning actor deals and contracts as quickly as possible in face of the onslaught of television. In 1959, only superstars such as John Wayne or William Holden would have been given multi-picture studio contracts. Reeves, whose contract with Paramount had been dropped a few years earlier was, in 1959, a typecast TV kiddie show star who hadn't had a job anywhere in film or television in over two years. It is virtually impossible that he could have achieved such a deal at that point in his life and in the existing studio hierarchy, and indeed Paramount administrative records confirm that no such contract existed.
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