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} George Bessolo Reeves (born George Keefer Brewer to Don Brewer & Helen Lescher) (January 6, 1914 – June 16, 1959) was an American actor, best known for swimming a role of Superman primarily on television in the 1950s.

Besides swimming Superman on TV, he also got bit part around the total of films, including Gone with the Wind, From Here to Eternity and The Blue Gardenia.

In the period of World War II, Reeves enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps and appeared in war educational videos films.

In the early morning hours of June 16 1959, three years prior to the plotted wedding to Lenore Lemmon, he went to bed when an extended nighttime sustaining guests. Shortly thenceforth, the shot rang out, & he was witnessed dead within his sleeping room using the gunfire wound to the head. An official inquiry concluded that a dying was suicide. Still, the select few friends & associates disputed this explanation, & fans keep around speculated in the years since when to whether his demise was actually a murder, & whenever thus, at whose hand, or even whether he faked his have dying and disappeared.

Because of the similar cognomen, humans every now and again surmise that George Reeves is related to Christopher Reeve, an actor who would late portray Superman on the large screen. It should exist when noted that them are non related, as a surname differ, & a similarity is simply cooccurring.

Inside February 2005, it was announced that Ben Affleck would portray George Reeves in the biographic film drama coroneted Truth, Justice & a Our contries Way.

George Reeves
A tribute to George Reeves (Superman) and his mysterious death in 1959.


Arts: Movies: Titles: F: From Here to Eternity
Arts: Movies: Titles: G: Gone with the Wind





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