Biographies: George Reeves - Actor

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George Reeves was born in Woolstock, Iowa, USA, on January 5, 1914, as George Keefer Brewer. He received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960. He married actress Ellanora Needles (1940-1950). His most important work includes Gone with the Wind (1939), Superman and the Mole-Men (1951), and Adventures of Superman (1952). George Reeves was educated at Pasadena Junior College, then he studied acting and practiced at the Pasadena Playhouse, where he was discovered and went on to get a role in the movie Gone with the Wind (1939), signing a contract with Fox then Paramount, but World War II interrupted his career, as he joined the US Air Force, and upon his return from the war he traveled to New York and worked on television. George Reeves died on June 16, 1959, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, where he was found in his home with a gunshot wound, and it is not known whether he committed suicide or was killed.

• 16 March 2022
• Dalia Saad