George Reeves

George Reeves was born on Jan 05, 1914 in USA. George Reeves's big-screen debut came with Ride, Cowboy, Ride directed by George Amy in 1939, strarring Pancho Dominguez. George Reeves is known for From Here to Eternity directed by Fred Zinnemann, Burt Lancaster stars as Sgt. Milton Warden and Montgomery Clift as Robert E. Lee Prewitt. George Reeves has got 1 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award George Reeves achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie George Reeves plays is Westward Ho, the Wagons! which will be released on Dec 20, 1956.

George Reeves was born George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, to Helen Roberta (Lescher) and Donald C. Brewer. He was of German, English, and Scottish descent. Following his parents' divorce and his mother's remarriage to Frank J. Bessolo, Reeves was raised in Pasadena, California, and educated at Pasadena Junior College.He was a skilled amateur boxer and musician. He interned as an actor at the famed Pasadena Playhouse, performed in dozens of plays, and was discovered there by casting director Maxwell Arnow. He was cast as Stuart Tarleton in Autant en emporte le vent (1939). While shooting the film, he appeared in another play at the Pasadena Playhouse and was seen there and signed by Warner Bros. studios. Over the next ten years he was contracted to Warners, Fox and Paramount.He achieved near-stardom as the male lead in Les anges de miséricorde (1943), but war service interrupted his career, and after he returned it never regained the same level. While in the Army Air Corps he appeared on Broadway in "Winged Victory", then made training films. Career difficulties after the war led him to move to New York for live television. It was television where he achieved the kind of fame that had eluded him in films, as he was cast in the lead of the now-iconic Superman (1952). He got a few film roles in the early 1950s, but he was mostly typecast as Superman, and other acting jobs soon dried up. His career had slid to the point where he was considering an attempt at exhibition wrestling when he committed suicide by shooting himself.Controversy still surrounds his death, due mainly to the fact of his longtime affair with Toni Mannix (aka Toni Mannix), the wife of MGM executive E.J. Mannix. Many of Reeves' friends and colleagues didn't believe that he had committed suicide but that his death was related to the Mannix situation. However, no credible evidence has ever been produced to support that contention.