BEDFORD, N.Y. - “Superman” actor Christopher Reeve, who turned personal tragedy into a public crusade and from his wheelchair became the nation’s most recognizable spokesman for spinal cord research, has died. He was 52.


Reeve died Sunday of complications from an infection caused by a bedsore. He went into cardiac arrest Saturday, while at his Pound Ridge home, then fell into a coma and died Sunday at a hospital surrounded by his family, his publicist said.

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i wonder what he would have thought of the new Superman V?

Ill miss him. As a young boy watching his movies, I really looked up to him in my youth.

'Tis a very sad loss.... he was a great spokesman for Spinal research, and very motivational.