Christopher Reeve
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Date
of Birth: September 22,
1952
Date
of Death: October 10, 2004
Cause
of Death: Heart Failure
Reeve
was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. Best known for the
popular film ‘Superman’. He was born in New York City. His father, Franklin
d'Olier Reeve, was a poet and scholar. Reeve’s grandfather, Colonel Richard
d'Olier, had been the CEO of the Prudential Financial for over twenty_five
years. Despite being born wealthy, Franklin Reeve spent summers working at the
docks with longshoremen. Reeve's mother, Barbara Pitney Lamb, had been a
student at Vassar College but transferred to Barnard College to be closer to
Franklin, whom she had met through a family connection. Reeve's parents did not
remain married for long. In the summer of 1968, at age 15, Reeve was accepted
as an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown,
Massachusetts. In a workshop, he played a scene from 'A View From The Bridge'
that was chosen to be presented. After the performance, actor Olympia Dukakis
said to him, "I'm surprised. You've got a lot of talent. Don't mess it
up.”
In
2003 and 2004, Reeve fought off a number of serious infections believed to have
originated from bone marrow. He recovered from three infections that could have
been fatal. On October 9, Reeve went into cardiac arrest after receiving an
antibiotic for the infection. He fell into a coma and was taken to North
Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York. 18 hours later, on October 10,
2004, Reeve died of heart failure at the age of 52. His doctor, John McDonald,
believed that it was an adverse reaction to the antibiotic that caused his
death.
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