Christopher Reeve was an award-winning American actor best-known for 1978's Superman.

He later went on to even greater fame as a powerful spokesman for spinal cord research and advocate for the disabled, after he was paralyzed from the neck down in a horseback riding accident during a 1995 equestrian competition. Confined to a wheelchair, Reeve became a vocal supporter of controversial embryonic stem cell research and founded the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation which provides grants to researchers, and also offers millions of dollars each year to assist individuals living with disabilities.

Date, time and place of birth: September 25, 1952, at 3:12 a.m.*, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Date, time, place and cause of death: October 10, 2004, at 5:30 p.m., Northern Westchester Hospital, Mount Kisco, New York, U.S.A. (Heart failure, the result of a serious systemic infection from a pressure wound)

Marriage
Spouse: Dana Charles Morosini (m. April 11, 1992 - October 10, 2004) (his death)
Wedding took place at Field Farm, South Williamstown, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Children
Sons: Matthew Exton Reeve (b. December 20, 1979, Welbeck Hospital, London, England)
William Elliot Reeve (b. June 7, 1992, North Adams Regional Hospital, North Adams, Massachusetts)

Daughter: Alexandra Exton Reeve (b. December 1983, Welbeck Hospital, London, England)

Note: His two older children, Alexandra and Matthew, are from an earlier relationship with Gae Exton, while Will Reeve is his son with wife Dana.

Parents
Father: Franklin D. Reeve (a novelist/professor/Russian literature scholar) (b. September 18, 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Mother: Barbara (Lamb) (a journalist)

Remains: He was cremated and his ashes were scattered by his family.

* 3:12 a.m. is the time Chris personally reported as his precise time of birth.

NOTE: A couple of sources have erroneously reported Chris was born in Princeton, New Jersey. It wasn't until Chris was 4, that his parents divorced and he and his brother moved to Princeton, New Jersey, with their mother Barbara.

Christopher Reeve's film credits include, Superman (1978), and its three sequels, Superman II (1980), Superman III (1983), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), as well as Somewhere in Time (1980), Deathtrap (1982), The Bostonians (1984), The Aviator (1985), Switching Channels (1988), Noises Off... (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), and John Carpenter's Village of the Damned (1995).

His television credits include Smallville, The Practice, Tales from the Crypt, Road to Avonlea, Carol & Company, Saturday Night Live, Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, and he portrayed Ben Harper on the television soap opera Love of Life (1974-1976).

A Matter of Gravity, The Aspern Papers, Summer And Smoke, The Marriage of Figaro, Fifth of July, The Front Page, The Cherry Orchard, The Heiress, A Winter's Tale, and Love Letters, are but a few of his stage credits.

Hobbies/sidelines
His adventurous spirit led him to get his pilot's license in his early 20s. He twice flew solo across the Atlantic, was an expert sailor, scuba diver, skier, and an accomplished horseman.