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12 unusual facts about Christopher Reeve


David Saranga

During this period he was responsible for Israel’s PR campaign around the International Court of Justice hearing in The Hague, regarding the Israeli West Bank barrier, and also was the person who coordinated and executed Christopher Reeve’s visit to Israel in 2003.

Dennis Choi

Dennis W. Choi, M.D., Ph.D., (born in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was the Jones Professor and head of neurology at the Center for the Study of Nervous System Injury at Washington University in St. Louis He was part of the team that treated Christopher Reeve following the actor's notorious spinal cord injury.

Harris Goldberg

Premiering to rave reviews on CBS Sweeps Week in the winter of 1996, the film also marked a touching and memorable performance by Christopher Reeve, his first acting role after his tragic horseback riding accident.

Jack Zigler

He has been consulted numerous times regarding the spinal injuries of such high-profile celebrities as Christopher Reeve and Jason Priestley.

Lauren Barrett

As an actress, Barrett has recently appeared in supporting roles on screen in Christopher Reeve's last directorial feature film, The Brooke Ellison Story, as well as New Line Cinema's award-winning motion picture, Secondhand Lions.

Mahlon Pitney

With his wife Florence Theodora Shelton, Pitney was the great-grandfather of actor Christopher Reeve.

Marc Herremans

Marc was especially inspired when he met disabled celebrity Christopher Reeve.

Mark Rosenthal

Rosenthal has also described the final film as producer Cannon Films stabbing star Christopher Reeve in the back.

Pierre Arditi

Although his work has primarily been in French film and theater, Arditi is known in the Anglophone world as the French voice of Christopher Reeve.

Robert Irving III

Later, Irving extended this musical direction on projects such as his film score for the feature film Street Smart also with André Lassalle on guitar (1985), starring Morgan Freeman and Christopher Reeve -- with Miles Davis as featured instrumentalist.

S1909/A2840

New Jersey Assemblyman Neil Cohen lauded it as "not the most significant law we'll write this session—but this century." Paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve, who believed that such legislation may hasten the development of methods to reverse paralysis, testified in support of the bill.

Superior mesenteric artery syndrome

Renowned American actor, director, producer, and writer Christopher Reeve suffered from the acute form of SMA syndrome as a result of spinal cord injury.


Alexander Salkind

Following in his father's footsteps, he produced French films & others in Europe and Hollywood: Austerlitz directed by Abel Gance and Le Procès (The Trial) directed by Orson Welles and 1978's Superman starring Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder.

Alice Elliott Dark

In the Gloaming was made into an HBO film starring Glenn Close and directed by Christopher Reeve.

Anne Twomey

She has made guest appearances on The Cosby Show, Magnum, P.I., Seinfeld, Spin City, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and had a featured role in the 1998 television remake of Rear Window starring Christopher Reeve and Daryl Hannah.

Bill Erwin

He would later co-star alongside Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in the 1980 romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time – as Arthur Biehl, the Grand Hotel's venerable bellman – and attend annual reunions of cast, crew, and fans of the film at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan.

John Stewart Wynne aka John Wynne

Wynne has also produced and directed over one hundred audio books, including The Phantom of the Opera performed by F. Murray Abraham, William Styron reading his Darkness Visible (memoir), Christopher Reeve performing F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and John F. Kennedy, Jr. reading his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage.

LaVyrle Spencer

Her first novel, The Fulfillment, was developed as a CBS TV movie starring Cheryl Ladd and Morning Glory, which Spencer wrote in 1989, was released as a major motion picture under the same title, starring Deborah Raffin and Christopher Reeve.

Matt Siegel

The guests on the show include a variety of celebrities, including Oprah, Madonna, Ben Affleck, Dustin Hoffman, Celine Dion, Christopher Reeve, Bette Midler, Ted Danson, Cher, Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell, Harry Connick, Jr., and Michael J. Fox amongst many others.

New Mobility

It also profiles successful wheelchair users, including John Hockenberry, Christopher Voelker, Brooke Ellison, Chantal Petitclerc and the late Christopher Reeve.

Noel Willman

He was also nominated in 1966 for the same category for James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, and he directed Katharine Hepburn and Christopher Reeve in A Matter of Gravity in 1976.

T-Shirt Hell

T-Shirt Hell has received a number of cease and desist letters from such people as Rick James, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and Christopher Reeve over shirts related to the celebrities.

The Glass Ballerina

He shows this by citing various current events, such as the re-election of George W. Bush to the American presidency, the sudden death of Christopher Reeve and that the Boston Red Sox have won the 2004 World Series.