Christopher Reeve displays buff bod as he works out for ‘Superman’ in never-before-seen 1977 photos

Fag.

I used to wait on him and his older children when they were small. They were lovely kids and adored their dad who was always charming and polite.

I was cater waitering a charity event where Chris spoke, it was after his accident, when he was paralyzed and near the end of his life. It was so sad and shocking to see him again years after seeing him on the street or with his kids looking so happy. It depressed me and was so hard to shake. I didn't know him or anything, just quick exchanges through work interactions. I was sad but a little relieved upon his death. He was so helpless and unwell, I couldn't imagine living as he did for even a day. So sad.

He was so beautiful. Still the best superhero casting ever.

Agreed on both counts, R3. Beautiful man.

Such an incredible tragedy, and then his wife dies a year or two later.

The perfect Superman

Christopher Reeve also plays Superman in The Remains Of The Day. A straightforward, wise American with moral authority over the bluster of outdated Victorian values.

It’s brilliant casting.

He helped a lot of people.

I like to think he's in a heavenly great beyond now. Somewhere souls on this teeny blue ball floating in the vastness of space only see when they depart.

Seriously, has there ever been a more gorgeous human being?

He was so beautiful that he seems otherworldly, like not quite human, which made his casting as a Kryptonian perfect.

Totally gorgeous ! I encourage all similar photos of him to be found and posted .

I’d forgotten that he was in Remains of the Day! I haven’t seen it since I saw it when it came out.

His son Will is also gorgeous.

6’ 4” is too tall to be jumping, he should not have been.

Who’s had him?

The photos are encouraging. To exercise more. A beautiful body does not happen without work.

R9 his lips could have been better and his nose wasn’t perfect but still a beautiful man

Loved him as Capt. Pike

Yes r13 and top heavy by then. He flew over that horse's head! But rip Superman!

When he was on the soap “Love of Life” in the mid-1970s, he had a pronounced lisp.

He looks like he built that muscle the right way and not using steroids.

Absolutely beautiful man. And his well-muscled toned body c. 1977 is infinitely more desirable than the overly steroid-enhanced muscled bodies in many a gym today!

I really miss him.

He was a handsome upper class East Coast WASP through and through. He had a love of flying planes, horses, sailing, classical music, literature, and the Vermont countryside.

But above all else, he was an incredible human being who never made anyone feel insecure or uncomfortable. He had many friends, from Katharine Hepburn to Van Cliburn to Patrick Leahy.

Gorgeous, gorgeous man.

There is a documentary coming out about him this year called Super/man. His kids approve of it. I think it mostly centers on his life after the accident.

R16 I rather think his nose is what tips him from handsome to beautiful.

A near teenage Reeve on some soap was so beautiful. Not that he wasn't during Superman but when he was on that soap.....

Christopher Reeve on Desert Island Discs.

Good musical choices: Bach, Rachmaninov, Mozart, Debussy, Carly Simon, John Lennon, and Beethoven.

You know it’s bad when tabloids find today’s so-called celebrities so boring that they have to report on the dead.

So incredibly handsome

I am also stuck in the past r28

Christopher Reeve had more class and sophistication in his pinky than any Hollywood celebrity today.

He was privileged, but had such elegance, grace, and manners. The Hollywood men that followed him were either midgets (Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson) , looked like trailer trash (Brad Pitt, Austin Butler), or just middle of the road Joes (Matt Damon, Tom Hanks, Ryan Reynolds). Reeve was majestically handsome without being intimidating.

I dunno. Reeves had a waspy and unapproachable look.

Reeves was very waspy. He also comes across as very nice in all his interviews. Not like a Winklevoss twin.

He died at only 52?

I guess I'm getting to that age where I'm going to be having this reaction more and more

He was incredibly handsome. That smile.🫠

And Margot Kidder and later Muriel Hemingway were the perfect foil.

Cue the you're all so old gramps troll.

Despite all those Superman movies Reeve was not trapped by the role and was able to vanish into other roles.

I think I saw Superman about 3 times back then. Just a perfect movie: casting, special effects, script, music, comedy...

The Daily Mail has an article today on his "lookalike" son Matthew (if they say so).

Handsome, but never sexy. In anything.

Some years back, Matthew was running in marathons to raise money for the Christopher and Reeve Foundation. I applaud the kids for their continued support and some of the work toward spinal cord injury research and disability advocacy.

I wrote this before but I'll write this again. I used to work near to Times Square years ago. And I would go home via Port Authority. I would walk by the Broadhurst just as A Matter of Gravity was letting out. I would wait with the crowd at the stage door for the great Hepburn to walk out to her limo. I would always watch Reeve come out avoiding the crowd walking against the side of the building thinking how handsome he was. He was completely ignored. He didn't mean a thing to people at that point.

R44, He had been on “Love of Life” for two years by then.

My family and I got to meet him before a performance of "Fifth Of July" on Broadway one day. He was so warm, funny and friendly. When my Mom, told him how much she loved his latest film "Somewhere in Time" and how she wanted to go to Mackinac Island, he grabbed all 5'2' of her and gave her a big hug. The only time I ever saw my Mom almost swoon. He was a movie star. I still have the windowcard (poster) of his show he signed. Alas they are both gone now and she never did get to go to Mackinac.

Very handsome man, and beautiful looking children.

After viewing a rough cut of the documentary, his three children requested that the filmmakers delve deeper into certain areas of their father’s life.

Does that mean Chris’ rumored bisexuality will be addressed?

He looks like he would stop you dead in your tracks if you saw him irl. Otherworldly

Christopher Reeve WAS Superman. Not sexy but beautiful and imposing. Never heard anyone say a bad word about him. Very sad sequence of events with the Reeve family. Many tragedies.

He looks older than 24 in the first Superman movie. This isn't a bad thing.

His body looks a hundred times better than today's roided-out freak superhero "actors."

No one better.

[quote] Christopher Reeve also plays Superman in The Remains Of The Day. A straightforward, wise American with moral authority over the bluster of outdated Victorian values.

That is a bizarre way to characterize the part he played in "The Remains of the Day." Lord Darlington is incredibly naive and lobbies for the UK to appease Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

I hate to rain on this love fest, but he was not the greatest screen actor--he gave some awkward performances, such as in "The Bostonians," where he just did not seem up to the level of the material.

[quote] Lord Darlington is incredibly naive and lobbies for the UK to appease Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

That was James Fox, you freaking dumbass. Chris Reeve played the American.

There were actual gasps at the kissing scene in “Deathtrap” when I saw it in a cinema.

[quote]I hate to rain on this love fest, but he was not the greatest screen actor--he gave some awkward performances, such as in "The Bostonians," where he just did not seem up to the level of the material.

Cool, now do Brando, and DeNiro and Pacino who all gave awkward performances through the years.

And then there’s this.

Previous CR thread.

Don't forget Noises Off (1992), where he worked alongside Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Julie Hagerty, Nicollette Sheridan, Mark Linn-Baker and Denholm Elliott.

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich