This Death Was Overshadowed By George Reeves
While it is very well known that George Reeves committed suicide before filming an additional season of Adventures of Superman, it is not often talked about that another actor died in the meantime as well. John Hamilton who played Perry White and died in October of 1958. George Reeves later committed suicide in June of 1959 at the age of forty-five. While producers had planned to continue on after John Hamilton’s death and replace him with Pierre Watkin for the seventh season of the show, no one could have expected that George Reeves would also have an untimely death. The series was subsequently cancelled after all the tragedy.
