Both Kidder and co-star
Christopher Reeve, who played Superman, were relative unknowns when they got their leading parts, and neither saw many major roles afterwards.
Margot Kidder dead aged 69: Tributes paid to Superman actress who played
Christopher Reeve's dazzling Lois Lane
Christopher Reeve took on the heroic role in 1978 and gained 30lbs for the part.
Christopher Reeve, right, took on the persona in the late 1970s and made us 'believe a man can fly'
Margot Kidder, who starred as Lois Lane opposite
Christopher Reeve in the 'Superman' film franchise of the late 1970s and early 1980s, has died.
THE last time Margot Kidder saw her late Superman co-star
Christopher Reeve, she told him that his horrific riding accident made him a better man.
Margot Kidder - who played Lois opposite
Christopher Reeve in four Superman blockbusters - was one of the star turns at Film and Comic Con at Braehead Arena, near Glasgow.
Christopher Reeve shared the same sense of fierce pride and self-determination as those paralyzed World War II veterans who started our organization, and we will carry forward their vision."
2 SUPERMAN (1978)
CHRISTOPHER Reeve makes his debut as Superman and his human alter-ego Clark Kent.
We usually only hear of severe spinal injuries causing paralysis from the neck downwards when someone has a horse-riding accident, like Superman actor
Christopher Reeve, below, or when a rugby star suffers a broken neck in the boiler house of a rugby scrum.
The love between actor
Christopher Reeve and his wife Dana finally reaches book form with SOMEWHERE IN HEAVEN, a striking story of the actor who produced four blockbuster Superman films and the romantic movie Somewhere In Time, who was paralyzed in a freak horseback-riding accident.
The rock icon had invited actor
Christopher Reeve to visit his home in Prosperous, Co Kildare.