WhenHeartBadlyReacts: Cardiac distress is when the heart doesn't react well to the conditions on it. For instance, during exercise, activity, running, etc., the heart should be pumping more blood to the body; in distress, the heart shuts down, or pumps less.
Other Actors Who Played Superman. Other actors have played the role -- Ray Middleton, Bud Collyer, Lee Quigley, Kirk Alyn, Brandon Routh and Bob Holliday, and Tom Welling, in Smallville -- though none gained the fame nor consistency in the role of the previous three.he Original Superman. George Reeves was perhaps the first enduring figure of Superman on the big screen. Others had played the role, but after his 1951 debut in Superman and the Mole Men, Reeves went on to an extended run with Superman on the small screen in the TV series The Adventures of Superman.
Noel Neill and George Reeves on the set of the television series âAdventures of Superman,â which ran in the 1950s. Credit Everett Collection. Noel Neill, the petite film and television actress who played Lois Lane in 1940s âSupermanâ movie serials and on television in the 1950s, died on Sunday at her home in Tucson. She was 95. Her death was confirmed by her biographer, Larry Ward.