A 5½ x 4 page from an autograph album signed in person by Christopher Reeve (1952 - 2004), the American actor probably best known for playing the title character in Superman (1978) and its three sequels (1980–1987). Afterwards, Reeve turned down multiple roles in big-budget movies, focusing instead on independent films and plays with complex characters. He appeared in critically successful films such as Somewhere in Time (1980), Deathtrap (1982), The Bostonians (1984), Street Smart (1987) and The Remains of the Day (1993), and in the plays Fifth of July on Broadway and The Aspern Papers in London's West End. Reeve won a British Academy Film Award, an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1995, following a fall from a horse, Reeve's first and second cervical vertebrae were destroyed and his spinal cord damaged. He was paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe without a ventilator.