Noel Neill

When it came to the Hollywood embodiment Superman's girlfriend Lois Lane, while actresses Margot Kidder and Terri Hatcher made their marks in the role, for many Baby Boomer-era fans it was still Noel Neill who epitomized the role. The plucky red-headed actress played the part of the perennial damsel in distress on television in "The Adventures of Superman" in the 1950s, opposite George Reeves as the title character. Although she left acting when the series ended in 1957, she remained such a fixture in the world of the man of steel that she was plucked out of retirement at the age of 85 to appear in director Bryan Singer's opus "Superman Returns" (2006). Noel Neill died in Tucson, Arizona on July 4, 2016. She was 95.