Neill died on Sunday at her home in Tucson, Arizona, after a long illnss, Jim Nolt, the owner of "The Adventures Continue" website dedicated to the 1950s TV show, said in a statement, Reuters reported.
Neill was born on Nov. 25, 1920, in Minneapolis, where her father was a journalist at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Shortly after hih school she traveled to California and found a job as a singer at a restaurant at the Del Mar racetrack. Her connections at the track led to a contract with the Paramount movie studio.
She had a series of small film roles, many of them uncredite, in the 1940s. There was no substantial work until 1948, when Columbia Pictures borrowed Neill to make 15 episodes of a comic book-based movie serial about a man from another planet who discovers he has super-human strength and is impervious to bullets.
Kirk Alyn was cast as the star of "Superman" and the petite red-headed, blue-eyed Neill was Lois Lane, his friend and co-worker at the Daily Planet.
They reprised their roles in another serial, "Superman and the Mole Men," but neithercast when "Adventures of Superman" was adapted for television.
When the original TV Lois Lane, Phyllis Coates, left the show after one season, Neill stepped back into the role that would define her career and make her part of one of American teleisions most enduring series.
The show hit the air just as television was becoming a social force in the United States and became a favorite of generations of children, with a long life through reruns.
The TV Superman, as played by Georgves, was faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive in his blue tights and red cape as he fought a never-ending battle for "truth, justice and the American way."
But he was just a mild-mannered reporter for a great metropoltan newspaper when he put on his suit and thick-framed glasses as his alter ego, Clark Kent, to work with Lois and cub reporter Jimmy Olsen.
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