'Superman' actress Margot Kidder dead at age 69

5/14/2018
REUTERS
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    Margot Kidder, as Lois Lane in a scene from the 1978 film "Superman," died Monday in Montana.

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  • LOS ANGELES — Actress Margot Kidder, best known for playing Lois Lane in the “Superman” films in the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 69, a funeral home in Montana said on Monday.

    The Franzen-Davis Funeral Home in Livingston, Montana said on its website that Kidder passed away on Sunday at her home in the town. The cause of death was not immediately known.

    Canadian-born Kidder also appeared in the movie “The Great Waldo Pepper” and the children's TV series “R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour.”