Google is honoring the late actor, director and advocate Christopher Reeve with a Google Doodle on what would have been his 69th birthday.

The image will be visible in the United States at 5 a.m. ET on Sept. 25. Created by Erich Nagler, lead art director for Google Doodles, it shows Reeve in his wheelchair with the skyline of a city behind him. The hidden word "Google" is formed from the clouds in the sky -- and the trail of a flying figure behind him.

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Reeve, who was born in 1952 and died in 2004 at age 52, starred in 1978's Superman. At the time, he was a theater actor best known for the soap opera Love of Life, and was third-billed in Superman behind Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman. The role earned him a BAFTA Award in 1979 for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles and launched him to stardom. Reeve appeared in three sequels as well as other films.

In 1995, Reeve injured his spinal cord when he was thrown from a horse during an equestrian competition and was rendered paralyzed from the neck down. After rehabilitation, he resumed his acting career, starring in a TV movie remake of Rear Window in 1998, which earned him a Screen Actors Guild award, and guest-starred in two episodes of Smallville as Dr. Virgil Swann. He also became an advocate for research into spinal cord injuries and for funding to improve care and treatment for people with such maladies, through what is now the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.

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