List of actors who have played Superman

The following is a list of actors who have played Superman in various media. It primarily features portrayals of Clark Kent, but also includes performances of other characters who have assumed the Superman mantle.

Radio and audio dramas

Name	Title	Date	Type
Bud Collyer	The Adventures of Superman	1940-1950	Radio series (Mutual)
Michael Fitzmaurice	The Adventures of Superman	1950-1951	Radio series (ABC)
Leonard Teale	The Adventures of Superman^[1]	1949-54	Radio (Australian)
Stuart Milligan	Superman On Trial^[2]	1988	BBC Radio
	The Adventures of Superman^[3]	1990
	Superman: Doomsday & Beyond	1993

Stage plays

Name	Title	Date	Type and location
Bob Holiday	It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman	1966	Stage musical (Broadway)
Gary Jackson		1992	Goodspeed Opera House production^[4]
Cheyenne Jackson		2007	Los Angeles/New York revival^[5]
Matt Cavenaugh		2010	Revised Dallas Theater Center production^[6]
Brian Holden	Holy Musical B@man!	2012	StarKid musical parody
Edward Watts	It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman	2013	Encores! concert^[7]
Craig Berry	It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman	2014-2015	UK production^[8]

Television and DTV films

Name	Title	Date	Type
David Wilson	It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman	1975	Television special (ABC)
Tim Daly	The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest	1997	Animated television compilation film
	Superman: Brainiac Attacks	2006	Animated direct-to-video film
	Superman/Batman: Public Enemies	2009	Animated direct-to-video film
	Superman/Batman: Apocalypse	2010	Animated direct-to-video film
	Justice League: Doom	2012	Animated direct-to-video film
George Newbern	Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam	2010	Animated direct-to-video short film
	Superman vs. The Elite	2012	Animated direct-to-video film
	Justice League vs. the Fatal Five	2019	Animated direct-to-video film
Travis Willingham	Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite	2013	Animated direct-to-video film
	Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons	2022	Animated direct-to-video film
	Justice League × RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part II	2023	Animated direct-to-video film
Breckin Meyer	Robot Chicken DC Comics Special	2012	Stop-motion/animated television special
	Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise	2014	Stop-motion/animated television special
	Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship	2015	Stop-motion/animated television special
Nolan North
	Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered	2014	Animated made-for-television short film
	Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League	2015	Animated direct-to-video film
	Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League – Attack of the Legion of Doom	2015	Animated direct-to-video film
	Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League – Cosmic Clash	2016	Animated direct-to-video film
	Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash	2018	Animated direct-to-video film
	Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Aquaman – Rage of Atlantis	2018	Animated direct-to-video film
	Lego DC: Shazam!: Magic and Monsters	2020	Animated direct-to-video film
	Batman: Death in the Family	2020	Animated direct-to-video film
	Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!	2023	Animated direct-to-video film
Jerry O'Connell	Justice League: Throne of Atlantis	2015	Animated direct-to-video film
	Justice League vs. Teen Titans	2016	Animated direct-to-video film
	Justice League Dark	2017	Animated direct-to-video film
	The Death of Superman	2018	Animated direct-to-video film
	Reign of the Supermen	2019	Animated direct-to-video film
	Batman: Hush	2019	Animated direct-to-video film
	Justice League Dark: Apokolips War	2020	Animated direct-to-video film
Darren Criss	Superman: Man of Tomorrow	2020	Animated direct-to-video film
	Justice Society: World War II	2021	Animated direct-to-video film
	Legion of Super-Heroes	2023	Animated direct-to-video film
	Justice League: Warworld	2023	Animated direct-to-video film
	Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths	2024	Animated direct-to-video film
Christopher Reeve	Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut	2006	Director's cut of Superman II (1980)
Adam Baldwin	Superman: Doomsday	2007	Animated direct-to-video film
Kyle MacLachlan	Justice League: The New Frontier	2008	Animated direct-to-video film
Mark Harmon	Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths	2010	Animated direct-to-video film
James Denton	All-Star Superman	2011	Animated direct-to-video film
Mark Valley	Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Part 2	2013	Animated direct-to-video film
Matt Bomer	Superman: Unbound	2013	Animated direct-to-video film
Sam Daly	Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox	2013	Animated direct-to-video film
Peter Jessop	JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time	2014	Animated direct-to-video film
Alan Tudyk	Justice League: War	2014	Animated direct-to-video film
Benjamin Bratt	Justice League: Gods and Monsters	2015	Animated direct-to-video film
Jason Isaacs	Superman: Red Son	2020	Animated direct-to-video film
Henry Cavill	Zack Snyder's Justice League	2021	HBO Max release, director's cut of Justice League (2017)
Justin Hartley	Injustice	2021	Animated direct-to-video film
Max Mittelman	Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse	2022	Animated direct-to-video film
Chandler Riggs	Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part I	2023	Animated direct-to-video film
Takaya Kamikawa	Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League	2025	Anime film, Japanese
Aaron Campbell	Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League	2025	Anime film, English dub

Television series

Name	Title	Date	Type
George Reeves	Adventures of Superman	1952-1958	Syndicated series
Bud Collyer	The New Adventures of Superman	1966-1970	Animated series, broadcast on CBS
	The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure	1967-1968
	The Batman/Superman Hour	1968-1969
Bob Hastings	The Adventures of Superboy	1966-1968	Animated series, broadcast on CBS
	The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure	1967-1968
	The Batman/Superman Hour	1968-1969
Danny Dark	Super Friends	1973	Animated series, Super Friends franchise
	The All-New Super Friends Hour	1977-1978
	Challenge of the Superfriends	1978
	The World's Greatest SuperFriends	1979-1980
	Super Friends	1980-1983
	Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show	1984-1985
	The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians	1985
Beau Weaver	Superman	1988	Animated series, broadcast on CBS
John Haymes Newton	Superboy	1988-1989	Syndicated series
Gerard Christopher	Superboy	1989-1992
Ron Ely	Superboy - "The Road to Hell"	1991
Dean Cain	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	1993-1997	ABC series
Tim Daly	Superman: The Animated Series	1996-2000	Animated series, DC Animated Universe
Christopher McDonald	Batman Beyond - "The Call"	2000	Animated series, DC Animated Universe
George Newbern	Justice League	2001-2004	Animated series, DC Animated Universe
	Static Shock - "Toys in the Hood"	2003
	Justice League Unlimited	2004-2006
	The Batman	2006-2008	Animated series
Tom Welling	Smallville	2001-2011	Broadcast on the The WB/The CW
Tom Welling	Batwoman - "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two"	2019	Broadcast on The CW
Michael Daingerfield	Krypto the Superdog - "Krypto's Scrypto"	2005	Animated series, broadcast on Cartoon Network
Yuri Lowenthal	Legion of Super Heroes	2006-2008	Animated series
Nolan North	Young Justice	2010-2022	Animated series
Roger Rose	Batman: The Brave and the Bold - "Battle of the Superheroes!" and "Triumvirate of Terror!"	2011	Animated series, broadcast on Cartoon Network
Jason J. Lewis	Justice League Action	2016-2018	Animated series, broadcast on Cartoon Network
Tyler Hoechlin	Supergirl	2016-2019	Broadcast on The CW, Arrowverse
	The Flash - "Elseworlds: Part One" and "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"	2018-2019
	Arrow - "Elseworlds: Part Two" and "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four"	2018-2020
	Batwoman - "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two"	2019
	Legends of Tomorrow - "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five"	2020
	Superman & Lois	2021-2024
Brandon Routh	Batwoman - "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two"	2019-2020	Broadcast on the CW, Arrowverse
	The Flash - "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"
	Legends of Tomorrow - "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five"
James Wolk	Harley Quinn	2019-present	Animated series
Jack Quaid	My Adventures with Superman	2023-present	Animated series, broadcast on Adult Swim
David Kaye	Teen Titans Go! - "Four Hundred"	2024	Animated series

Theatrical films

Name	Title	Date	Type
Bud Collyer	Superman	1941	Animated short (Fleischer Studios)
	The Mechanical Monsters	1941
	Billion Dollar Limited	1942
	The Arctic Giant	1942
	The Bulleteers	1942
	The Magnetic Telescope	1942
	Electric Earthquake	1942
	Volcano	1942
	Terror on the Midway	1942
	Japoteurs	1942	Animated shorts (Famous Studios)
	Showdown	1942
	Eleventh Hour	1942
	Destruction, Inc.	1942
	The Mummy Strikes	1943
	Jungle Drums	1943
	The Underground World	1943
	Secret Agent	1943
Kirk Alyn	Superman	1948	Film serial
Kirk Alyn	Atom Man vs. Superman	1950	Film serial
George Reeves	Superman and the Mole Men	1951
Christopher Reeve	Superman	1978	Original Superman film series (1978-2006)
	Superman II	1980
	Superman III	1983
	Superman IV: The Quest for Peace	1987
Jeff East	Superman	1978	Younger version, Original Superman film series (1978-2006)
Brandon Routh	Superman Returns	2006	Original Superman film series (1978-2006)
Henry Cavill	Man of Steel	2013	DC Extended Universe
	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	2016
	Justice League	2017
	Black Adam	2022
	The Flash	2023
Cooper Timberline	Man of Steel	2013	DC Extended Universe, 9 year old version
Dylan Sprayberry	Man of Steel	2013	DC Extended Universe, 13 year old version
Channing Tatum	The Lego Movie	2014	Animated feature film
	The Lego Batman Movie	2017
	The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part	2019
Nicolas Cage	Teen Titans Go! To the Movies	2018	Animated feature film
Nicolas Cage	The Flash	2023
John Krasinski	DC League of Super-Pets	2022	Animated feature film
David Corenswet	Superman	2025	DC Universe

Video games

Name	Title	Date
Barton Tinapp	The Multipath Adventures of Superman: Menace of Metallo^[9]	1999
Tim Daly	Superman: Shadow of Apokolips	2002
Jeff Kramer	Superman: The Man of Steel	2002
Crispin Freeman	Justice League Heroes	2006
Brandon Routh	Superman Returns	2006
Christopher Corey Smith	Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe	2008
Adam Baldwin	DC Universe Online	2011
Troy Baker	Infinite Crisis	2011
JB Blanc	Infinite Crisis	2011
Travis Willingham	Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes	2012
	Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham	2014
	Infinite Crisis	2015
	Lego Dimensions	2015
	Lego DC Super-Villains	2019
Nolan North	Young Justice: Legacy	2013
Nolan North	Justice League: Cosmic Chaos	2023
George Newbern	Injustice: Gods Among Us	2013
	DC Universe Online	2016
	Injustice 2	2017
	MultiVersus	2022
P.M. Seymour	DC Battle Arena^[10]	2021
Craig Lee Thomas	DC: Dark Legion^[11]	2025

Web originals and motion comics

Name	Title	Date	Type
David Lodge	Superman: Red Son	2009	Motion comic
Joseph May	Batman: Black & White	2009	Motion comic
Benjamin Bratt	Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles	2015	Animated web series
Max Mittelman	DC Super Hero Girls: Super Shorts - "#EqualTights"	2019	Animated short
Tim Daly	The Creative Coalition Presents: Superman Radio Show	2020	All-star reading of the original radio scripts^[12]
Wilson Cruz
Daniel Dae Kim
David Hasselhoff	Dark Nights: Death Metal - Sonic Metalverse	2020-2021	Motion comic

References

^ THE TRUE BLUE AUSSIE FIGHTING THE FORCES OF EVIL ON RADIO
^ "BBC Genome Project". Superman on Trial. 5 June 1988.
^ "Dirk Maggs - The Adventures of Superman". Discogs.
^ Holden, Stephen. "Review/Theater; Superman as Dimwit in 1966 Parable", The New York Times, June 20, 1992, retrieved December 13, 2017
^ "Superman! Concert — with Cassidy, Kind and Jackson — Presented May 14"
^ A Musical Even the Fanboys Are Geeked Over: A Word With DTC's It's Superman Writer
^ New York City Center "Encores!" Nycitycenter.org
^ It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
^ The Multipath Adventures of Superman: Menace of Metallo (1999)
^ DC Battle Arena (2001)
^ DC: Dark Legion (2025)
^ FanDome's Superman Radio Show Starring Daniel Dae Kim, Henry Winkler, Giancarlo Esposito And More!

[1] THE TRUE BLUE AUSSIE FIGHTING THE FORCES OF EVIL ON RADIO

[2] "BBC Genome Project". Superman on Trial. 5 June 1988.

[3] "Dirk Maggs - The Adventures of Superman". Discogs.

[4] Holden, Stephen. "Review/Theater; Superman as Dimwit in 1966 Parable", The New York Times, June 20, 1992, retrieved December 13, 2017

[5] "Superman! Concert — with Cassidy, Kind and Jackson — Presented May 14"

[6] A Musical Even the Fanboys Are Geeked Over: A Word With DTC's It's Superman Writer

[7] New York City Center "Encores!" Nycitycenter.org

[8] It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre

[9] The Multipath Adventures of Superman: Menace of Metallo (1999)

[10] DC Battle Arena (2001)

[11] DC: Dark Legion (2025)

[12] FanDome's Superman Radio Show Starring Daniel Dae Kim, Henry Winkler, Giancarlo Esposito And More!

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