... of credit for the rise of Las Vegas as a gambling haven. Siegel, who was portrayed by Warren Beatty in the popular 1991 film "Bugsy," reached a violent end in 1947 when he was shot many times through a window of his Beverly Hills home. Was Superman murdered or did he take his own life? That question will probably never be answered - but most people believe he was murdered. George Reeves, who starred as the original "Superman" in the 1950s, died of a gunshot wound in his own house ...