Cast members that are in all four films:

Christopher Reeve as Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman

Margot Kidder as Lois Lane

Jackie Cooper as Perry White

Marc McClure as Jimmy Olsen (He also appears in the 1984 Supergirl film.)



The cast members that play the bad guys:

Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor (Superman 1, 2 and 4) (He also voices Nuclear Man in Superman 4.)

Ned Beatty as Otis (Superman 1 and 2)

Valerie Perrine as Eve Teschmacher (Superman 1 and 2)

Terence Stamp as General Zod (Superman 1 and 2)

Sarah Douglas as Ursa (Superman 1 and 2)

Jack O'Halloran as Non (Superman 1 and 2)

Robert Vaughn as Ross Webster (Superman 3)

Pamela Stephenson as Lorelei Ambrosia (Superman 3)

Annie Ross as Vera Webster (Superman 3)

Mark kissen as Nuclear Man (He physically plays Nuclear Man, but the character's voice was done Von Hackman.)

Jon Cryer as Lenny Luthor (Superman 4)



Other cast members:

Marlon Brando as Jor-El (Superman 1 and the Donner Cut of Superman 2) (Old footage of Brando was used for Jor-El in Superman Returns.)

Susannah York as Lara (Superman 1, Superman 4 and the theatrical cut of Superman 2)

Glenn Ford as Jonathan Kent (Superman 1)

Phyllis Thaxter as Martha Kent (Superman 1)

Richard Pryor as Gus Gorman (Superman 3)

Annette O'Toole as Lana Lang (Superman 3)

Sam Wanamaker as David Warfield (Superman 4)

Mariel Hemingway as Lacy Warfield (Superman 4)