Whatever Happened to The Cast of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman?

Lane Smith played a sometimes irate and often highly entertaining, Elvis-obsessed Perry White in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

By that time, he was already a well-established and highly regarded actor, starring as Nixon in the TV movie Final Days (for which he gained a Golden Globe nomination), and taking guest spots in some of the most popular shows of their eras: Murder She Wrote, Dallas, Quincy M.E., and The Twilight Zone.

Post Lois and Clark, he didn't slow down, gaining roles in The Outer Limits, From The Earth to The Moon and voicing two characters for King of The Hill.

In 2000, he landed a part in The Legend of Bagger Vance. In 2003, he retired from acting and, in 2005, at the age of sixty nine, he sadly died of motor neurone (or Lou Gehrig's) disease. 

In keeping with the show's modern take on the Superman legend, K Callan played a Martha Kent who wasn't to be messed with. While repairing and/or washing her son's super suits, she would chide him over his lack of honesty with Lois and had no qualms about getting in on some of the heroic action on occasion (chasing muggers and refusing to play the meek old lady when used as bait).

Since Lois and Clark, K Callan has been consistently busy. Like Lane Smith, she's voiced a character on King of The Hill and she has guest starred in numerous TV shows, including Chicago Hope, JAG, Without a Trace, Nip/Tuck, and even Desperate Housewives. 

Most recently, she's featured in How I Met Your Mother, as Grandma Lois and, as if that weren't coincidental enough, she's in a new series called Supermoms, which (at the time of writing) is in post-production.

John Shea played Lex Luthor like a Bond villain; suave, classy with a taste for the finer things in life, he even managed to charm his way into Lois' affections, before Superman and the rest of the Daily Planet gang revealed his scurrilous dealings at the end of season one.

After that, Luthor continued to appear periodically throughout seasons two and three; managing to throw a spanner in the works of Lois and Clark's burgeoning romance, and even ruining their wedding.

Shea is perhaps still best known for that role, but he has had plenty of work since Lois and Clark was canceled; featuring in Sex in The City, That's Life, Mutant X and Medium.

Most recently, he took the title role in an adaptation of Julius Caesar; he's also had a recurring role on the very popular Gossip Girl, and a guest spot on The Good Wife.

Michael Landes was Lois and Clark's first Jimmy Olson, he was replaced after season one, because, apparently, he looked too similar to Dean Cain.

He would go on to feature in The Drew Carey Show (Carey would later have a guest spot on Lois and Clark season four), and the short-lived comedy, Too Something. After a handful of TV movies, he was back on the big screen in Hart's War and Final Destination 2 and 3.

For a while, he worked in the U.K., featuring in an episode of the much loved Agatha Christie Marple series, and starring in the comedy Love Soup opposite Tamsin Grieg. He's divided his time between the U.S. and U.K., continuing to feature in a variety of small and big screen movies, and TV shows on both sides of the pond.

His most recent work has been in Upstairs Downstairs in the U.K., and Don't Trust The B--- in Apartment 23, in the U.S. It being a very small world, that's also a show Dean Cain has guest starred in. 

After Lex Luthor's demise (and/or imprisonment depending on where in the seasons we are), we were a little low on witty villains, Lane Davies' Tempus changed all that and proved popular enough to appear in four episodes of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. 

An accomplished stage actor as well as familiar figure on our television and movie screens, Davies has had guest roles on Just Shoot Me!, 3rd Rock From the Sun, The Practice and Scrubs; as well as a recurring role on General Hospital. Most recently, he's starred as Det. Johnson on The Bay.

Farrah Forke's Mayson Drake offered an alternative love interest for Clark Kent and a permanent source of annoyance for Lois Lane.

And because we all wanted to see the lead characters finally get together, not many fans of the show were sorry to see D.A. Drake killed by a car bomb.

In real life, Forke would go on to star in Dweebs, Mr. Rhodes and have a guest part in Party of Five. Sticking with the superhero theme, she also voiced Barda in Batman of The Future and Justice League. In addition, she starred in the not particularly well known movies Kate's Addiction (which would later come to be titled Circle of Deception), and Hitman's Run.