Director Richard Donner has died. The director of influential blockbusters such as Superman: The Movie, The Goonies, and the Lethal Weapon series was 91.

After briefly considering a career as an actor, Donner started directing in the early 1960s, with the drama X-15, starring Charles Bronson. His commercial breakthrough came a decade later with his fourth movie, 1976’s The Omen. This hugely successful horror film was one of the biggest movies of that year, earning two Oscar nominations and kickstarting a franchise.

The Omen was followed by an even bigger success–Superman: The Movie. The film ushered in the new generation of superhero movies and featured iconic performances from Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, and Margot Kidder. It was the most expensive movie ever made at that stage, but it grossed than $300 million worldwide and set the template for the comic book movies that were to follow.

Throughout the ’80s, Donner delivered a number of successful movies that remain some of the decade’s most loved films. The kids fantasy adventure The Goonies was produced by Steven Spielberg, while the Christmas comedy Scrooged gave Bill Murray one of his most iconic roles as a cynical TV executive Frank Cross. In 1987, Donner directed the classic Lethal Weapon, which starred Mel Gibson and Danny Glover and is now considered one of the decade’s greatest action movies. Donner went on to direct all three of the Lethal Weapon sequels.

Donner’s ’90s movies included two more collaboration with Gibson, the western Maverick and thriller Conspiracy Theory, the Sylvester Stallone action movie Assassins, while his final film was 2006’s 16 Blocks, starring Bruce Willis.