Hotties From Classic Movies That No One Remembers

Hurd Hatfield

Keith Andes

David Rollins, early sound juvenile. In an interview late in his life he told about F.W. Murnau's infatuation with him and how he called his studio for advice. He told them that Mr. Murnau wants to take nude pictures of me by the pool, what should I do? The studio said, Do whatever it takes to make Mr. Murnau happy.

OT R3 --> FW Murnau was 6' 11 tall!! German & an openly gay aesthete. He'd flown as a pilot in northern France in WW1 + is said to have survived 8 crashes. That would all give anyone an air. not least along with the career movie productivity at this point ...Maybe not a Bryan Singer sort, but you bet it would have been a dynamic like studio execs suggested - "do whatever it takes to make Me Murnau happy"!!

I've never been able to find adequate info on how FWM handled his height. Men with this height along with the physical presence & inevitable intimidation in same can sometimes be quite messed up & diffidenf too...

Richard Todd

Vittorio Gassman

John Ericson

Tom Drake

Guy Madison

Douglass Montgomery

Richard Arlen

David Manners

Charles Brabin

Another shot of Brabin where you can barely see his face, but get a decent look at his torso.

1940s muscled, young heartthrob Johnny Sheffield. An addition to playing in several Tarzan movies, he is the star of a 1940s serial called "Bomba the Jungle Boy" which is shown on TCM every Saturday morning.

Italy's Massimo Girotti. So unbelievably sexy in Ossessione (1943).

Indian actor Sabu Dastagir, most famous for his Michael Powell films The Thief of Bagdad and Black Narcissus.

r4 i dont want to call you a liar but pilots cant be tall because the plane cockpit is small. so i will just say you are an untruth teller.

David Manners was gay

Gilbert Roland

Sabu, love him.

Guy Madison

That's not Brabin (the film director), that's his lead in "The Mask of Fu Manchu," Charles Starrett.

Dewey Martin, bitches!

Linda Christian once told me that she thought she was still technically married to Edmond Purdom, but I'm sure his later wives begged to differ.

Ed Fury, shown here wearing black shirt & tweed sportcoat in FEMALE ON THE BEACH (1955).

Tweed sports coats. Mmmm.

Jeff Richards, shown here in a promo for THE OPPOSITE SEX (1956) surrounded by Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Joan Blondell & Agnes Moorehead.

ps only Joan Collins, now 82 is still living

Joe Robinson shown here from a 1955 film with Diana Dors was also a karate & judo champ. His best remembered role was that of the real Peter Franks in the James Bond film DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER in which Bond & he battle to the death in an elevator. Now, 88, Joe lives in his native England.

The very delicate Richard Cromwell (otherwise known as Mr. Angela Lansbury). This photo reminds me of that early photo of Truman Capote.

Robert Gunner had a short career in films including OUR MAN FLINT, and PLANET OF THE APES.

Robert Francis was a young up & coming actor who was killed in a 1955 plane crash.

To go along with my post at R24 here's another of Ed Fury.

And a close up of Ed Fury's face

Charles Farrell

I love this thread. Great idea, OP! Keep these gorgeous, glamorous gents coming, eldergays! Educate us young'ins! I wish I could remember the name of it, but I recall seeing one of those cheesy 50s or early 60s b-movies on TCM last year - one of those silly films with some kinda swamp monster that attacks a small group of people. There's, of course, a young ingenue, a slightly older wise woman, a kindly, elderly, salty man of the sea, a doctor of some kind and a ridiculously beautiful leading man who plays the hero. The actor spent half the film with his shift off and he had an incredible body for the time period. I wish I could remember his name or the name of the film. Unfortunately, there's more than one film like this. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, though, speak up!!

Hugh Allan

Patrick Knowles was under contract at Warners where he often played second fiddle to Errol Flynn. He is better remembered now for having played Mame's longtime friend, the publisher Lindsey Woolsey in the 1958 film AUNTIE MAME.

shown below: Patrick Knowles, Olivia deHavilland & Errol Flynn

Ray Milland was hot when he was young.

Joan Fontaine's first husband, beautiful Brian Aherne

Thomas Beck was on his up in film in the 1930s but his homosexuality and contract disputes helped him decide to leave film and go into real estate in which he prospered.

Jon Hall had both a great body & a handsome face.

John Payne who even looked good wearing a bathing suit that resembled a diaper.

r41 There's an even sexier photo of him as a prizefighter. In it he's wearing black trunks, and is seated on a stool in the corner of a boxing ring, looking incredibly sexy and laid-back. Excellent lighting added to his beauty. Perhaps you can locate it?

George Maharris Route 66 television series yummy. Closet queer

John Kerr, South Pacific

[R34] Are you talking about Rex Reason from The Creature Walks Among Us? If not, you should be.

How about Jeff Richards, the hot brother who doesn't dance in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers?

Mr. Ginger Rogers, Jacques Bergerac.

I read an interview once (but I don't remember with whom) and she stated that Ray Milland was the biggest cocksman in Hollywood even though people thought it was Eroll Flynn.

Eric Linden Ricardo Cortez John Gilbert Norman Kerry George O'Brien John Hodiak John Beal Norman Foster William Bakewell Johnny Downs Dennis Morgan William Prince

You do realize that even for us elder gays these men were before our time?

And I want to know where David Rollins's nude photos by the pool are.

Sorry R26! Just saw you got to Jeff Richards before I did. But he's just so damned good looking, I hope no one will mind the repetition.

OP, if no one remembers the movies they can't be considered classics.

Most American kids of a certain age remember Richard Greene from the 1950s British "Robin Hood" TV series.

Gardner McKay

Kerwin Matthews

Vince Edwards

54 posts and no one's mentioned Rory Calhoun??

Or...perhaps he's not forgotten but what Joel McCrea?

Hank Bilson

Stu Fromacchi

Randolph vonSokthrote

What was that gorgeous brunette actor's name who danced with Susan Hayward in With a Song in My Heart and had a small part in Niagara has Marilyn Monroe's affair on the side?

I believe that's Al Molinaro

What happened to Jeff Richards' career? He had such a big build up in The Opposite Sex and was even cast as the only one of the 7 Brothers who couldn't sing or dance.....did he make any other films? Did he do TV?

WOW, R8, I was sure nobody knew of Douglas Montgomery - I watched MUSIC IN THE AIR as a teen and I masturbated for days!

R58, think it was Richard Allan who played Marilyn Monroe's lover in Niagara.

It is telling that all of these gorgeous men were not major stars and that most of the major stars were not gorgeous. I think it really speaks to the heterosexuality of all of the moguls who ran the studios during The Golden Age.

Here's Joel McCrea and Dolores del Rio in Bird of Paradise

Lyle Talbot, who played middle aged fuss budgets on Ozzie and Harriet and other TV shows throughout the 150s and 60s and 70 was a major hottie at the beginning of the pre-code Talkie Era. He was shockingly sexy in a Loretta Young film (sorry, can't remember the title) in which she played a shop girl in a department store and he was a buyer who tried to "purchase" her.

I must find a photo and post it!

Cornel Wilde and his grapefruits.

Richard Allan was gorgeous

Douglass Montgomery from Hepburn's Little Women??

Sorry, never got the appeal.

Now, young Peter Lawford OTOH.......

More Richard Allan

I don't care how gorgeous Richard Allan was. With an unmemorable generic name like that, he didn't stand a chance.

R39 I think that photo is Hugh Allan

R46

Jeff was already mentioned in post R26

R60

The athletic Jeff Richards had been a pro baseball player before his brief career in film. He was also an alcoholic. He continued a downward spiral and was living in a trailer in eastern California when he died in his 60s.

Anthony Steele

R41 is this what you were looking for?

I always found Dana Andrews attractive. Not pretty and very masculine.

Wayne Morris

omg OP, i can't believe you said Richard Greene! I remember him from Shirley Temple's Little Princess...he was stunning in that movie.

Vittorio Gassman was very handsome. Poor bastard was also once married to Shelley Winters as was sexy Tony Franciosa.

Handsome Philip Carey started out in film in the 40s and ended up on a long running soap opera decades later.

Someone above mentioned Jon Ericson. Here's a pic. He was in a handful of films like Rhapsody (opposite Elizabeth Taylor), Bad Day at Black Rock and Pretty Boy Floyd.

He's one of those actors who always seemed gay to me.

He began his film career as a kid with bit parts in fairly major films like THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, GOING MY WAY, GILDA, THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR.

William Smith, the once cute looking boy grew into a handsome muscular young man with a formidable bearing which he parlayed into a decent career in television as a regular on TV's THE ASPHALT JUNGLE and later the western LAREDO in the mid to 60s.

In the late 70s, one of his more memorable roles was in the tv mini-series RICH MAN, POOR MAN in which he played Falconetti who played a pivotal role in the death of the one Jordache brother. Smith also played Clint Eastwood's nemesis in ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN which culminated with the two duking it out. William also played Arnold Schwarzenegger's father in CONAN.

Still living, the now 82 year old William shows up occasionally at autograph conventions.

William Smith below on the left.

William Smith exits the shower in 1962.

Smith in the early 1980s when he was playing bad guys.

Thank you R79, I'm glad someone else agrees with me about Vittorio! Shelley sure did get two hot Italians between Vittorio and Anthony Franciosa. She and Vittorio had a daughter together I think. Gassman stayed hot even as an old man. Does anyone remember the movie with Brad Pitt and Robert DeNiro, where DeNiro played a priest who had to testify to save two local hoods from a murder conviction? Pitt played the DA who was prosecuting them, but they were all friends and he wanted to lose the case. Anyway, Vittorio played the local crime boss and he was awesome. I've loved him ever since I saw him in Rhapsody with a very young, very beautiful Elizabeth Taylor.

Oh, God, YES! William Smith! He was hot AND funny in "Laredo".

German actor Aribert Mog, infamous for going down on Hedy Lamarr in "Ecstasy":

Gene Raymond-marries to Jeanette MacDonald for @800 years but arrested 3 times for sex wit da men.

Another pic of Aribert Mog; he kind of resembles Tom Cruise in this one:

James Craig

There's so much golden age beauty in this thread, I don't know which one to comment on. Keep 'em coming, boys! This is DL at its best. Interesting, cultural and... hot!

R45 - good find, but no, the dude in the swamp monster thingy b-movie I saw looked a touch younger, was less hairy and was a little more muscular than the handsome fella you posted. Sorry, again, I know my description is probably that of dozens of similar films from the era. Wish I could remember more.

Bill Smith, married to Barbara Hale (Perry Mason's secretary), and their son William Katt was also very cute and an actor. You should catch his first movie, a noir classic, Deadline At Dawn, with Susan Hayward. He looked extraordinarily hot in his sailor suit in that movie.

R92 here. BILL WILLIAMS, not Bill Smith. Sorry.

Wallace Reid was one of the heart throbs of the 1910s & early 20s. An accident lead to drug addiction and he died at the age of 32. His father in law was actor Harry Davenport (Dr. Meade in GONE WITH THE WIND).

Wasn't William Katt Carrie's prom date in the movie by the same name?

R95

Yes, that and his starring role on TV's THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO are his best known roles.

He was indeed, R95.

Wow! Never knew he was Della Street's son. Makes sense though, because I also remember him playing the Paul Drake role in the Perry Mason movies they made in the late 80s/early 90s...

I thought you might have meant Ken Clark R34/R91 - he was in "Attack of the Giant Leeches" (which, delightfully, received the MST3K treatment.)

But if your guy was "less hairy" then R45 then Ken isn't your man either.

R99, nope, that's not him. He had dark hair, definitely less hairy and thicker/more muscular and looked several years younger than either of the actors posted yet. I was barely watching the film while doing some work, but certainly looked up and paid attention whenever he disrobed. If I recall correctly, the first part of the film takes part in some big, grand family home - perhaps an old plantation style place. And then the group ends up on a boat looking for something - perhaps the monster (one of those "obviously just a dude in a full length costume" things). It was B&W. It had to be late 50s-mid 60s and I'm pretty sure that the first time the hunk I'm thinking of took his shirt off was to dive into the water to save someone. Anyway, thank you for trying (and for introducing me to some other b-movie eye-candy).

Leonard Whiting

Ray Danton

"No one remembers" Leonard Whiting? For a lot of folks on this board, he was our first exposure to Shakespeare (and naked-on-screen butt)!

R27 He looks like a buff Vincent Price!

So many of these pretty boys have the most forgettable and generic names.....Robert Allan, Jeff Richards, James Craig, William Smith, Bill Williams.....it's no wonder Henry Willson's boys with their unique monikers.....Tab, Troy, Guy, Rory, Ty, et.al......stood out from the pack.

Always was enthralled with Robert Horton who starred on TV's long-running Wagon Train and Broadway's 110 in the Shade. But he never went on to movie stardom or even returned to Broadway (despite a powerful baritone and true stage presence).

Horton leads me to another group of hotties, all those young men who starred in those ABC TV shows in the late 1950s and early 60s: Edd Byrnes, Van Williams, Ty Hardin, Will Hutchins, Lee Patterson, Brett Halsey, Robert Logan, Robert Fuller and, of course, Robert Conrad. But perhaps that's another thread.

John Saxon!!!!

Thank you, R107. John Saxon was seriously hot. So was our very own George Maharis, and please don't forget about James Darren. If you love old movies, and I do, these are some beautiful guys. Darren should have been huge.

Why is it so funkin hard for people to link a picture with the names? Are you all new to the interweb?

I wouldn't include Joel Mccrea on this . Too big a star and too many classic films. One of the great male screen beauties.

That picture of Payne in the boxing ring is one of my all time favorites of a man. The legs alone are to die for.

I have Robin Hood DVD's! I remember Richard Greene!

Terence Hill

[quote]Cornel Wilde and his grapefruits.

Those grapefruits were MINE, Ethel.

[quote]Are you talking about Rex Reason from The Creature Walks Among Us? If not, you should be.

Rex Reason had a brother named Rhodes who was also a hunky actor of yesteryear.

don't know how that Star Trek pic got in there

Here's a list with tons of photos

r75 Thank YOU, that is the very still of which I spoke. Talk about smoldering? Hubba, hubba.....

r78 "Robin Hood Robin Hood riding through the glen, Robin Hood Robin Hood with his band of men, feared by the bad, loved by the good, Robin Hood.....Robin Hood.....Robin Hood....." What a looker, huh?

Didn't William Smith play on later episodes of "Bonanza"? His character's name was Candy or Canary or sumthin' like that? Or have I conflated him with a lookalike/soundalike?

John Ericson

William Lundigan

Tommu Rall in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

That's TOMMY Rall!

r101, NOBODY who ever went to the movies in the 70's will EVER forget Leonard Whiting!!!

Basically, and this thread's been done before, what this topic really shows is that celebritydom isn't eternal. Some day people will post "Nobody remembers Sinatra." Maybe even today. In the 80's I worked with a young teacher who had never hard of Milton Berle.

There always will be smug know-littles who don't care about our cultural past. I remain hopeful, therefore, that the Kardashians, Jenners, Wests, Hadids, Hiltons, Willises, et al. will finally and utterly be forgotten.

"Heard of...."

Heh.

[quote]NOBODY who ever went to the movies in the 70's will EVER forget Leonard Whiting!!!

"Romeo and Juliet" was in the '60s.

I just saw John Payne as a boxer once again in one of TCM's "Summer of Darkness" noirs ("99 River Street" opposite Evelyn Keyes), but he was much older by then. Still looked hot.

Well, everything is relative. I posted Whiting because I definitely think he's a hottie, and I definitely think he is forgotten in the macro sense. It's not as though playing Romeo catapulted him to lasting stardom. I would wager his ability to be recognized by anyone under 50 is hovering around 5% at best.

Shirtless, hairy, buff-as-fuck George Nader vs. Ro-Man, Shittest Robot Before HitchBot, the Now Deceased, Defunct Hitchiking Robot!

In 3-D!!!

John Payne's by now classic George Hurrell production still was shot on the set of KID NIGHTINGALE (39). He's a crooner who boxes! He's a boxer who croons!

R122, most of these guys did not have any more credibility than the Kardashians or the other people you mentioned. A few of these actors were talented but most were himbos

Not really a "classic" movie, but I watched this blatantly homoerotic film "Top Gun" with young Tammie Cruise and there's this actor, Rick Enrico Rossovich... he was hot!

R61, I'm a fan of Montgomery because I saw him in James Whales pre-code classic, Waterloo Bridge, which is superior in every way to the glossy 1940 remake. Douglass is absolutely gorgeous in it, and I recommend you track the film down and see it. I also knew him from the Bob Hope version of The Cat and the Canary, and The Mystery of Drood(in which he co starred with Claude Rains and David Manners). The later film is full of homosexual subtext and phallic imagery. It's based on Dickens' unfinished novel, but it was made by Universal during the height of their horror craze in 1935, so it was always being run on Shock Theater type programs during the 70's and 80's(and I'm sure before that, too, but I ain't quite that old yet).

Peter Brown was in a bunch of westerns on tv as well as a fair amount of film work. He later did soap operas. He's got to be in his late 70s by now.

Tom Tryon. I wonder if Quaintance had any artistic influence on the director.

Reb Brown did a lot of tv work and some films in the 70s. He's stayed fairly active over the decades but not with anything that really stands out.

Miles O'Keefe was touted as the next big thing when he played TARZAN opposite the then hot property Bo Derek. Alas, his career never took off though he was in quite a few films.

Sam J. Jones shown here from a layout he did for PLAYGIRL under another was cast as Bo Derek's newlywed husband in '10' which was a big movie in 1979. Afterwards he was cast in the lead of FLASH GORDON. His career did better in television though he has been a plenty of movies as well in the past 35 years.

Another of Jones: What a great cock shot !!

Arturo DeCordova, Richard Todd, Horst Buchholz, Buster Crabbe, Lon McCallister, Henry Daniels Jr., Jock Mahoney (Sally Fields' dad), John Barrymore Jr. (Drew Barrymore' s dad), Carl Brisson, Raul Roulien, Rod LaRocque

I spilled so much spunk over Sam J. Jones. I would rewind and pause my Flash Gordon VHS tape to the part where he was shirtless and and in gold short shorts and jack off.

R117-I think his name was Canary or Candy I can't remember either but he did go on to play twins on All My Children.

Bump

David Canary played Candy on Bonanza. He was just ok, not quite in this league.

Not only is Montgomery beautiful in Waterloo Bridge but he gives a performance that would put all juveniles of the last 50 years to shame.

It is deeply felt and heartbreaking.

And Mae Clarke is stupendous. Just putting on a hat and looking at herself in the mirror shows that Whale was one of America's great directors.

What's this about Gene Raymond being arrested for the homosex?

R144, it's in the Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy dual biography "Sweethearts". Look up his wikipedia page, there is a brief synopsis-don't read the book, though-it's a slog and you'll end up hating both JM and NE by the end for being such whining pussies.

Thanks, r145

Another photo of Gilbert Roland. It's one of the best I've ever seen

He didn't age well though but this photo...swoon!

Jack Carson had a bearish, best buddy, hail-well-met thing going on. He was Wally Fay in Mildred Pierce.

Not pretty, but something about him....

Ramon Novarro. Very attractive silent film star who was tragically killed by hustlers

Yeah, but he was like, 100 years old then, so no one cares, R149.

I think Gilbert Roland aged very well, at least into the 1950s. He was a hot sexy daddy to RJ Wagner in Beneath the 12 Mile Reef.

How about John Gavin? Too well-known for this thread? I think he was one of THE handsomest men ever to grace the screen.

Was this so hard, R152?

Jim Bray. He was only in one movie and then disappeared. Sad.

Mark Frechette. Gone too soon.

R138

I think Mahoney was Sally Field' stepfather, not her natural father.

Such a beauty.

Buster Crabbe. One of the funniest things I ever saw in a movie is between Buster Crabbe and Edna May Oliver. It was a movie called "We're Rich Again". Edna May comes home and finds Buster Crabbe in the swimming pool. He's standing in the pool talking to her, and while he's talking he has his hands cupped in front of his crotch and he's using them to shoot streams of water. So obscene, I don't know how it got past the censors.

Speaking of MILDRED PIERCE, Bruce Bennett who played her husband ...

William Eythe - he was gay and dated fellow actor Lon McCallister

i always wondered if uncle henry and myra gulch from kansas ever got it on. they seemed to know each other intimately, and she was trying to get back at him from wizard of oz. i heard he was packing uncut.

Does anyone under 40 know who Alain Delon is ?

im 26, wasnt that edith and fabiens son. looked like that old guy from orig psycho

This thread is NOTHING without Gardner McKay!!!!

-Bruce Cabot -James Edwards -Allan Jones -Edward Nugent -Robert Alda -Harry Stockwell -Jack La Rue -Sessue Hayakawa -Glenn Vernon

Wow! Gardner McKay was like a better looking version of John Gavin, if that can be believed.

Gardner McKay looked like a young Steven Bauer, or a cross between John Gavin and Young Sean Connery.

He died at 69 from Prostate Cancer. Such a shame. He really aged well.

Glenn Langan (Fox player ("Dragonwyck," "The Snake Pit," but probably best known for 50's "The Amazing Colossal Man.") Stocky, amiable, handsome.

John Russell (supporting player in mostly westerns, then on TV in "Soldiers of Fortune," and "The Lawman") Tall, lean, hot mustache, at a time when mustaches weren't all that prevalent.

William Eythe (various Fox films, including "Song of Bernadette" and "A Royal Scandal") Gay, involved in some scandal during Broadway show, "Out of this World."

Richard Hart ("Green Dolphin Street")

Lex Barker (lots of late 40's/early 50's "Tarzan" films, was also in "La Dolce Vita," but most notorious for, supposedly, abusing Cheryl Crane, when he was married to Lana Turner. Very, very handsome, built man. Used to have a photo shoot of him and Olympic Decathlon champ Bob Mathias, both shirtless, working out together. Very hot.

Hart Bochner (best known for doing striptease in "Rich and Famous," but career went mostly nowhere, and later became an acting teacher.)

Paul Mantee (Best-known film "Robinson Crusoe on Mars," wherein he appeared naked, one of the first times this was done. Later acting coach and writer.)

I wouldn't include John Gavin another one with a high profile and a number of classic films. It would be like including Rod Taylor.

Fell in love with him as a boy seeing TMM.

Saw a benefit performance of the film at the Astor Plaza where all the star were invited but only Channing showed up and gave a terrific introduction.

The rest sent regrets along with a note of what the film meant for them.

Amazingly the best came from Gavin who seems to have been a charming witty man despite his sometimes wooden performances.

I'll second Hart Bochner.

Grant Williams ("The Incredible Shrinking Man")

Have we mentioned Hugh O'Brian?

Just what is his story, anyhow?

let us not forget friday the 13 with the wheelchair gay. he was the masc. bodybuilder with th 12 in dick that was 9 in around.

I loved Sam J Jones too ! What about Buster Crabbe? he was a real timeless hunk. Also who was the blonde hottie in Come back Little Sheba? he poses for the girl and Shirley Booth practically drools over him standing there in his shorts and vest phwoooor!

Richard Jaeckel, Mr. B!

[R175] That's him! He's the best thing in the movie. What a hunk, i only watch his scenes. He looks timeless the hair and everything could be today.

Oh don't forget Mike Henry as Tarzan. God that guy was a vision in a loin cloth. I recall having lots of funny feelings over him as a kid watching those movies. His sweaty torso and heaving chest were a dream.

Douglas Dick, who rapes uptight, middle-aged virgin Loretta Young in THE ACCUSED (49).

Keep them cumming. What about Guy Madison? lots of rumours that he was BI but not substantiated. according to David Bret, he was caught in bed with a guy by his wife Gail Russell, but Bret's not the most reliable source of info.

Gordon Scott was also a huge bodybuilder as Tarzan, he always seemed on edge like you would get very angry sex off him. Hot! maybe it was the steroids lol

Steve Reeves was pure beefcake, and hot with a beard yummy!

Nick Adams from the 50s and 60s

Mainly known from TV: Peter Mark Richman. Although most famous for playing Chrissie's Dad on Three's Company, I'll always remember him as the sheriff with the great ass in The Twilight Zone episode "The Fear".

R24, thanks for posting about Ed Fury. I had never heard of him. He was spectacular!

Doug McClure from the 60s movies Shenandoah (with Jimmy Stewart) and Beau Geste.

Mark Richman also played the love interest for the daughter of Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire in "Friendly Persuasion."

How about Rick Jason from the "Combat" TV series.

Or Eric Fleming, I think his name was, the hunkier cowboy opposite the very young Clint Eastwood in western TV series, "Rawhide."

I had a thing for Dewey Martin, very hot, well-built man in "Land of the Pharaohs" and "The Big Sky."

Or Ron Ely, the TV Tarzan.

Or pretty Jack, or Jacques, Sernas, the Paris in the 1956 "Helen of Troy." (A lot of other hunks in that movie...)

I loved those late 1950s/early 1960s Tarzans like Mike Henry, Gordon Scott and Ron Ely because they all got to keep their hairy chests. Ape Man, indeed!

Grant Williams was originally an opera singer who then began acting. When his acting career started to decline, he retired from acting, he opened an acting school in West Hollywood. He died at 54 from peritonitis and never married. Was he an early AIDS death that was covered up?

Does anyone else remember Kerwin Matthews from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad? He was a hottie who eventually came out as gay in his retired years.

Didn't Grant Williams make some homophobic comments, along the lines of "I'd Never Play a Gay Character!" or something like that?

I watched endless episodes of boring Wagon Train and Laredo as a kid waiting for Robert Horton and Robert Fuller to appear shirtless but they rarely did.

Meanwhile, Clint Walker over on Cheyenne was doing it every week but I only caught up with him years later in reruns.

I've been watching The Rifleman and Rawhide on AMC on Saturday mornings just for Chuck Connors and Eric Fleming. Fleming drowned during filming something as I recall, such a waste.

Also, there's plenty of shirtless shots of Clint Eastwood from those days, but few if any of Fleming.

The guy who played the doctor in Miracle on 34th Street, the one who Kris gets an X ray machine for. He was lovely.

Hugh O'Brian married for the first time in his 80's.

To a female, btw.

Didn't Eric Fleming drown on a location shoot?

Hugh O'Brian hit his zenith in a yellow speedo playing Lana Turner's boy toy in Love Has Many Faces. I don't know why he didn't make more films....he was far hotter than Rock Hudson or James Garner if you ask me.

Dick Davalos

Douglas Dick dated Arthur Laurent's, then bearded up in a het marriage

Weren't there ANY young male ingenues in the late 40s that Laurents didn't "have"? (He must have had one hell of a schwanz!)

No, he just had power. He was only moderately good looking and was an evil bitch.

Since when does the screenwriter have power in Hollywood, r200?

Totally Mike Henry! I always called this photo "He followed me home, can I PLEASE keep him?".

R112 Terrence Hill didn't age badly up to a point he was on a long running Italian tv series called Don Matteo, about a priest who solves crimes, throughout the 2000's and did not look bad for a guy in his mid-late 60's. The last episodes I saw was around Season 6, no idea what he looks like now.

[quote]Douglas Dick dated Arthur Laurent's

Arthur Laurent's WHAT?

I always wondered why the mean bitchy Laurents was a regular at the weekend Gene Kelly parties. He didn't seem to like them and I wonder what they saw in him.

He certainly had nothing good to say about them not that he had anything good to say about anyone except his longtime lover and Lena Horne,

The Gene Kelly parties were heavily attended by all the Broadway writers who were being brought out to work in Hollywood, like Adolph Green and Betty Comden. Hence Arthur Laurents tagged along. And he could play a mean volley ball.

Someone upthread already mentioned Tom Tryon, but I'll bring him up again. Talk and beefy gay hunk. Retired from film and became a successful horror/mystery writer. He had a brief relationship with porn legend Casey Donovan. Supposedly was busted having sex with Rock Hudson on Santa Monica beach, which led to Hudson quickly getting married to hush up the gay rumors.

HORST BUCHOLZ!

r124, okay, 1968. I was in college, 67-71, so I forgot the exact year. Nonetheless, iLW is still memorable!

Did anyone mention Roger Herren who played "Rusty" the... actor who gets raped by post-op m-t-f Racquel Welch in 'Myra Breckinridge'?

[R202] Oh my god that boy looks keen to see what's under that loincloth!! wow quite suggestive, in a weirdly innocent way!

Errol Flynn

Errol Flynn?! Nobody remembers Errol Flynn?!

To R193:

That was Glenn Langan, Fox contract player, who also played a psychiatrist in "The Snake Pit," and Gene Tierney's nice country doctor admirer in "Dragonwyck." Later in life, he seems to have been reduced to playing horror films, like the title role in "The Amazing Colossal Man." Very good-looking, pleasant mellow voice, presents as very sincere on screen, though, of course, I have no idea what he was actually like.

Another prvocative one of Mike Henry....is that savage aiming to deflower Mike?

Mike Henry was hot. When I saw him in those Tarzan films on TV as a kid he stirred my early desires and became one of my first sexual fantasies. Perfection!

Does anyone remember an Elizabeth Taylor movie called Rhapsody? The incomparable, seriously sexy Vittorio Gassman as a violinist, played her love interest, but there was another guy in the movie she ended up marrying, the pianist. He is the Hottie I want to remember. John Ericson. WEHT him?

Ericson who's pushing 90 lives in New Mexico. He was also HONEY WEST' partner Sam Bolt on the ABC series of the same name.

Robert Gunner (R) shown here in a scene from PLANET OF THE APES.

Ed Fury who's now 87 & lives in CA.

He was featured in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, FEMALE ON THE BEACH, South Pacific.

That guy from the 1931 version of Waterloo Bridge. The guy with dark curly hair who was in all the Marilyn Monroe films (Millionnaire, Blondes, Return).

R217, John Ericson's career petered out by '70s, and he had hoped to reignite interest by doing a Playgirl pictorial in 1974. But nothing really came out of it. When Playgirl re-ran the spread years later (with genitalia cropped out to his specifications) for a "Best of" special, Ericson sued Playgirl for not placing him on the cover-- an omission, he claimed, lossed him valuable career opportunities, and thus, lost wages. He won the judgment.

DEAN WHITE

For me no one was hotter than dream boat George O'Brien.

He was another of F. W. Murnau's boys. Also linked with John Ford, Spencer Tracy and Howard Hughes.

Oh yeah, George O'Brien!

George and Johnny....

I agree with most on the list, but as a teenager in the 60's it was those cowboys that got me churning. Peter Brown, William Smith, super bear Clint Walker, Robert Horton (whose pants were way too baggy), Robert Fuller, and since the reruns began I've added John Smith. Kept holding my breath for them to be stripped. No one did bondage like Robert Conrad, but the BEST nipples were John Ericson. I remember seeing The Cruel Tower and getting an instant hardon. Then there was Gordon Scot post Tarzan when they didn't shave his chest in Hercules and the Princess of Troy, Buffalo Bill (that half-naked knife fight!) and the eurospy films. Finally, top hairy chet of all time Ken Clark of Giant Leeches, but even more in the spaghetti westerns, Drool!

"No one did bondage like Robert Conrad, but the BEST nipples were John Ericson"

Ericson was really handsome. He's still alive - I believe he's in his late 80s

Does anyone remember John Russell? He was gorgeous.

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Tom Selleck in Coma

Mark Damon. No, not Matt Damon. MARK Damon. Always had a thing for him.

50's beefcake, Paul Mantee from Robin Crusoe on Mars

Chuck Connors. - The Rifleman was on TV. I'm not sure if he had any small roles in movies.

Ken Norton in Mandingo. More Blackploitation please.

Bruce Bennet - one of the many Tarzans' in film from the 30s.

Mantee had some nice tits

Maximilian Schell was an Oscar winner and serious actor so perhaps he doesn't qualify here but that handsome rugged face of his sure got me through the 3 hours of Judgment at Nuremberg.

DAVID HEDISON

1960s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea TV show.

His daughter is Alexandra Hedison, Jodi Foster's wife.

Nobody mentioned Steve Cochran? Christopher Jones. Anthony Eisley.

Who would marry that pig Shelley Winters?

And that bitch Linda Christian had Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, AND Edmund Purdom.

RIP VAN WILLIAMS.

Dane Clark, John Garfield and Robert Alda.

Anthony Eisley was hot as hell

Anthony Eisley

R244 thats Robert Conrad

that's buster crabbe, r236.

Anthony Eisley was Bob Conrad's co-star in Hawaiian Eye, pre-Wild Wild West. He was always dressed in a tropical suit, never a bathing suit like Conrad, so I always assumed there wasn't much underneath. Connie Stevens also co-starred as Cricket, though I can't remember what her job was on the show. She often sang a musical number.

Edmund Purdom looks like James Franco.

Purdom was like a cleaner, healthier-looking Franco

John Bromfield, married to Corinne Calvet. Pictured here with Tab Hunter.

George Montgomery - major forgotten hunk.

Is the infamous unidentified movie "Attack of the Crab Monsters"?

I had a crush on Anthony Eisley

David Farrar, from Black Narcissus and other movies. He had such a deep, sexy voice

utyuytu56

If you're going to post a Keith Andes pic R2 at least have the decency to make it THIS one.

Why are you bitches posting those particular shots of Ed Fury and Paul Mantee when NUDES are available?!

MUCH better.

Very hot

TCM plays B Westerns on Saturday mornings. Tom Keene starred in many in the 30s

Another vote for Dewey Martin. He's still alive at age 94. I loved him in The Land of the Pharaohs, the movie for which William Faulkner wrote the screenplay.

Oliver Tobias - if Nicholas Clay and Simon MacCorkindale had a love child.

People may be surprised to learn that even before Valentino, Sessue Hayakawa was considered to be the FIRST Hollywood heartthrob.

He was very cute in his day. The only time I ever saw him in a film was "The Bridge on the River Kwai" where he was NOT cute, unfortunately.

Peter Mark Richman is probably better known for dozens and dozens of television appearances but he did have a role in at least one classic movies, "Friendy Persuasion"

He went from handsome young man to hot DILF effortlessly and everytime I see him on a old rerun the things that stand out are his beautiful blue eyes and sexy voice. VERY fuckable man in his prime.

Tony Bill. Probably better known as a producer/director as he aged out of the ingenue roles.

Loren Tindall

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Flicking through this thread I remembered Guy Stockwell, great chest hair! He costarred with Doug McClure in The King's Pirate and Beau Geste and Gardner McKay's "mate" in Adventures in Paradise (I think in season 2). Much later and heavier I spotted him in Murder She Wrote. I agree with whoever above added John Smith in Laramie. I was always hot for Fuller, but Smith was looking mighty fine in those tight pants. Shirtless -OMG!

Murray Head from Sunday Bloody Sunday