The Most Handsome Men in the History of Hollywood

I'd put Zac Efron right up there with them

Tie between Brando and Brad Davis. The end.

Sterling Holloway

Franklin Pangborn

R2 Brad Davis? you serious?

Abe Vigoda

[quote]I'd put Zac Efron right up there with them No.

Now a young Brad Pitt does deserve to be mentioned. He truly was famously good lookingly.

Cary Grant! Never went to seed like Brando; despite his history with LSD, never ended up a trembling drug addled wretch like Monty.

Matt Bomer, hello!!!

Robert Taylor was stunning.

I have three (and I'll even throw in the movie at which they were at their peaks)

Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman

and Alec Baldwin in Miami Blues.

No one's mentioned Rock Hudson?

Robert Conrad

If you're counting TV stars, recent revisits to photos and videos of Jon-Eric Hexum have cemented my feeling that he was truly one of the most handsome men in the history of Hollywood. Except the word "handsome" doesn't do him justice. He was truly beautiful, sheer physical perfection. Seriously.

A young Mark Harmon.

Denzel Washington Idris Alba Laurence Fishburne

William Holden

Out here repping those who like the prettier guys

James Dean

Al Pacino (before around 1982)

Jude Law (pre balding)

Hot Aussie Rod Taylor did it for me, in his younger days

Cary Elwes (all the way up to Robin Hood Men in Tights)

Guy Madison has got to be WAYYYYYYYYYYYY up there in the pantheon of Hollywood pulchritude.

Errol Flynn. No contest.

Cary Grant - 2nd place.

Clark Gable

Gary Cooper

Tyrone Power

Gary Cooper

Jon Hall

Rory Calhoun

Tab Hunter

Sal Mineo (seriously)

Why am I never on these lists?

Hold old are you, OP?

Paul Walker

James Garner

I'm sure this will make some people think I'm insane, but you know what? I don't think James Dean was especially good looking. I guess maybe people who find him hot are responding to his persona and his acting style -- which I can't stand, by the way. But if we're rating him in terms of sheer physical beauty, I don't think he's anywhere near the same class as most of the other men who've been mentioned here, and honestly, I would rate him as only slightly above average at best.

Dennis Morgan

At least the Vintage Hunks in b&w thread has got lots of photos.

James Dean acted sexy in the same way that Kathleen Turner acted sexy in the 80s. You don't have to be the most beautiful person to be a sex symbol.

[quote]You don't have to be the most beautiful person to be a sex symbol.

Agreed, but the title of this thread is "The Most Handsome Men in the History of Hollywood," and James Dean was mentioned. I don't agree. I think Kathleen Turner in her prime was far more physically beautiful than James Dean -- and I'm gay.

Gary Cooper, no contest

Fred Williamson "Black Caesar"

Gregory Peck

Ryan O'Neal

Robert Redford

This is a handsome man, William Holden . . .

Christopher Atkins Sal Mineo Wesley Crusher Leif Garrett Davy Jones

O.J. Simpson

Stephen Boyd

John Gavin

William Holden was very handsome when he was very young, but he may be the single worst example of premature aging due to hard living in Hollywood history.

John Gavin, Stephen Boyd, and O.J. Simpson were indeed gorgeous. Also Ken Norton, if someone who made so few movies can be counted.

Young Harrison Ford, Daniel Day-lewis

Matt Bomer

Daniel Day-Lewis is gorgeous and hot as hell in THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.

Chris Pine, Ashton Kutcher, Ryan Gosling, and Keanu Reeves are the four best looking men right now. James Norton is also pretty classic.

Omar Sharif

Louis Jourdan

Danny DiVito

William Frawley

Michael Moore

G.

Marlon Brando in *The Men*. Alain Delon in *Plein Soleil*. Yes, Guy Madison in *Till the End of Time* is also up there.

Randolph Scott

John Payne

Laurence Olivier

Colin Firth

Tom Selleck, James Garner, Robert Wagner

If Fred Williamson manages to look that incredibly hot in that fugly suit and hairdo, he wins. Could Gary Cooper carry that off??

A fourth vote for Sal Mineo from the day he turned 15 to the day he died.

Lee Van Cleef. Really, I’m serious. He was majorly hott back in the day.

Warren Beatty for sure

k.d. lang

Gary Cooper would be my #1 choice. Someone above posted a picture of him when he was pld and creased--when he was young he was breathtaking.

George O'Brien would be another choice for me. All but forgotten today, he was one of the biggest stars (particularly in Westerns) in the 1920s. His most famous role is as the husband in SUNRISE by F. W. Murnau.

George Nader

Kerwin Mathews

(both gay, BTW)

Dash Riprock

"William Holden was very handsome when he was very young, but he may be the single worst example of premature aging due to hard living in Hollywood history."

So what? He was still stunningly handsome in his prime. Others aged badly, as well . . . Brando, Olivier, Gibson, etc.

PAUL NEWMAN

r62 I guess those buckets of ice water three times a day paid off, huh?

Tyrone Power and Tab Hunter.

Ty Hardin

Glenn Corbett

Kent McCord

and the lucky bastard who worked with both of them, Martin Milner

Helmut Berger for a tiny second. Does he count as Hollywood?

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Jude Law in Gattaca and Ripley--dear god, he was beautiful.

For Jonathan Rhys Meyers fans here

Warren Beatty

Keanu Reeves

young Mel Gibson

Gregory Peck

Elvis was a movie star. I didn't say was a good actor.

I agree with shouty r62. Paul Newman was handsome every minute of every day until he died.

R68, yes, we know, JRM is a serious alkie. Doesn't mean he wasn't/isn't gorgeous when not shitfaced.

Cary Grant end of discussion. He held on to his looks longer then any other celebrity. Tall dark and handsome.

[quote]Now a young Brad Pitt does deserve to be mentioned. He truly was famously good lookingly.

I guess his kids inherited the stupid looking gene from him

Agree about Pitt. He's never done anything for me. He looks stupid and he has the bland looks of a member of a boy band.

Helmut Berger though Mein Gott!

R68, here you go, a not so soused JRM...I'm not saying he's completely sober here, but obviously not falling down drunk.

Another vote for Robert Wagner

I recently started watching 30 Rock on Netflix, and I have to say, even though he's a bit plump, Alec Baldwin was still handsome as hell. Definitely a stunner in the early 90's, but still hot. (idk when the show went off air, and I'm only on season 2, so he may look like hell by the end of it, not sure)

Rock Hudson and George Nader. Handsome hunks and many of my generation knew they were gay before general public did and that just added to their sexiness

A vote for young Gary Cooper.

Matt Dillon

Hart Bochner. I would give five years of my life to have just one go at his ass.

Paul Newman

I was just thinking about Hart Bochner.

Alain Delon

Grace Jones

Sean Connery Roger Moore.

Steve Buscemi

William H Macy

Wallace Reid

Tie between Tony Curtis and Paul Newman.

Another vote for Hart Brochner. Sex on a stick!

Jeff Chandler

Elvis Presley!

Jake Gyllenhaal. Yes he is.

OK Errol Flynn

Young Johnny Depp

Tyrone Power

John Gavin

That Hemsworth brother who was Thor. I saw him making the rounds promoting his whale movie and he is beautiful

Colin Farrell

Another vote for Jake.

Also Matthew Goode and Hugh Dancy and Jamie Dornan.

Keanu

I think all of these have been mentioned:

Young Johnny Depp Young Gary Cooper (my favorite) Brad Pitt Young Jason Patric Warren Beatty Robert Redford Paul Newman

John James and Gregory Harrison were handsome TV stars

Caitlyn? No fucking way.

I think it will be Trump sadly.

Damn I forgot to put spaces between the names. But Gary Cooper is my favorite. There was something masculine yet very sexy and sensual about him that is captured on film, more so than photos I think.

Here is John James:

Henry Caville is pretty cute.

Paul Newman from beginning to end.

Patrick Wilson

This goes way back to the early tv 50s...Gardner McKAY...HIS TV SHOW...Adventures in Paradise

Stephen Boyd John Gavin

If there was ever sex on a stick, it was Gary Cooper. In an interview, “Cooper & Hemingway The True Gen” director and writer John Mulholland said, “Warren Beatty was asked once about his own womanizing. You are probably the biggest womanizer in the history of Hollywood and he stopped the interview and said, ‘No, no, no, no, after Coop we’re all amateurs.’”

Harrison Ford. Especially in Temple of Doom.

Jeff Chandler, yes! He looked particularly sexy in polka dots.

I like real men, so I'll go with George O'Brien (on the left).

Clara Bow had a major affair with Gary Cooper in his prime.

She would brag to others about the size of his cock, but she complained that he had a flat ass.

"Poor Gary, all that cock and nothing to push it with . . ." is a Clara Bow quote.

Good call, r27. This thread seems to skew more toward the golden age of Hollywood. Paul Walker is one of the most beautiful men I have ever seen, in or outside of Hollywood.

r44, that's a nice, shortlist of current A-list beauties. Ryan Gosling is handsome as fuck. Have never been a big Ashton Kutcher fan in terms of the roles he's performed, but my boyfriend had Dude, Where's My Car? on Netflix the other evening, and lordy-lord-lord was Ashton gorgeous in his twink days. That prompted me to look at recent pics, and he's up there with the all-time best in terms of looks. Woof.

r78, ditto. Huge fan of 30 Rock, and I can't watch an episode without thinking how good Alec Baldwin looked. That show would have spanned his late forties into his early fifties. Still looks good in the trailer for Concussion. A very handsome man.

A final note/question on this thread. Does handsome differ from beautiful/gorgeous in terms of a man's looks? In other words, does handsome connote classically good-looking/chiseled. Maybe that eliminates men with softer features?

Another vote for Robert Wagner

He's a fairy.

Alec Baldwin was stunning when he was younger. Not so bad a daddy now, although I hear he's terrible to work with.

Alec Baldwin on "Knot's Landing" was jerk off material.

How soon we forget the Number One heart throb of the seventies was Richard Chamberlain in "The Thorn Birds"

Oops I guess it was '83

Young Marlon Brando, Circa "Streetcar," and a young Paul Newman, Circa "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

It was Perry King who was big in the seventies (NSFW). That's who I was thinking of.

I was in love with Perry King.

Miss Jeremy Northam in his prime was super het!

The young Burt Reynolds. Lee Majors.

Robert Redford when he was in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He looked good with facial hair. How could anyone forget the young Larry Hagman?

Leigh McCloskey put the "Gay" in the 1970s. And he has remained an original.

Has anyone bought Leigh's Tarot book?

Leigh giving a tour of his study on 12-12-12

Richard Chamberlain was wildly hot in the 1960's when he starred on the "Dr. Kildare" series, which is when R-116's photo was taken.

Yes, R61, but Holden started to lose his looks way younger than those other guys you mentioned. I think it's amazing that he got the role of the young stud in the movie of PICNIC, and I can only guess that happened because the nutso, closet-case director Josh Logan was fixated on how beautiful Holden was -- 10 or 15 years earlier.

I'd like to cast another vote for Hart Bochner. I think the only reason his name doesn't come up more often on the list of Hollywood's most beautiful men is that he didn't work as much as a lot of the others mentioned here, and he transitioned to directing and writing pretty early on.

Speaking of actors who didn't work all that much, here's the name of another beauty I don't think has been mentioned yet: Matt Keeslar. Alas, I believe he has pretty much left the business. See link.

[quote]I think it's amazing that he got the role of the young stud in the movie of PICNIC,

Ideally Holden should have been younger, but remember too: Hal is a drifter, he had a tough life, he had problems with the law. It's even better if he has a menacing quality somewhere in there.

Also, Holden's look was in vogue at the time: hyper masculine, square jawed and rugged.

You rarely hear the term "rugged good looks" today. Today's handsome is more than likely a line-free baby face.

I'm friends with Perry King. He's a nice, screwed-up guy from a famous, intense family. And totally straight. Always picks horrible girlfiends. And I do mean, fiends.

These two guys. Love all.

If Tom of Finland had illustrated older daddies, they would have looked like this.

[quote]Ideally Holden should have been younger, but remember too: Hal is a drifter, he had a tough life, he had problems with the law. It's even better if he has a menacing quality somewhere in there.

All true, but though the character's age is not specifically stated, I believe he's supposed to be in his mid 20s. (People keep referring to him as a "young man," and we get the impression that he went to college with Alan not that many years earlier.) Holden was 37 when he did the movie, and he looks several years older. That's my point.

[quote]Also, Holden's look was in vogue at the time: hyper masculine, square jawed and rugged. You rarely hear the term "rugged good looks" today. Today's handsome is more than likely a line-free baby face.

I don't object to his rugged, hyper-masculine looks, I object to the fact that he was too damn old for the part. The character makes no sense if the actor looks older than 30 at the absolute most.

When I first saw Henry Cavill in The Tudors as Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, I thought he was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. That Henry Cavill remains my top choice. I'd put Matt Bomer in as a very close second.

Why can't Hal be in his mid-30s? Maybe it's Cliff Robertson who was miscast. There's no desperation if Hal is young and promising.

For that matter, Kim Novak looks 30 in the film. If she looked like she was actually 19, who would care about her problems? Everyone looked older back then. Verna Felton was probably just 40-something.

I was mad about Matt. He moved to Portland and went to nursing school. He may have switched over to med school. I loved that movie he made in Ireland in which he walked around with a sheep covering his cock, shrieking about how his girlfriend's male family had tarred and feathered his "dangler."

[quote]When I first saw Henry Cavill in The Tudors as Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, I thought he was the most beautiful man I had ever seen.

I did too. Why'd you do it, Henry?

[quote]Why can't Hal be in his mid-30s? Maybe it's Cliff Robertson who was miscast. There's no desperation if Hal is young and promising.

He can't be in his mid-30s because that's not the character Inge wrote. The action of the movie is presumably set around the time the movie was released, in the mid 1950s. In those days, no one would ever refer to a man in his mid-30s as a "young man" -- not even the older women. Hal is supposed to be a pathetic because he has been leading a wild, trampy lifestyle, not because he's so old.

You're right about Kim Novak -- and she looks way too old for her part, also. I didn't say otherwise. The character is supposed to be in her mid to late teens, whether or not you think that makes her uninteresting.

Gale Harold. I know he is a "DL favorite" but in the first few seasons of QAF he was drop dead gorgeous. And he's smart. And not afraid to play gay. And doesn't feel the need to proclaim how gross it was like so many other straight actors

I always wanted to be Sunshine, R139. Though only when they were fucking.

Rory Calhoun young John Derek Gordon Macrae Tyrone Power Tony Curtis Great Escape/Magnificent Seven-era Charles Bronson Peter O'Toole Helmut Berger

Dirk Bogarde

Paul Newman

Wow, R130, you're friends with Perry King?! He was almost too handsome -- that square jaw and that nose! Please tell us some stories.

In terms of "what William Inger wrote" in Picnic in re Hal's age: Since when did Hollywood care what some Broadway fag playwright wrote? Especially in 1956.

Jackie Gleason

Re: Picnic.

Logan directed the original play on B'Way and worked directly with Inge. Ralph Meeker who originated the role of Hal, sure didn't look young either.

Super gorgeous young looking Paul Newman wanted the role (on B'Way) but was turned down.

Is Hart Bochner gay or just Canadian? He is 59 years old, never married at least that I can find. No children.

Like your pointR33. To me, James Dean was more about the charming, rebel/unconforming look as opposed to being the perfect pretty boy face. His manner weighed so big. He was a fascinating individual who passed way too soon.

Another vote for Hart Bochner, whom I expected to be a much bigger star. Plus he's Jewish.

Paul Newman

Jude Law

Jared Leto

McConaughey in A Time to Kill and Lone Star. So beautiful in Lone Star it made it impossible to believe Chris Cooper was his son.

Tyrone Power Errol Flynn Guy Madison William Holden Robert Taylor Robert Redford

Charles Farrell

Joel Mcrea

James Garner

Ryan O'Neal

Keenu Reeves to whom I would give the award of best looking worst actor ever.

Paul Newman definitely wins the thread. Honorable mentions:

Ramon Navarro

Tyrone Powers

"Remington Steele"-era Pierce Brosnan

Brando in "Streetcar" is achingly smoldering hot. Instant boner material.

Alan Bates

Alain Delon

Paul Newman

Jon-Erik Hexum

Steve McQueen

I think Holden could have gotten away with 30 in Picnic if it wasn't for the alcohol. There has to be a bit of weather beaten desperation to the character.

And for those women in their 40s and 50s they would have still referred to him as a young man even back then.

He looks even too old in Sunset and he was the perfect age for the character. Again a young man beginning to age and get desperate.

In the early 40s Holden was impossibly handsome.

For some reason Wilder gets Holden to look pretty smashing and even callow in Sabrina. Whereas he gets Cooper to look like Chevalier's grandfather in Love in the Afternoon which far from being romantic is just plain creepy. They didn't see this in the rushes?

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The actual story of Picnic was about guys who were probably in their mid 20s. Out of college, working for dad or riding the rails, etc. so maybe 24 or 25, 26 t the latest. Kim Novak's character was working at the dimestore wasn't she? Fresh out of high school and into the job market which is what they did in the 50's. So maybe she was 19 or 20. Still milking the image of the Home coming queen with her Neewollah queen crap. William Holden, Cliff Robertson and Kim were all too old for their roles, but they were box office at the time.

For r160/161/162:

Peen

I don't think McQueen comes anywhere near being the most handsome in a town flooded with handsome men despite his good looks.

However I might give him the award for being the most magnetic and charismatic leading man ever.

He blows everyone off a movie screen with the possible exception of Faye Dunaway. And Joan Blondell.

He and Streisand would have made an interesting couple. Though not ideal he would have made a much better Billy Rose.

I mean you don't follow up Omar Sharif with a piker like Caan.

Perfection:

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Steve McQueen was cool, but incredibly handsome? Nah.

R169 Oh, please people on here are naming Jared Leto, McBongo and Jake G, and you guys are questioning my "steve McQueen?

Jake G I'll grant you is certainly not classically handsome, but both Leto and McBongo were exquisite in their youth.

Clift....period

Timothy Dalton, but only—ONLY—as Prince Baron in Flash Gordon. He’s goodlooking but vapid most of the time, but there’s a vulnerability and charm evoked in the Prince Baron role that makes me want to have his butt baby..

Robert Logan not only was hot to begin with, but he aged hot as well.

Old Robert Logan

Middle aged Robert Logan totally out sexed up the screen against Christopher Atkins in "A Night in Heaven"

He looks a little like Richard Simmons.

Keanu Peeves, best looking actor ever in Hollywood.

I thought that ANT0NY HAMILTON was quite handsome. He was a contender for playing James Bond once Roger Moore had had his fill but the producers lost interest because they were concerned about his real orientation becoming a liability. HAMILTON was a victim of aids and died at the young age of 42.

Tom welling, jonathan groff

Rock Hudson and Paul Newman have smiles that stop my clock every time. When Patrick Wilson appears on the screen I tend to derail from focus on plot and dialogue and it all just becomes a scene where he fucks me.

Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall.

Montgomery Clift

John Gavin

Robert Redford

Brad Pitt in his prime looked like a young girl compared to the he-men stars of the '50s and '60s.

To each his own. Keanu Reeves and Johnny Depp have always struck me as remarkably plain.

Jon-Erik Hexum was the most handsome man ever.

I never got Johnny Depp either. He really is plain. I would never give him a second look.

I didn't know Anthony Hamilton. Wow he really was handsome and thank god no nose job.

Even though I must have missed it but I bet a few have already said Troy Donahue.

Though he must have been an emotionally abusive monster if Pleshette divorced him in less than a year.

Yes, Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp were just your average guys next door - nothing special at all in the looks department.

Wow, I can't believe anyone here is old enough to remember Robert Logan who was such a flash in the pan. What was his TV series? Follow the Sun? With Gary whatshisname from the Kubrick 2001 who was also spectacular looking? And speaking of which, Keir Dullea!!

Lee Horsley during "Matt Houston". WOOF!

Edgar Ramirez is the best looking and hottest Latin star right now.

Not casting Paul Newman as Hal in the original stage production of PICNIC or in the film rates as typical Josh Logan stupidity.

I never thought Montgomery Clift and Tom Cruise bore any sort of resemblance to each other, but in that particular GIF of Clift at R172 -- wow.

Here is a newbie who definitely qualifies: Telemundo star Rodrigo Guirao. So gorgeous, it almost hurts to look at him.

Tom Selleck. He's all I need

Jon-Erik Hexum was so beautiful it was unreal.

[quote]Brad Pitt was just your average guys next door

Where the hell did you grow up?

[quote]Not casting Paul Newman as Hal in the original stage production of PICNIC or in the film rates as typical Josh Logan stupidity.

Uh... Logan and the man who WROTE the play knew what they wanted.

Besides being wrong for the part, movie audiences really didn't know Newman: his first film had been a flop; he was mostly known for television. He lost out on East of Eden too. On the other hand, Bill Holden was a huge Oscar winning star who had been in a string of popular films.

R196, your kind of thinking (and Josh Logan's) has been responsible for some of the worst casting in Hollywood history. Newman would NOT have been wrong for the part of Hal in the show or the movie. On the contrary, he would have been perfect for the part, because one of his great strengths was being able to act the role of a man who's clearly damaged and jaded despite his youth and physical beauty.

I realize he wasn't a box office draw at the time the film was made, but they could have helped make him a huge star (earlier) if they had cast him in the damn movie of PICNIC. They had other stars in the movie to serve as box office insurance. I believe Don Murray was practically unknown when he was cast in BUS STOP, so that was one of the few times when Logan got it right.

William Holden is great in some things, but he was horribly miscast in PICNIC. The story makes NO SENSE if Hal looks like he's 40. Audiences seem to have been less sensitive to this sort of thing at the time, but when modern day audiences watch PICNIC, I don't think I'm the only one among them who's embarrassed for Holden because he's SO OLD for the part.

Of course, there are hundreds of other examples of this throughout Hollywood history. Established stars tend to be older, which is why they sometimes score younger roles that they shouldn't go near. Leslie Howard in GONE WITH THE WIND is a perfect example, and he stands out even more because he's the only one of the four leads who's obviously much older than he should be.

The person who thought Johnny Deep and Keanu Peeves were plain is apparently blind. Everyone who has met Keanu has mentioned his super human good looks.

Agree, R181. Patrick Wilson is just something else. Above and beyond most of the stars we have today - in an entirely different class of handsome. So many amazing close-ups in the movie "Zipper". You just stare in mesmerized amazement at his beauty.

Don't forget this gorgeous hunk at his peak in the 60's-70's... Sam Elliott.

Keanu and Ashton are much better looking in person. Literally, they photograph poorly. Also, they are both very tall, both either side of 6'2.

Jan Michael Vincent, Thank God for "Buster and Billie."

People!!! some of you are straying from OP's intent, or you haven't gotten out much. Some of the people you have named are great looking guys to be sure, but this thread is for "The MOST HANDSOME men in the history of Hollywood. " "MOST" being the operative word. And to the poster who named Alain Delon, you have my undying gratitude.

l wanted to add my 2 cents worth the the Picnic debate. Paul Newman could have played Hal, sure, But personally I think he was too pretty. If I had cast him, it would've been as the rich boy. I bet he could've played smug very well. I think they were looking for someone who had a dissipated, more rugged, beat up look for Hal. William Holden was way too old though. I saw a RV remake with Josh Brolin and it was awful. Josh played Hal.

[quote]Keanu and Ashton are much better looking in person. Literally, they photograph poorly.

I've never seen either one of them in person, but I think they both photograph just fine, and you are the first person I've ever heard say otherwise. Kutcher was a model before he was an actor, and I don't think he would have been hired as a model if he "photographed poorly."

R203, Paul Newman DID play the rich boy in PICNIC -- in the original Broadway production. I don't agree that he was too pretty for Hal, because, as I said, he was very good at playing a character who's a mess in spite of his physical beauty. See CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF-- not the same character as PICNIC, but there are similarities. And look at COOL HAND LUKE. Newman thrived on roles like that, and I don't think he ever had any interest in playing a conventional, pretty-boy leading man.

I once saw Adrian Grenier on a plane. He's actually much better looking in person. His eyes are so unusual (our eyes locked actually...)

Nobody for gay icon Steve Reeves?

We should support our own. Tab Hunter

And John Wesley Shipp

Pre car accident Mark Hamill.

And the young Delon might very well be the best looking man that we know of since photography first existed.

When I was 10 years old I was hopelessly infatuated with Harrison Ford in Temple of Doom and went into a depression the whole summer because I knew I would never have him.

I'm STILL nervous about watching that movie because of the feelings it evokes....he's a perfect example of a man who looked even more handsome in his 40s than in his 20s.

Cornel Wilde

Paul Newman, John Gavin, Cary Grant, Warren Beatty

R209 - I'm sorry, just no... I'm not into Judy Carne look-alikes... Photogenic, maybe. Best looking man since invention of photography? Hardly...

Gee that's not fair. That is not a good picture of him. And yeah there he does kind of seem kind of like Judy Carne.

But try to see Rocco and his Brothers and Purple Noon.

I know of no actor more swoon worthy.

Even Eddie Fisher who had not a drop of the homo in him in his autobio says something to the effect that Delon was the most handsome man he ever knew.

You can be a model who photographs less attractive than you are in person and still take a gorgeous picture. Michael Bergin was the same way. Far better looking in person but spectacular none the less in photos.

As we all know(especially based on some of the pix on this thread) that beauty is subjective.

However IMO, based purely on aesthetics alone, Tyrone Power would have to be in the top 5 most handsome.

Young Mel Gibson

Young Mickey Rourke

VAN WILLIAMS

Tyrone Power was so full of himself, when he appeared as the mystery guest on WML?, he made the producers command the audience not applaud his entrance so the presumed huge ovation wouldn't give away his identity.

Ryan Phillippe is way up there. Seriously. Hot piece of ass.

Cross-eyed.

Guy Madison, bar none.

As much as I hate to acknowledge and admit it for reasons we all know...but R217 is right....

Mel Gibson WAS incredibly handsome and arguably one of the sexiest and best looking male stars ever.

So sleek and panther like in "The Year of Living Dangerously".

Yes, Perry King is HOT. Sam Elliot!!!

Henry Cavill is fucking stunning.

Gale Harold always did it for me. I think he was at his hottest when he was on Desperate Housewives, but he has held up will.

*held up well

Roughly chronologically

Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, William Holden, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Paul Newman, Harry Belafonte, Sean Connery, Alain Delon, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Christopher Reeve, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Mel Gibson, Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Denzel Washington, John Stamos, Antonio Banderas, George Clooney, Jared Leto, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Walker, The Rock, Ian Somerhalder, Michael B. Jordan, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Cavill.

U bitches have no love for our own Hugh Jackman ?

r229 without Rock Hudson that list looks bland

Beau Bridges was so beautiful when young, but then.....

r221, no doubt. Ryan Phillippe is fucking stunningly handsome. I meant to mention him in my post but forgot.

I find Keanu Reeves and Johnny Depp, with their dull expressions and slack bodies, to be incredibly bland. Obviously, a lot of people feel otherwise. But neither can hold a candle to some of the names that have popped up on this list, including such classics as Guy Madison, Jon-Erik Hexum or Alain Delon.

All things considered, body,face ,height,voice and charisma one would be hard pressed to exclude Clint Walker from the list of "most handsome".

Hugh Jackman's weirdly shaped Martian-like ears disqualify him from consideration.

Jeff Bridges

Richard Carlson

Timothy Dalton (especially The Lion in Winter and as Heathcliff and Rochester) Gary Cooper in the 30's Tyrone Power before he went off to war Alain Delon in the 60's

Montgomery Clift

Albert Delègue (it crushed me when I learned he had died of AIDS: he was 32 or something)

Ed Fury was hot.

Sean Connery and unlike Tyrone Power & some of the others mentioned, Connery was all man !

Mike Henry

Philippe Forquet

Peter Brown was cute

Steve Reeves

Steve Cochran wasn't the tops but he was handsome enough & he allegedly possessed a 10" cock.

A friend of mine had an affair with Perry King when he was his stand-in on the film The Possession of Joel Delaney. This was back in the early 70s.

My favorite in Lion in Winter was John Castle. Dalton was too pretty for me.

Though after such a stunning debut and with his striking good looks he didn't seem to have all that much of a career.

Even in I Claudius it was a supporting role.

Steve Reeves did indeed have a face as stunningly beautiful as his body. The color photo above does NOT do him justice, but the black and white one does.

Taylor KItsch, Jan-Michael Vincent, Perry King, Miles O'Keefe, Alexander Ludwig, Dolph Lundgren, William R Moses, Klinton Spillsbury (Lone Ranger), Jared Padelecki, Jared Leto, Sam Heughan, Tab Hunter, Mathew McConaughey, Alain Delon, Peter Brown, Ben Murphy, Rick Springfield, Joe Dallesandro, Keanu Reeves, Andrew Stevens, Abe Vigoda, Dan Cortez, Peter Facinelli, Rob Estes, Antony Hamilton, Michael Pare, Eric Roberts, Ken Wahl.

Taylor Kitsch is gorgeous.

Jared Padelecki is not.

Good body, ugly face

Add Joe Lara, Jesse Spencer, Helmut Berger, Leigh J McCloskey, TOM WELLING, Christopher Reeve

R210, I respect your feelings for Harrison Ford, but he is one celebrity that I have actually met, seen in person. He is somewhat shy, but very nice, great sense of humor. But if you were walking down a street you would not even pay attention to him if he walked by. He is not as tall as I expected gim to be. I doubt if he clears 6 feet. And he is very bland and ordinary looking. Slim build, very nondescript. He is kind and extremely likeable. I was a drone on a movie set and had a chance to interact with him in a very minimal way. This was after his second Indiana Jones movie.

Steve Cochran was indeed a gorgeous hunk of man. He was a favorite stud of Joan Crawford and Mamie Van Doren and many others.

Peter Brown was dating Ann-Margret just before Roger Smith came on the scene.

Roger Smith knocked me out when I saw Auntie Mame.

I was like who in hell is that?

I watched The Immortals tonight. A truly piece of shit movie. Why, you may ask?

Because Henry Cavill.

That is all.

ROGER SMITH was very handsome back in the day. AUNTIE MAME & 77 SUNSET STRIP. He's in his 80s now; looks it but yes, he was once a stunner.

Time is monstrous!

Gregory Peck I thought was handsome

Look at Robert Redford in "Jeremiah Johnson." Nobody looked better.

Patrick Swayze

I think very few young actors fit into this category. Nowadays everyone is a pretty boy but back in the day, the Redfords, Brandos and Newmans were manly and handsome. Like punching holes in walls because they couldn't express themselves kinda' manly.

You can almost smell their aftershave through the screen. HOT.

Roger Smith was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis decades ago and is presently in a wheelchair.

Carl Betz had a Treasure Trail

Michael Biehn Jeffrey Hunter Lee Horsley Orlando Bloom

I remember Lee Horseley! WEHT him?

No contest.

porn star Julian

Another vote for Errol...

Maxwell Caulfield in Grease 2

Was Steve Reeves gay or bi?

Errol Flynn was OMG. Stops you dead in your tracks. Indescribably beautiful. I feel the same about Tyrone Power, although I think Errol edges him out. Ty would be a close second. I didn't know Tyrone and Judy Garland had a hot affair and he wanted to marry her. Read it in one of her biographies.

Ty also had a hot affair with Lana Turner and wanted to marry her.

R247, any details? So hot that Perry King is bisexual.

[quote]Pre-car accident Mark Hamill.

Really? I was recently looking at the first STAR WARS movie in Hi-Def, and I was amazed all over again at how bad Hamill's skin was BEFORE the accident. So bad, it's almost incredible he was cast, but I guess Lucas felt he was the best one for it in terms of personality and acting. Anyway, even if you like Hamill's looks pre-accident, I think "cute" would be a much better word for him that "handsome" or "beautiful" or "hot."

R275, you mean Lana wanted to marry Ty. He dumped her.

I just don't see it in Tyrone Power. He was an handsome man but I don't get the overwhelming love some on DL have for him. I can think of so many more actors who were/are more handsome and more important, attractive.

Young Errol Flynn was gorgeous but I can't stand mustaches, especially the thin manicured ones so it's a hotness block when it comes to him.

So far I'd have to say Ed Fury is winning. I had never even heard of him before.

Ed Fury nude

For those of you who aren't aware, Ed Fury is in the movie of SOUTH PACIFIC, as one of the Seabees in the "Nothing Like a Dame" sequence. Go to the link below, scroll down, and you'll see him at far right in a screen cap from the movie.

Glad to have introduced him to y'all then. FURY was also in the JOAN CRAWFORD movie FEMALE ON THE BEACH. ED play the replacement 'protege' for pimps NATALIE SCHAFER & CECIL KELLAWAY once JEFF CHANDLER'S character left their corral for JC.

Even once he was pushing 50, shown here, ED was still a spectacular looker.

Flynn didn't age well but he was stunning in his prime and a finer actor than he was given credit for. R279, Errol is indeed handsomest without a mustache in his breakout role, Captain Blood. For Flynn fans, there's a little-known scene where the legendary cocksman's dick can be seen swinging in his pants. It's in this video at :36 (ignore silly music which should have been the film's sweeping Korngold score). Hot. As. Fuck.

Agreed. You couldn't do much better than ERROL in his prime.

SEAN FLYNN, son of ERROL. He was murdered by the Khmer Rouge in 1970 at the age of 29.

LUKE FLYNN, grandson of ERROL. Truth be told his mom was one of ERROL'S daughters but the boy decided to capitalize on his grandfather's famous surname.

Major plus, LUKE is living !!!

Olivia wrote that she was attending a party in NYC in the late 1950s when someone tapped her on the shoulder. When she turned around, she did not recognize the man standing there as Errol Flynn.

Rupert Graves circa 1986.

AL PACINO IN THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK.

Valentino Clift Brando John Gavin Redford

Paul Newman, Alain Delon, Christopher Atkins ,Tab Hunter ,Rob Lowe,Brad Pitt,Jeffry Hunter,Henry Cavill,Shemar Moore,Tyrone Power,Jon Erik Hexum,Warren Beatty,Robert Redford,Rudolph Valentino,John Schneider,Gregory Harrison,James Dean,Don Johnson.All outrageously gorgeous men in their prime.

Ricky Nelson. God, he was beautiful.

Met Ricky in 1963 at a summer concert appearance and even though I hadn't even hit puberty yet, I was struck at how handsome he was.

Watching vintage episodes of the game show TattleTales on BUZZR, Dick Gautier was stunningly handsome, with major BDF.

I love that someone upthread mentioned JOHN CASTLE, the British actor who portrayed middle son Geoffrey in The Lion in Winter! But he really hit his prime in the late1980s when he starred in the BBC miniseries Lost Empires, costarring a young Colin Firth. He also starred opposite Joan Hickson's Miss Jane Marple in the best of those Agatha Christie mysteries A Murder is Announced.

Any Brits here reading this who might enlighten me on why he never made a bigger impression in the US?

While we're referencing Female on the Beach, why not some love for Jeff Chandler?

Did Esther Williams bio permanently stain his reputation as a leading man?

A298 Esther Williams had some nerve. It was a Hollywood legend that she lifted up her dress on a movie set said and said to a famed director, "Look, I'm winking at you." She wasn't wearing any underwear.

Not among the most "handsome" men in the history of Hollywood, but Mark Wahlberg definitely is (or used to be) among the hottest. Some TV station was showing THE BASKETBALL DIARIES yesterday, and I caught several scenes with Marky shirtless, showing off that bangin' bod of his at around age 23. The movie is pretty terrible, but it's worth it to see Marky with his shirt off. (Also Leo DiCaprio, but he never did it for me.)

R300 Mark Wahlberg, really? I've read he can't stand the sight of his own face on film and refuses to watch his own films. Hot body, bad skin.

Yes, Mark Wahlberg, really. As I made a point of saying, I wouldn't call him "handsome" but I think he is, or used to be, incredibly hot. I think his face looks good from certain angles, and depending on his expression. I've never noticed his skin being particularly bad. As I said above, if you want to see BAD skin, get a hold of a hi-def video of the first STAR WARS movie and check out Mark Hamill. It's incredible.

I just thought of another guy who was smoking hot despite bad skin: Dan Cortese. And, of course, Brad Pitt. It's kind of ironic that several of the major movie and TV sex symbols attained that status in spite of that. Maybe the bad skin made them look just imperfect enough to make them more relatable?

Speaking of Wahlberg, i liked the way he looked in 'The Gambler'.

The greatest moment of this trailer is 0:10 - 0:20...

Both Richard Burton and Desi Arnaz had bad skin.

MARK WAHLBERG has the face of a blue collar worker. He's hot but he's not classically handsome. His appeal lies in his hyper masculine body.

Mark Wahlberg is in the Robert Mitchum, Harvey Keitel, Charles Bronson school of charismatic actors who are not classically handsome. His face is busted. A rockin' bod can't do it alone.

I had HUGH O'BRIAN stand right next to me for a minute when I was 10 years old. I remember thinking how handsome he was. I also got a strong gay vibe only I didn't quite understand at the time what it was.

Shame there aren't more nudes of GUY MADISON around. Very handsome man.

MORE nudes of Guy?? Are there any?

[quote] It was a Hollywood legend that she lifted up her dress on a movie set said and said to a famed director, "Look, I'm winking at you." She wasn't wearing any underwear.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Edmund Purdom

another vote for Dan Cortese.....hes still hot. Does anyone know what his deal is ? Hes divorced but you never hear of him dating anyone. Ive seen mentioned on DL that hes dabbled on our team in the past.

I'm with most posters in this thread that Paul Newman takes the cake, but Ive recently started binge watching Mad Men and Jon Hamm isn't exactly hard on the eyes.

[quote]Mark Wahlberg is in the Robert Mitchum, Harvey Keitel, Charles Bronson school of charismatic actors

JEFF HUNTER was a popular humpy 50s, 60s actor.

Bradley Cooper in Limitless, before the Botox.

I was watching the movie with a straight male friend who kept mentioning how handsome he was, I thought he'd go gay for him. Cooper has stunning blue eyes.

Another heads up for Patrick Wilson. Watched him on Fargo....It's not just his looks, he comes across as a manly man, upstanding person with loads of integrity.

Warren Beatty Matt Dillon Keanu Reeves Paul Newman Colin Farrell Marlon Brando Kevin Costner

Mark Wahlberg's voice and accent detract from his looks.

[quote]Mark Wahlberg's voice and accent detract from his looks.

Not to mention his face.

Oh God. The DL has a Mark Wahlberg troll. Let's set things straight: he has an ugly face, he's very short, he's untalented, he's a prick and he's a bigot. He can't act for shit and he is trashy as hell.

Please.

Now a young McConaughey. Who wouldn't have fucked that?

WAHLBERG looks like he would've been a cute rentboy for about 2 years until drugs got the better of him.

When I mentioned Wahlberg, I was speaking strictly about his looks, he cannot *act* in the same league as Keitel, Mitchum and Bronson.

R324 this is a thread about the "most handsome men in Hollywood history". It isn't a thread about Mark Wahlberg was "sort of cute". And he isn't sort of cute, he is butt ugly.

Sing it, R325.

Charlton Heston was so beautiful in the 50's and early 60's. His body was stunning as well. I've always wondered what size his penis was.

Burt Lancaster was beautiful in the 40's, 50's and 60's.

[quote]Charlton Heston was so beautiful in the 50's and early 60's. I've always wondered what size his penis was.

Merry Christmas!

Damn, Heston was big'n' thick ALL over!

[quote] Damn, Heston was big'n' thick ALL over!

Except his cold, dead hands.

There are pictures of Heston even wearing less than that just some sort of modeling pouch.

Certainly one of the greatest bodies I've ever seen. Not as finely sculpted as what we've gotten used to but magnificent in a more relaxed effortless way.

If I had been an art student when he was modeling when he first came to New York I would have found it very difficult to concentrate.

He might have turned into a 4 star shit when he was old but that could have been early dementia.

Earlier in his career he was a brave liberal and he was always very appreciative of his fans.

Totally besotted with him as a little boy when he stripped off that handsome astronaut uniform to go skinny dipping.

Had he been younger in the 70s he might have pulled a Jan Michael Vincent full frontal. I have always loved handsome exhibitionists.

Callum Rennie

Young Ed Harris.

Viggo Mortensen

Paul Newman wins in my opinion, hard to beat him. But Clint Eastwood was incredibly handsome for a longggggg time too. And built like a brick shithouse to boot. In "Play Misty For Me", alas, he didn't really fill out those briefs very well. Kind of a letdown in the hung department.

[quote]Had he been younger in the 70s he might have pulled a Jan Michael Vincent full frontal.

He did a half full-frontal in a football themed film called "Number One" and the results are impressive...even flaccid it appears to be very girthy and the length seems to be intriguing as well.

And wet bush ALWAYS makes me crazy.

Cary Grant. End thread. Young Cary Grant or older Cary Grant, nobody today can hold a candle to him when it comes to looks, charm, and elegance.

Yes, Cary was immaculate in every way for sure. But, I never wanted to suck his dick. Something asexual about Cary, similar to Tom Cruise - just no. Now, Paul Newman on the other hand - yes please. From Cat to Slap Shot to Color of Money - I would have loved to go down on Mr. Newman throughout his career... ;)

R302, I agree that Wahlberg can be very hot - the scene when he opens the door in Date Night, for instance...

Blinding a man and then trying to get it "pardoned" is the antithesis of "hot".

Fuck Mark Walburg or how ever the hell one spells his name.

Fuck Mark Wahlberg and the troll he rode in on.

Agree about Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power. But it's Gregory Peck for me. Love his voice.

No. Just, No. No to Mark Wahlberg. Yes he was sort of hot in a rough way when he was younger and less beefy, but he's been looking like shit for quite a few years now, and he is an asshole. So there's that.

Think about the topic. The "Most handsome men in the history of Hollywood." MOST.

[quote]think about the topic. The "Most handsome men in the history of Hollywood." MOST.

I concur 100%!

Back to the topic at hand...just finished watching "Christmas in Connecticut" and the male lead, Dennis Morgan, was an absolute dream. Sweet,funny,sexy and charming in the way only the 1940s could make 'em.

Oops..forgot to post the pic of Mr. Morgan. Not from "Christmas in Connecticut" but I thought he looked so handsome in Technicolor.

Isn't Dennis Morgan the fellow who sings A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody in MGM's The Great Ziegfeld as the camera (in a single take!) goes all the way up and then back down a gigantic spiral staircase filled with 1000s of beautiful show girls in fabulous Adrian costumes?

[quote]Isn't Dennis Morgan the fellow who sings A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody?

Yes Mary, the one and the same.

Warren Beatty was fucking beautiful.

Tony Goldwyn is so handsome.

What? No love for Dana Andrews? Haven't seen his name mentioned yet.

His looks didn't last long but at his peak he was fucking gorgeous.

I too am a fan of DANA'S. Nothing pretty about him. Just a handsome masculine man. Unfortunately like ERROL FLYNN, DANA'S abuse of alcohol took a toll and an early one. By age 40 both men looked years older.

[quote] Isn't Dennis Morgan the fellow who sings A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody in MGM's The Great Ziegfeld

He was so young.

Warren Beatty was beautiful

Paul Newman

Marlon Brando

Carey Grant

Montgomery Clift

Brad Pitt in the 90s and 2000s, now he's fug.

Keanu Reeves

Matt Dillon

How come no-one has mentioned Sidney Poitier who must have been one of the most beautiful men of any era to be seen on screen. Or Harry Belafonte. It isn't because they were black is it?

Belafonte wasn't sexy.

Sidney Poitier was good looking, had a great smile but wasn't particularly handsome compared to other actors of the era.

Sorry, but I'll take Paul Newman, Warren Beatty, Marlon Brando, etc and etc over Sidney....

Belafonte was sexy but not classically handsome.

Poitier was very handsome but not sexy.

Helmut Berger,Joe Dallesandro,Jan Michael Vincent,Jeffrey Hunter,Fabian,Christopher Atkins,John Stamos,Alain Delon,Brad Pitt,-all stunning in their prime!

Steven Strait?

Sal Mineo was not handsome, but he was beautiful

Mineo looks like Brando's younger brother.

The two of them might have made an incredible couple.

Though I could imagine them devouring each other.

I believe I saw Ashton in person, looked like he had just rolled out of bed, wearing shorts, no shirt, no shoes...looked pretty perfect and made my day when he came over to pet the dog.

Ashton has big perfect feet.

Steven Strait is also very beautiful and hot.

Paul Newman in anything but particularly COAHTF and The Long Hot Summer

Daniel Day Lewis in Last of the Mohicans

Tyrone Power in Blood and Sand

Steve McQueen in Bullet

Monty Clift particularly in A Place in the Sun

Cary Grant in all his Hitchcock films

Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia

Gregory Peck in pretty much anything he did

Young Gary Cooper, hell even old Gary Cooper in High Noon

Pierce Brosnan in the Remington Steele era (thanks to someone upthread who mentioned him

Young Mel Gibson

Young Kevin Costner

Jake Gyllenhaal since he became a grown up.

R308 Did some say Guy Madison nude?

The photo at R-366's link depicting Tab Hunter holding a breakfast link sausage to Roddy McDowall is pretty funny.

Ann Sothern

Bea Arthur

Guy Madison was stunning when older

Keanu Reeves was the most attractive man in Hollywood, no one before or after could come close.

One of the old rumors is that Nick Adams, Robert Conrad, and Guy Madison played around with each other. Adams was pretty sexually aggressive, he claimed he had an affair with Elvis as well... and it's been speculated that he was murdered to shut him up.

[quote] Belafonte wasn't sexy.

Speak for yourself.

R371 never watch his most recent movie (went straight to VOD) The Whole Truth. He looks totally late 50s in it. Depressing.

Robert Redford, John Gavin. Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Harry Belafonte, James Franciscus, Alan Bates, Erik Estrada and Michael Landon.

r334 Yesss, Viggo Mortensen long before LOTR in a Walk on the moon, Richard Chamberlain, Pierce Brosnam in Thomas Crown, Robert Redford in Out of Africa and all the others already mentioned.

Keanu Reeves isn't remotely handsome -- sexy yes, but handsome, nope.

Gene Shalit.

Alan Bates?? He was a good actor, could be sexy but handsome? No.

Gary Cooper: Wow!

Paul Newman was one of the most beautiful men to walk the earth.

Oh Paul.

Edward Norton

James Marsden was named Handsomest Man in the World by GQ. Stephen Colbert announced it the other night before interviewing him.

I was just about to mention Marsden. That man is freaking perfect.

Burt Lancaster

Why did Paul Newman age so badly?

Josh Hartnett, jeezie crimeny what a hot guy. So gorgeous in 30 Days of Night.

Jacques Bergerac in GIGI and LES GIRLS. Stunning.

Bergerac was also an Alfred Hitchcock Presents favorite.

Hollywood most handsome couple: Cary Grant and Randolph Scott.

The handsome but largely forgotten Barry Coe.

Roger Moore

Thread closed.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. He.s heavenly. Such an athletic body and great presentation.

R387, you are the only person whom I have ever heard express the opinion that Paul Newman "aged badly." I think you are insane.

Hexum aged badly.

Hottest? Sexiest? Most fuckable? Arguable.

But since the thread is "most handsome" one would be hard pressed to find an actor with more pure perfection of features and coloring than a young Robert Taylor.

He was like the male version of Hedy Lamarr. Dark haired,jewel tone eyed beauties who looked more like statuary than actual humans.

Paul Newman shriveled up. I think of that as aging b ally, but whatever.

He was really hot when he was younger, but unrecognizable from the mid-1980s on.

Robert Taylor was very handsome but he had one fatal flaw: the lack of a strong jawline. He had to be photographed very carefully to conceal it and, as in r398's photo, it was often enhanced with defining shadows and/or makeup. It worsened as he grew older and I don't think he was attractive at all by the end of the 1940s-onwards.

I'm also not a fan of his extreme widow's peak.

[quote]Paul Newman shriveled up. I think of that as aging badly, but whatever. He was really hot when he was younger, but unrecognizable from the mid-1980s on.

No, that's factually incorrect, and no one in the world thinks it's true except you. I saw him live at about a three-foot distance just a few years before he died. Again, I think you are insane.

Alec Baldwin --- from Knots Landing to the present John Travolta - days of Welcome Back Kotter Jeff Daniels -- his personality just does it Leonardo di Caprio - up to and including Titanic days but not after That blonde actor on Rescue Me way in the beginning of the series before he self identified as a raging anti-Semite. Mark Harmon yes -- I saw him in a basketball game at Uni High in west LA -- cast of St Elsewhere - got his autograph on a 3 x 5 card -- very neat handwriting

Ok -- re prior post -- I can't say they are the most handsome men in Hollywood necessarily -- just who came to mind

Laurence Olivier c. 1930.

Charles Farrell

Hugh Allen

Harold Lloyd

Young Benicio Del Toro was everything, especially in China Moon.

Ummm... Keanu Reeves kinda lets himself go between films.

This is from 3 years ago. YIKES.

Keanu would be well-cast as Gerard Depardieu's younger brother.

James Wolk. The most under-utilized leading man in Hollywood. He is extremely pleasant to look at and really likeable presence.

Why isn't he in more movies? His whole persona was made for Rom-coms.

James Norton

Who said EDWARD Norton? For fuck's sake...

[quote]That blonde actor on Rescue Me way in the beginning of the series before he self identified as a raging anti-Semite.

Who??????

James Wolk! YES! I think he's stunning. The kind of guy who just want to cuddle with.

One of Hollywood's original "Latin Lovers" Gilbert Roland was breathtaking in his youth...and very "modern: looking.

Like most men of that era he aged out pretty quickly but in his prime was one of the most handsome ever.

More of Gilbert Roland looking very contemporary....and hotter than hell.

Gilbert Roland...timelessly masculine and incredibly handsome.

Love Gilbert Roland and actually think he got even sexier as he aged. r418 did you ever see him as RJ Wagner's daddy in Beneath the 12 Mile Reef? They play Greek father/son sponge (or is it pearl?) divers. Lots of wet shirtless scenes and RJ has a perm.

Saying "timelessly masculine" isn't.

[quote]Saying "timelessly masculine" isn't

Bitch, we're not talking about ME here.....we're talking about Gilbert.

Were there any gay rumors about Ronald?

[quote]Were there any gay rumors about Roland?

Oh, you know how THAT goes R422.

No matter what era.......If you're hot and in Hollywood somebody somewhere is gonna say they saw you get your dick sucked or butt fucked in one place or another.

Funny how those rumors never get started about the William Demarests and John C. Reillys of the world.

Tyrone Power, Gregory Peck. William Holden. Buster Keaton.

Have you girls forgotten what a movie star looks like ?

R 414 Denis Leary - not classically Hollywood handsome; played a firefighter ; attractive in a rough craggily "I'd love for him to push me against the fire truck and go down on me" way

Matt Bomer

I'm sure some will say I'm playing the race card, but I assure I'm not. And I am including younger actors and a few models. Just thought they were worth mentioning.

Poitier and Belafonte were handsome in their own way, not necessarily sexy by Hollywood standards...they would have had to play those roles to be considered sexy, and black men were not cast in those roles.

Some of the following men played in awful Superfly type films, but they were nonetheless handsome...you'll have to google them as I don't know how to bring images to DL...Ron (not Ryan) O'Neal...hated Superfly but his appeal was limited being a very light straight haired black actor...he died young and his interviews were sort of sad...speaking of limitations he had no control over... too dark for whites to light for blacks

Woody Strode- 1950s on up great build and handsome..played a lot of physical roles warriors, Indian and Asian etc, could pass as 'other' Calvin Lockhart- dark skinned really handsome sharp chiseled features also played in many low budget black films of the 70s. Fred Williamson- very handsome, former NFL player...known to be blunt in his opinions about Hollywood...was pretty successful in European films he produced, especially Italian Action films Harold Rollins, Jr career was cut short when he died of AIDS...did some really great films and a cover on GQ Mag

Speaking of 70S GQ models how about Urs Althaus half Nigerian/half Swiss- first black man to have GQ cover-absolutely beautiful in his day...he's aged well too... in spite of being attacked and beaten almost beyond recognition by German skin heads Another model Renauld White- first black American on GQ cover..very handsome and debonaire.

Just thought I'd bring up some of these guys I drooled over when no one was looking...there are others I'm sure.

BTW how about James Garner and Rod Taylor?

Angela Landsbury

As opposed to Angela LANSBURY?

I know Richard Burton was supposed to be the heartthrob in this maudlin movie I saw the other night called "Sea Wife"but I would have MUCH rather been stuck alone on that island with sexy Cy Grant.

Robert Taylor in the 30s/40s Jeffrey Hunter in the 50s Alain Delon in the 60s and 70s Rob Lowe in the 80s and 90s Ian Somerhalder 2000s Matt Bomer currently

Gregory Peck, end of.

William Holden.

R418 Wow! He really is handsome. I'll have to seek out some of his films.

John Gavin and Sir Laurence Olivier.

"Cary Grant end of discussion...Tall dark and handsome."

Cary was beautiful, but he was not tall regardless of what Google says. Most of these actors - Brando, Wm Holden, Paul Newman, Robert Redford were all 5'10" or less. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

I could pick a dozen, but I'll go with James Garner. Yes, tall... and a genuinely good actor in addition to the movie star looks.

What's really hot about James Garner is that he's got big low-hangers. You get a nice glimpse of them in the movie Murphy's Romance when he gets out of bed after fucking Sally Field.

R438 Seriously? I think you're dreaming. There's barely implied sex in that PG-13 movie. Only nudity is Brian Kerwin's deliciious ass entering a shower.

For me, it will always be Guy Madison.