5 Most Beautiful Men in Cinema History

I'd remove Mel Gibson and put Jude Law in just for "The Talented Mr. Ripley," alone.

Paul Newman

Lists of men who are still alive and relevant, please.

Paul Newman

Marlon Brando

Warren Beatty

Brad Pitt

Richard Gere

Gregory Peck, Farley Granger - Classic; Kane Richmand - obscure; Brad Pitt, Jude Law, and probably unpopular opinion Tom Cruise more recent (I cannot think of anyone right now who I think would be on top of a list, Chris Pratt and a few others can be good looking - but not beautiful).

Chris Hemsworth

Channing Tatum (ca Magic Mike 1 or before)

Zac Efron

Brenton Thwaites

Kalob Martinez

John Gavin.

Rock Hudson.

Rupert Everett.

Leonard Whiting.

Sean Bean.

Forgot about Hemsworth -- he would be on my modern list. Keanu back in the day would be up there as well as someone more recent.

Rupert Graves.

Like R2... Paul Newman.. Jeffrey Hunter...Gary Cooper...George Clooney...

Henry Cavill should surely be on that list - dead or alive

Jake Gyllenhaal. Yes.

Chris Hemsworth

Mel Gibson in his prime

Charlton Heston in his prime.

Montgomery Clift

Marlon Brando in his prime

Jude Law in his prime

John Gavin...but Christ he was awful as an actor

Michael Trevino

Shemar Moore

Boris Khojoe

Michael Ealy

Not exactly a huge star - but Jeffrey Hunter

Jude Law has always looked as if he sweats constantly.

In roughly chronological order:

Montgomery Clift

Matt Dillon

Topher Grace

Jake Gyllenhaal

Jamie Dornan

..Certain 6'2 strawberry blonde, Strapping Guy. You're my hero. Added some color/flavor to the mix. Rainbows are beautiful, so are you baby, inside and out.. Mean backhand pimp smack to racist turds.. Special place in hearts and heaven...

R15, Topher Grace? Really?

John Derek.

Oh, yes, R17. Really, really, really.

Buster Crabbe

Tyrone Power

Paul Newman

Tab Hunter

John Richardson (in 'She,' with Ursula Andress, check it out)

Jean Marais

Gerard Philipe

Was just going to mention Buster Crabbe -- the old B movies and serials had some handsome actors. Kind of in that vein would also include Lex Baxter and Gordon Scott.

Guy Madison wins my vote.

Yes, pictures, please. Especially helpful for the older dead ones.

George Brent was never the most handsome... but very sexy. There's a reason why he lasted as long as he did.

Youngish Gary Cooper was pretty much perfection.

A young Monty Clift, getting his cowboy butch on...

5. Max Martini (see: [italic]Captain Phillips[/italic]

4. Peter O'Toole

3. Sidney Poitier

2. John Phillip Law

1. Howard E. Rollins Jr. Between [italic] Ragtime[/italic] and [italic]A Soldier's Story,[/italic] he was the most heart-stoppingly beautiful man ever filmed. That skin! Those lips! Those eyes! Those hands! That voice! That laugh! That supremely confident masculinity! And that GQ cover? My God-- Idris Elba x 20. Sex on a fucking stick. And considering how utterly NELLY he was off camera, I marvel at his acting genius all the more. Hollywood fucked him over royally, and it's such a tragedy he took refuge in drugs. Hollywood and the closet are evil. I miss him all the time.

1st runner-up: Al Pacino.

Hello, Randolph Scott...

Remember John Lone, from THE LAST EMPEROR?

Richard Davalos, who died last year

I see no people of color in this thread.

Lana Turner-beating Lex Barker.

r32 - Shemar Moore, Michael Ealy, Howard Rollins, John Lone....

Another vote for Peter O'Toole.

R32 So quitcherbitchin' and put some in, asshole.

Alain Delon

Nico Castelnuovo

Gerard Philipe

Edouard Dermithe

Gaspard Ulliel

Top 5 Men of Color:

Taye Diggs

Idris Elba

Blair Underwood

Boris Kodjoe

Shemar Moore

Tyson Beckford

R38 can't count. I would leave out Boris, but only because I detest his character on Code Black.

David Manners

Phillips Holmes

Johnny Mack Brown

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Phillip Reed

R38.. Thank you kind Sir...Lots of different crayons in the box. You think outside of it..

Massimo Girotti

Terence Hill/Mario Girotti

Mario Vitale

Franco Interlenghi

Raoul Bova

Robert Redford

Miles O'Keefe (was Tarzan in 1981)

Steve McQueen

Billy Dee Williams

Javier Bardem

Brando

Brando

Brando

Brando

Brando

Young Farley Granger, Matt Bomer, young Harry Belafonte, Rock Hudson, Matt Dillon

Denzel Washington

Montgomery Clift

Massimo Girotti

John Boles

Terence Hill

Rutger Hauer

Aldo Ray was no beauty, but God he was sexy.

Keanu Reeves

I was going to add John Carradine to this list as a joke. I searched for a photo of his usual horror movie visage and ran across this one.

Hi, R32! *R28, waving furiously*

Tab Hunter

Hart Bochner

Billy Campbell -- he really should have had a bigger career.

Adam Beach

Rodney A. Grant

Eddie Spears

Nathaniel Arcand

Errol Flynn

Ramon Novarro

Ricardo Montalban.

Omar Sharif

John Phillip Law.

Wallace Reid

Harry Belafonte.

Christopher Atkins and Blue Lagoon

Belafonte had a very very strange hairline and it didn't change for decades. What was that all about? Made him look alien in my opinion.

..Eric Thal...Ryan O'Neal..Eduardo Verastigui..Clint Walker..Sean Connery..Phillip-Michael Thomas..Michael Biehn..Jeffrey Hunter..Morris Chestnut..Ian Anthony Dale..Jack Scalia..Gregory Peck..Glenn Ford..Christopher Reeve..Denzel Washington..Timothy Bottoms..Kerwin Matthews..Kurt Russell..Miles O'Keefe..Alan Ladd..Guy Madison..Dominic Cooper..Sam Elliott..

Michael Trevino must be added to any list of top five.

OK. Jake Gyllenhaal

Tyrone Power

Errol Flynn

Montgomery Clift

All classic

Leonard Whiting

Peter O'Toole

River Phoenix

Sidney Poitier

Buddy Rogers

Charles Farrell

R68 He looks like a very, remarkable fellow!

Wallace Beery Charles Laughton Franklin Pangborn Ernest Borgnine Abe Vigoda

"Aldo Ray was no beauty, but God he was sexy."

I always had a thing for him. Love his voice, too.

Johnathon Schaech - he was not a very good actor, but so gorgeous and sexy

R72 , he's still around, still hot.

R63, he's wore a hairpiece since 1963.

Prince Eric

Prince Phillip

Prince Charming

Prince Adam

Prince Naveen

Shame on you for not mentioning J M Vincent!

The late ANTONY HAMILTON for one !

Montgomery Clift and Tyrone Power belong in the Top Five.

ERROL FLYNN should also be in the TOP FIVE

GUY MADISON

CONNERY

Pierfrancesco Favino

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Hrithik Roshan

Giancarlo Giannini

Mikael Persbrandt

Joel Kinnaman

Omar Sy

Brando

Richard Gere

And thanks to this thread, I have discovered Guy Madison. He's so beautiful.

I love Tyrone Power the most because he loved Judy.

Paul Newman

Marlon Brando

Sidney Poitier

Michael Fassbender

Matt Dillon

The young Gary Cooper.

No one could touch him then or now.

Gary Cooper in 1930.

Gary Cooper in the late 1920s.

I like the skinny boy from Criminal Minds, Matthew Gray Gubler.

Nobody was more beautiful and more sexy than Burt Lancaster. He also made outstanding movies.

R6 are you kidding me Channing Tatum? A bloated steroid queen....Ugh Brando Clift Pratt, hot today Barrymore , John the profile! (We are talking cinema here ok guys) Valentino , gorgeous... died to young , loved the dick though..!

Timothy Dalton, Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marcello Mastroianni, Warren Beatty, Montgomery Clift

Michele Riondino

Patrick Wayne; all three Flynns (Errol, Sean, Luke)

r91, I'd love to share the drugs you're using.

Paul Newman, Gary Cooper, River Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Warren Beatty

John Derek when young

97 replies and no one's mentioned Rod Taylor?

Definitely John Gavin should be on this list. John Derek was still fine as fuck in his 50s.

Old John Derek looked like a new age guru. His taste in women was very specific. Man knew what he liked, that's for sure. Seems as though he just replaced each wife/gf with a new, younger clone.

John Gavin

Tyrone Power

Guy Madison

James Franciscus

Chris Hemsworth

Elvis

Another vote for Marlon Brando and Alain Delon

Jon-Erik Hexum

David Soul

George Hamilton

Henry Cavill

Gary Cooper in the 1930s

Cary Grant and Tyrone Power in the 1940s

Dirk Bogarde and Guy Madison in the 1950s

Warren Beatty, Alain Delon and Jean Sorel in the 1960s

Richard Gere in the 70s, early 80s.

Fabian in Hound Dog Man and North to Alaska.

Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo.

Erroll Flynn in The Sea Hawk

Alain Delon in Plein Soleil (Purple Noon)

Richard Gere in American Gigolo.

No one aged better than Paul Newman and no one ever will.

Sam Jones.

Dolph Lundgren.

Keanu and Denzel

Marlon Brando

Rock Hudson

Paul Newman

Dolph Lundgren ( even as a sixty year old, he gets me hard)

Chris Hemsworth

post Dolph Lundgren pics please, preferably near nude!

Guy Madison is a movie actor of the 1940s who was stunning, and has a timeless quality about his looks. He was sex on legs. Is it true he was bisexual? and that his wife ( forget which actress it was) caught him in bed with another man?

I agree with R111.

Why thank you [R114] do you love Dolph ?

Do you really think Dolph qualifies as beautiful? I always view him as more oafish. Somewhat hot, but not beautiful by any stretch.

No critique. It's all in the eyes of the beholder.

And to show my idea of beautiful, which is certainly out of the mainstream, I present Jeff Chandler.

How come no one seems to consider Yul Brynner?

Larry-O of course!

Gary Cooper, yeah

Michelangelo

Alexander the Great

Random Neanderthal

Emperor Joseph III

Napoleon

(Following the tenor of this boring as fuck thread)

George Segal

Sean Connery

John Gavin

Maximillian Schell

Burt Lancaster

George Segal, lol

I always thought Robert Donat had the most beautiful eyes.

124 votes, but none for Robert Conrad??

Pierce Brosnan

Brandon from Sean Cody.

Brandon from Sean Cody.

Brandon from Sean Cody.

Brandon from Sean Cody.

Brandon from Sean Cody

What's wrong with Dolph Lundgren?

Young Richard Chamberlain

Sal Mineo.

I have a certain kink for him.

Robert Redford, Randolph Scott, Paul Beeman, Gary Cooper.

Newman.

The most beautiful eyes in classic movies.

Gary Cooper was hot as a young man but didn't age well

Paul Newman was hot well into middle age

Heal me, Dr. Zhivago.

Omar Shariff

Robert Conrad was a hot daddy in the seventies. He was in an episode of Columbo called 'An excercise in fatality' in which he appeared in several scenes topless or in short-shorts!

The best thing about Conrad is that he liked flaunting his hot ass

R121 doesn't understand the thread title.

Popular legend has it that Guy Madison and western B-lead Rory Calhoun (both clients of Henry Willson, Rory was hot if rough around the edges) had a thing going despite both being married,.

Cary Grant in Notorious

James Dean, particularly East of Eden

Montgomery Clift of course

Pretty boys Tab Hunter & pal Tony Perkins, Fabian, Troy Donahue, Ricky Nelson.

Alain Delon, particularly in Purple Noon.

Jeffrey Hunter of course.

Robert Conrad was not a movie star.

Today, based on looks, regardless of talent, in no particular order I'd say Henry Cavill, Jamie Dornan, Edgar Ramirez, Chris Pine, Keanu Reeves, Chris Hemsworth, Ashton Kutcher, Matthew Daddario, Scott Eastwood, Sam Heughan

Gregory Peck

Agree about Richard Gere. In my opinion he is the hottest ever.

Another vote for J Rhys Meyers. Incredibly beautiful in his youth. Still sexy despite the carnage he's put himself through.

I wouldn't put him in a top 5, but Ray Liotta in his younger days deserves a mention. He had some of the most captivating, bedroom eyes I've ever seen on a guy. Gave him the impression of always being on the verge of tears.

Matt Bomer.

No love for John Payne??

Or George O'Brien??

Chad Everett

Ryan O'Neal

I was going to list George O'Brien as well.......

Yul Brynner

Paul Newman

Clarke Gable Sidney Poitiet Robert Redford Brad Pitt Matt Bomer

[R153] Yul Brynner relaxing....

Lambert Wilson

Johnathon Schaech.

Richard Gere in the 70s was pure sex.

James Garner

and Wolfgang Bodison

Jon King...........

Jared Leto

This

Jared Leto'sl huge cock.

R163, I hope Jake will follow Orlando and Justin and show us his cock.

Jake is a butterface

R166 You probably like Rocco Steele.

Burt Reynolds

[quote]Lists of men who are still alive and relevant, please.

Re-read the title of the thread, bitch.

Two men who often appear on these lists but who I never thought of as especially beautiful or sexy are Gary Cooper and James Dean. To each his own!

Joe Dallesandro

....

No, no, Jan Michael Vincent. Now he doesn't quite measure up. And Jim Brown. No star oozed masculinity more. And both were generous enough to show us what they were made of.

Many very beautiful men mentioned here.

Another vote for the criminally underexposed Phillips Holmes. And for Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, Alain Delon and Rutger Hauer.

Also, Hugh Grant circa "Maurice" most definitely belongs on this list.

[quote]Do you really think Dolph qualifies as beautiful? I always view him as more oafish. Somewhat hot, but not beautiful by any stretch.

I agree with you, R116, there is a difference between being hot, being sexy, and being "beautiful."

Dolph reminds me of a shark.

Glad to see Alain Delon mentioned a few times.

Alain Delon is a homophobic douche

He was still beautiful to look at though... "skin deep" and all that.

Didn't Alain Delon say he thought gay couples shouldn't have/raise/adopt children? He's that guy, right?

The homophobia is funny because he was gay for pay/roles in his younger days.....

GAVIN was a hottie

DELON was no better looking than that other Frenchman PHILIPPE FORQUET, shown here in 1963 with actress BARBARA BOUCHET who QUENTIN TARANTINO claims is one of his muses; the other being UMA THURMAN.

[quote] 97 replies and no one's mentioned Rod Taylor?

Unsurprisingly.

He had a great body, and was undeniably sexy. But he was absolutely not beautiful.

[quote] Lists of men who are still alive and relevant, please.

Go make up rules for your own fucking thread, please.

I said this was inclusive of all cinema history.

TCM is doing a tribute to Janet Gaynor today, and my god, her frequent co-star Charles Farrell is divoon. Handsome man a great smile and tousled locks, looking very contemporary. Swoon.

*with a great smile...

Charles Farrell was one of the most handsome actors ever. George O'Brien was another hot number from the early days of movies.

I know he's laughed at now but it's pretty hard for a man to get any prettier than a young John Travolta.

Especially before the gym when he was just one hot ass skinny mother fucker.

Revolta was sexy and charismatic in the "Grease" era.....now he's just a gross old troll in denial.

Think of all the cock he must have been able to pull when he was young. I'm surprised he never got the AIDS.

Young Tyrone Power was the most beautiful of them all.

Young ERROL FLYNN. By 35 the effects of abuse of alcohol & dope was evident.

ERROL' son SEAN was handsome too. He was murdered while in SE Asia in late 1970.

GUY MADISON

I have always had a thing for Henry Fonda. Love his face, his odd voice/cadence, and his walk.

Mmmm, yes, R160. I remember seeing A Few Good Men on the big screen, and couldn't take my eyes off him whenever he was on screen. Damn. Dem lips!

Too bad that was the peak of his career. I remember seeing him in a tiny throwaway role on NCIS in its early seasons.

"DHARMA, BRING ME THE AXE!"

Why the lol, R123? Segal was GORGEOUS in his youth (see: Ship of Fools, where he is paired with equally ravishing Elizabeth Ashley), and well into middle age (see: Carbon Copy, where he is paired with adorably young Denzel W.).

..Lesser knowns, no less hot: ERIC THAL..SAM ELLIOTT..EDUARDO VERASTIGUI. MICHAEL ONTKEAN..PATRICK WILSON..

199 lol Carbon Copy. We may have been the only two people here who have seen that. Although they actually played it quite a bit on cable in the 80s, so maybe not. Still, a pretty random movie other than it happened to be Denzel's first.

[quote]Young Tyrone Power was the most beautiful of them all.

Who ME?

Fess Parker

When the beauteous Charles Farrell opened his mouth (after 1929 and the advent of sound recording ), a "flapper purse" fell out. He was finished as a leading man pretty soon after.

R204, Charles Farrell's early talkies were actually quite popular, but his Boston Brahmin enunciations fell into disfavor when bad boys like Clark Gable and Jimmy Cagney and folksy midwesterners like Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda became romantic leads. Among these men, Farrell came across as effete.

5 is too hard!Here's my 10 in no particular order:Tab Hunter,Joe Dallesandro,Christopher Atkins,Tyrone Power,Alain Delon,Brad Pitt,Helmut Berger,Guy Madison,Matt Bomer,Rudolph Valentino.

R123 R199

MAE WEST once said that in her opinion, "GEORGE SEGAL is THE most attractive man I've seen in some time !"

IMO, SEGAL was very attractive but I wouldn't put him in the TOP 5.

...I thought George Segel hot too. Ruggedly so. A hairy sorta macho, not trying too hard, DILF. Handsome enough for leading man status. Gorge George, a victim of the times. Not too many can look good with frizzy-fro hair, bell-bottoms, clunky platforms/dutchboy clogs....Ewww. 70's fashions were the most unflattering, need a shower looking, unsexy, synthetic fabric.... Segel managed to remain fuckable. I get the George Segel sexy. Yeah...I drank the Koolaid.

SEGAL looked good up til about age 60. Even for an old guy, he's better looking than most.

Robert Donat (in the The 38 Steps) + Jeremy Northam (in The Net and Carrington)--the two have essentially the same face Gary Cooper ca. Morocco Gregory Peck ca. Spellbound John Gavin (it's the Mexican in him that sets him apart) Grégoire Colin Benoît Magimel (in The Piano Teacher) Tony Leung Ka-fai (in The Lover--Jesus Christ!) Maximilian Schell (in Judgment at Nuremberg) Antonio Banderas in the early Almodovar films Nino Castelnuevo in Les Parapluies de Cherbourg Richard Gere (ca. Looking for Mr. Goodbar) Xavier Samuel (in the execrable Adore)

Formatting aside, I think I win.

"The Heiress" is on tonight, TCM, 8:00. A tour de force for every actor in it.

I forgot about Ricky Nelson, r106! Soooo dreamy!

Okay, I've now got:

Montgomery Clift . ("Tell Mama; tell Mama everything.")

Tyrone Power. (Double rows of eyelashes!)

Alain Delon. (Male beauty epitomized.)

Ricky Nelson. (That mouth!)

Leonard Whiting. (For one brief moment in time, the most exquisite.)

Charles Farrell did make a fortune in Palm Springs real estate.

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Young Ramon Novarro -- way better looking than Valentino, imho. Where has he been all my life?

He's more TV than cinema, but 70s-era Mark Harmon was almost impossibly beautiful

Richard Barthelmess. Lillian Gish called him the most handsome man she had ever seen. In many younger photos, he's absolutely stunning.

Harry Belafonte Gary Cooper Mel Gibson Gregory Peck Robert Redford

Tom Skerritt.

R216 [quote]Where has he been all my life?

Well, if you were born after 1968 I'd say 'dead'

R218 Agreed.

Guy Madison is my #1 pick. He was beautiful with a nice body.

I can't believe no one's mentioned the very modern and spectacular looking Gilbert Roland...one of Hollywood's best looking Latin types.

I'm also surprised that I'm the first to mention Robert Taylor.

For pure mathematical perfection of facial proportions and refinement of features(which not everyone prefers) it's kind of hard to do better.

To me, Joel McCrea had one of the most most fetching profiles in cinema history.

Robert Taylor is like the male equivalent of Elizabeth Taylor.....porcelain skin, rosy cheeks, ebony hair, lush brows and lashes and eyes of deep azure blue.

His beauty didn't last long(none of the golden ages actor's did) but in his prime he was a knockout. If ANYBODY was born to play Dracula.

Widely considered Hollywood's first bona fide sex symbol,Sessue Hayakawa, certainly had the face and screen presence to deserve the title.

More noted for his work in television god-like Clint Walker DID make a number of feature films so I would unapologetically include him in any top 5 list I might compile.

Josh Hartnett

Chris Evans

Chace Crawford

Tyler Hoechlin

Jensen Ackles

Takeshi Kaneshiro

More Takeshi

Viggo Mortensen

Elizabeth Taylor

Vivien Leigh

Ava Gardner

Sharon Stone

Michelle Pfeiffer

Michael Pitt

Needy bottom Robert Wagner

Young Michael Pitt in The Dreamers.

Who is the more beautiful one?

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I think Joel McCrea is one of the most under rated male stars of all time. Great comedic timing, pefrect tall lanky body for physical comedy, and smart enough to age into the Western roles as he aged. When asked, he would say he was a rancher. He owned thousands of acres in the valley and was one of the richest actors in Hollywood when he died. His father ran a utilities company so he knew where all the power and water was heading and bought all the land up. His best work was with Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels with Veronica Lake and The Palm Beach Story with Claudette Colbert.

[quote]Well, if you were born after 1968 I'd say 'dead'

I thought I told you bitches not to say that!

Who is Charles' friend here?

Agree with Takeshi Kaneshiro, but my friend was on the crew for House of Flying Daggers and said he was one of the worst people he's ever met.

R242 - Johnny Mack Brown, Flash and Charles Farrell.

Robert Taylor Jeffrey Hunter Alain Delon Rob Lowe William Levy

Tyrone Power

Alain Delon

Guy Madison

Jude Law

Armie Hammer