Who was the first famous actor to present penis in a film?

Harvey Keitel

Might have been Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in 1969's "Women in Love," with their nude wrestling scene.

It can't be Gere or Keitel.

I was watching Women in Love (which had two penises) on TCM about a week ago and that was released around 1971 or so.

Women in Love was released in 1969. Director Ken Russell actually had to edit the wrestling scene to display less penis so the film wouldn't be labeled as pornographic. Oh, how times change.

Then there's 1976's "1900," featuring full frontals by a very young Robert DeNiro and a very young and very thin Gerard Depardieu.

Eldergays, were Oliver Reed and Alan Bates famous in 1969 or just working actors?

I never saw Women in Love. Why were they wrestling naked?

Alan Bates and Oliver Reed were two of the most prominent actors in film around that time - they were big stars. In the movie, Alan Bates played a bisexual guy. He and Oliver Reed decide to wrestle fully nude, and it's a very homoerotic scene.

Michael Caine always talks about how he turned down Women in Love. Not sure which role. He says he didn't want to get naked and be felt up by a guy. (frankly the story always sounds a little homphobic when he tells it.)

R7 In Women in Love, Alan Bates and Oliver Reed are on vacation with their girlfriends. At the end of the day, Oliver Reed says something to Alan Bates about how he likes to let off steam by wrestling, so Alan Bates agrees to wrestle with him, but says they should do it in the true Greek style - naked. So they lock the door, strip off, and go at it. It was a pretty hot scene.

thanks r10

The '60s, what a decade. The first half was a continuation of the oppressive '50s, but then - bam! - the latter decade was something else. I mean, if you compare it to this decade. We're more than halfway through. 2012 doesn't seem like so long ago, just four years. But what a difference between 1962 and 1966. Better yet, what a difference between 1960 and 1966. And yet 2012 doesn't seem that far away, either.

I think Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant (1992) was the first full frontal that was a long scene in a US movie. It was considered a big deal at the time and was mentioned in all the reviews. If there were penis shots in Women in Love (I saw the film when it was released)--I think they were very brief, so maybe edited for the American version, not sure.

It's widely considerd to have been David Hemmings in Blow Up (1966).

Jan-Michael Vincent was showing cock in some old movie.

R15 that was Baby Blue Marine, but that was from 1976.

R16 it was BUSTER & BILLIE and it was from 1974 -- and I believe R15 was responding to R13.

Malcolm McDowell first appeared fully naked in if.... (1968) a British drama directed by Lindsay Anderson. He is reported to have more nude scenes (partial and full) than any other actor.

*^in mainstream movies of course.

Robert Forster also had an early frontal in Medium Cool (1969)

Someone please post pics of Oliver reed nude. Thank you lots love you. He oozed sex appeal like no other

see r3

A Clockwork Orange?

Did Roddy McDowall ever go nude on film?

I don't think so r24. His peak years were before nudity happened.

He took his shirt off in [italic]How Green Was My Valley[/italic] when he was a kid, and Larry Kert was his stand-in.

R21 Here's a shot of a naked Oliver Reed; unfortunately, it's not a close-up.

"Women in Love" wrestling scene. You must sign in to Youtube to see it. (A Google Account is fine).

I never know what the OP wants in these threads.

Male nudity was in a lot of silent films, like Haxan and Peplum with ceremonial scenes, The Big Parade with nude soldiers in the shower, Glorifying the American Girl had a nude Johnny Weismueller in an "artistic" pose, etc. You can catch glimpses of cock in those scenes. There were really early silents from the 1800s with nude men running and doing exercises but I cannot for the life of me find those. Then the 1930s exploitation/educational films had tons of nudity, men and women.

If you mean mainstream movies with famous men, I guess it would be Women in Love, with the next film being Medium Cool. Neither were really all that mainstream, though. You'd have to go all the way to American Gigolo to get to an actual mainstream film with frontal nudity, and even then it's from a distance.

If... was mentioned upthread but I'm 99% sure the male full frontal nudity was removed before release. And I really don't think Hemmings had a full frontal scene in Blow-Up. I don't remember it and I can't find it on Google.

I ruined so many VHS tapes back in the day freeze framing or replaying make nude scenes. Maurice, A room with a View and Breathless (with Richard Gere) come to mind.

David Hemmings flashed peen in the threesome scene, R29.

R31, no he didn't.

It was the women who went frontal in Blow-Up. Hemmings didn't even show ass.

And I think R29 is correct about if.... I've never seen a print that had more some really quick shots of extras in the shower scene, but I think I've read that there was more originally.

*more than some

I have if.... (1968) on laserdisc r29 and I haven't watched it in years but I believe there was full frontal male nudity in a few scenes including (strangely enough, also as in Women in Love) a wrestling scene between Malcolm McDowell and Christine Noonan. Symbol of the period I guess, wrestling as a symbol of turbulent changing times and shifting social and sexual mores.

Thanks, r33. A straight (married to Monica Vitti), avant garde left-wing Italian director wasn't going to show anything but pussy. He followed Blow Up with Zabrieski Point and the gorgeous but tragic Mark Frechette, who Antonioni purposely kept well clothed below the belt at a time when some other actors had become more revealing. And please, please stop skipping over the best frontal of all, Jan Michael in Buster and Billie. The biggest non trend ever in Hollywood. And I always wish Caligula had Ryan O'Neal or Warren Beatty instead of homely Malcolm McDowell. He should have kept on selling coffee.

There was a lot of hype around the "orgy in the desert" in Zabriskie Point, but what ended up on screen didn't amount to much, sadly. (Still like the movie, though.)

When I finally saw Zabriskie Point, I had to chuckle at the "outrageous" orgy scene. It wasn't poorly done, but it wasn't anything like what I expected after all the hype. There was even a night when TCM was going to show Zabriskie Point (must have been a decade ago) and at the last minute pulled it because of content, so I was thinking WOW, this must be EPIC.

Nope. Though the film as a whole was okay once you got past the opening SJW scenes (anyone who thinks SJWs are a new phenomenon needs to watch this film).

FYI: Flashing is not the same as full frontal.

One of the interesting things about Zabriskie Point is that I don't think Antonioni was necessarily siding with the student radicals (any more than he was endorsing the swinging London characters in Blow-Up). There's an objectivity that makes it interesting now, but it's probably one of the reasons it wasn't well-received at the time. From wikipedia:

[quote]Early movie industry publicity reports claimed Antonioni would gather 10,000 extras in the desert, for the filming of the lovemaking scene but this never happened. The scene was filmed with dust-covered and highly choreographed actors from The Open Theatre. The United States Department of Justice investigated whether this violated the Mann Act (which forbade the taking of women across state lines for sexual purposes); however, no sex was filmed and no state lines were crossed for that segment of the production, given that Death Valley is in California.[8][10]

Kinda funny that only a couple years later we'd have Deep Throat.

what's the difference, r39?

I'm always surprised by nudity in silent films. I've watched two documentaries recently and one American film lingered on a guy's naked ass and a German film showed a young man's cock.

Damn the fucking Hayes Code.

Hays Code (no e)

I got them all beat.

[quote]Hays Code (no e)

Hays Cod

R41 flashing is quick (blink and you'll miss it), full frontal is lingering.

R46 Your distinction is adorably pre-internet.

And Antonioni's contemporary gay Italian directors. Pasolini the Red was more bold; remember the gorgeous cock in Decameron and Terence Stamp in Teorama. In fact, he was kicked out of the world's third largest Communist Party for being gay. Conservative Zefferelli was lest bold; he did run for the Italian Parliament as a Christian Democrat from Florence. Z did show only some gorgeous ass in Romeo and Juliet and Brother Sun, Sister Moon.

I was sure that Tallulah Bankhead had something to do with the goings on in this thread. Sure of it.

There was another scene in "Women in Love" where Alan Bates shows full frontal as he's walking out of the woods naked. I thought it showed his manhood in better light.

I think Robert Forster in Medium Cool was my first exposure to full frontal movie nudity. Then there was a brief glimpse of Don Johnson and Bruno Kirby in The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart. Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange, Bates and Reed in Women in Love., Jan Michael Vincent in Buster and Billie and Perry King in Mandingo. Those are the ones I remember. Gere in American Gigilo came a little later, I think.

For those of you damning the Hayes Commission, you should read the book, "Tinsletown". The commission's original goal was to keep the prudes of America (women who had fought for Prohibition) at bay from the film industry.

The book's excellent and much bigger story i told than just the creation/development of the Hayes Commission.

R47 don't patronize me, Crystal!

Even if you manage to get a screen shot or GIF of flashing bits, it's usually blurred and you can't see much. Full frontal is what it says: you get a complete and lingering look of the genitals. For example, Ewan McGregor in THE PILLOW BOOK and YOUNG ADAM is full frontal. A quick glimpse of an actor's bits is not.

I would add R53 that when nudity is part of the visual subject of the frame or scene, and full frontal is not a part of it but we see merely a quick bit, it is a flash.

I remember as a 14 year old going to see a double feature with Women in Love -- and an Italian movie that showed full-on, lingering cock shots. I had to go to the bathroom off the lobby to beat off.

[quote]Then there was a brief glimpse of Don Johnson and Bruno Kirby in The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart.

WAIT WHAT HOLD ON

This is news I can use. I love Bruno Kirby.

And Don Johnson and Gregory Harrison in the Harrad Experiment. Maybe with that nudity it should have been called the Harrison Experiment.

I guess presenting penis in the movie theater doesn't count.

Thanks, r59.

You're welcome

[quote]Then there was a brief glimpse of Don Johnson and Bruno Kirby in The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart.

I think you're mixing up your movies. Both Don Johnson and Bruno Kirby are in THE HARRAD EXPERIMENT. I don't remember if Kirby shows penis in it, but Johnson definitely does; see R61

By the way, he's not as famous as some of these people and the movie came later, but Tom Berenger had a full-frontal scene in AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS IN THE LORD.

There's the Lars von Trier movie where he shows a guy with a full erection in a shower.

But I think that film is of developmentally disabled people......not sure. I just remember a giant cock.

The Groove Tube.

This is a scene from the silent version of BEN-HUR

R56 Bruno Kirby had a full frontal in 1985's FLESH + BONE. It looks better in motion, the way it jiggles, so I recommend watching the scene. Here's an old screencap, but it definitely deserves a GIF or at least an HD still update.

Allen Funt's "What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?"

joe dalassandro

Not full frontal, but this locker room from the film SEARCH FOR BEAUTY is pretty hot. The film was released in February 1934, and just five months later, the Hayes Code was finally enforced, starting in July 1934. To think how much more daring films would've gotten with nudity had that not been the case. Who knows? By the 1940s, we might've seen Ray Milland or Cary Grant in the altogether, just like major stars started to do in the '70s, after the Code was finally abolished in the late '60s.

I don't know if the actors were famous in Sweden or not but I Am Curious Yellow !1967) was notorious for its full frontal scenes of the main actor. And Bruno Kirby was just so damn cute. Too bad he died before his time.

[R69] - We had ASSES then!

I recently re-watched the Zeffirelli ROMEO AND JULIET, and there may be a very brief flash of Leonard Whiting's penis that one might see if one can freeze-frame during the bedroom scene. Of course, there is that beautiful, long, lingering shot of him completely naked from the rear, displaying that amazing butt. And also, he and several of the other actors wear really hot codpieces in several scenes.

You're killing me, R66.

Well , R5 is something you don't see everyday

R71 LOL

R71 you can watch that scene here. The girl also makes De Niro briefly touch Depardieu's dick.

[R71] - here. I should have included this pic.

Thanks, R29. I was planning on giving a similar education to the thread, but you did it better than I would have.

R72, I focused right in on the peen in that film when we watched it in high school English. We didn't have access to porn or even films to rewatch, unless they were educational, so I was able to watch each frame after school. My teacher believed that I wanted to better understand filmmaking.

Ran across this pic. No peen, but still quite provocative.

R78 did you correct your teacher?

Two early favorites were Tom Berenger in "In Praise of Older Women" and Peter Firth in "Equus"

R29 I think you were referring to Eadweard Muybridge. He explored the use of motion, early action film effects, in the 1800s. Here's a link with some of the male nude footage you mention.

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The brief glimpses of cock in The Last Picture Show (1971) got me all hot and bothered when I was a young lad. Not so much Randy Quaid's, but the other guy's.

R84 I forgot about that scene! That guy was so hot!

R83 not vintage, but here you go.

R62 You are correct. Thanks. I did get them mixed up.

[quote]I don't remember if Kirby shows penis in it, but Johnson definitely does.

Heh.

Not the first nor second, but there was that scene in Sirens, lovely

Mark Gerber

r69 posted the first cinematic portrayal of a towel dance.

Depardieu has done it A LOT. "La Dernière Femme" is one of the films. Skip to around 12:35 in clip for full erection.

I watched Eastern Promises on HBO last night. Viggo does a long nude fight scene in a sauna. He is not shy about nudity.

He was excellent in that film and it would make a great TV drama, as there was so much not resolved in the movie.

There's a Pasolini film with a non-speaking blond actor who has a MASSIVE cock -- clearly chosen by Pasolini simply because of it. I can't remember the movie, but it's a brief scene in a hayloft and was cut out of many of the overseas versions.

The Pasolini film was The Canterbury Tales. The first time I saw it (on a crummy old VHS) I just assumed it was a prosthetic. When I watched the Blu Ray recently I realized it was real.

It was not Here or Keitel.

They tried to convince Ken Norton to do a frontal in Mandingo, but it wound up on the cutting room floor. We need that deleted scene!!

Flesh (1968)

R92 apparently, Viggo has a full frontal nude scene in this summer's CAPTAIN FANTASTIC. All the reviews mentioned it. However, I haven't seen any leaked footage or stills.

Bruno Dumont's films tend to have hard-core hetero sex scenes inserted in them, rather desultory affairs done with porn actors as stand-ins. Dumont proves that sex doesn't have to be sexy.

Leave it to a Frenchman, I suppose.

Many thanks, r91! I have been looking for La Derniere Femme for decades. Apparently it was banned in this country. Gerard sure looks good in it.

R86 where is that from?

[quote]If you mean mainstream movies with famous men, I guess it would be Women in Love, with the next film being Medium Cool. Neither were really all that mainstream, though. You'd have to go all the way to American Gigolo to get to an actual mainstream film with frontal nudity, and even then it's from a distance.

"Women in Love" & "Medium Cool" were quite mainstream movies. Neither were stuck in small art houses but played on thousands of screens across the country for months and even as second halves of double features.

Hays office, Hays Hays Hays

There's an interview online somewhere where Oliver Reed says he was very nervous about the nude scene because he was afraid Alan Bates would show him up. They both got drunk and Reed was relieved to find Bates as a average as him.

Perry King. Mandingo. 1975. Lingering full frontal.

This movie should be a camp classic. Maybe the SJWs won't let us talk about it.

R96 I hadn't seen your comment.

R63 Breaking the Waves. A masterpiece that no one has seen. Not about the developmentally disabled. The actor with the big dick becomes paralyzed after we see his enormous peen. But the scene is entirely stolen by the expression on the face of his virgin wife.

That's Stellan Skarsgard showing cock in Breaking the Waves

I think R63 is thinking of The Idiots.

Bump