Was John Ritter good-looking and/or sexy?

Nice furry chest in 3's company. I wanked.

No - never made sense to me. Even as a horny adolescent during Threes Company. The 70s has a lot of ugly actors who became famous.

He's good looking in a generic way, essentially like a catalog model of the 1980s, pretty but not in any standout way.

R1 nailed it!

OP here

I ask, because as a straight guy, I never understood it and I am watching The Last Fling circa 1987. The opening scene, has him laying in bed as the gorgeous female doctor he just banged the night before is going off to work. She states that she could be late, and wants to bang again, but he doesn't. WHAT???

When a friend asked how his night went, he states " You know, the usual....dinner, movie and back to her place"

WTF! Am I missing something here?

I have never found him sexy or attractive.

More cute than handsome. It seems he was very well liked by his colleagues in Hollywood, which makes him even more attractive. His son Jason is cute in the same way.

Balls.

I always thought him sexy as hell in his younger years. He had a beautiful hairy chest. And when he grew a beard it was a magnificent beard.

Here's the image of him (so they say) showing some ball slippage during a Three's Company scene. He almost always showed a nice basket. He dressed right most days.

Great personality, fit, funny and sexy

Sexy man here.

No. I’m also perplexed by the ladies man image

All you apocryphal het-queens are so tiresome. John Ritter would still be considered well above average in looks and sex appeal today. He was fit, had attractive features, and an engaging personality. Compare JR to today's obese and socially retarded cellphone-fondler with a bushy beard and Britney jeans.

No

Too goofy

His guest appearance on Season 1 of the Waltons in only a wet towlel reveals that he was sexy as fuck even though he was not well hung.

Did his sons inherit their dad’s hairy chest? The younger one (Tyler - left) is adorable.

He looked pretty good to me by the standards of the era. He was a comic TV actor. Who of his contemporaries looked better to you? Alan Alda? The guys from Happy Days or Taxi? Meh...

R18, Robert Urich . . . Yowza!

I’ll admit this episode gave me a boner as a kid.

He was cute, but not sexy to me at all.

He was definitely good looking, but in a non-intimidating way, the way certain actresses (again, often in comedy) are good looking in a non-threatening and approachable way. Plus, he was very funny and talented, and even when he was doing something silly or acting like a jackass, projected a certain kind of sincerity which is very hard to fake.

He was also extremely well liked in the industry in a way only a handful of movie and TV actors are (ie Betty White, Ron Howard) so he always always worked. That’s also a large part of why his death was such a big deal.

I'm sad he left us so early. I don't normally care about celebrity deaths, but his death still makes me sad.

He was pleasant looking. Not hot or sexy. But not unbelievable as someone an attractive woman would like.

[Quote] Who of his contemporaries looked better to you? Alan Alda? The guys from Happy Days or Taxi? Meh...

Robert Hays.

R25 similar types, actually. But Ritter was a better actor.

Aged fast and terribly, though.

Besides his beautiful chest he had some of the best legs ever.

He had zero sex appeal to me. But back in the 70s there seemed to be a surplus of supposed ladies men that always made me wonder what women were thinking. Hawkeye from M*A*S*H, Doc from The Love Boat, JJ from Good Times, Greg Brady.

He had that annoying as fuck California accent. I could barely make it through an episode.

He was very well utilised in an episode of Buffy.

He was gorgeous!

He had such a gay voice, I was surprised to hear he was a pussyhound. (still doubtful)

R32 YES, I always thought he had the gayest voice I'd ever heard on a (presumably) straight man!

Fun Fact.

Joyce called him Jonathan.

R18, from Taxi?

Tony Danza was pretty fucking delectable.

Suzanne learned comedy from him.

The main thing was he was an absolutely superb comic actor, and also acceptably good looking enough that you would not be surprised he would date a very pretty woman. So he was perfect for 80s farce movies after "Three's Company" was over.

Good looking dimes are a dime a dozen in LA, as the soap operas prove. But there are not that many guys who are acceptably good looking who have such great comic timing and can fall down so well as Ritter could

Yes, he had the gayest voice ever. How did he get away with it I wonder? I mean why didn't it hamper his career? Ryan Reynolds is another one that makes ya wonder. Some straight men do have sibilant Ss though apparently. Just how they learned to talk for some reason.

Before the start of one of the seasons of Three's Company he was told to lose weight by the producers. He had chunked up during the hiatus and also chunked up when he got older.

Mr. Chunky. He died when he was only 54.

He had a furry chest and nice legs, but he couldn't live forever.

His father was also very famous back in the back - Country singer Tex Ritter who was known as the singing cowboy.

Does anyone know, did he ever sing? I just wonder if he inherited any of his father's musical talent.

His straight man persona on Three's Company was nowhere near convincing. It would have made more sense if they were hiding his being gay from Mr. Roper.

Although he wasn't sexy on Three's Company, his consistent tight jeans and bulge made the show interesting for young gaylings.

R42 when he aged he (unfortunately) began to resemble his father a lot more — that puffy face.

I quickly read thru that Closer article — holy fuck! That was like a fucking novel of his entire career.

Also, his daughter with Ms. Yasbeck is now a he? I guess that’s for another thread....(she was absolutely adorable though, what a waste)

“Was John Ritter good-looking and/or sexy?“

Uhh, no, and definitely NO. But a flaming hetero if I’ve ever seen one. Yes.

I did enjoy some of his work, though.

Nice looking. Bland AWG. definitely my type yummm.

he was cute, humorous, and appealingly normal.

gave off "nice, stable guy" vibes.

It wasn't just the sibilant s that made his voice gay. It came out everytime he whined to get something, usually to Janet or Mr. Roper.

R50- You are correct. Mr Roper he would pronounce Missssster Roper. Chrissy- Krissssy. He just looked and acted like a GAY male to me.

In his day, I would call him devilishly handsome. He and Richard Thomas (John Boy) had a bromance.

R52- Richard Thomas is another GAy boy to me.

Of course he was sexy in his younger years but like most white people he had only 10 years of peak sexiness then it was all downhill.

Nancy Morgan must have been devastated when he left her for the next wife. But she never said a bad word about him publicly.

Wait, did OP say he is a straight guy? THERE ARE STRAIGHT GUYS ON THE DL ????? That's what we should be taking about!

Nice looking, yes.

But he’s one of 5-6 actors that I cannot even imagine having sex.

Straight guys reading DL? Really? Really straight?

[quote] But he’s one of 5-6 actors that I cannot even imagine having sex.

Those are usually the ones who fuck like steamrollers and know every sex technique ever developed and how to use 'em.

[Quote] she was absolutely adorable though, what a waste

Parroting what str8s often say about gays? Cute.

John Ritter simply did not have the looks to play a character that is constantly hit on by woman. While his face was "cute" he had a gut and no build whatsoever.

And Larry another womanizer was far too ugly to get a date much less the women he got.

[Quote] John Ritter simply did not have the looks to play a character that is constantly hit on by woman. While his face was "cute" he had a gut and no build whatsoever.

Are you a woman?

John Ritter was definitely good looking, with a very nice body. I loved his gorgeous legs.

By the way, his voice was somewhat nerdy, not gay. And he was 5/11", not 5"6'.

If he was "5ft11," then he was 5ft9.

To me he had to perfect combination of a boyishly handsome face and a hairy masculine body. That's the sexiest look for a many in my opinion.

Let's try that again since my fingers aren't working well this morning.

[quote] To me he had THE perfect combination of a boyishly handsome face and a hairy masculine body. That's the sexiest look for a MAN in my opinion.

I thought nerdy was what gay voice used to be call.

I think when you are young gay boy in your teens he looks very good as it did to me. But as adult looking back on these programs I don't know what I was thinking.

I found Richard Kline ("Larry") to be the sexy one on TC. There's an episode where he streaks through the apartment--that one had me hot and bothered as a gayling.

John Ritter is kind of like Ted Danson: not traditionally model-handsome or sexy, but the talent and likability makes them very attractive.

The first time I ever noticed him was on an episode of MTM when he played a minister who was called off the tennis court to officiate at a wedding and showed up in tight shirt and short shorts. It was enough for my horny adolescent self to go on alert.

He was cute in Threes Company.

Nope and he seems very gay to me.

He is one of these straight actors who seem gay to everyone. Same with John Malkovich.

he was a great example of the handsome boyish cute face with the hairy masculine body...

LOVED LOVED LOVED his bearded look in that movie "skin deep"... he was extremely sexy in that movie!....

he reminds me a bit facially of john edwards... and i have imagined both of them with bodybuilder bodies, hairy chested, wearing open unbuttoned red and black flannel shirts rolled up sleeves showing hairy muscular forearms as they cut wood in the sunlight forest! and then stripping off all their clothes to show entire nudity sunlight hairy muscular bodies as they do their outside work! laugh!..

from Skin Deep - and I agree he looks good

Richard Kline always had that horrible 'helmet hair'.

[quotee]Did his sons inherit their dad’s hairy chest? The younger one (Tyler - left) is adorable.

LOL - SO American with the TEETH.

[quote]OP here. I ask, because as a straight guy, I never understood it

We have straight OPs now?

As a gay guy, I have also never understood it.

Nice looking. Lousy actor.

Hes what I call "sneaky sexy " . You see him,you think hes blandly cute enough but no real spark , pick him up anyway cause its getting late , then get him home and he fucks you 17 ways to sunday . The next morning as you are laying there covered in dried cum with your hole aching,you in fact decide hes rather hot after all !

The son on the right in the above pic did NOT inherit his dad's hairy chest. Unless he keeps it shaved.

You know he would have probably cracked up at this thread. He loved to tell dirty jokes.

Jack Whitehall is the current day John Ritter. Comes across as gay until proven otherwise.

HE was very cute--but I loved his goofy personality

Had a dadbod even as a young man. But you could get away with that in the 70s.

r86 His weight fluctuated a lot on Three's Company, but he decided to screw it and just go fat a few years after.

Lucille Ball hosted a tv retrospective about "Three's Company." It was pretty stupid because it's not like TC was a tv classic; it was just a dumb sitcom with a lot of dumb sex jokes, total fluff, totally lowbrow. Anyway, it was considered unseemly of Lucille Ball to host a show honoring such dreck. She later tried to rectify things by saying the only reason she did it was because she admired the "comedic talents" of John Ritter.

R88 She really liked John Ritter. He was a guest on her last ill-fated sitcom Life With Lucy. And people working on it said it was the only time in her career that they remember her having to stop taping because she was laughing so much.

Sounds like Lucy had a crush on John. (And who can blame her?)

Three's Company was a success primarily because of John Ritter's comedic talent.

I loved Three's Company when I was a kid. And all the sex jokes went over my head. I'm not sure what was left. I guess when I was 8, all of the Shakespearean misunderstandings were hilarious. And I thought that Janet and Teri were equally funny as Jack. (All of his wobbling and tripping seemed to waste time to me.) I never liked the character of Chrissy. Even when I was a kid, I knew that it just wasn't realistic for someone to be that dumb.

"Three's Company was a success primarily because of John Ritter's comedic talent."

Not according to Suzanne Somers. In her view, she WAS "Three's Company" and the character of Crissy Snow was iconic.

He was butt ugly. Plain men were always made out to be ladies men in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Women were expected to be 10's, but men who were 6's were supposed to be catnip to these women.

Somers is a prostitution whore!

[quote] He was butt ugly.

Oh well, there's no accounting for taste. Or a lack thereof.

Was never attracted to Richard Kline but a different haircut/style might have made all the difference.

Three's Company was a classic comedy and Lucy should not have been ashamed to host that retrospective. As she said it didn't try to change the world it just made you laugh.

That was HER kind of comedy!

Does his son Jason still act?

Son Tyler was very convincing as a gay man on The McCarthys, a sitcom that was cancelled after one season. He’s married to a woman.

He lacked “oomph”.

He was fat.

generic cute...

He was a nice looking guy. Nothing outstanding, but nice looking. I think any woman would have found him attractive. He did have a tendency towards chunkiness, though. I thought he was a very good actor. He could do comedy so well and he could do drama just as well, too.

thought he was both hilarious and poignant in "slingblade"..

when i was a youngling i always found that episode of season 1 of "three's company" where he applies to be a nude model so erotic! and yes, whack material for me! especially the moment of a scene in that episode where he's in the photography studio after objecting finding out he's all nude modeling and threatening to walk out until he's told how much it pays, and he is pant less holding up his pants to cover up his underwear and lower body and the creepy pervy flamboyant photographer hands him a photo of a female nude model and his character, jack tripp drops his pants to grab the photo with both hands and we see his lower body and him in his underwear and that pervy flamboyant photographer character smirks like "i got you now stud"!... i found this little scene so kinky!

R88, why didn't Gary talk her out of it?

Richard Kline made his Broadway debut at Lincoln Center as Man from the River coming out of the water full frontal nude.

Fat, had a terrible voice and always seemed queeny. His son, Jason, was much more cute, though it seems to be fading away. Great naked ass in one Jesse E. film, though.

I never noticed his voice being queeny unless he was thwarting Roper or Furley.

One of the great comedic actors out there. He's on par with Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin.

That being said, Joyce Dewitt doesn't get the respect she deserves. She also helped keep the show afloat through the cast changes, and the Jack and Janet relationship really became the benchmark of the show.

The show should have ended with Jack and Janet's wedding.

I think it was in the book You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again where they said John was well hung and fucked for hours.

Terri got the worst send off with the off handed line from Furley about not eating too many pineapples. Yeah, yeah she also got to turn the light off for the last time in the apt.

R114 but at least it seemed like she and Janet would actually be good friends. You could always see Joyce’s contempt for Suzanne bubble underneath the surface (and sometimes not so underneath).

I did watch that awkward af reunion though where Joyce and Suzanne both talked about how many female guest stars Ritter was fucking. I was surprised they let that all out considering he had a long term marriage and how much they along with everyone else were trying to protect his legacy.

"One of the great comedic actors out there. He's on par with Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin."

You're obviously trolling or very stupid.

Lucy herself compared him to the silent movie greats in the retrospective.

I also thought he was good in Slingblade. I watched with my mom, and halfway through the movie, I said "I thought John Ritter was supposed to be in this movie. Then we realized we'd been watching him along but hadn't recognized him.

Yeah, Ritter fucked one of the "You'll Never..." hookers behind his wife's back. Another hypocrite "family man".

[quote] Terri got the worst send off with the off handed line from Furley about not eating too many pineapples. Yeah, yeah she also got to turn the light off for the last time in the apt.

Bitch stole my move.

The glow in the dark condom scene from Skin Deep is fucking hilarious.

"Lucy herself compared him to the silent movie greats in the retrospective.

Then Lucy really WAS an idiot. Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin were comic geniuses. John Ritter was a lightweight comic actor on a dopey sitcom.

r28 Greg Brady could get it back in the day. A guy I wouldn't mind having around as my stepbrother.

Lucy just read off a teleprompter and then cashed a large check, no doubt; It was still embarrassing, though, her showing clips of classic moments, many of which were rip offs of things she and Viv had done on her various shows. I doubt she really thought anyone on "Three's Company" was a comic genius but she needed to stay on TV and wanted her next (last?) show.

He was very attractive, but in an everyman way. Cute would be the best word to describe him I suppose. Although, I'd bet if he took steroids and became a gym bunny like all the Instaho gays, everyone would be changing their tune on him. These days, faces don't seem to count for much anyway. I've seen truly hideous men all of a sudden be considered sex symbols because they started working out. It's ridiculous.

What Ritter had was pure talent. He was equally adept at both comedy and drama and was never at a loss for work, because he was a true character actor. He could play just about anything. That's sexy to me. Plus, he always radiated this decency. He seemed like a good guy. Some people just have that ray of light that follows them around.

How come we have straight posters on here now? OP, can you tell us about yourself and how you found out about the DL?

Ritter may have had talent (debatable) but he wasn't a Star. Even back then, his film work was eye-roll inducing. Nobody wanted to discuss The Films of John Ritter any more than they want to discuss The Films of David Schwimmer.

Au contraire.

I did my thesis at film school on the pitfalls on using a child as a stock villain on Problem Child 2.

Dear R126, don't be naive. We have 3 main types on here:

Gay men;

Trolls, Russian and otherwise;

and as a subset of the above category,

Poo Shoes.

Anybody who claims to have some other identity is making shit up.

I love hairy chests and Ritter’s was very very sexy

On Three's Company, didn't his character have to pretend to be gay so that the landlord would allow him to live with the 2 women? That would account for his gay voice on that show.

He always pinged my 'dar.

Did Three’s Company ever have any episodes of gay guys hitting on Jack?

Or did they only hit on Janet?

There was little difference between Jack's normal straight persona and his put on gay persona to me. He was about as hetero horndog as Paul Lynde would've been in the role.

R136.. well they were playing it as a "farce" and everything over the top since it was just a sitcom, so his jack tripper voice, actions and mannerisms were spot on for the character.

He was talented and charming (especially in Hearts Afire). That goes a long way.

That actor is straight, R35

He looked the best the last couple seasons — when he was working at the Bistro — and on Hooperman, which was a very good show, actually. Never watched a full ep of Hearts Afire but I know it was one of those shows that was always getting “retooled.”

I had never seen pics of Tyler before — he and Jason look too much alike , my mom always said that was a sign of bad inbred genetics, haha.

In a way, for his time, JRitter had a modern male look, which is to say, softer, a little androgynous. Before him, leading men tended to be masculine to the point of being ugly or caricaturist. There are so many examples of this. I'll leave it up to you media queens to list them all. His popularity probably stemmed in part from the fact he was an early example of this on TV. Nowadays, all the male stars have this soft boyish look about them.

OP cannot truly be a straight man.

He was generically good looking in a non threatening way. What made him kinda sexy was charm and personality. IRL he’d be that decent looking guy who always dates way better looking people because he makes them laugh and has nice eyes.

The one time (I believe) he played a straight up villain.

Chilling.

did ritter ever do any of those late night low budget soft porn movies? or ever do a pretty racy to explicit soft porn like sex scene in anything?..

I grew up watching Three's Company because my mom was a fan. I never found John attractive, despite the fact that he was conventionally good-looking. He didn't really have any sex appeal. Same with Jason, his eldest son. That said, Tyler, his second-born, is very cute IMO—much better looking than his dad and brother.

I just did a Google search of all the Ritter kids, and had no clue that his youngest daughter, Stella, has transitioned to "Noah."