The "faun" type - is this a recognizable thing?

It is absolutely a recognisable thing. And a far superior thing to those crass 007 types.

Jonathan Winters was a faun.

Avery Schreiber was a faun type.

Andrew Garfield is a faun.

Quien es mas parecido a un fauno: Andrew Garfield or... Shawn Mendes?

Daniel Radcliffe fits this bill.

For some reason I think James McAvoy may fit the bill.

Adam Driver...does not.

I find him compelling. But too serious at his most effective.

There has to be an innocence and insouciance to this type.

David Naughton of American Werewolf in London both is and played this type for the film.

What a beauty.

David Naughton and Bruce Campbell could be brothers.

I felt that Robert Downey Jr. could be David Naughton's adorable brat nephew or little brother back in the 80s.

Too bad they never made a sequel to AWIL featuring both of them.

Oh yes to the "young" Robert Downy Jr. and the Tom Daly attraction!

I would add Jaye Davidson circa "The Crying Game' to this list.

Dylan O'Brien and Emile Hirsch spring to mind

Yuck, these men are gross. 🤮

Tom Holland.

Ben Wishaw.

Timothée Chalamet, the French faun.

Young Roman Polanski.

Tom Everett Scott

Billy Crudup

To be clear OP, are you referencing the baby deer or the mythical creature? It sounds like the latter.

[quote] To be clear OP, are you referencing the baby deer or the mythical creature? It sounds like the latter.

It doesn't "sound" like anything. The OP used "faun". The former (baby deer) is spelled "fawn". The latter (mythical creature) is spelled "faun".

[quote] faun / fawn

[quote] A faun is a part-goat, part-human mythological being. The most famous faun in modern literature is Mr. Tumnus in C.S. Lewis’ Narnia novels.

[quote] A fawn is a young deer; and to fawn over someone is to show exaggerated affection or admiration for someone, usually to gain some advantage.

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Nijinsky.

And he used Guerlain’s Mitsouko.

What about “The Marble Faun”- it used to be on the high school reading lists. I bet you can handle it!

young Timothy Hutton

DL fav Brenton Thwaites

R7 is right.

Young Jason Patric (during the Jami Gertz years)

Robert Sean Leonard

In terms of looks, I'm a horse type. I love long faces, big dark eyes, a strong nose. Maybe combined with a bit of cliché 50s strong-silent masculinity plus an ironic sense of humor.

We used to call them "boyish".

Thanks OP for identifying the type. I also have a fondness for it, in fact was it back in my 20s/30s.

R28 You rang?

I mean the mythical creature, although IIRC the two words share an etymological root.

Johnny Depp is NOT in this category. Fauns can be sexually intense and impossible to deal with. But they are not sleazy.

R32 is correct. Given his Native background if Johnny is a godlike creature I would say he is the much more problematic Coyote. Usually found among Native types. Hot but real troublemakers.

Chris eigeman is a best friend’s childhood friend. He still bares a scar he got from him when they were play fighting with forks as kids.

Kerr Smith

Fawn Hall

R28 or perhaps some perry king?

R36 That was Donna Rice, asshole.

When does the faun type overlap to the centaur type? Is that just part of the aging process like cub evolving into bear, or are the a wholly formed other category?

Fawn Leibovitz was my fiancée.

[quote] In terms of looks, I'm a horse type.

God bless you, Matthew, my lifetime companion and rider. Always jockeying for position.

Zach Galligan had a bit of this. Still does.

R39, the term "centaur" as a metaphor for a man crops up in the 18th century. It was applied to working class males with physically imposing bodies but "horsey" faces and coarse manners - the sort of men who might be of interest to a lady (or gentleman) for sexual pastimes but who were too clumsy to invite in for anything on a social basis (think of a horse stomping through a parlor). Dickens uses the term in Barnaby Rudge.

Based on this, I would argue that a centaur is a different type entirely - much bigger and much rougher/wilder/ruder.

Marc Porel was very faun-like.

R43 Is Scutter in Maurice a faun or a centaur?

I met Bruce Campbell at an Evil Dead event back in the early 2000s.

He was a little fatter but those eyes. Damn he was still hot!

Good question, R45. The actor is a faun. The character is a centaur.

R29, I think of boyish as a broader range.

A faun to me is pale, with dark or black hair and has an air of fragility - the tan blondes are something different.

Northern Irish actor Colin Morgan owns this thread!

"You look kind of elfin." Says one character to CM in "Benjamin" (2018).

Ilan Mitchell-Smith in Weird Science.

Actually, pretty much all the guys in Weird Science with the exception of Bill Paxton.

Keith Gordon until Christine. Then somehow he started looking rodenty.

But he was angelic in Dressed to Kill.

Penn Badgely.

The young Sam Waterson had shades of this, as did Anthony Perkins, although neither ever had the bouncy, satirical quality.

I'd describe a faun as having a lithe physique, boyishly handsome with a hairless upper torso and hairy legs. If he had a hairy chest, he'd be an "otter."

A lot of fauns in classical art did not have goat legs, interestingly. They were sometimes depicted as the male versions of nymphs - human overall in appearance.

The Barberini faun is an example.

DL Fave Tom Daley is a hairy-legged faun.

His rump steak is best served raw.

faun = David Spade

Seth Green is the rare ginger subspecies.

David Spade is a sick-making hobgoblin.

[quote]A faun to me is pale

Does that leave out Prince?

Seth Green is an incubus.

But I would still do him. I mean, I'm a Datalounger after all.

I think this guy is faun-like.

This guy also reminds me of a faun.

The guy at R63 has pecs that are too cubed.

Lots of hot fauns in this hot sub-titled, gay-themed Israeli movie, free on Tubi.

[quote]Good question, [R45]. The actor is a faun. The character is a centaur.

I can do an artist's rendering for you if you'd like!

Normally, I wouldn’t have thought of Cameron Monaghan, but these two particular shots yes!

R66, those guys are beautiful. But to me, fauns are more dainty and ethereal and somehow both troublemakers and innocent.

Fauns do not cruise. They are or are not available, but they never have to look for it.

r68 I thought that was Harry Styles.

R43 Lady Chatterly’s Lover (of the stable)

OP I suggest you intervene and round the cats up before your interesting observation devolves into random “brown haired actor” stanning and/or “only his plastic surgeon knows for sure” Zac Efron speculation.

Faun by the sea

Does Timothee have a fashion campaign yet?

How about Silenus? Is he anybody's type?

Silenus is a satyr.

Do Iwan Rheon and Ben Whishaw count? They have all of those trait except they have blue eyes.

R77 idk. I still need a compass for this upstart archetype. It’s not at all clear to me.

Ilan Mitchell-Smith was so sensual. Had those bedroom eyes. Not a bad actor either.

Robert Sean Leonard is a "soft faun."

So is Andrew Garfield.

The very young Kyle McLachlan suggests this type.

So does, for me anyway, Justin Long.

R79 Ilan Mitchell-Smith looked like a dewey bottom, a prettier Broderick. He looked like some of the NYU twinks (Midwest transplants) my friends (30-ish) dated in the 1980s.

Sal Mineo when young set the type - and as an Italian had the physiognomy that probably inspired the classical myth in the first place.

Gilbert Blythe is a beautiful example.

Martin Shkreli is the evil version.

I hate to admit this but I always found Shkreli hot!

Sal was gorgeous. Some trolls who keep calling him ugly and greasy don't understand not everyone here likes the Hitler Youth aesthetic.

Anyone who uses the term greasy is pretty much a racist IMHO.

Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman looks like he should have goat legs.

Meh, sounds like a list of random guys who have in common dark hair, pale skin and a mix of bodies in the range of slim to slab of muscles, but no fatties.

Bruce Campbell is still a hot daddy.

R90, it's about personality, not just type.

I agree the muscle boys don't belong.

I've known some Jewish (Sephardi and Ashkenazi!) and Mediterranean beauties with solid mesomorph bodies and the correct pilosity who give a satyr impact. Don't need to be thin.

R93, but a satyr is not a faun.

They are expressly different creatures.

TIMMY CHALAMET IS THE FRENCH FAUN

They sometimes overlapped. See Bacchus.