Let's forget the twinks and pretty boys and discuss manly beauty.

Gregory Peck. Handsome, fit, deep voice, classy, elegant, sophisticated, well read, kind, and a damn good actor.

Thread theme song:

Early Marlon Brando.

I have had a crush on younger Fred MacMurray forever, despite his being a staunch Republican. That last bit really is unfortunate, regardless of how much different the party was eighty years ago.

Charles Bronson is rugged and manly. He's of Polish descent isn't he? He must be packin'.

Let's be honest. Gregory Peck was also once a twink and a very pretty boy.

Anthony Quinn: All ham. What an ego.

Michael Craig

Alan Bates. no one was ever more handsome IMO

Sean, of course

Joel Mccrea

He looks like the father of Javier Bardem.

John Payne. A DL classic

Aldo Ray . Hotness

R5 You could LOOK it up. The information is in your HANDS.

R9 My uncle slept with Alan Bates. Late 60’s in London. My Uncle was a +1 at a cocktail party & Bates was there. That’s all I got.

Robert Mitchum OWNS this thread.

Close runner-up: Jean-Paul Belmondo.

There's a video of a young Brando out there. He was a twink at one point in his life.

R7 - Quinn often played larger-than-life characters, so I think you're unfairly branding him a ham. Watch "Shoes Of The Fisherman." Not a very good movie but Quinn is excellent. I never thought him to be a good candidate to play Don Corleone (Brando owns the role) but after watching the movie recently, he'd have been great.

Jim Garner, Rod Taylor, Clint Walker, Guy Madison, Van Williams, Bob Conrad.

You get the idea.

Eric Bana(na)

Liev Schreiber

G. I. Joe

Jim Garner, Rod Taylor, Clint Walker, Guy Madison, Van Williams, Bob Conrad.

Who would you say are comparable actors today? Or are today's actors eternal boys?

Oops! Wrong thread. My apologies. Back to manly beauty.

Sorry, R3, but I always found Brando in that silly hat a bit laughable.

Agreed, [R17]

Giancarlo Gianinni

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Toshiro Mifune.

Vincent Lindon

Where does Dennis Hopper fall in this? Manly or not?

My grandfather knew Anthony Quinn as a student in architectural school. He hated the guy, mainly due to the fact he ripped off his architectural supplies. Obviously, this was before he became famous, and both of them were poor.

Robert Foxworth

Richard Boone

Oddly enough, Gerard Depardieu before he became obeast. And a tax cheat.

Mexican star actor, appeared in films in the 70s and 80s.

R33 Thank you. I had no idea Quinn studied at Taliesin. Did your grandfather become a good architect?

It's Jorge Rivero. Duh!

Huub Stapel

Donald Sutherland, until well into his seniority.

...your Mr. Larry Pennell

Sexy Sammy Stein, here in "Gentleman Jim" (1942).

Ward Bond - also from "Gentleman Jim".

Mike Henry.

Judging by this thread, 'manly beauty' is primarily possessed by dead people.

Peter Lupus.

Joe Anoai.

He does look like a bruiser, r43...

Mike Henry was one of my favorites. After seeing him like this in Tarzan, I knew he had a giant bush under that loincloth. I was about ten years old at the time.

Betz

"Manly beauty" - definitely the opposite of a twink!

[quote] My uncle slept with Alan Bates

So did I, as well as the entire directory of the British equity, and most of Broadway as well. Alan had all the morals of an alley cat

Fabio Testi. Hot and handsome at any age

John Gavin

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Old Queens Forever! Into The Future!

It's my idea for a Marvel type of franchise.

Or maybe a Mama Mia kind of movie with a couple of sequels and maybe a prequel set in the 70s.

John Gavin was a *pretty boy*, r56.

Lee Van Cleef.

R58 really ? he look a bit hunky to me , be a boy

I was born way too late. These guys are the ones that turn my crank. Very few of that type around today.

R46 - That's the point in a way. They're representative of a different generation.

I don't know if it's genes or the hormones in milk, but something changed between then and now. As a generalization, then we had handsome men, now we have pretty men.

Both have their virtues, but they tend to be vastly different.

Here's one from the current generation r61 R46. Jason Momoa, with pussy.

A lot of these men were hot and muscular without the insane fitness obsession all the buff guys have today.

Mitchum (my pick) famously had a pot belly for the bulk (haha) of his career and still exuded total sex. I think he got purposefully chunky because he didn't want to do beefcake photos for RKO.

You know who I'm finding hot right now? Efrem Zimbalist Jr. on 77 Sunset Strip.

Edd Byrnes was my secret fantasy when I was a little gayling, watching 77 Sunset Strip with my parents c.1958. I used to dream that if I could get together $50 or so he'd let me tie him down to our dining room table and let me have my way with him.

I'm sure Bud Anderson went from twink to manly. He did manly things like going to a steam bath and...getting a rubdown.

James Robertson Justice ....Yes please

George O'Brien....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

George O'Brien had one of the biggest, fullest butts in film history. This is a cap from a 1930 movie.

He puts the two Bs in big buttocks.

George's chest and beefy arms

Alan Bates emerging from the sea...sheer beauty

Uncle Bill

A live one for the list: Idris Elba

People, people! i said not pretty or twinky but manly! Rugged! Masculine! Some of these responses are better suited to the Ross Mathews thread. Do better!

Here's another. The Rock! See, it's not difficult.

The Rock ??? bodybuilders have ZERO confidence, they're over compensating 24/7, nothing masculine about that . Yikes. they spend more time in front of a mirror than wymyn..Eww

Since Alan Bates was such a whore, would one of you who had him start a thread for all the others who also had him?

And details, please!

Well, I sm bisexual. I like both boys and men.

So r77 Alan Bates was a pocket gay? He wore lifts i believe. Pocket gays make great bottoms.

R77 he was not a whore, he was absolutely gorgeous, no movie has ever fully shown his real beauty, his warmth , his hair his charm, his green eyes with a dash of gold and blue , the colouring of his skin, still the most handsome man I've ever seen and he couldn't say no to a good time. What details do you want ? yes, very big guy, and off the charts in bed. really. He was something else, he was so warm so generous, you felt you were in bed with a furry octopus. I AM a whore, I count the gentlemen callers by the thousands, and he still has had no peers . Satisfied ?

Stuart Whitman

Once upon a time, actors looked and acted like adults.

Steve McQueen

Adam West

r67 I'd have paid good money to see him and Brian Blessed go at it.

I'd have paid good money to see him go at it ...with me R85. I find him hotter than a million suns, and he was apparently a BEAST in the sack

John Garfield

I found Ed Asner sexy.

Wait , what ? Ellen lost her first gf in a car accident ? TAKE THE REMOTE OUT OF THIS BITCH"S HANDS, FFS

Rod steiger.

ooops sorryyy wrong thread

Gary Cole is a rugged manly man, and still is now! This pic is him on NCIS in early 2022 (he took over from Mark Harmon's role).

Walter Brennan

Pernell Roberts as Trapper John, MD.

Here's Maximilian Schell at 40. Was he pretty or manly? I can't decide. Loved his looks.

Maximilian Schell was HAWT, he was manly. "Pretty" would be fellow austrian Helmut-the-whore Berger

R63 Do you remember Mitchum in Cape Fear holding in his stomach while wearing boxing trunks?

Torrid Fucker...

[quote]*Tucker did have one oddity apart from his aggressively straight lifestyle and that was the presence of a very gay masseur who was in his employ and practically adhered to him from 1960 to 1984, doing any and all odd jobs for him and acting as a sort of personal valet (apart from the one or two daily massages.) This symbiotic working relationship confounded some of his other friends, but it lasted for nearly a quarter of a century nonetheless.

What a shithole proposition, OP. What are you five?

Tony Franciosa. I wanted to see him naked when I was a teenager.

Massimo Girotti

Anthony Quinn was a very good actor and fine painter. But he was famous for not only treating women rough but brutally rough and leaving them bleeding. Like Prince Harry. No role model there.

Burt Lancaster

Sterling Hayden

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Some men did start out "pretty" and aged... into something more manly . Fabio Testi, a handsome/pretty young Sean Conneryish actor (Garden of Finzi-Continis) grew more interesting as he grew older.

Paul Burke

Joel McCrea

Lawrence Tierney. He was gorgeous as a male whore in Born to Kill.

I'll never forget the twinks.

[quote]Efrem Zimbalist Jr. on 77 Sunset Strip.

R64 He was my first tingle. I'd kiss the screen when he appeared.

Kerry Drake

Burt Lancaster

Renato Salvatori

Zorba: "I never loved a man more than you."

This is how men dance. Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates in Zorba the Greek.

quote] These guys are the ones that turn my crank

R61 You mean before automatic ignition when men had to crank the handle.

Fred Ward

And following Fred Ward, the requisite Jon Bernthal.

Javier Bardem

Lee Marvin falls into that Ugly-Hot Manly category

Forest Whitaker.

Forest Whitaker.

Forest Whitaker.

I like Javier as the actor and he has swagger and charisma, but God, he is ugly as sin!

James Coburn

Robert Forster

Robert Forster = The first time I saw him was in Reflections in a Golden Eye when he caught Marlon Brando's eye (leading the horse to water - a great metaphor) and the last time was in Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul as the 'disappearer'.

Trevante Rhodes

sorry stinky linky

James Coburn and Lee Marvin are great underrated choices for this thread. Either gent deserves his own thread! I'd be fascinated to read all the DL takes on them which I'm sure would range from the lustfully adoring to perplexed to hateful.

Big Bill Searcey - wish I could find some other hot pics of him.

No worries, r132

More Michael...ffffffffuck yeah !!!

George O'Brien. Biggest cock in Hollywood. Tennis, anyone?

Joe Namath, if we’re allowed athletes.

Not conventionally handsome, but hot as fuck in his prime. Like a beautiful slab of meat.

Don Stroud acted in many of the television crime dramas in the 60s.

Stroud also called Playgirl and insisted he would be the celebrity centerfold for an issue. They said Yes!

R138 Beautiful bush

Christopher Lee.

Sidney Poitier. Beautiful man.

141 replies and no mention of ME ?

“She’s got lots of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends…”

R17

Bruno Ganz

Mario David

Rossano Brazzi

Mario and Luigi

Sean Bean-bone structure you could cut glass with and a hot english accent....manly brit types are EVERYTHING

Javier Bardem, exoticly good looking, somewhat weitd yet handsome virile face

A young Laurence Fishburne. Criminally underrated in his hotness

Don Stroud and DL legend Robert Conrad in competing shorts.

R151 Thank you!

Good Christ, that picture could be the only jerk off material I would need for the rest of my life.

what am i, chopped liver

R153 I had noticed Olly wasn't on the list...I thought to myself, "how the mighty have fallen"

Young Keanu

R155 you might want to read the OP once again

Not wanting to be a cunt, but who,' stupid enough to most a picture of "young Keanu" in THIS thread ?

Tom Selleck.

Was Don Stroud gay?

And, no, I'm not asking you, Tallulah.

Don Stroud was Shelly Winters’ boy toy.

R156, well, I am not an ancient fossil and he is old school hot. Old now, hot then. The other actors here are not only from the powdered wig days, but they are also gross. So

And, R157 that was me. You sound like the old cunt, honestly. Everyone here is posting shit from the jurassic times. Those ppl were quite literally around when my great great gf was around and frankly, they are all disgusting.

K was hot then and not pretty. Looked like manly beauty to me. If you disagree, who gives a shit. Cunt.

It is hysterical that R144 pic shows someone who literally looks like a gross pig who works at the local jail and nobody says a thing. I post K Reeves and you old fucking fossils have a cow. This post is not asking for fucking men from the 1600s. Jesus.

Bless your heart, r162.

Glad I have one, R163. I regret I cannot say the same for you. Bless whatever that thing is that you have.

Thank you for sharing, r164.

Thank you for nothing. R165

You're welcome, r166.

[quote]Thank you for nothing.

You get back what you put out, r166.

I am, R167. Always.

Always loved him.

Has anyone seen the film “The Visit” he did with Ingrid Bergman? It’s so good but seems under appreciated.

[quote] someone who literally looks like a gross pig who works at the local jail

That would be ROBERT MITCHUM

Thanks, R171 ROBERT MITCHUM looks like a gross pig who works at the local jail. And, he looks like he stinks.

R161 ok, chill, for the people who like him, Keanu is the sort that they like, but honestly he looks like a girl, that's all

where IS that jail R172 ?

R173, I do not think he looks like a girl at all. I am quite sure a lot of GAY MEN would gladly F him back then and NOT because he looks like a girl.

R174, go check your local jail. You will find hiim there.

OKAY OKAY BABE , you like Keanu, sorry !! Okay ! wow! did anybody ever tell you you're hot AF when you're angry ?

R177, it is clear you are in love w me. You cant quit me.

I like a guy who stands up for himself. You type cute

Will Smith. Mmmm. Now THERE'S a man who knows how to SLAP! ✋

I am more pretty than cute, R179.

Stewart Granger

R181 I'm sure you are and, yes, I 'm begining to have feelings for you, it's true. I'm even a little bit hard as I type..Now, more masc men please, the Brits seem to win this thread, who would've thought ?

Lino Ventura

He looks like a mug, r184.

Mr. Shore...

Help me datalounge, he was beefy, had dark curly hair, grren eyes, he was a star in the 80's, early 90's, he often had a porn stache and often played GI's or marines

Found him ! TOM BERENGER ! remember Tom ?

Yes, r188...

Does anyone know the name of a very hot Mexican actor who I think was mainly a telenova star in the late 70s to 90s. Big strapping guy, great smile, curly black hair, maybe often had a mustache, looked kind of like Robert Fuller from Laramie fame. More of a hot daddy stud type than a young pretty boy. He'd fit perfectly into this thread.

A young Elliot Gould 🥰

Brock O'Hurn

Despite being often ranked as the worst and tbe most unpopular James Bond; I love Timothy Dalton.

R193 Timothy Dalton is my favorite James Bond. He was for sure the best actor who ever played Bond.

Jimmy...sigh

R194 You have excellent taste mate!

Hugh O'Brian

Joe penny from RIPTIDE

Perry King, from RIPTIDE

Ray Jackson. None of you will know him, but watch him blow..

Another vote for Sean Bean. Him and his grin and great ass.

And an addition of mine: Samuel L. Jackson. He's so big and intimidating! Handsome man.

[quote]Sean Bean. Him and his grin and great ass.

useless without pics

I do like Sean Bean but South Yorkshire makes him off.. He doesn't come from one of the Ridings so not a proper Yorkshireman.

R190 - not sure if this is your guy, although he fits the description. Andres Garcia.

Andres Garcia morphed into a preposterously hot daddy.

For me, he peaked in Mujeres Engañadas.

Andres Garcia knew what he had. He could not keep his fucking clothes on.

Dominican golddigging playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, who had a dick so enormous that Parisian waiters referred to a pepper mill as the Rubirosa.

Dabney Coleman

Does this Andres Garcia recall your memory?

YESSSSSSSS! Andres Garcia it is, Thanks to all who heard me and posted photos.

And doesn't he fit right in here? Shame he never seemed to work in the US.

I'm sure I'm alone on this but I think Gene Hackman exuded musky manly beauty. He wasn't handsome but he was sexy as hell.

Are Andy Garcia and Andres Garcia the same person? Just changes his name to capture the English language audiences?

Tom Atkins

wHERE CAN i FIND AN aNDRES GARCIA POR FAVOR????

R211 Oh NO love, your'e not alone

Andrés García's Wikipedia page at R214 is unintentionally hilarious. The only pictures are semi-nude ones.

James Caan

I wonder if the reason Andres Garcia never acted in the US is because he never bothered to learn English? Hard to find a video where's he not speaking Spanish or even a video about him that's not narrated in Spanish.

What a loss for us!

Despite his multiple fay roles later on, Stanley Tucci was the epitome of manly beauty in his youth.

what am i, chopped liver?

R220 FINALLY! Thank you!

Chris is aging like unrefrigirated milk

Some people like stinky cheese, r222.

John Wayne

If we're going to talk about Chris Meloni, we need to see what he truly enjoyed doing.

David Farrar (in Black Narcissus. with Kathleen Byron)

Brilliant choice, r226, and a name (and performance) that's often forgotten.

Chad Everett took off his shirt in an episode of Medical Center. I was eleven years old, but I creamed my jeans.

I never knew he was an artist represented by Henry Willson. Hence the in your face picture.

here:

Gary Lockwood.

*sigh*

I, too, would love to find a man like Mitchum at whatever local jails they allegedly populate. He was perfect rough trade at his peak, whatever silly queen keeps calling him ugly is clearly blind. Allegedly Tennessee Williams wanted him for Stanley Kowalski on stage before Brando, but RKO wouldn't let him do Broadway. He is much closer to how I pictured Stanley when I finally read the play - working class roughness and mean looking.

And yes, R97. My sister showed me that movie when I was 13, and it became consistent JO material. I'd have let him violate me even worse than he did those lucky bitches Polly Bergen and Barbara Barrie.

After years toiling in B pictures and bad TV westerns, it's a sad shame that hunky Gary Lockwood couldn't parlay playing a lead in a Kubrick film into better roles and more prominent movies.

Also, R162 Keanu is a pretty boy. There is nothing manly about him, no matter how much he grows his beard out. This thread is for manly looking guys. And I love Keanu.

Any stories about these men getting naked in an agent's office, in a bedroom of a producer, on set as a joke???

in a photographer's studio?

Steve McQueen was naked for the rest of this interview with a reporter/photographer.

Would Jeff Chandler qualify?

R232 I always thought he'd make an interesting Stanley. Maybe more low key and assured, not as explosive or ape-ish, and certainly with a load of that dirty, sleazy charm that makes you want to fuck him on one hand and take a bath on the other, like in Cape Fear.

As long as he isn't in polka dots, r238.

R225 Great tight balls! Thank you.

Gary Lockwood was HAWT

I'd consider Gary Lockwood almost a pretty boy, at least in Model Shop, the only thing I've ever really seen him in.

Alas, r44, Ward let himself go...

R243 You didn't see Gary in his legendary shower scene in SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS ?

Too bad about Ward...

For your consideration, I submit Mark Strong (born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia). He's like the UK's version of Chris Meloni.

Georges Marchal

Another pic of Georges Marchal:

Mark Strong is FIRE! Love him. My favorite Italian: Vittorio Gassmann. He aged well. Earliest years as a pretty boy, but that fell away.

What About Olivier Martinez and Vincent Perez??? Huh?

Georges Marchal in The Colossus of Rhodes (1961):

He's not aging well.....

also not aging well....

R244 - but when Ward was young...(sigh - that ass)

I always heard that Ward Bond and hunky Robert Horton loathed working with each other on Wagon Train all those years. I wonder what the hostility was all about?

I read that Ward Bond hated his big butt and didn't want it shown on screen, but pals John Wayne and John Ford therefore made sure that it always had a big scene to itself.

Dreamy Robert Horton...

Sean Bean's best part, for your delectation.

Nicolas Silberg

Mr. Leslie Nielsen

I like to think that’s Leslie Nielsen’s fuck face at r261.

R261 Leslie looks very manly, great nipples too, but there's a definite start of moobs going on.

Vincent Perez has a very nice bush.

Vincent Perez is hideous

I loved him in Indochine and Queen Margot, R265 and the vampire movie, Queen of the Damned.

R244 And he was a rabid right wing anti-Communist who made John Wayne look like a liberal.

Henry Wilcoxon (in The Crusades, 1935, with Loretta Young)

Loretta always looks so stupid

Tyrone was pretty. not manly

eli wallach

r271 I doubt there's a lad here that could measure up to his manliness

Eli was ugly as sin, come on guys, you can do better than this

r274 It's not always about physical looks but overall aesthetics.. the way one carries themselves, moves, sounds, acts.

In that film, he's quite attractive... albeit in a James Spader sort of way.

R268 Henry Wilcoxon was still attractive at 75. Here he is as Bishop Pickering in Caddyshack.

r274 do you know of Alain Delon, then?

Very pretty in youth but in age, a bit more academic manly until he got fat.

I hate Delon, he's a skank and a closeted case, there's nothing remotely masculine about him, he gave his butt to anyone who could advance his career, he's never been honest enough to own it like fellow whore Helmut breed-my-hole-Luchino Berger, and he's involved in very shady business and even murder.

r278 then you don't leave many options do you?

so, why not list your criteria rather than bitching about everything posted.

many of the rugged men were quite foppish. . . if it wasn't the hammy acting, it was often inane things like Albert Finney in his early career where he was prone to bending his wrist backwards facing upward. . yet all the same many a frau flicked their bean to him.

Henry Wilcoxon was beyond HOT as Marc Antony in the original Cleopatra film with Claudette Colbert as the Queen of the Nile. There scenes together are pre-Code steamy.

Albert Finney is a good one., R279, I gave you Bates, Craig (Michael), Connery, Payne, what more do you want from me ? Here, M. VICTOR MATURE

lol WRONG LINK

I can't believe no one has mentioned Clint Walker yet. Manliest man ever.

One of my favorite pics of Clint.

Franco Nero; Michael Nouri; Edgar Ramirez

Lee Horsley

R38, Yes, he was one of the best in fact.