George Maharis stories

Your Great Uncle was a whore... darling.

A friend of mine hooked up with him in the late 70s. He would have been about 50 by then but apparently he was still in great shape.

I tricked with George several times before he was famous. Lived in a West 40s walk-up. Had three wigs on styrofoam heads. Changed them throughout the month to make it look like his hair was growing, but he was a good bottom.

That's what hurt Maharis' career - he was arrested in a men's room twice, late 60s-early 70s. I saw him about 15 years ago - way overtanned, and lots of gold jewelry. Not attractive. [italic]"George Maharis Arrested in Men's Room", Gay Scene, December 1974: "Famous Hollywood actor George Maharis was arrested November 21 and charged with committing a sex act with a hairdresser in the men's room of a gas station in Los Angeles... He was booked on a sex perversion charge along with Perfecto Telles, 33, the hairdresser, and released on $500 bail, according to police." An earlier guilty plea for a Hollywood lewd conduct arrest on 15 December 1967 with a male is also documented. [/italic]

Where has he gotten money to live on all these years

[5] He was born in 1928 - he's alreasy collecting social security for quite a few years, and hopefully some wise investments. Saw a nude photo of him @ age 45 still had a hot body! But, now he's 82 I wish him many years of happiness and comfort.

Fucked him inbetween takes of "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend."

playgirl%0D %0D and nice to see a Blackdogue update!

Wrong George, R7.

Who asks for a last name?

[quote]I tricked with George several times before he was famous.

OMG! How old [italic]are[/italic] you?

Doeds anyone else constantly confuse George Maharis and George Chakiris? They were both famous at about the same time, and they were both hot, and they were both gay.

R12--see R7 and R9.

George Chakiris is to Rita Moreno what George Maharis is to Chita Rivera.

Out? I thought he was Under.

My understanding is that someone left George enough money so that he could say 'Fuck You' to the Hollywood folks that weren't employing him steadily anyway.

He looks disturbingly like Eric McCormack of "Will & Grace" in some of those Blackdogue Playgirl pics.

He played John Cassavetes' part in the TV Sequel, "Whatever Happened to Rosemary's Baby?" with Patti Duke as Rosemary.

Someone posted a fairly recent pic of him. He still looks pretty good in his 80s.

Article about him. If you scroll down, there's a picture of him in 2006.

R18, I thought you were kidding about the Rosemary's Baby sequel, but you weren't. That movie sounds like a spoof of itself.

He used to go to Bally's on 6th Avenue.... seriously.

If that's what he looked like in 2006...oh, daddy!

PLEASE help, I still can't open photos on blackdogue. help me you assholes!

r11, I'm now 68.

Aside from the bad wig, he aged very well

he's lucky someone left him money cause they didn't make big bucks in those days. His career was never smoking

He sure knew how to paint bananas.

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[quote]Aside from the bad wig, he aged very well%0D %0D And the dentures...

Dentures means George gives good gum jobs.

I wonder if his nipples were sensitive or not. He has nice ones, but they look a bit inverted.

He turns 83 on Thursday!%0D %0D %0D %0D Anyone know how he's doing these days? Is he in good health? Is he still cruising for dick in his twilight years?

Classic 60's clip of George singing BLOWIN' IN THE WIND on HULLABALOO with Dionne Warwick, The Animals & Joe & Eddie.%0D %0D He had a pretty decent voice:

This is embarrassing:

As someone who has worked with family trees, I'd prefer that many of you started referring to the siblings of your grandparents as your grand-aunts and grand-uncles. It is far more symmetrical and the preferred choice for those in genealogy. Similarly the sibling of a great-grandparent is a great-grand-uncle or great-grant-aunt. %0D %0D Now back to George Maharis.

He did a made-for-TV with other DL faves Elizabeth Montgomery and Eileen Heckart called THE VICTIM.

Back in the day, he was a regular at the Everard, Continental, Club, Beacon and Man's Country baths.

Out? Sounds like he was never really in.

There's a photo of him from a few years ago. Dude looks pretty fucking good for being, at the time of that photo, in his late 70s (he is 82 now).

OMG, Eric McCormack does look so much like him!!!! He could have played Will's gay grandfather.

"Out? Sounds like he was never really in."%0D %0D %0D %0D Correct me if I'm wrong, but when the news came out about his arrest I don't think he made any attempt to lie about what happened, or make up some pathetic excuse like Larry Craig. I'd say he is out.%0D %0D

He was quite a looker and very sexy at all ages. And he sings great. I hope I look like that when I'm in my 70's

No long term relationship(s) for him?

Apparently every gay man alive in the early 70's both tricked with George Maharis and saw the original cast of 'Follies".

WEHT Eric McCormack?

"...with Perfecto Telles, 33, the hairdresser..." would tough on the career even today. Still, Maharis got plenty of work and should certainly be comfortable. You all remember "Route 66?" Pretty popular show as I recall.

Route 66 is on every day at 4pm on WSAH Bridgeport CT, which for some reason is on my Verizon channel lineup.

I've tried watching but I just wish it was in color. I love B&W but for some reason not on this show.

So he is a bottom?

I fucked his mouth so hard one weekend at The Meat Rack that he left with his wig on sideways.

Good times.

"I've tried watching but I just wish it was in color. I love B&W but for some reason not on this show"%0D %0D %0D %0D I got some episodes from Netflix and I think the show holds up better than a lot of stuff from that period. Good writing.

I'm just a little too young to remember Route 66 in its initial run. What was the premise? %0D %0D All I can remember was two hot young guys in a sports car cruising around the US. But they weren't law officers, were they? What did they do in each episode that made it dramatic?

"But they weren't law officers, were they?"%0D %0D %0D %0D No, just two guys traveling the open road for kicks.%0D %0D %0D "What did they do in each episode that made it dramatic?"%0D %0D %0D Each week they'd be in a new location, and they'd encounter some kind of problem/issue/whatever%0D

He's a Republican and supported Bush/Cheney in 2004.

"Shut up with your 'oh Gods, oh Gods' or will kill ya, milk or no milk." -- Ruth Gordon

PS It was called "Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby."

"He's a Republican and supported Bush/Cheney in 2004."%0D %0D %0D %0D Ew, I wish I hadn't read that!%0D %0D

he got his $ thru investments over a long career. A producer he worked with who also worked with Clint Eastwood was partly the mentor that helped him, I think a lot of it was land investments in the 60 s. He lives in NY and Beverly Hills, kept a low profile, lived simply and appears to have done things right in his life. Is a painter now and sells his work.

Got at least SOME of his money as a bequest from his longtime companion, Steve Somethingorother, an older, wealthy man whose last name I have obviously forgotten. Steve was a friend of my parents', who are too dead to ask.

I was always more attracted to Martin Milner...and I'm not usually partial to blondes.

He was in the original cast of Edward Albee's THE ZOO STORY. I wonder if they fucked.

Milner was HOT!

NOT an easy person to work with, apparently. And all this before the couple of arrests for "lewd behavior".

Was he a big star when he did the Judy Garland Show? Or did he blow someone to get the gig?

Previous Milner links are stinky. Trying here-

He is hot.

Interesting stuff from r61's link, they seemed to hinting that he is gay:

Most of the spare time he has is spent answering local and long distance calls from young females he’s never met or even heard of, and none of whom realize they’re wasting their time.

Dolls are one of the things Maharis is too big to play with. When the subject of romance comes up, as it does almost every time he’s interviewed, Maharis usually shrugs it off with the comment: “I’m free and easy—like the wind. And I intend to stay that way.”

Bachelorhood seems a desirable estate for him in view of Maharis’ fierce drive toward the top.

That article at r61 is odd - it comes off equally pitched as a star building exercise and as a star takedown.

He's not gay till Wikipedia says he's gay

Okay, r67, if you say so

r68

Not because I say so, but because it IS so. If you have proof, produce it.

Well George

After leaving Astoria, George lived on the West 49th near Eighth Avenue. Doesn't have a New York apartment now, he's been on Mulholland Drive for decades.

Damn...I wish we could've gotten some Martin Milner nudes like R70!

He lived across the street from an o,d boyfriend of mine circa mid90s. He was an unpleasant old queen. In a wig.

And Martin Milner was smokin'.

I wonder if he and Rock Hudson ever got it on.

Never mind.

I mean, how could they not!

Would you like some rock candy mr hudson?

Blackdogue is NOT updated!

[quote]Blackdogue is NOT updated!

Why R77? Were you looking for these?

Quite big dick.

Maharis wasn’t loath to let off steam in a memorable interview in which he said Milner was basically a snob.

“He looks down on everybody,” Maharis fumed to a writer. “I mean, I realize he’s been around 15 years and I’m a newcomer carrying the whole load of the show and there’s jealousy involved. But the month I was in the hospital - not one word, nothing, from him in all that time. He has no concern for anybody. Shall I say he’s lacking in human qualities and let it go at that?”

He blamed his failure to reach stardom as a vocalist on his singing teacher, who tried to convert him from baritone to tenor.

“That bum ruined my voice,” Maharis complained. “I was just getting good when I started to take lessons. After the first few lessons I could hardly talk, let alone sing. It took me years to get my voice back.”

“George’s love affair with George will stand the test of time,” says an associate on Route 66. “And don’t be fooled by his tantrums. He’s got a very well-organized disorganization.”

Producer Herbert Leonard thinks so, too.

Fuming about Maharis, Leonard charged, “He brought an alarm clock to the set with him every day, would set it so that it rang at two hours and 57 minutes, then would knock off on grounds that he wasn’t a well man.”

When the subject of romance comes up, as it does almost every time he’s interviewed, Maharis usually shrugs it off with the comment: “I’m free and easy—like the wind. And I intend to stay that way.”

Bachelorhood seems a desirable estate for him in view of Maharis’ fierce drive toward the top. Though he admits that, at 28, he loses his temper faster and more often than he ever did before, Maharis denies stardom has gone to his head. Trying to explain his dedication to acting, Maharis compared it to a weathervane, which he said turned with the wind and had an arrow pointing the direction.

“He tears up scripts, refuses to learn his lines or act out scenes which he doesn’t feel,” a cast associate says. “He also insists on changing dialogue to suit his mood of the moment—which may change to an entirely different mood five minutes later.”

Milner wasn’t the trim-looking fellow you saw on “Route 66” when he was initially cast. “When they found Marty, he was about 40 pounds heavier, and they told him he had to lose weight. I think he gained some of it back after the show. But he was very good about holding the weight down during the show’s run.”

They need to have an all gay TCM cruise with him, Farley Granger, and that other old hot guy John whatever from the other thread among others.

George Maharis got his kicks on Route 66.

But he got laid on Route 69.

George retracted his foreskin in his Playgirl pics making it look cut, but George's dick is intact.

Mr. Granger sends his regrets, R86...

Bulging and whorin' about in Buckskin.

[quote]Doeds anyone else constantly confuse George Maharis and George Chakiris?

That's who I thought this was about. I don't know this Maharis person.

I confuse them both with George Coulouris.

He got it on with Richard Dean Anderson.

r93, really?

No R94, it was actually Richard Anderson.

Maharis is way cuter than Chakiris, who that large lollipop head!

R86, Farley Granger sends his regrets. He's been dead for over 5 years.

"That bum ruined my voice."

He meant

"That cum ruined my voice."

"That bum ruined my bum."

"That crumbum's cum ruined my hum."

Wig or no wig. I would have sucked HIM.

He was hot as hell. Would have sucked him, too

Was he really wearing a piece when he did Route 66? He was only 32 or33.

Was there ever a porn spoof called Route 69?

How does he earn a living? His career pretty much dried up after he was arrested for that restroom incident.

He was no Gus Trikonis.

George Maharis skullfucked me with his rather large dick in the MineShaft, around 1980. Fun!

R103 I doubt he does anything for living now, he's in his late 80s. Around a decade ago he was working as an artist. At that time he had homes in both NY and Beverly Hills, so he must've been smart with his money over the years.

"His career pretty much dried up after he was arrested for that restroom incident."

He kept acting throughout the 70s and 80s. I know he was in stuff like Rich Man, Poor Man.

But was he wearing a PIECE in Route 66?

Here is a clip of him on Password in the early 60s

He had a wealthy, older boyfriend named Steve Burke, who left him a great deal of money. Burke's estate sale included some major works of art, including an uncharacteristic portrait of Steve by Noguchi.

[quote]Was there ever a porn spoof called Route 69?

If there was only a way of searching the Internet for such information. Oh well maybe someday.

I knew someone who said GM liked to fuck on his motorcycle.

Is he still getting dick at age 88?

He wuz hansum

"He got it on with Richard,Dean Anderson."

No, it was Richard DIX!

George sings!

William Daniels is extremely complimentary of Maharis in his recently published autobiography. He said Maharis' performance in The Zoo Story was brilliant.

He really was very good in Route 66. Very "present."

Bamberger's in Newark? That is just wrong on so many levels.

One of the hottest actors!

A radio interview from January 2014. He seems to have a good memory and is pretty sharp here at age 85.

Happy Birthday, Georgie!

Bottom.

His ass looked hot riding that motorcycle in1960 epic, Exodus.

He hung out in toilets looking to molest underage boys like that other "George" (Michael)

He's lived a long time, especially considering he had hepatitis in the early 60s. Not sure I buy how he claimed he got it though.

How do we have any idea if he was cut or not?

r125 thinks all gays are child molesters. The guy he was busted with was an adult, by the way.

I like to think of him as cut.

I knew someone moderately reliable who said that M liked to fuck on his motorcycle (presumably NOT while he was driving it).

His wig was far worse than Burt Reynolds' wig.

George was far sexier and handsomer than skinny Eric McCormick ever will be. Although there is a resemblance.

Mel Torme ripped Maharis to shreds when he wrote his tell-all about what a train wreck the Judy Garland Show was. Mel was the show's musical director (before he was fired) and he put all the blame on Judy.

I never liked Torme after that.

what did Torme say about Mahris r131?

I remember that Torme ripped Glenn Ford , in that book.,,Ford was having an affair with Garland. I think he actually sued Torme over that book. Wasn't Maharis a guest on the show? Seems to me Torme wrote something snarky about the gay boys being Judy fans. If he ripped Maharis, maybe it was due to homophobia?

Torme said Maharis was the new CBS heartthrob who was foisted on them by the network. He called him untalented,. unprofessional and accused him of ruining Torme's musical arrangements and the entire episode. Did not mention his sexuality.

But he said a lot meaner things about Judy.

He was a toad, and not in a good way.

He used to be able to fart SOMEWHERE from WSS

R134, he wasn't fit to lick the bottom of her ruby slippers!

[quote]Not sure I buy how he claimed he got it though.

Gays get hep by rimming.

Or sucking a dick that was barefucking another guys ass.

Maharis stole Torme’s toupee one time backstage at a Dick Cavett special. Torme was further angered when it was revealed Maharis had made a “special” shrine with the toupee. Apparently George placed the toupee on a cut off plastic sex blow up doll head and would mouth fuck it nightly pretending it was Torme.

[quote]His career was never smoking

Actually, it was, for the first couple of years of Route 66.

Wow, this thread has been around for six years.

Well, George has been around for 90, so...

George Maharis. He's 89 now.

I refused to have him on my show because...Well we had standards back then of course Betty White's gay husband welcomed him

He doesn't look so hot on Password. He certainly comes off as full of himself

Hottt

Greek.

Milner was much cooler. Martin Milner and James Garner had similar pleasant personalities. Maharis was an a-hole.

A relative liked Maharis. He had a sweet ass and a beautiful body. No man can be cruising for dick at 89! Two local men (60s and 70s) hit on me. I thought by that age testosterone just declines. Doctors need to stop prescribing that. Thanks for the dirt on Torme. I've always wondered about that jerk. Stupid me had no idea Maharis is gay. Who had the balls to claim charming Allen Ludden was gay? Like Bea Arthur said, Betty is the cunt! And from my financial background, the majority of people holding is going to vote GOP regardless of sexual orientation or social views. Almost nobody wants to pay his or her fair share of taxes, but I've never complained.

R150, of course Ludden was gay. That was well known. And THAT'S why Bea Arthur despised Betty White, because White was Ludden's beard (and also Liberace's, Tab Hunter's, etc., etc.).

As for Maharis, he was smokin' hot, and the producers of Route 66 were pissed because they KNEW he was exactly as he claimed -- the star of the show, and not that milktoast Martin Milner. He was probably extremely frustrated as well, because back then, being himself was AGAINST THE LAW.

milner was never hot....bland as fuk....george was the STAR.

Agreed R152. They're playing a 'Route 66' marathon on 'DecadesTV' and Milner just blended in with the background. Trying to look macho, tough...just laughable.

He did look better though in an episode where they beat the shit out of him.

"During the middle of the Route 66's third season peak, Maharis abruptly left the series. Maharis told the story that he had contracted infectious hepatitis in 1962, and that the shoots were so grueling that to continue would risk his health. He asked the producers to give him a less arduous schedule, but they refused, and he left the show, to be replaced by Glenn Corbett in the role of Lincoln Case.

However, others relate a different scenario. Route 66 producer Herbert B. Leonard found out that Maharis was gay and was having a hard time keeping his star’s sexual activities away from the press. Maharis also used the illness, Leonard said, as an excuse to break his contract so that he could get into movies. Co-star Martin Milner and a Route 66 writer-producer confirm this version."

Scandalous!

Yeah, Milner was definitely hotter.

Ok how do I change my signature to “Perfecto Teles?”

Not sure how he looks today at age 92, but he sounds coherent.

Twelve years ago (2006) at age 80 he looked like this (link). I'd say generally-healthy looking, good weight and complexion. The hairpiece is a little too BIG for a man his age, but colorwise, it blended well with his beard. He was dressed well too. The actress with him is Eva Marie Saint. She's still with us as well, now 96.

He ruined his career by fighting with everyone on the set of Route 66 & continually getting hepatitis. Everyone knew where he was getting the hepatitis from. He was indiscreet. When Tony Perkins kept visiting Tab Hunter on a movie set the production team, banned Perkins from the set so he didn’t ruin both his & Hunter’s career. But nobody could stop Maharis from his toxic personality or from constant tea room activities and he ruined his reputation & his health, which ruined his career.

I'd like to know if George and Sal Mineo hooked up in when they were both in that 1975 Police Story episode ("Test of Brotherhood" S03E07).

Also, any news or hint over the years on whether he's got a book in the works or planned? He'd better hurry up.

R159, put the bottle down. 2006 was 14, going on 15 years ago. But you're right, Saint is 96...the cradle robber!

R161, his parents lived well into their 90's, I think the mother was 99. He's doing okay.

He at least seems very engaged and coherent in the interview at the link at R158.

I wonder if Dorothy "Butch" Malone watched as George had a three-way with Dick Sargent, Van Johnson and Robert Reed...

VPL?

[quote] it’s an open secret in Route 66 circles that Maharis has argued with everyone from prop boy right up to and including Herbert Leonard, the show’s producer.

Already posted above R165, but thanks for playin'.

He was quite handsome

R12 and both are Greek!

I love Dorothy Malone in that photo at r163.