Actors who were gorgeous when they were young

I have three when they were young stars.....Number one Richard Gere

Ken Wahl

and don't kill me now...John Travolta

Ken Olin OWNS this thread.

Somebody kindly post "young Ken" and "old Ken" photos to prove my point? Major thanks.

Mmmm Harrison.

Richard Dean Anderson the original MacGyver. I know everyone's look fade as they age, but I would have never expected him to ever look like this today.

An answer inspired by the recent Mickey Rourke thread... the 80s vs. February, 2016

Richard Chamberlain

Marlon Brando. He was a god as a young man.

Martin Milner. Here he is as a teen in 1947 from Life with Father.

Martin Milner again from 1952 Belles On The Toes.

r6, I believe Richard Dean Anderson has had steroid treatment for an illness.

And is that Sergio Mendes in r5's pic with Harrison?

Keanu Reeves

A young Gregory Peck

Logan Lerman.

Those lips...

Brad Pitt, of course.

Mickey!

Ray Liotta. Acne scars and all.

Ron Eldard . Can someone upload before and after pics?

I still think Keanu is hot , but I'll raise you a George Clooney .

Jeff Bridges . But I'm sure if he shaved and got some nice dentures he'd be as good as new.

David Lee Roth . Aidan Quinn .

....

Aged into one ripped old man.

Of the three leads in Urban Cowboy he help up the best. Hell, he's the only one who still has a career.

Ken Olandt

Robert Redford

Mark Harmon

Mark Harmon, again

Eldergays, did male sex symbols wear the Dorothy Hamill wedge, too?

Spock.

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George Nader

Rory Calhoun

Rory Calhoun

Jeez when did Mickey Rourke become a busted Vin Diesel ?

Rob Lowe

Billy Campbell

Jeremy Northam.

Tod Hiddleston.

Hart Bochner

Aidan Quinn

C-List Actor

Timothy Dalton. Most beautiful sensuous actor I had ever seen. Never seen that calibre of beauty and performance since his starring role in Wuthering Heights.

Here's the heart - breaking clip.

Glad I'm not the only ancient fuck on DL that can't open a link yet....JEFFREY HUNTER

MICHAEL BIEHN

PARKER STEVENSON

SAM ELLIOT

TIMOTHY BOTTOMS (Here's hoping..)

PHILLIP MICHAEL THOMAS

JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT

JAMES DARBY

Marc Singer

Robert Downey Jr.

A young Gilbert Roland

How beautiful was Chad Everett

Robert Wagner and Jeffrey Chandler

Thanks R48. Kinda. That's the wrong Jeffrey you posted Sir... That's my favorite blue-eyed handsome devil from the late 50's Jeffrey HUNTER that the nearly as handsome Robert Wagner is trying to bubble-butt burst, and get his grind on...on. Back it on up baby...

R42 Timothy is still pretty handsome for a guy who's 70, going by Penny Dreadful these past couple of years. I mean obviously not the caliber of beautiful he was when he was young(I still remember his scenes in A Lion in Winter, he was about 21 in that) but for an older man definitely not bad at all.

Ken Olin and Peter Horton from their thirtysomething days.

Ken and Peter again, circa 1987.

Young RJ Wagner

Young Clint Eastwood

Guess who...

Peter Fonda

Oh boy!

Sidney Poitier is STILL one of the most beautiful men alive.

Leonard Whiting

Ryan Phillippe

Peter O'Toole

Ooh, Aidan Quinn!!!

I had SUCH a crush on him in the eighties!!

Jan Michael Vincent! The fantasy of my teen years.

Rupert Everett

George Peppard's white-bread, preppy looks never did anything for me.

Besides he had a big ass for his frame.

Nick Nolte. He probably has the best mugshot in history.

Gary Cooper

"TOM HIDDLESTON?!" Young or old, that guy was NEVER "gorgeous."

Cary Elwes

Marlon Brando.

Troy Donahue

James Garner

Ralph Fiennes

Jude Law!

Matt Dillon. And he still looks pretty good.

Yes, Matt was hot when he was young.

Tom was super cute when he was young.

Dennis Quaid

Fatty Arbuckle

Gil Bellows.

Good Lord, Henry Fonda. Oddly enough, IMO, none of his stills does him justice; you have to see him moving, speaking, reacting, observing, to see his true beauty.

James Dean and Paul Newman although Dean never really did it for me. Newman was oh so beautiful in From The Terrace and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Tab Hunter. I just watched "Tab Hunter Confidential". He was and is a remarkable man. I never thought I could think of him that way. Top box office star, singing star with #1 hit (bumped Elvis from the top spot), Competitor in equestrian jumping meets (and winner), still rides well at 85, excellent figure skater. Bought out his contract with Warner's to be is own man, which was more important to him than stardom.

Howard E. Rollins, Jr. What a hot piece of pretty chocolate ass he was in his younger years!

Still makes me sad to think how he went down, then out.

From The Terrace is one of my favorite melodramas. Too bad I only have it on VHS and haven't been able to watch it for over 10 years. Time to get the blu-ray.

JRM along with every young Irish actor before they destroy themselves

This one sort of kind of kept his looks, at least.

Bedroom eyes

I agree that young Brando was the best every young star.

WEHT Gil Bellows?

Alec Baldwin was a walking wet dream. My god that hairy chest drove me crazy.

Takeshi Kaneshiro

^^^Read an interview loosely translated as he wasn't married because he was waiting for the right girl...hmmm.

Rufus Sewell

Blair Underwood

Laurence Fisburne

Sam Elliott

Philip Michael Thomas

Alain Delon

Hrithik Roshan

Leo was straight up beautiful until he decided to morph into Jack Nicholson.

Paul Gross

Speaking of, Jack was quite handsome when he was young.

Cillian Murphy

Mikael Persbrandt

Giancarlo Giannini

Someone is lighting this thread up with a whole lotta' pretty...Oh my. I mentioned Jan-Michael Vincent up thread for a Boomer pal, he's okay, but wasn't exactly a fave. Thank you poster for Sam Elliot, Phillip Michael Thomas links/pix. You drew me in from hiatus... :-)

Oleg Menshikov

Vladimir Mashkov

Omar Sharif

Using the term "actor" in the broadest sense then Matt Lattanzi.

My apologies but....

Gale Harold

Keith Carradine

Mark Harmon

The Hon. Nicholas Haden-Guest and his brother Christopher, 5th Baron Haden-Guest of Saling

I think Sam Elliot r97 is one who improved with age.

Thanks r116. The younger brother in particular was quite attractive.

Jeff Bridges

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What was Philip Michael Thomas' problem? Did he ever work again after Miami Vice? Was he considered difficult or untalented?

Leo NOW.

Another vote for Keanu Reeves

Basil Rathbone

Kevin Costner

David Charvet

Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas, again

Very young Philip Michael Thomas

Datalounge's favorite dad, John Amos

He hasn't been mentioned yet??

Young John Amos, football team

Paul Walker

John Amos had some hot legs

I'm sure they were already posted and named, but so what. Here they are again.

I'm the then sleepy 'tard R43. Meant to post JAMES WILBY. Could a kindly fellow DLer PLEASE post a link pic for my underrated, quiet guy hottie Timothy Bottoms? The hideous hippie-style of the 70's ruined many a hot guy's looks and photos.

Michael T. Weiss. He was SO hot in "Jeffrey."

Bela Lugosi

Jon Erik Hexum; he never got old so who knows what he'd look like today?

I can only speculate he'd be still gorgeous.

Ben Murphy, who, like old DL fave Chad Everett, aged like fine wine.

Scott Wilson ([italic]In the Heat of the Night, In Cold Blood, The Right Stuff, The Walking Dead[/italic])

Adam Baldwin, a talented actor and colossal asshole, who now has the face he deserves.

I remember Mickey Rourke in his first film with William Hurt...he was perfect. Great actor and really cute, then he threw everything away. Just stupid, I guess.

John Saxon

John Saxon was a hottie

I had no idea John Saxon was so good looking when he was young.

r88. OMFG!

I'm glad you're diggin' a young John Saxon-- he's long been a favorite of mine!

Here you go, r136

Another Timothy Bottoms

Vanity Fair cover 1996 their predictions for future A listers (wow, they were off the mark for some of them)

Helmut Berger

Hart Bochner of Apartment Zero. Yeah, I'd fuck him.

Damian Young. Majorly hott.

Michael Pare had little or no talent and was by all accounts an asshole, but he was pretty damn hot for a couple of years. There's a scorching sex scene with him and Barbara Carrera in an C-movie called POINT OF IMPACT. The whole movie used to be on YouTube. I can't find it at the moment, but this compilation has most of that scene edited in with other hot moments between the two of them. Worth checking out.

Michael Paré's talent was being gorgeous.

Dolph Lundgren

Elvis

r153 did you really just link to Jew Watch

Freddie Prinze, Jr

Thank you R149 R150. Really. I first noticed Hart Bochner in the 1984 comedy "The Wild Life." He played an asshole cop, rocking a 'stache porn stars of the day would have envied, not to mention Hart's male-model good looks. I was disappointed he didn't have greater success in front of the camera. Timothy Bottoms was my 5th grade future 'husband' prototype. I knew then I preferred an understated...quiet type. Under the radar. T.B.'s killer cheekbones are to die for. The puppy-dog eyes could melt the coldest heart. Even the 70's Jesus look, looked good on him. His brother Joseph was no slouch in the looks department either.

Jean-Paul Belmondo. His flaws only make him more irresistible.

Steve McQueen

Toshiro Mifune

I had the hots for Jeff Bridges' older bro, Beau, when he was young and adorable.

r38, Tom Hiddleston had grandpa face since he was born

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Correction: ^^ can't "imagine" staring at that face in person

People forget, Nicolas Cage was sex on a stick.

R159 – R153 here. Yeah, I didn't even know there WAS a Jew Watch until I found it while looking for a picture of Hart Bochner, whom I didn't know was Jewish. Now that I know he's cut, it makes him all the hotter!

I am a college prof and would like to remind fellow olds, that 25% of young men are gorgeous - they are young and not polluted, its easy to be hot.

R142 I'm sorry but Adam Baldwin is still smoking hot, maybe even more so than when he was very young. Whatever you think of his politics, he's sex walking. That's just the way it is.

R171 What do you teach?

Harold Perrineu in "Romeo + Juliet" was a vision. Stunning man. I have a hard time thinking of him in terms of "when they were young" because he doesn't age but technically, he's 53 now.

Jeff Richards

Dean Stockwell circa 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' and 'Compulsion' was absolutely beautiful. And 80's Peter Weller though he has those delicate features that age early & very badly

R172 is headless.

R177 What are you talking about? Baldwin isn't a bad guy but he is a staunch 2nd Amendment supporter.

He is not good looking R178. Not even a little bit.

R173 Not sex ed. Every September its a parade. Vive la jeunesse.

Here's some frenchies for you

Benoit Magimel

Gaspard Ulliel

Jean-Marc Barr

And the beurs

Salim Kechiouche

Firass Dirani

New York native son EDWARD BURNS is still too fine for words. He's married to one of the most beautiful supermodels in history. Speaks well if Burns. The vocal-fry...forgivable in a man so handsome. Damn New York, thanks for Ed.

River (sigh).

Young Ed Burns. Too bad he's such a mediocre talent, cause I agree, he's still a hunk.

Cavill was breathtakingly beautiful in one of his first films,The Count of Monte Cristo.

Matt Leblanc

He was so FINE on The Tudors R189

Tom Jane. And still hot.

His ass was especially fine in The Tudors, R191.

Rodrigo Guirao

Montgomery Clift

Rob Lowe. I can't stand him, but he was pretty.

Ian McGregor

R179 You mean he's not your preference/type. Just because he doesn't personally appeal to you, that doesn't mean he's ugly. It's absurd to say Adam Baldwin is not good looking. It's just not true.

He's already got his own thread going but I'll cross-reference him here. Guy Madison.

Aaron Eckhart, classically handsome AND intelligent. The TOTAL package. Nearing 50.. Eckhart has been lighting up the big screen with his humble hotness for 3 decades. He owns whatever role or part he's portraying, and never overacts or needs to ham it up, to get the job done son. He's simply dreamy. A thinking man's American classic hottie.

awwwwww

Matt Dillon

John Wesley Shipp

Dean Martin

Albert Finney

Antony Hamilton, gay, died of AIDS related pneumonia. Took lead role in Cover-Up when Hexum died

Well he's not known to a lot of people but oh god Robert Tyler

Colin Firth

Gael Garcia Bernal

Yeah I second, third, and fourth Anthony Hamilton.

Benecio aged horribly, but when he was young... damn.

Johnny

R66

JIM MORRISON'S mugshot from when he as was about 18,19. wasn't too bad either.

Ricky Gervais

Lou Diamond Phillips

R175

Were you watching him on TCM today ?

John Slattery, who is now a silver fox.

Johnny Cheekbones For Days

ERROL FLYNN at age 25

r178, your "staunch 2nd amendment supporter" has posted racist and homophobic shit on the internet

And who the fuck said 25% of college students are gorgeous? That's a pretty generous estimate. Especially in America where so many people are overweight

Bruce Lee. The swagger!

His son Brandon was also gorgeous.

Maximilian Schell

TYRONE POWER at age 22

Robert Downey Jr.

Please...these randoms don't know handsome like Aaron Eckhart. On his worst day at near 50, he'd crush Ricky Gervais, Lou Diamond Phillips? Really? BUMPED........

Vile human being though he may be, Mel Gibson was totally hot when young

You would of if you could of.

And Russell Crowe before he blimped out

Mel Gibson was a bit fug, very young, then he blossomed in late 20's early 30's.

From the tv series THE VIKINGS, this is TRAVIS FIMMEL about 16, 17 years ago.

Guy Pearce

PHILIPPE FORQUET at about age 23

Richard Chamberlain

JAMES FRANCISCUS circa 1963

Anonymous in KC, what's the point of going on about Aaron Eckhart without pictures? No wonder no one likes you.

Well he looks about 45 there, R237.

Oops I meant Chamberlain, at R235.

Louis Jourdan, ooh la la!

Mark Harmon

Would you ever, ever have thought that this hot guy grew up to be…Ozzy Osbourne? Yikes. What happened along the way?

Incredibly gorgeous John Gavin, having the moves put on him in the bathhouse in "Spartacus" by Lord Laurence Olivier. Who can blame that old queen, Larry?

Rock Hudson and Gary Grant

CARY ELWES

BRUCE PENHALL

ROBERT CONRAD

Nino Castelnuovo - even his name is hot

Kip Pardue - WEHT him?

JAMES BROLIN

who along with a handful of others (CONNERY, EVERETT) managed to age well

Terence Stamp

Paul Newman

Harry Hamlin

Jacques Perrin, with Francoise Dorleac

Phil Carey, one of the hottest actors EVER.

(You may not believe this, but my name is Granny Goose.")

David Hemmings aged very fast, and very badly, but he was very striking when young

Another vote for young Richard Gere

DAMN R237 that was way harsh. I in my humbled eldergay ghetto state have always stated I and my Android POS, an unable to provide a link. Some kind, generous poster has been awesome enough to hook-up some of us fellow DLers with a link pic. Sorry that I put you out and inconvenienced you. I've only been on DL for about 2-3 mos. This is my first and only on-line experience. I just got my first smartphone less than a year ago. Damn dude, you just sucker punched me with a crushing blow. I was on a learning curve--fast track. Just trying to adjust and fit in. Wow. Nobody on DL likes me huh? So I should go away? Man, you really don't know how your sledgehammer words have landed a decisive blow. I feel the contempt. What DataLounge? Permanent fuck-off? You cut to the bone. There's no diversity of choices in your posts. I heard that.

It's easy to forget now that Gerard Depardieu was genuinely cute when he was first starting out

Ed Harris.

Val Kilmer

Sam Neill.

[quote]Adam Baldwin, a talented actor and colossal asshole, who now has the face he deserves.

A talented actor? Jesus. He's always playing the same kind of strong silent type and his acting talent is very limited. And yes he's a total asswhole who two years ago compared gay marriage to incest. And when his homophobia was pointed out he went on an online bullying spree with another homophobic cunt Nick Searcy.

Ugly, inside and out.

Clifton Davis

I used to have a crush on Edward Furlong...

Ryan O'Neal

Hugh Jackman

Costner certainly was a hottie. Can't remember how many times I fantasized licking that hairy chest.

R267, that's a terrible pic. He looks 40 trying to look 25.

Here's young Hugh Jackman.

Jeff Daniels.

Robert Urich

Matthew Broderick

Ian McKellen

Richard Burton

Daniel Day-Lewis

R218 I just came

Cary Grant

Tom Hiddleston is still what might be called "young"; he's only 35. And he sure ain't gorgeous.

Paul Newman remained gorgeous well into middle age.

I didn't care that he couldn't act.

More Eckhart

And finally . . .

No one mentioned George Maharis??

Michael Ontkean

The beauteous Russell Wong:

Alex Cord

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Brett Cullen, who to this day I will watch in ANYTHING.

Sir Kenneth Branagh

Crazy-ass Thomas Gibson.

Tony Curtis

Gene Kelly--more cute than gorgeous, but killer dancer's bod.

Perry King... oh, that jawline

R290 The spitting image of my grandfather. I know Curtis was gorgeous as a young man but I can't get past that association.

"Brett Cullen, who to this day I will watch in ANYTHING"

He aged into a nice-looking daddy, too.

R258, I was just kidding in that post. The real reason no one likes you is that you have no sense of humor.

Jeff Richards was indeed gorgeous, but that photo at R175 is not a good one. I think this one is a lot better.

So basically R288, Kenneth Branagh never had any lips. I thought perhaps that was a recent thing.

Young Jeff and Beau Bridges with their parents (Lloyd wasn't bad either)

I always liked Earl Holliman

Burt Reynolds

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(R198) You mean EWAN McGregor.

Andrew Stevens

Brian Bloom

Tom Berenger

Speaking of crazy-ass Thomas Gibson, here's crazier Mandy Patinkin. I just loved his face when he was young. Such an expressive face that was a joy to watch.

Christian Kane is still fine as hell in his early 40s, but was simply dazzling as a young man:

Woody Harrelson.

Frank Langella

Not gorgeous but definitely striking: Anthony Hopkins.

John Allen Nelson

Parker Stevenson

Bruno Ganz

Baryshnikov *swoon*

Warren Beatty

Rick Rossovich

R292, bless you! Perry King was PERFECTION, ya heard me? I fell hard for him in '75 or '76, when he was in [italic]Captains and the Kings,[/italic] and the next year in [italic]Aspen.[/italic]

He aged beautifully.

The late, great Robin Williams (on the left)

Hotter Kurt Russel

Perry King was a big homosexualist correct?

Don't laugh. Anson Williams

Desi!

James LeGros

Tom Cruise, although he looked his best in his 30s.

Good God, Mickey Roarke and Ray Liotta were never considered "gorgeous," even when they were young. Gregory Peck, Marlon Brando and Gary Cooper were, without a doubt.

Patrick Swayze

Armand Assante

R325, to each his own but plenty of people considered young Mickey Rourke quite gorgeous. And with good reason.

Mickey Rourke was definitely a huge sex symbol after 9 1/2 weeks. I personally didn't care for him but I had female friends who were totally crazy about him.

Eddie Murphy. Yes, I'm serious.

R330, I remember Murphy bulging nicely in Beverly Hills Cop.

Christopher Reeve

Don Johnson and he still looked pretty good in Cold in July.

Lambert Wilson

Stephane Freiss

Irrfan Khan

The beautiful Martin Hewitt from Endless Love.

Robin Williams? NOT gorgeous. Neither was Kenneth Branaugh. Or Kurt Russell. And Eddie Murphy?! You'v got to be kidding.

Sorry R338. You lost me at Kurt Russell.

Jason Patric

I have this weird feeling that there are only about 4 people posting in this thread, over and over and over and over....

Harry Belafonte. Singer, actor and civil rights activist. Still going at 89.

Thank you ever so much R295. Your indulgent generosity is exceeded only by your astonishing taste in truly gorgeous men. Aaron Eckhart R280 R281 Michael Ontkean R283. Are the stuff of wet-dream fantasies..legendary status. John Allen Nelson. You certainly are well-versed. Again..thank you. But I gotta differ with you about the sense of humor thing. Really Boo? Me...KC doesn't have a funny bone? Child please... It's a little low brow, ghetto-ish at times, but I can make you laugh if I really wanted to. I have been whiny and defensive. I'm working on it. Have to own it baby if I'm going as AIKC. Learning still. I'm just an on-line infant. A teet sucker. Unless you have something else for me? Your neighborliness and sharing/positive reinforcement have placed me in your debt. Be gentle...I'm a virgin reborn. Madonna ain't got shit on me. Was about to fuck-off from DL. Appreciate you R295. Boomer dropped the boom, and me likey

John Terlesky. So hot.

Willem Dafoe. Sort of a vampire hot thing.

"Aspen" was my first introduction to Perry King as well, r317. I just couldn't take my eyes off him. Perfection is right!

Jon Voight

R343: Anything of value you might have said was negated by your cutesy-precious "me likey."

No wonder they hate us.

Definitely George Maharis. Click the link for story & pictures of his gay sex scandal.

R348 Hate is such a strong term. Dislike intensely more PC. Let me grovel how I wanna. Should I bring my kneepads? John Terlesky. You truly are the Tesla of male attraction. Little known hotties that YOU are all too aware and quite knowledgeable. Look, nightowl here, getting sleepy that goes creepy soon thereafter. Stimulating arousal contra-indicated. Happy dreams await me. Thanks to you.

Don't forget to take your meds…

Robert Fuller

Nathan Fillion

I was first struck by Perry King, when he played James Mason's limping son, in "Mandingo" (1975) At one point, he did a full frontal nude scene, as he walked naked to the bed he shared with his clueless blonde bimbo of a wife. One of the earliest films where you could see it all. Loved it.

Likewise, Jan Michael Vincent had a full frontal nude scene in "Buster and Billie" (1974). Very hot. And now just look at him. What a mess!

Depardieu again.

James Earl Jones

Jimmy Stewart

Patrick Stewart

James Earl Jones LOL

I know he was mentioned, but I can't get enough of young Cary Grant. That man was perfection.

I can't find a photo of him in color, R360. So you'll just have to imagine his blue eyes with his dark skin. Yes, the man was gorgeous.

Anonymous in Kansas City, you keep addressing me as if I've engaged in conversation with you, but I haven't. You seem confused. I posted the pics of Ken Olandt, John Allen Nelson and John Terlesky, all old favourites of mine. I don't pick fights with people on here. It's one of the things I dislike about the board. Sorry you think my pics are "Tesla."

I've been here since Day 1, back when this place was always fun and everybody got along. Cheers.

(R343) Was about to fuck-off from DL.

Just do it! Or at least stop using that stupid moniker, Asshole in Kansas City.

It's true about what that guy says about you not having a sense of humour. Your posts are too many, and mostly, really annoying.

Wally

[quote] Actors who DL's Eldergays had crushed on when they were young

Fixed the thread title for you OP

Harrison Ford.

Laurence Fishburne was so fuckin' fine around the time he made WLGTDWI and BITH. Sexy, intense eyes.

Oskar Werner. Hawt twink.

William DaFoe? He's always looked like a monster.

Mickey Rourke was sexy but "gorgeous"? As in heart stoppingly beautiful looking? Never. There's a big difference.

Corey Parker

David Marshall Grant.

I saw him in a coffee shop in Atlanta in the 90s and I was blown away by how hot he was in person.

I never thought Kurt Russell was a big deal. He was good looking in a white trash way, but I never went for that type.

Gale Harold is still pretty fucking beautiful. He's got to be over 45 at this point

Thanks to whomever mentioned Lambert Wilson! Gorgeous man

Peter Barton

R359, that's Andy Whitfield, not Patrick Stewart. Andy was the original Spartacus in the tv show but tragically died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma after season one.

This is young Patrick Stewart.

Patrick Steward never looked young.

Mark Rylance

James Wilby, Rupert Graves and Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant was truly gorgeous when young. I always like James Wilby a lot but I know some people didn't. He wasn't maybe as beautiful as Grant but he was gorgeous in his own way. Scudder was a hottie as well.

James Spader. So pretty when he was young.

Sam Waterston

Sean Bean

Robert De Niro

Richard Berry

Vincent Lindon

Vincent Cassel

Blair Underwood has aged well. He was in LA Law with Harry Hamlin who now looks like a very old man (like he could be Blair's father).

A very young Patrick Stewart.

Bryan Brown

Yes, yes, to Cary Elwes!

He was very beautiful during his Princess Bride years. It's uncommon when the male co-star is much more beautiful than his female co-star.

Fat and creepy now but he was a sexy hot thing then. Russell Crowe.

Charles Mesure

James Spader.

Al Pacino.

Young Michael Douglas, sex addict.

A younger Russell Crowe.

Nigel Havers, who since the 70s has epitomized the perfectly behaved, perfectly perfect upper-crust Englishman.

Andy Garcia

Stephen Collins.

Viggo Mortensen

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Steven Bauer

Dermot Mulroney

Scott Brady. When I saw him on "Baretta", I couldn't believe it was him.

Bruce Greenwood

Mel Gibson

Martin Sheen

Joe Dallesandro

I always had a thing for Rik Mayall.

James Spader now and then-- is there anyone who has gone through a more thorough transformation?

Russell Crowe looks beat up, but he still looks like Russell Crowe.

Not sure I would be able to make the connection between young and present Spader

Young Clark Gregg.

Even younger Clark Gregg.

R351 My "meds" have reached the therapeutic range level, I'm feeling pretty good..Thanks for your concern. Maybe if your meds worked for you, you wouldn't be so....

R363 I was attempting to give you an appreciative compliment. Your pic selections feature quite a few of the same less popularly known, but very attractive men that I also found to be extraordinarily handsome and alluring. Sorry if I have offended you. No, you did NOT ask for my opinion, but seeing John Allen Nelson, John Terlesky and others you posted, temporarily deluded me into an obvious false sense of some shared interests. You've corrected that for me.

R364...You on the other hand seem rather fond of conflict, and for lack of a better term appear to be a shit-starter and stirrer/sower of discord. At least I hold the power of my convictions and BOLDLY back it up for the world to see. I'll say it to their/your face without hesitation or reserve. I'm not going anywhere...get used to me, or STFU and ignore me. But at least I don't hide. Bring it! Who are you again? And who even cares? That's what I surmised... Bye for now, AIKC. In your face.

I can't believe this was James Spader in 1990. He starred in a movie about a younger man involved with an older woman (Susan Sarandon). Ironically, he looks older than her now.

Julian Sands

Massimo Troisi

Kim Rossi Stuart

More Kim

Tatsuya Nakadai

Brian Bloom

Years before he became a soap opera heartthrob, I saw Timothy Gibbs in a MTM movie called "Just Between Friends" and thought he was absolutely beautiful.

I know he was a child star (Father Murphy) before that, but it was around the time of that movie - he would have been around 18 or 19 - that he really started developing into his looks.

Sadly, I think Brendan Fraser's aging was even more extreme than James Spader's. And possibly Cary Elwes, too.

Viggo Mortensen is starting to look a little craggy but is still hot in his full frontal in Captain Fantastic...

Rat-faced Vincent Cassel has never been gorgeous.

Patrick Warburton

Patrick Warburton in chains.

So beautiful

Googled Fraser and Elwes, R425

Fraser went through an unfortunate hair loss stage where he was going bald quickly but doing nothing about it. He seems to have recovered- not sure if it's a rug, transplants or a weave, but he looks fine.

No idea what you think is wrong with Elwes. He looks his age, not longer dashingly handsome but that's the kind of face he has. Still, not a bad looking 53 year old.

Spader, OTOH, is unrecognizable to people who knew the thin, golden haired youth

This whole thread seems to be one person posting over and over.

L&O SVU's Robert John Burke.

Treat Williams

Chris O'Donnell

Todd, of course

Dennis Cole. The mistress never had it so good.

R431, Cary Elwes seems to have lost the weight recently. He was pudgy in the early 2000s when he made that movie with Kirsten Dunst (The Cat's Meow). Luckily, for him, he still has his hair and now lost weight.

The men who have aged better like Viggo and Sting, have remained trim and have a healthy lifestyle. The drinking and drugs start to take a drastic toll (Johnny Depp).

Johnathan Shaech.

Tim Matheson

Rodney Harvey

Brendan Faser very likely peaked at 22! We have always known him on the slide down from hot.

It happens. I remember guys from my schooling who peaked at 15. There was this polish boy, oh my!

Young Peter Capaldi

Simon Baker was always beautiful but he actually looks better now. Lucky bastard!

Sean Bean's fall from grace has been painful to watch. He was still hot in "The Hitcher" but that was nearly 10 years ago and time has finally overwhelmed him.

I worked with Tim Matheson in 1982 and let me tell you, he'd already lost it by then.

George Eads was so fine back in his "Savannah" days.

Surfer George

Simon Baker now....still hot.

Tim Hutton

Hutton - another one who peaked at college age.

Tom Hanks, Burt Reynolds, Jan Michael Vincent

Another vote for Tim

Scott Brady, young.

Scott Brady, old.

Jason Patric was pretty perfect-looking in The Lost Boys.

Mr Cusack.

Dennis Quaid, so fine.

More DQ

Dean Stockwell

Dennis Cole, Tim Matheson and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Wow. I'd never heard of TK before, but I won't be forgetting anytime soon. Cole and Matheson were "can't look away" magnetic, whenever I saw them on TV. Jason Patric had me so distracted watching The Lost Boys, I later had to rent the video.

For me, this should be about actors we mostly know of as mature, not necessarily sex-symbol material, who were surprisingly far more attractive when they were younger and relatively unknown.

Paul Muni.

I always preferred Laurence Fishburn when he was Cowboy Curtis.

Corbin Bernsen

Will Patton in 'Silkwood'. I remember seeing that film for the first time and thinking who is THAT? He's always had the slightly menacing quality but he was extremely attractive back then.

Will Patton in 'After Hours' - a couple of years after 'Silkwood'. I feel pretty!

The magnificent cleft in Will Patton's chin made him so attractive. His intense on-screen persona in movies like Desperately Seeking Susan and other roles, always made him stand out.

I see no cleft in Will Patton's chin in either photo linked above your remark, r467.

Jason Patric looked delicious atop Rachel Ward in "After Dark, My Sweet".

William Peterson had a savage intensity in his role in"To Live and Die in L.A." He was handsome, trim and masculine as a dirty cop chasing counterfeiters. There's a scene where he's walking through an airport in tight jeans. WP has a mesmerizing combination of bow-legs and pigeon-toes, and his strut is a thing of beauty. If you saw this great movie, you probably remember WP stalking around in those pants.

I found a clip of a different walking scene - it's only about 10 seconds. If you're really desperate, go to 2:45 in the video.

Forgot the clip!

Sorry R468. I'm very familiar with the very pronounced cleft in Hot Daddy Will Patton's chiseled chin. The link posts didn't do his hefty cleft justice, but teenaged me fantasized about it, and Will's fine self. Google him and you'll behold a perfect cleft that probably sent Michael Jackson to his plastic surgeon, with a photo of Patton for his docs to attempt to duplicate.

R470, He also went full frontal, in shadow, but his cock is still visible.

Even if I didn't have horrible roseacea (sp? that blotchy red shit on your face) when I was younger I was still only a 6.5 on a good day.

It's gone now and I'm aging as well as can be expected.

I think going through life being beautiful (and rich) makes it so much easier.

Mel Gibson

Kevin Costner

Here's the pic OP should have posted of George Peppard.

Kevin Costner was so good-looking in Bull Durham. I had the same reaction of Susan Sarandon when she sees him sitting on her porch and says, "Oh my....."

Denzel Washington.

It was more about the body and the way he's strut into the room.

Homophobic asshole. Nothing gorgeous about him.

Sasha Mitchell

R481 A favorite Sasha ad for Calvin Klein. The unlikely polka dot print gets me so hot.

Thumbs down to Denzel the homophobe

Thumbs up for Sasha Mitchell. Blackbelt wife beater.

R483 He may be (I believe "roid rage" is a real possibility with all the obsessive bodybuilding he now does) but the judge said that didn't happen.

Thanks to those who mentioned John Terlesky, Jason Patric, and Rick Rossovitch, three gorgeous men (in different ways) who don't always get mentioned in these lists.

Another one of George Peppard

And it seems like he aged quite nicely.

Excuse me, but I think he's now dust and bones.

what about musicians?

R468 That's because Anonymous in Kansas City imagines things to fit into ALL THREADS and OVER SHARE.

I quickly scanned through this thread, so this may be a duplicate. Young Don Johnson was angelic in this "hippie western" he did in the 70's called Zachariah. He was still hot during his Miami Vice days.

Last I saw him was last year on that short-lived ABC series and he wasn't horrible.

Desi Arnaz – Senior and Junior

I never found either Desi hot. Go figure.

Thom Bierdz

Jonny Lee Miller

Brad Renfro, RIP.

Brian Kerwin

Agreed, R490, Anonymous in Kansas City ruins every thread he touches with his nonsensical tangents.

R470 I barely remember To Live and Die in LA but I remember exactly the walking scene you are talking about.

William Peterson was supposed to be the next big thing in the 80s but it didn't work out that way. He seems to have left acting a long time ago and works behind the scenes.

Wait, wasn't Bill Petersen the actor that starred for, like , 12 seasons on the original CSI? I guess he's doing alright.

Colin Firth

Norman Reedus

Yes, Petersen was on CSI from 2000 to 2005 but dropped out to work behind the scenes as producer. I think he produces CSI. I only watched when he was on, after that, I lost interest.

But I remember when he made Live and Die in LA and was hailed as the next Tom Cruise. Then he made some awful movies.

More of the breathtakingly beautiful Brad Renfro

When I see pics of Brad Renfro, I see Brian Singer and the pedos who ruined his life.

That hick from Kansas is the new Judy Pills

member when?

Jeff Stryker

[quote]William Peterson had a savage intensity in his role in"To Live and Die in L.A. If you saw this great movie, you probably remember WP stalking around in those pants.

Actually, I remember him more in that film for when he was stalking around with NO pants!

I always thought he should have been hard in that scene, R510, unless...

William Petersen ( and Gary Cole for that matter) held on tho their sexiness WELL into middle age as well.

TCM was showing a movie about Gentleman Jim (the boxer) recently, and I watched it because Errol Flynn was so handsome

Travolta!

He was gorgeous!

Gary Cole became a hot daddy.

Awww. You're thinking about me. I'm touched. In a molested kind of way....stranger danger !!! Still in Kansas City, still kinda middle-aged hot. Someone's got to be.... Is this over-sharing? My bad.

[quote]Rick Rossovitch

RR is in many ways my ULTIMATE fantasy man. He went from hot young stud to even HOTTER,like SCORCHINGLY HOT, daddy with no effort whatsoever. I love his combination of imperfect features that to me, somehow add up to perfect beauty.

Rick Rossovich's INCREDIBLE back ,ass, thighs ,chest and well, just about EVERYTHING!

wow!

......

I know R520...it's kind of depressing to see a childhood crush of mine turn into my grandpa but I still think he's cute and would fuck him in a heartbeat.

McBongo in high school

Matthew was hottest as an unknown discovered by Trisha Yearwood for her Walkaway Joe video.

Stop with George Peppard already. A Euro actress once entertained us with stories about having to kiss him in a film. He was rubber lipped and his breath was putrid said she.

George Peppard is the super fine Adonis featured on OP's thread post. Well done OP and awesome choices in gorgeous men. It was the very handsome George that drew us all in to post at 500+ and counting. Who cares what some cunt had to shade upon "Gorgeous George" She was probably jealous because Peppard is prettier than she.

Aren't most actors gorgeous when they were young? Let's face it, many of them break into the business because of their looks--in place of or alongside talent.

R86, JRM was so bloody gorgeous in his teens and 20's. And I still find him handsome now he's on the verge of middle age (where does the time go!?). Reportedly, he's going to be a daddy soon--so maybe he'll pass on those amazing looks. Hopefully not the addiction gene though.

George was gorgeous, how can you not love him in Breakfast at Tiffany's?

George is hot while wet!

Paul McCartney was in 4 films, obviously more of a musical artist than an actor, but he certainly could pose for some purdy pictures back in the day. I idolized him too much for the music to ever think of him in a sexual way ( to me that makes sense, not sure other people ever understood my thoughts on that subject, though...)

I like his late Beatle look best,I think.

R531, his only good photos are when he is not smiling

George Peppard

George Peppard looks like he kept a very clean hole.

Dan Futterman

Mark Strong

Oh Rupert - why did you have to go fuck up your face?

Rupert Graves

Julian Sands

Matt Frewer

Christopher Lee

Christopher Walken

Terrence Stamp

Udo Kier

Gregg Henry.

Damn. The Ugly Bus just pulled up.

R56 Udo Kier couldn't be ugly if he tried. He still has an otherworldly look.

Well, R547, you couldn't even type R546, so your judgment is irrelevant.

R548 So you WERE paying attention. Gold star for you.

R548 I've been on DL too much over the past few days and my hand is getting strained from overuse. I should probably buy a wrist support.

Chris Cooper

Tom Berenger

Ray Milland

Some of you must be in your eleventh decade on earth.

George Peppard never did anything for me at all...never could get through Breakfast at Tiffany's.

R555 And Peppard looks especially un-gorgeous in OP's pic.

We're at the point now where some people are posting pics of any actor when they were young and bound to be better looking when they grew old.

R554 Udo Kier is old enough to be my grandfather, yet I'd spread for that man (or climb in) in a heartbeat.

You go right ahead, R558. I'm certain no one will try to stop you.

Udo might R559.

R559 , R560 which one of you is Udo?

We both are R561, it's like Spartacus...

R538 I agree on Rupert Graves. He was stunning as Freddie in A Room With A View.

Merchant Ivory magic. Sam West is a pretty average white guy but he was beautiful made up and photographed in Howards End. The solitary walk through the blue fields had me crying.

I liked Julian Sands in A Room with a View

Anthony Andrews in Brideshead Revisited.

Why didn't Andrews have a bigger career? He wasn't as sexy as Jeremy Irons but did he ever had a signature role after Brideshead? (With the exception of Julie McCoy's boyfriend on The Love Boat)?

Jeremy Irons was sexy?!

Toby Stephens (still is of course).

Beautiful? No, r567.

Sexy? Hell, yes!

Ken Ryker

We are talking about actors, r570.

Ryan O'Neal

Timothy Bottoms

Sam Elliot

Dennis Cole/Tim Matheson (thanks poster :-)

Christopher Reeves

Jeff Bridges...among the 70's era handsome hotties that caused my school-aged heart to beat faster.

George Peppard was a fat fuck with putrid breath and a skanky hole you could smell from Columbia to Metro.

George Peppard had one nasty stanky dirty hole. Nasty.

Most people's holes aren't naturally that pleasant R573 and R574. It's because shit comes out of it.

Some on DL prefer shit, R575. Not me, but some.

Isn't he wonderful?

I can't believe there's a George Peppard troll on the DL.

R578 -- there's a lunatic troll for just about every male actor who was ever pretty on the DL.

Never gorgeous, but still cute, here’s Mickey Rooney in his casket at age 93.

R580

Is that really Mickey Rooney?!

Was reading about Warren Beatty today. I'm sure people of both sexes were falling all over him when he was this age.

R581, That’s him. There are numerous photos on the Internet of Mickey near the end. Remember, he was 93 when he died.

R582, In the new VF article on Beatty, he denies many of the female conquests that have been attributed to him over the years. I was surprised to read that he’s still very friendly with Julie Christie and that she and her husband often stay with the Beatty’s when in California.

I'm glad to hear they have stayed friendly [r584]. They were certainly a splendid looking couple, and made a great screen team in McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I wish Christie had made Reds with him, as was the original intention.

R550 Or just switch to wanking with your other hand.

I suspect the George Peppard Troll is one and the same as the Gong Li Troll, not to be mistaken for the Liv Ullmann Troll.

Or maybe its the other way around.

Eduardo Noriega

Édgar Ramírez

Warren Beatty was absolutely beautiful in his younger years. Unfortunately, his reputation as a horn-dog and womanizer turned me off to him. He must have bedded 99% of the actresses and famous women he met. He seemed to like the conquest.

I am sure he dabbled with men when women weren't around and probably got a few STDs along the way.

A few? HA!!

"Unfortunately, his reputation as a horn-dog and womanizer turned me off to him. He must have bedded 99% of the actresses and famous women he met."

Beatty himself said that a lot of the stories about him are not true.

Isnt george amazing looking?