Hurd Hatfield

That'd be my guess!

I do like me some pretty boys...

I prefer Perd to Hurd.

Which makes me a Perdvert.

He played The Count of Monte Cristo on DuPont Show of the Month in 1958. It was my favorite novel.

He was odd looking and a terribly wooden actor.

He gives me a hurd-on.

I thought that his rather wooden acting gave Dorian Gray an inscrutable, impassive quality that was actually appropriate for the character.

As for OP's question, this is from the site Gay Influence:

Born in New York City in 1918, Hatfield (1951 photo at right) won a scholarship to study acting at Michael Chekhov's Dartington Hall company in Devon, England. Returning to the United States with Chekhov's company in 1939, he began a sexual affair with fellow troupe member Yul Brynner a year later. Unlike Brynner, however, Hatfield remained exclusively homosexual his entire life. During the time the company was playing on the West Coast, Hatfield was signed by MGM and within a year director Albert Lewin’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” was released in movie houses."

He certainly plays gay in Arthur Penn's THE LEFT-HANDED GUN (58), animatedly slobbering over Paul Newman's Billy the Kid. He's also interesting to watch him looking at Warren Beatty in Penn's MICKEY ONE (65).

I think he was only "wooden" in DORIAN GRAY, because that's how Lewin wanted him to act.

He also played a gay antiques dealer in "The Boston Strangler." His character is initially considered a suspect in the murders.

He was rumored to be a non binary pansexual.

Edmund Dantes was not a gay.

Dorian Gray is one of the easiest characters ever to cast - all you have to do is to find a ridiculously good-looking actor. And yet someone thought it was a good idea to give that role to a person who looked like a cross between Michael Jackson and a mummy in the 1945 version. That film would have been a masterpiece with someone more appropriate playing the titular role (someone like young Gregory Peck).

He had to be.

He was such a darkie people called him Turd Hatfield in the olden fays!

olden days.

R11 An English version of Gregory peck would be more suitable.

Someone like—

Didn't he have a house in Ireland close to Angela Lansbury where he lived with a male partner.

The house is called Ballinterry House and is run as a B & B and wedding venue now.

Ol' Granddaddy in Crimes of the Heart!

R15 Peck did get very "American" looking later on in his life, but by 1944 (when Dorian Gray was being filmed) he still oozed that dark anglo-saxon sexiness. He would have nailed that role. I can also see young Monty Clift playing Dorian Gray.

You need a blond for Dorian Gray, I think.

His most famous relationship was with Yul Brynner when they were at Michael Chekhov Theatre Studio in Ridgefield, Connecticut apparently.

Gay, you ask? The man's as gay as a picnic basket!

Will Arnett resembles him.

Hurd Hatfield is such a silly word 'hillbilly name' and he was so wooden. And I agree with R6 that his 'inscrutable, impassive quality' was very appropriate for Dorian.

Dorian Gray was a 2 dimensional object of beauty in the eyes of the aesthetes around him, He was amoral and soul-less and would kill to retain his superficial beauty.

I smell chocolate chip!