Drop dead gorgeous male actors whose careers went nowhere

They still need acting skills you know?

Loren Dean, who just had his own thread

I just watched Mumford (Loren Dean). He clearly should have been more famous. He has the skills. And he is lovely.

I thought after Priest and Wings of the Dove Linus Roache was on track to become a major star--he had the looks and the talent, but he either didn't get a pushy enough agent or was more interested in being a character actor. He's had plenty of work since and after the Batman movies I doubt he's hurting for money, but it's always been as a supporting player, never the lead. And of course in the past ten years he ran into that British Dog-years Aging thing that has been discussed many times on DL.

Was Linus Roache on L&O when it ended?

Mmmmmm Linus was insanely hot in Batman Begins. I want him deep in me.

The last time I saw Roache was in that awful Julian Fellowes TITANIC miniseries...he looked okay to me.

Kevin Zegers unless you think starring in a string of countless DTV films as having made it.

Not drop dead gorgeous but very sexy - Alan Gelfant who was the romantic lead in 1998’s “Next Stop Wonderland”.

Linus was some king in Vikings. He lasted 3-4 seasons. He was excellent.

Clive Owen was touted as a major movie star and then his career went no where. Same with Jon Hamm. He will never not be Don Draper. That was it for him.

Rick Rossovich, pictured here with Steve Martin in Roxanne.

R10, Clive Owen was incredibly hot in the movie "Closer", but after that . . . no.

Casper Van Dien . . . What happened?

Richard Bradford was a TV actor from the 60s. He never became a leading man though, but god was he hot.

Perfect premature grey....

Miles O'Keeffe

r14/15 looks like Jimmy Fallon. Maybe he should have gotten into the talk show business.

Michael Biehn apparently fucked up his own career by getting a reputation as nasty, aggressive drunk/ druggie. He wasn't big enough that anyone would have been willing to deal with that (unlike, say, Johnny Depp later was).

Most of the named actors have had very successful careers, they just failed to secure (or long retain, in the case of Clive Owen) "classic leading man in big budget movie" status. Any aspiring actor who'd quit rather than suffer these career paths doesn't belong in the business to begin with. Even the not-remotely-gorgeous Alan Gelfant has years of steady employment.

Jonathan Schaech.

I can't help but think about all the guys that don't ever make it out of the casting auditions and end up in other careers. Like r18 said, these are the lucky ones. I feel that it would also be hard to be an A -lister, because you will have so much pressure to stay on top, with multiple mouths to feed. But the status thing is much easier for men, since the media has no problem telling an actress she has been replaced by the new It Girl. Men just quietly age out. Women are locked out.

Still, great post OP.

I remember Richard Bradford mostly as the nasty, creepy redneck store owner in The Legend of Billie Jean.

Dick Van Patten the actor who played the father on Eight Is Enough once said-You're only as successful as the show you're on.

Joseph Bottoms. So beautiful

Apparently Joseph didn't Bottoms enough.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

^He’s a Trumpophyle now.

Michael Biehn was never really hot. He was pretty, but perpetually creepy. He made the most of both those traits in THE FAN. They really could not be separated. How many pretty gay murderers can a guy play?

Michael Pare’.

Rossovich turned his back on Hollywood...he is a successful house flipper. Has a gorgeous son too.

Danny Markel (still hot after all these years)

Casper went out of his way to say something nasty about Keanu...same thing ended Charlie Sheen's movie career.

R30, say what about Keanu?

Philip Michael Thomas.

Gary Lockwood and especially Keith Dullea from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Dustin Nguyen from 21 Jump Street.

Phillip Michael Thomas was extremely good looking but he had a big mouth, he did not know how to behave as a well known actor. His huge ego took him down.

R35 = Dionne Warwick.

David Charvet of Baywatch.

Limited actor, but those nipples...

He aged well, though.

Benjamin Bratt should’ve been a bigger star.

John Dell!!! He would have made afantastic Spiderman....

Philip Michael Thomas coined the term EGOT.

Jadon Patric.

Michael Paré was so hot, I’m surprised he didn’t have a bigger career as a leading man.

Jason Patric ^

Philip used to wear a necklace with the acronym EGOT on it.... , all of the awards he said he’d win. All he did was father a dozen children so he could neglect them.

I thought jamie bamber was going to be bigger star after the show ended but the last thing i saw him in was some shitty made for tv movie with claire forlani...

This thread should’ve been called Actor’s with Big Careers that Shouldn’t

Tom Wisdom, really attractive but never found the right role.

Esai Morales!

[quote]Benjamin Bratt should’ve been a bigger star.

No. He was the most annoying person ever to appear on L&O. He should have gone to law school, and applied that annoyingness to a career where it would have helped him.

1.matthew modine 2.tomy Goldwyn 3. William Peterson 4. Blair Underwood

Michael Jai White

[quote]2.tomy Goldwyn

Heyyy!

John Laughlin - so hot in Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion (took over a role that Jeff Bridges turned down because he wanted more money).

I've never heard of John Laughlin before, r53. He was gorgeous.

Doug Savant

R54 Check out Crimes of Passion - hot butt shot

Too football coach-y, r55. Very blocky head.

Couldn't care less about asses, r56, but thanks.

John Dall, Missy.

Matt Keeslar

But lucky Portlanders will get to go to the doctor and Matt Keeslar will be either their nurse or doctor. Kinda makes you want to live in Oregon.

Gary Durdin

I want to fuck Doug Savant.

He can be as cute as can be, but "Jamie Bamber" is not a name for a leading man. It would be a great name for a leading woman, however. This is a problem when building and marketing an acting career.

The hottest of them all Michael Schoeffling (with Wiona Ryder in Mermaids). Quit Hollywood for the quiet life. He was so drop dead gorgeous in everything he made. Sixteen Candles & Longtime Companion come to mind.

[quote]"Jamie Bamber" is not a name for a leading man. It would be a great name for a leading woman porn star.

Fixe.

Campbell Scott was gorgeous when he was younger. Never became the big star he should have. And that delicious voice of his.

I thought John Beck as the hottest thing on legs in the 70s. I've out grown that look myself now.

Colin Egglesfield pictured here with Kate Hudson in Something Borrowed (2011). His aged a bit since then but he was smoking' hot then.

I saw Clive Owen in some commercial recently--he's not aged well.

Steve Sandvoss was so hot and did lots of slutty photo shoots....but his career went nowhere. Last I heard, he and his brother own a cheese making business or farm or something.

While not drop dead gorgeous at all, Matthew Modine has still had some semblance of a career. He was never my cup of tea, though.

Is Steve Sandvoss gay? Or did he just play one in Latter Days?

[quote]not drop dead gorgeous at all, Matthew Modine

He had a definite dick-hardening quality, overall. My penis would have lost control, had it had the opportunity to function within inches of his.

Randall Batinkoff had some big movie roles early on, but it's been pretty much straight to DVD and small tv roles for the last 20 years. Still cute though.

Yes, r75. Randall B really gets the dicksucking juices going.

[quote]Casper Van Dien . . . What happened?

He's STILL good looking. But plays in B-rated Sci Fi

HOWEVER, he is included in the cast for Alita : Battle Angel. which means he is possibly making a comeback but probably not.

Jason Gedrick

Thread title should be "actors you thought would be A-list" right? Most of these people have done quite well for themselves. Show biz is insanely competitive and very few will make a living as actors, let alone achieve the level of success that, say, Jamie Bamber has. Even Casper Van Dien has an enviable career at least from a financial point of view; he's making a comfortable living in his chosen profession.

Anyhoo.

I thought Cary Elwes would be more than flavor-of-the-month. Ditto Gael Garcia Bernal.

He was never going to be an A-lister but I thought there was room for a sexy, likable lightweight like Matt Keeslar. He would have been terrific as The Tick but he'd already left the business.

The original only ran 2 episodes in 93' so I'm pretty sure that Alita is going to make a chunk of change. Here's the original two OAVs back to back with english subtitles because I would never want to torture you with a "dub for idiots". You're all [italic]literate, [/italic]so I know you'll appreciate the subtitles. :)

Below, the beautiful Casper Van Dien……...

That face!

From one marriage he was Robert Mitchum's son-in-law.

Casper is now 49.

Most of DL was focused on Perry King in Mandingo, but as a little gay I thought Ken Norton was one of the most beautiful and sexy men I had ever seen.

He did Drum the next year, but not much happened for him after that. There wasn’t much around for a Black actor, and blaxploitation was drying up.

I think if he were breaking in 2018, he could have a shot at a bigger career.

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Where is Jon Ham? Did his college days turn everyone off? That was a pretty awful scandal.

I was spellbound by Grant Goodeve when he was on Eight Is Enough.

A few years later he was playing a disposable gay on Dynasty.

Colton Haynes

I never found "Colto" attractive. He always looked more like a lizard than a real boy.

Patrick Muldoon—smoking hot back in the day!

Jamie Bamber’s BG co-star Tahmoh Penikett.

Gore Vidal on Keir Dullea:

"Keir today, gone tomorrow"

Casper Van Diem was on a talk show when Tarzan came out and he made vicious fun of the gay men who were extras in the movie. I can't remember who the host was, but he was visibly shocked. I don't think that helped little Casper's career. He married that Serbian princess, known to her friends as Ox, and that lasted a long while before she finally left him. He is supposedly as unpleasant in person as he is on talk shows.

Mumford & Sons

Oh, Gary Lockwood! Oh-oh-oh!

I jerked off to him often enough years ago.

Any dirt on him???

1. Michael Schoeffling 2. Esai Morales 3. William Peterson 4. Blair Underwood 5. Jimmy Smits

[quote]5. Jimmy Smits

Not gorgeous. His career went much further than it should have, given his slurred speech pattern. Oh, and not gorgeous.

Enough with the Drop Dead Gorgeous. Randolph Mantooth-definitely HANDSOME.

Lucky Vanous

Gorgeous enough, r97. He was during my non-TV years, though, so I've only seen pics.

Richard Joseph Paul. His late 80s credits included starring roles in an ABC after-school special (“What If I’m Gay”) and a late 80s teen flick (“Under The Boardwalk”). He went on to have a small role in the Bill Murray film “Quick Change” and also played one of Carrie Bradshaw’s flings in an episode of SATC. I saw him in a commercial about 10 years ago and nothing since.

Cam Gigandet

So you guys thought these actors were destined to be A listers?

Jeremy Northam should have had a much bigger career.

Drugs and booze usually the reason - or they wouldn’t suck cock...

R97 & R99 THANK YOU. My very first Man-Crush. "Johnny Gage"....Yum! I've had a thing for EMT's & Firemen ever since!

R99 Great Pic!!

Tahmoh is hyper-sexy in an old-school masculine way, sort of like Robert Mitchum, but without the element of roguishness.

He’s probably buy the hottest actor to come along in the new millennium for me. - and maybe r90.

Eric Lively

Christopher Atkins

I don't remember Eric Lively. He is pretty, though.

Taylor Lautner. I'm actually shocked he hasn't done more outside of "Cuckoo" I do wonder if he is semi-retired although his sister has been dealing with serious heart issues for the last couple of years. So maybe he'll start doing more soon...

Taylor Lautner is not that pretty.

Lautner is a closeted ugly little dog. Yuck.

R21 Yeah, he became a character actor later on and sort of let himself go.

But in his starring role as McGill from the 60s, he looked great.

James Dean because he was decapitated in his Porsche or whatever.

Interesting use of the Who....

The early 80s had a miniseries called Marco Polo and I thought it's star, Ken Marshall would at least get a TV series out of it. But after MP aired, I didn't hear a peep about him.

R116 there are at least ten homeless dudes who loiter near me who are better looking than that turd.

Richard Bradford was indeed handsome when he was younger! And Randolph Mantooth was a looker, and still looks great.

R116 plus he could have starred in Planet of the Apes with zero make up necessary.

Michael Bergin could have had a career but that book on Carolyn Bessette ended his career.

R71 What’s wrong with that? Cheese industry is full of great oppotunities!

Maxwell Canfield ❤️❤️❤️

Agree with mentioning Loren Dean. He looked great in "Space Cowboys" but has done mainly TV work since.

Craig Horner, post-Legend Of The Seeker.

Ben Chaplin

R52 The fuck is going on with Kerry's face?!

So when do people start posting the drop dead gorgeous male actors whose careers went nowhere?

Lol. Good one. Clearly there is no standard of beauty. Especially if ugly dog Lautner is considered drop dead gorgeous by one doofus.

Shia LaBouef

John Laughlin showed a nice bulge, even on Muleriders She Wrote.

I think, sometimes, it's a case of not being terribly talented. Some guys (and girls) are stunningly attractive and the camera loves them, but they can't play many different kinds of roles and Hollywood ends up having no use for them.

I always felt bad for Kevin Zegers. To me, he was like what Zac Efron would be if he were a better actor. I definitely think Kevin was the more talented of the two and he doesn't do much these days it seems.

Kevin’s penis was lovely in Transamerica.

Everyone was hot for Billy Zane when he first appeared, but then he wasted most of the 90s in bad movies, had one last hit with Titanic, lost his looks and disappeared.

R132 Yeah I remember being pleasantly surprised when watching it again on DVD. You can see a lot more than what was in theaters.

Jesse Bradford

[Quote] I never found "Colto" attractive. He always looked more like a lizard than a real boy.

I don't think Billy Zane lost his looks. I've seen pictures of him at conventions and his face is still beautiful. I think he might have gone bald and always wears a hat, but he's still attractive.

I agree bald isn't necessarily an unattractive look on a man, but I do think it's unattractive on Billy.

Kevin Zegers was almost impossibly beautiful. He looks like a sweet little elf or fairy from another world. Maybe he'll age into a slightly different look and be less distracting in his 40's or 50's. I think Zac Efron is a more (dare I say) masculine looking version of him. Even though he's not as brave or interesting an actor as Kevin, I can see his face lending itself to more everyday characters. There was just something about Kevin that was otherworldly. Almost like Meg Foster. She was distractingly beautiful and fascinating to look at, too, with those strange eyes of hers.

Michael Pare fucking Barbara Carerra in a REALISTIC scene from the soft core film Point of Impact. Watch up to the 4:22 mark.

He was the only wrong casting in Terminator. He didn’t fit the role, has kind of a douchy face and a terrible actor.

I met Mantooth and Caulfield at a New Jersey film convention last year. Both extremely pleasant men.

R141 Ok Ms Ebert. Back from the grave to offer up her worthless opinions. Show us your pock-marked, leatherbaggy, tan-mom face.

I'm surprised Hart Bochner didn't more work. He had a couple of small parts in Die Hard and Breaking Away but that was it.

OP, I hope you've seen Planet Terror. It's a good movie and Michael Biehn plays a sheriff in uniform, yum.

Hart Bochner! Fuck yes! That man was sex on two legs. What the fuck happened? The last time I remember seeing him on screen was as a sexy college professor in one of those Urban Legends movies and as Chris' rich lawyer daddy in the bland remake of Carrie. He was still looking pretty sexy.

R116, have you never heard of the dashing prince Colwyn of the $40 million dollar 1983 epic Krull? It wasn't succesful at the box office but defitely has a cult following today. Rifftrax just did a theatrical showing of it and Colwyn's weapon, the Glaive, featured in Ready Player One. Marshall never became an A-lister but he's worked steadily and is known to Star Trek fans as a Maquis double Agent on Deep Space 9.

Marshall today.

Sorry everyone, but Klinton Spilsbury owns this thread...

Again...

Another...

Jeremy Northam

1981 Legend of the Lone Ranger in its entirety with Spilsbury...

Dirk Benedict

Jordan Brower. LAWD, Jordan Brower.

He played several tertiary characters in sit/teencoms of the '90s, most notably the underrated TEEN ANGEL; then a year after he graduated HS shot Van Sant's side project SPEEDWAY JUNKY with DL faves Qwerty & SWIMFAN's Jesse Bradford; then showed up for literally thirty seconds of screentime in TEXAS RANGERS with James Van der Beek; then put in a cameo in 'Six Feet Under'; then at about 25 years old did a short gay-interest festival film with Vincent Kartheiser; then barring a handful of 'uncrediteds' basically disappeared off the face of the planet. He quit the business together several years ago; per IMDB he moved back to Texas to raise his now-14 year old kid with a wife no-one has ever seen (no mention of what he does for money...)

Given Brower's cachet with the gay community/Gus Van Sant, we only have ourselves to blame for this one. It certainly wasn't a lack of beauty or talent or opportunity that did his film career in, as he looked like a David and outshone any & all of his costars. Poor agent, maybe?

Here he is in action...

Whatever became of Ciarán Hinds?

R149/50/51 Klinton looked like Tarzan, sounded like Jane.

What became of Ciaran Hinds R156...

I wish Dwier Brown's film career had been more successful. I know he's been active in theater but he was really gorgeous in his starring film roles.

Gregory Harrison

Gregory Paul Martin in Ellis Island with Faye Dunaway as his sugar mama.

He was beautiful and even more so with his shirt off.

The irony with Biehn is that he's one of the few people who's ever had anything positive to say about working with Cameron. And he's worked with him three times.

I think his problem was alcohol-related and he became difficult to work with.

I was obsessed with Marc Singer in The Beastmaster as a kid. I never saw him in anything else.

You never saw V, R163???

It's like the greatest thing EVER!

Jeff Fahey

VERY few people become iconic A-list stars that get plumb roles for decades and decades.

Most actors are lucky to have a couple years of general hotness before settling for a life of being a working character actor.

When actors start to whine about typecasting or a role ruining their career, they generally need to be slapped and have it explained to them, "THIS is your career, stupid...not everyone gets to be Cher or Meryl!"

Edward Furlong.....Everyone thought he was going to be the next Big Thing after Terminator 2......

Hart Bochner..... GAWWWW-geous! He was in Supergirl! :)

Plus his father---Lloyd Bochner---was Cecil Colby as well as Mr Patrick Vaughn (fucking everyone on the Miami town theatre set) and Eduardo the hairdresser.

Ugh...that should be PLUM roles.

Josh Hartnet ......and Joseph Gordon Levitt are both in the HAS-BEEN bins.....

Ciarán Hinds works ALL the time...in "First Man" out now.

I never thought Launtner was very attractive. In fact...with all those muscles, how can a guy be a serious actor? I don't see it.

[quote]Edward Furlong.....Everyone thought he was going to be the next Big Thing after Terminator 2......

In his case, I'm sure he was abused by Hollywood's predators, so I wouldn't count him.

I love Linus Roache in The Wings of the Dove. He's great at portraiting the mysterious stranger/leading man.

I wonder if Joseph Gordon Levitt offended the wrong gays in Hollywood? I thought he seemed kind of cocky, am I wrong?

FYI----for the person who said KEVIN ZEGERS-----he gave an interview (I think it was to People Mag)...and said some immature things about Johnny Depp (who was then at has peak)....I always thought THAT was when his career hit the brakes...

Woody Harrelson has had a super career in Hollywood...who did he suck? I love him.

Who in the fuck is Kevin Zegers? Even after I googled, I've never seen that person before in my life.

For a different reason of course but Jon Erik Hexum would have been big, or at least worked very often.

Biehn does a great job in White KKKlansman.

Billy Zane lost his hair, not his looks. I don't know why he didn't work more? Bad management? Did not like to work? I can't figure.

Black Kkklansman.

R91 That wasn't Gore Vidal.

Noel Coward said that about Keir Dullea, but he didn't mean as a bitchy remark. It was just an amusing quip he made in the presence of the sexy young actor he was trying to entertain.

Even if the quip turned out to be somewhat true, Dullea has had a better and longer career than you would think. Just nothing as splashy as when he was young.

R167 Jesus Cripe. In what universe was Furlong ever drop dead gorgeous? Not ours. He is the definition of average nobody.

William McNamara

I don't know if this will count but Aussie Actor Sam Reid. He was in a string a well received British movies between 2011 and 2014. In Belle his career seemed on the cusp of becoming big and then he just disappeared.

R178 He played a hustler in TRANSPARENT.... he was on TITANS as Victoria Principals Juvie nephew....

R178 He was hot and famous for about 5 minutes.

Linus Roache was great in the movie, The Making Of A Lady.

That nekid HBO Rome guy.

Hart Bochner. Scorching in Apt Zero. Then just fizzled out.

R82, Casper was married to Robert Mitchum's granddaughter.

Joseph Gordon Levitt was A List just a few years ago. WTF happened?

Ken Olin - combination of not aging well and letting himself go.

R184 He was a good looking teenager who hit the skids as soon as he became an adult. He looks even worse now than he does in that picture.

David Naughton

R178 Hence the title of the thread. You must be a really young one.

For me, once Joseph Gordon Levittown decided to declare his heterosexuality by marrying a woman I lost all interest in him as a person and actor.

I once saw Eddie Furlong at a restaurant and could barely contain my shock at the time. This was before paparazzi photos of him started to appear regularly. Even back then I couldn't imagine that it would get so much worse.

Where's the big career for Michael St Gerard? (Original Link Larkin, SO adorable!)

You fuckin queers had better not post me. I'll beat the fuck out of you. I like did things after Twilight.

^ Lol, my finger hit post before I finished my post in R201.

Kellan Lutz

James Purefoy? R190

Matt Dillon

Ron Eldard. He was gorgeous back in the day but let himself go physically and career-wise.

R5 Yes he was. I wish they had brought him on SVU permanently when the original series ended.

Aaron Lohr, he of NEWSIES and THE MIGHTY DUCKS as well as productions of BARE and RENT.

He's now a specialist therapist, and somehow convinced Idina Menzel to marry him (I thought he was gay?).

I always thought Kevin Dillon the more interesting actor. He should have had a Best Supporting nom for [italic]Platoon.[/italic]

But Matt has had a terrific career, and a long one.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has 35 million, he ain't hurting.

R173 His (female) tutor molested him when he was 13. She became his manager and they were engaged when he turned 18, but never married. The media treated their relationship it like it was cute.

She later accused him of domestic violence.

R205 His performance in Bash: Latter-Day Plays is one of my favorite performances in anything ever.

R194 He was in an extremely short-lived show called EZ Streets and I thought he was the hottest thing ever back then.

Ben Chaplin

Trent Ford

No mention of Sean Faris?

William Campbell. Played a gay on Dynasty, was thisclose to landing to role of Riker on Star Trek TNG, landed a should-have-been breakout role as The Rocketeer and appeared nude (with frontal) as a gay on Tales of the City. Later starred as the abusive asshole to JLo’s damsel in distress in Enough and has done tons of tv work.

R214, I had a huge crush on Sean Faris. Then I forgot about him.

David Monahan was in Dawson's Creek as Tobey Barret. He has also appeared in films such as The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green.

Paul Mantee had the lead in the low-budget (but cult classic) Robinson Crusoe On Mars, but kinda disappeared after that.

He's not A-List, but I wouldn't say Billy Campbell's career went nowhere.

DL fave Ben Barnes owns this thread.

Aaron Orr, who played a forest ranger in Gone, But Not Forgotten

[quote]Linus Roache was great in the movie, The Making Of A Lady.

Is that about Caitlyn Jenner or Lindsey Graham?

"Keir Dullea gone tomorrow." Noel Coward (with apologies if this was posted above) . A famous quote dissing the actor.

Michael Beck, who was in The Warriors and Xanadu.

Alex McArthur, who was in Madonna's Papa Don't Preach video and Desperado movies.

Jack Baxter who starred in Tan Lines

Hollywood is a place of lies, scheming and dogs-eating-dogs.

Furthermore to the Keir Dullea business.

Gore Vidal MAY have stolen Sir Noel Coward's quip about Dullea because Vidal was such a lying huckster.

But I'm sceptical of Vidal actually associating with Coward because Vidal was such a schlemiel closet-case.

And anyway Coward made that quip about Dullea while making that dreary 'Bunny Lake' film in 1965 because Britons didn't know how to pronounce this unknown man's name which looks like it should have been pronounced Keer Dulley-ah (just like Dan Dur-yee-ah)

Hart Buchner was my first gay crush, he was so gorgeous.

There was another guy who was supposed to be the next big thing. His first name is Sasha, the spelling may be different. He was tall and thin. Can’t remember the title of the film he was in, but he disappeared rather quickly. Movie took place in NY. His character was kind of couch-y, but with a heart of gold. I’m sure someone on here will remember the actor and film. He might have been an actor before landing the lead role. Help me out DL fans!

R71 Steve Sandvoss' career could go nowhere. Because looked like a Mormon and couldn't play anything else.

Those slutty photo shoots couldn't hide the fact

Sasha Mitchell R227?

James WIlby, the British actor from gay classic "Maurice." Has aged badly and is now doing guest appearances on TV.

Spike of Bensonhurst?

I really liked Keir Dullea in Bunny Lake Is Missing. Carol Lynley as well. A very solid Otto Preminger film about familial mental illness with quite a twist.

Sasha Jenson, best remembered for his role in "Dazed And Confused." Rising star of the late 80's and early 90's, but his career faltered and so did his looks.

^

DL, we need to have a family meeting about the term “drop-dead gorgeous.”

Agree with Dwire Brown! Loved him. Saw Hart Bochner at Brentwood Country Mart. He did a double take when he walked by me. I'm guessing he's gay.

I always liked Peter Gallagher and I think he's a good actor. Never knew why he wasn't a bigger star.

Camp's Daniel Letterle

Ted Neeley's career failed to rise again after "Jesus Christ Superstar".

I thought Zach Galligan was really hot in the 80s, especially in Gremlins and the tv movie with Molly Ringwald but he never really became a big star. He's also starting losing his looks quite early.

Ben Hogestyn, who played a gay character in General Hospital. He also appeared in the Bold and Beautiful.

You DL'RS are Iosing your touch. No one mentioned that DROP DEAD GORGEOUS FABIO!

R235 Wrong! He probably smelled your prolapsed anus acoss the street.

British actor, Callum Blue, known for his roles on the Showtime series Dead Like Me and The Tudors, as well as his roles in the television series Smallville and As If and in the film The Princess Diaries 2.

R243 that ugly geek is nowhere near drop dead gorgeous.

Jason Patrick of The Lost Careers.

Klinton Spilsbury ?

What happened to Colin Egglesfield - drugs?!!!! Booze?!!!

Brian Bloom

James Scott, soap actor.

Speaking of Callum Blue.....didn't a DLer claim to have hooked up with him? I wonder if being gay hurt his career.

Thomas Jane - very hot in Pitch Black, then a lot of so so movies and recently, a Syfy series and a Netflix film. He's in that new Predator remake coming out this week. From what I saw, TJ has hit the wall.

Guy Pearce

Emile Hirsch

Michael Biehn was really hot AND a good actor. He got a lot of work but didn't become a big star. That's the way it goes for some actors. Luck has a lot to do with it.

Perry King was super gorgeous. As an actor I always thought he was average. But even if he could act like Robert De Niro he still wouldn't have gotten serious roles. He was like a lot of very good looking actresses; the roles that get offered just require them to be eye candy.

David Robert Dawson, who appeared in the film, The Mystery of Drood

R255 No. No. No. And no!

Klinton Spilsbury was hot as fuck......this always intrigued me :

Andy Warhol interviewed Spilsbury during his promotion tour, later describing the interview as "nutty," because Spilsbury was "blowing his whole image" during their conversation. Spilsbury told Warhol that prior to making the movie, he had been an art student married to a rich woman and that they had a baby together. He went on to state that they did not spend much time together because he needed too much time with his own thoughts, a detail that Warhol found amusing. Spilsbury told Warhol that he was a friend of actor Dennis Christopher and had fallen in love with him, and that he also had later fallen in love with actor Bud Cort. Warhol described Spilsbury as "very drunk" during the latter part of the interview, when he also mentioned that "he'd been picked up by Halston and woke up in bed with Halston."

While we're talking about gorgeous soap actors, Robert Tyler. Surprised he barely worked after "Loving".

Going way, way back, Ed Fury certainly had the looks and had no reservations about getting nekkid, but he never broke big even though he seemed to have a nice career, but not anything like Steve Reeves.

R250 I didn't know that Callum Blue is gay. He played a bisexual character in the British TV series, As If.

David Naughton got sorta fat unfortunately. His face has aged ok, though. He still shows up in b-movies and conventions here and there.

Peter Gallagher was stunningly gorgeous when he was younger, but I do remember thinking he'd kinda hit a wall somewhere around The O.C. (which he was GREAT on, btw!). It looked like he tanned too much or something. He seemed kinda leathery. Luckily for him, he's a pretty good actor, so it hasn't really hurt his career much. He's always mostly played character roles. As beautiful as he was, he wasn't usually cast as a dumb himbo or anything.

Matt Lattanzi

Costas Mandylor From SAW and PICKET FENCES and MOBSTERS although I can see why..:he’s a crappy actor but was SO hot back in the day with that bubble butt, luscious lips and blue eyes. Also his slightly less hot brother Louis Mandylor (WHET happened to him?)

Vincent A Larusso and Mike Vitar from THE MIGHTY DUCKS movies.

Cary Elwes deserved more A -list star power (besides THE PRINCESS BRIDE) he was so gorgeous back in the day

The actor from ENDLESS LOVE—he was so cute! Dropped out of Hollywood along with The guy from SIXTEEN CANDLES that was mentioned above. Both hotties

Tim Daly from WINGS. Yes I know he’s on MADAM SECRETARY now but his hotness was always underrated

Paolo Seganti, known for playing Damian Grimaldi in the CBS television soap opera, As the World Turns

Jonathan Jackson-----Lucky Spencer on General Hospital was always so AMAZING an actor----I never understood why he didn't have a real movie career instead of Shitabulous TV shows like Nashville....He is religious so maybe he wouldn't put out and decided Daytime Emmys were as good as Oscars?

McAvoy

Ohmygawd, r78. For a second I thought that pic of Jason Gedrick was the young Tyne Daly!

Jeff Fahey has a career, but I thought he would have had a better career.

R232 "Bunny Lake Is Missing" offended me. It offended me that the Britain's greatest actor was playing second-fiddle serving two US B-grade actors playing two loony time-wasters.

Otto Preminger never knew what he was doing. In the 40s he claimed he was second Lubitsch. Then in the 50s he discovered sex, sensationalism and tastelessness. He made lots and lots of bad decisions and he always crowded his film with too many actors as box-office insurance for his weak direction.

Yes, Sasha Mitchell in Spike of Bensonhurst. Thanks to the two posters. Was going mad trying to remember the actor and film. (Sorry for the “typos” in my original post. I type one thing, but when I post, words change. Anyone else getting that?

r270 as a young gayling i crushed hard on mitchell in Step By Step despite his acting/delivery being limited to outbursts such as “whoa!” and “no way!” he was dreamy.

also, no mention of andrew shue. was it that interview with his sister in which she outed him for having a booger wall?

Jordan Brower was excellent in the gay youth drama "Speedway Junky," but his good reviews didn't lead to anything and his career petered out. It looks like he's no longer in the business.

Van Dien just played on Hawaii five-o opposite Alex O'Laughlin. He's not suffering, despite being a poor redneck boy from Milton FL who married (and divorced) a princess.

Van Dien is also buddies with John Barrowman and Neil Patrick Harris.

Jeremy Northam had a good theatre career. Saw him in a few productions in London and he was a very attractive man. Very. He supposedly smoked heavily which explains more recent photos in which he doesn’t look so great. He doesn’t seem to be up to much now.

I think he divorced Liz Moro who was considered by some to be proof of his straight credentials to enable a route into mainstream Hollywood. That didn’t work out too well.

Michael Schoeffling, a former model that had roles in Mermaids and Sixteen Candles was beautiful. He now owns a woodworking shop.

R269, I agree with you about Preminger (who was notoriously abusive) but at least [italic]Bunny Lake[/italic] has Noel Coward playing that weird landlord. I love how Olivier struggles to keep a straight face during their scenes together. I also like the doll hospital.

Those two Hunks on The Planet Of The Apes tv show (1974). James Naughton and Ron Harper.

Michael Sarrazin had a lot of success in the 1970s and then nothing.

R263 besides a few nigh-untraceable credits Vincent A. LaRusso quit acting after THE MIGHTY DUCKS trilogy (YES, there were three of those movies), as did most of the other 'Ducks' besides Joshua Jackson and Kenan Thompson (and the 'Bash Brothers' Aaron Lohr and Elden Henson, if we're being more generous).

He plays the lead in exactly one production, the short film DAMAGED GOODS from over 12 years ago. It is impossible to find in full online (the trailer is in the link) which may be for the best as it seems beyond dreadful. Vincent looks very cute in it and takes it so seriously, though, bless his heart.

Vincent also did a handful of national commercials for shaving razors while he was still in his 20s, iirc. Last anyone heard or saw of the man he was doing quite well for himself tending bar in WeHo. He's still sexy.

Here's Vincent LaRusso aka 'Banksy'/'Cake Eater' as of 10 months ago, interviewed along with Brandon Adams of MOONWALKER and THE SANDLOT and Wes Craven's PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS.

Jon Erik Hexum

^ and James Dean, Paul Walker, and Heath Ledger.

[quote]Van Dien is also buddies with John Barrowman and Neil Patrick Harris.

???

Do they, er, hire him?

Isn't Van Dien a religious fundy?

Jeremy Northam is pretty much always busy. He was on The Crown as Anthony Eden in a recurring role. So his career is definitely better than "nowhere." And I would also bet he will have longevity.

Julian Sands

Two examples that popped into my mind as soon as I saw the title of the thread:

From the 80's: Rick Rossovich

From the 90's: Dan Cortese

Dan Cortese was always more of a daytime soap-level "attractor" rather than an actor so I'm not terribly surprised that his career went down the shitter once his looks started to fade. With Rick, no he wasn't a great actor, but for a while, it seemed that he was destined for a career in the vein of Steve Guttenberg or Tom Berenger. He could've transitioned into a B-level action movie star.

Clark Parker

Joe Lando still works in small roles, but never became a lead like in "Dr Quinn: Medicine Woman." Also, as he got older he aged out of good-looking/gorgeous to ...

I like Joe Lando's hair better now.

R217 I liked David Monahan as the fundie Neocon secretly banging Seb Stan in the fairly-recent POLITICAL ANIMALS, also starring Sigourney and Jimmy Wolk. That show also starred Ciaran Hinds if R156 is interested.

Sean Maher

Michael Nouri. Dark, swarthy, shoulda been a contenda.

General Mills actor Florian Klein

He could been big

David Chokachi

Michael Nouri was white-hot after FLASHDANCE. I don’t know what exactly happened to him after that.

Michael Nouri was never going to be a major star but he's still had a respectable career.

Trent Ford

Martin Hewitt

Jimmy McNichol

I met Mikey Biehn at a horror film convention last year and he was very nice and has great hands and a firm handshake. I sat next to him behind his table and had my pic taken with him. Same with Costas Mandylor, who was also nice and stood up beside me to take a pic (with his arm draped over my shoulder!).

Costas Mandylor’s lips... 😍

I hope those plumptious beauties have been wrapped around some lucky guy’s cock before.

Kent McCord from Adam-12

Paul Walker became much more famous after his death. His career was already petering out.

Ron Ely 's career is basically Tarzan in the 1960s tv series. Nothing he did since is worth noting although that Doc Savage movie still has its fans I suppose.

Hart Bochner took over the role and looked so handsome

R307 I couldn't believe Jan Michael Vincent was cast as Briny in Winds of War.

Ron Ely served as masturbation material for me about 1000 times. Per month. When I was thirteen.

Craig Bierko

There is no way that Craig Bierko does not look good. But that photo at R310 is the absolute best of him.

It is also 25 years old. The clock stops at midnight for no one.

Craig Bierko gave me hives every time I saw him in anything. The wonder is that he got to start a career, not that it went nowhere.

Christian Coulson

Clive Owen never struck me as a star. I also think his acting is overrated.

I think Eddie Murphy could have had an even bigger career if he had picked better scripts and did more dramas. Boomerang and Dreamgirls showed he had range.

Thanks for that, R307--I'd forgotten about that series till now, and it was a major event at the time. Way, way better than "Pearl Harbor." Agree about Bochner, a major crush after Apartment Zero. I remember when that movie came out the media claimed he was in a relationship with an Argentinian actree from the film, but I didn't buy it, he had way more chemistry with Colin Firth than you generally see between actors and actresses playing characters who are sexually involved.

Noticed it again in War and Remembrance--his interactions with Jane Seymour, one of the most beautiful actresses ever to appear on a screen, come off like scenes of a brother and sister. Hot as he was, he made a career of playing the douchey boss or romantic rival who was obviously wrong for the heroine.

I think he's probably quietly out in his private life but closeted publicly, probably for the sake of his image in his early career, then out of habit as a man of his that generation.

^^^Argentinian ACTRESS from the film..

I'm guessing Michael Schoeffling is a hot pleasant daddy in flyoverstan. He looks like he would have aged.

have aged well...

Maybe not drop dead gorgeous, but I thought Mark Blum was attractive. I always thought his role in Desperately Seeking Susan should have led to bigger roles.

[quote]He looks like he would have aged.

Unlike everyone else on the planet.

Schoeffling today - not bad.

Ditto on Blum, R319. Personally, if I had been Arquette, I woulda stuck with him. Loved the scene where he's dancing with Madonna, more for him than Madonna...

Blum was sexy.

r321...thats not him....even the person who posted the original said they were only told by someone it was him.

Wow, R321, I would have never recognized him. Some men change so much over the years.

That is not Michael Schoeffling.

R117 That was then. This is now.

Christopher Mayer

Christopher Mayer is a good one! Hotter than Schneider and Wopat combined.

He was going to turn up here sometime...Robert Rusler, asking "Why, America, WHY?"...

I loved Richard Bradford when I was a kid R14. The French TV mag cover relates to his hit series Man in a Suitcase. Which also btw had one of the a time great theme tunes.

While we're at it...most of the cast of The Outsiders TV series, although Jay and David have both worked quite a bit. It's a real shame what happened to Rodney Harvey, R.I.P...

Vincent Ventresca who played Billy Christianson in “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion”. He went on to do a few TV series that never made it past one season, including the syndicated show “The Invisible Man”.

R333 Yuck. Not gorgeous at all.

I always found Vincent Ventresca odd-looking, but that did not keep me from wondering about the dimensions of his penis.

Ventresca may not have gorgeous, but he was sexy as hell...

Andrew Shue, who wasn't so much drop dead gorgeous rather very cute guy next door.

Stephen Shortridge had the unenviable job of replacing John Travolta on Welcome Back Kotter. He's now a successful painter and hot older man...

Anthony Cistaro who played Henri on “Cheers”. Attractive and funny, I thought he’d have a bigger career as a leading man. He has worked steadily as a character actor though.

I always thought John Stockwell would have bigger movie career.

He came up along side Tom Cruise in the 80s. I think maybe Kevin Bacon got his roles.

Matt Long of “Jack and Bobby”

And Lee Montgomery, who worked steadily as a child actor and some minor success as an adult, but dropped out for music production IIRC...

That pic doesn't do him justice R339. Perhaps even better as an older gentleman.

Enver Gjokaj Of “Dollhouse” would definitely have a bigger career if he had changed his name like I suggested.

[quote]quite a bit. It's a real shame what happened to Rodney Harvey, R.I.P...

Beautiful Harold Pruett from The Outsiders also died young...

Jon Erik Hexum's career just died.

Craig Sheffer

R347 - Hot!

Unfortunately Craig Sheffer did not age well.

R333 ThThe Invisible Man (or, as we fans call it "The I-Man") got two seasons. So there! It was actually a SciFi original that also ran in syndication

I was really into the show when it was on, and used to post on the message board for it. There were issues involving ownership of the show when SciFi (now SyFy) was bought by another company which led to it's cancellation.

R340 He's a director now.

Leonard Whiting, the object of lust of every gay boy who watched Romeo and Juliet in English class.

Sam Jones

[quote]William Campbell. Played a gay on Dynasty, was thisclose to landing to role of Riker on Star Trek TNG, landed a should-have-been breakout role as The Rocketeer and appeared nude (with frontal) as a gay on Tales of the City.

He was gorgeous. I remember reading he was an heir to a fortune..... of soe old catalog comapny but wikipedia doesnt say that. says he married a Norwegian woman.

I was convinced he was really gay

I dont remember full frontal on Tales of the City...

[quote]Speaking of Callum Blue.....didn't a DLer claim to have hooked up with him? I wonder if being gay hurt his career.

I posted about almost hooking up with him. Via Adam4adam in vancouver when he was filming Smallville. Several times he approached me to hook up but it had to be in the next 10 mins or he would dissappear.

R353, Yes, Sam Jones and his pendulous dong!

[quote] I posted about almost hooking up with him. Via Adam4adam in vancouver when he was filming Smallville.

R355 I don't supposed you asked him which Ashmore twin was the gay one?

No but I really wanted his dick in me, and then to ask him about Justin Hartley's cock.

So he was a top?

BTW, he is aging pretty well

Brian Kerwin

R359 if yu'er asking about Callum , yes he claimed to be a top and was going to fuck me with his uncut dick but he never followed thorugh.

Callum troll, your 15 minutes of DataLounge fame are up. Go derail another thread.

R360 Kerwin does not apply as a "nowhere" actor since he has had a huge career with hundreds of appearances in movies, tv, and stage.

R362 Exactly. And supposedly almost hooking up with someone on a site like Adam4adam means absolutely nothing. Most likely someone was catfishing him. IF it happened at all.

Some of you cunts are so limited, you can't believe anything nice could happen, or even almost happen, to a person. Poor you.

R365 Your lies have been called out. Time to push that prolapsed anus back in.

Eric Balfour

Does Callum have fangurl trolls who think he's straight?

Someone literally asked about it a few posts up, so I answered. Fuck you.

Why would I BRAG and make up someting about almost?? morons.

several years later, he was busted for the same thing via A4A and it was reported on some gossip sites including Dlisted but it eventually got taken down by his publicist.

R367 sexy! A legit actor took a pic like that? wow kudos

R370, he’s more whorish than the average actor. But more should follow his lead.

Also, his VPL is larger than previous soft frontal shots have indicated. He’s a grower.

Callum Best hooked up with a female friend of mine multiple times. Prior to that I always assumed he was gay.

Dean Hamilton

R372 Sure, yeah right.

[quote]He was gorgeous. I remember reading he was an heir to a fortune..... of soe old catalog comapny but wikipedia doesnt say that. says he married a Norwegian woman.

He got married? He was engaged to Jennifer Connolly right after The Rocketeer but I didn’t know he ever got married. He’d been a longtime bachelor.

[quote]I was convinced he was really gay

Me too.

[quote]I dont remember full frontal on Tales of the City...

Here ya go...

I'm R372 I confused the actor you guys are talking about that I never hard of (Callum Blue, who?) with the son of a footballer that my friend hooked up with (Calum Best). Though I did assume he was gay.

I think John Stockwell became a director, didn't he? I think he gets a lot of work, too.

I think Billy Campbell is the heir to the Champion Spark Plug fortune.

R375 wow thanks!

I just looked Billy up on Wiki and was shocked he;s married. i always thought Jennifer COnnelly thing was studio bearding.

I think it was the Speigel catalog that he was heir too.

Thanks for the screen cap. He looks veyr small soft ..... I cant even tell if hes cut or uncut.... looks maybe uncut?

Ben Murphy

Balfour had one of the tightest asses in Hollywood.

R379, he could be a grower but he has big balls. I thought Connolly was bearding too.

Calum Best is hot, too, r376. Too bad he's not a dongpreciator.

[quote]I think it was the Speigel catalog that he was heir too.

That's Spike Jonze, whose birth name is Adam Spiegel 60609.

Craig Sheffer had gained some weight during the One Tree Hill years, but he took some off and looks great these days.

R385 He doesn't even look like the same person.

I follow Eric Balfour on Twitter and he’s a really cool liberal guy. Despises Trump and is always giving positive vibes on his page. He and his wife just had a kid.

Schaeffer looked best here.

No one mentioned Adam Baldwin yet.

Balfour did tons of nudity in the Canadian soft core flick Lie With Me, showing copious amounts of ass, dick and balls. He’s small when soft, but possibly a grower. The sex scenes in the film are a little on the too-real-to-be-fake side...

All of them.

Fuck RObert TYler was hot! I remember him on Loving. He OOOZES sex.

Only imagine what his cokc was like!

Robert Tyler had a very halting voice for an actor. I never believed he wanted to be in any scene I saw him in. Sure was pretty, though.

He don’t look that different

Speaking of Baldwins, young Billy was a tall adorable drink of water and they gave him a couple shots at leading man. He didn't age all that badly but his career went down the shitter.

Max Parish owns this thread. Plus he was great in the film. What invisible committee decided he couldn't act anymore?

Billy Baldwin was a repulsive, arrogant little shit who could not act his way out of a paper bag. He was always loathsome.

R385 pic looks like his prison pic took in the day room.

^Let’s see what you look like.

Here ya go, bitch^

R400 is smoking hot.

Paul Gross. He played a sexy Mountie but not much else.

Is Mr. OPry who is a model not an actor and not an eldergay on DL.

What did Billy Baldwin do to earn your hate? He was cute in the laughable Sliver.

David James Elliott- he was definitely drop dead gorgeous.

Billy Baldwin is as sexy as having explosive diarrhea while being force fucked by a 10 incher as the Las Vegas shooting is happening below you.

Billy can be seen most recently in “Insatiable “ in a very small role.

Voice is still very sexy.

William Kaat

Does William Kaat drive a Sabb?

Adam Garcia.

Paul Mercurio

Andy Garcia, as well.

Daniel Greene

Daiel Greene in Pulsebeat.

R285 Yes Casper Van D. Is a fundie who has appeared with the Crouches on TBN & also with Pat Robertson on the 700 Club among other things.

Steven Bauer

Daniel Green is hot!

R91

The quote was by Noel Coward, "Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow."

R402 He works constantly on Canadian TV. He was in the Alias Grace miniseries last year.

Paul Gross was stunning. Callum Keith Rennie was also quite the hottie. And someone had the good taste to mention Campbell Scott.

R420 Callum Keith Rennie is so hot in the movie Suspicious River.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Bernie Casey had it going on back in the day. He actually did have a decent career. But maybe it should have been bigger. He was one hot stud.

Yeah, Andy Garcia doesn't belong here. He's headlined too many movies to say that his career went no where. Over 90 acting credits, from 1978 to 2018...his career did go somewhere, and not in the shitter...

R331 Yeah, that was a great show. I remember it not relying on gun play and his character doing a lot of detective work.

More Richard....

What a fine man r423. Thank you.

Eric is the gorgeous, talented one in the Roberts family.

Adam Baldwin - ugly on the inside, mediocre on the outside.

Thom Bierdz owns this thread.

Brandon Routh. He was funny in that Seth Rogen porno film where Routh plays Justin Long's boyfriend or as he called him his cumdump.

R370, why would you brag and make something up? Because this is Datalounge and people make shit up all the time. Typically, it's people who go ballistic at being disbelieved that are the biggest liars. Like you, moron.

As far as blond thinks go, Hunter Parrish was spectacular.

Not even sure what he’s done in the past five or six years.

Taylor Kitsch. How many bombs has that dude been in?

John Smith from the ‘60s TV western Laramie had all the makings of a Hollywood male lead movie star, but the director of Circus World, a post-Laramie film he co-starred in with John Wayne, hated him and vowed to derail his career. He went on to do more guest spots in various TV shows and appearances in several B-movies but nothing that met up with his potential.

Did anyone mention David Cokachi

Too many girly boys referenced. I prefer the REAL MEN that others have mentioned.

Barry Watson

Several soap hunks -- Grant Aleksander comes to mind, but young male actors never seemed to break out of daytime the way young actresses did e.g. Anne Heche, Me Ryan, Marissa Tomei, Parker Posey, and (seriously) Julianne Moore.

Hart Bochner wanted to be a director - and became one. He gave up on acting.

In the 60's/70's Steve Carlson was on soaps and then became a writer. But he was tapped to be Robert Conrad's new partner on Wild Wild West had it survived for a 5th season because Ross Martin was not coming back due to health reasons. He was also considered Robert Conrad's 'type' - hot young blonde who would have served as Conrad's damsel in distress on WWW.

Who is steve Carlson? What does he look like?

Shane McDermott. Very handsome pin-up boy of the mid-90's, but the roles dried up and he got tired of the scene and left. He sells real estate in Texas now.

R441 he was so hot in that Rollerblading movie that came out in the early 90s with Seth Green.

Pic?

Shane McDermott yummy!

Mmmm Vincent A Larusso...it’s 1993 again.

Whatever happened to Jordan Brower? He was great in "Speedway Junky" where his character was in love with Jesse Bradford. He seems to have vanished.

Maybe not drop dead gorgeous, but Fred Ward was so charming and sexy in Big Business. I wish he'd had a bigger career after that.

R445 That is hot to you? He is like Nick Carter's lil bro with Down's syndrome. NOT attractive at all.

YI wish we could keep the ones who peaked at three weeks soaps off this list

Exactly. It is a given that most soap actor's careers go nowhere.

Very hot, r447. And I believe a DLer has related a homosexual experience with him.

How do we summon such people?

Dan Cortese. Fuck, without a shirt he is smoking hot.

Shane McDermott in 1993's Airborne

I only recently saw Edward Furlong in BRAINSCAN.

BIG mistake.

That and the heroin addiction.

Has Cortese had work done, or is that just age?

What happened to Christopher Atkins after Blue Lagoon? Must have been a kick in the balls to see your career go nowhere while Brooke’s moved along, although D-list quality.

Anyone remember Rodney Eastman?

The super cute guy who played the mute and delinquent Joey in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: THE DREAM WARRIORS?

He's another addict who fucked it all up.

His leading role in DEADLY WEAPON did him no favors. But then he took it all for granted and decided to party hard, drive drunk, and mangle his golden face in a car wreck.

^Met him at a couple of film conventions. Nice guy. Not pretty anymore.

Eastman still does P-list horror schlock, usually playing thugs or junkies now. He makes his own short films. His career took a heartbreaking turn, but he makes his own music, too, which isn't half bad.

Here's an interview explaining his downfall. And he performs a good song.

Jason Behr was so hot for about 10 minutes.

Steve Guttenberg was hot circa 1984. He made a few movies then shot his load and disappeared.

Peter Barton was on the brink of stardom in the late 70's and early 80's. But his career petered out. He was on this soap opera for a while, than faded away.

Thomas Welling-----Clark Kent from SMALLVILLE.......

Jesse Metcalfe------he was supposed to be big.....was on EXTRA last week bragging about his shitabulous Hallmark tv show.

Jack Scalia probably best remembered for Fear City (1984). He was so hot in the film. He has worked steadily since and still looks hot at nearly 70 (check out his current imdb shot).

Billy Warlock from Society (1989) - still looks hot

Scott Bairstow was hot. He fucked up his career by screwing underage fish.

R288/R452 aren't the only ones to lament...

John Allen Nelson and Todd McKee who co-starred in my wet dreams.

R454 aw come on, BRAINSCAN is one of the best Worst Movies of the '90s. It's like Freddy Kruger meets Drop Dead Fred, meets American Psycho only with a demon from a CD-ROM (they basically use the AOL Free 100 Hours concept as the narrative driver only it's a mindscrew brainwashing PAL videogame).

As a movie it's a dark fucked-up cartoon. It's a little bit outrageous, but at it's core it's nothing more than a time-capsule of '90s heavy metal/sci-fi teen culture and the moral panic about all that. It's a little bit sick and sad to watch if you can get past how lurid and silly it is, but that is a big "if". I'm not sure I'd call it a mistake on Furlong's part, either; there is something compelling and even campy in the awfulness of BRAINSCAN, and there is certainly no other film like it in existence. The real bullshit is that the director blamed teenage Furlong for this entire movie bombing (and this was before Furlong became what we know now).

Furlong's character IS a real creep in it, like a perv and a half, but most horror protags are gross. His tech is cool, however - people barely give a shit about Skype right now and he's got a computer-phone-gaming system of his own design in 1994. It's basically the prototype for the iPhone, but it's a huge computer.

True that BRAINSCAN sucks but it was interesting suckage, I guess is what I'm saying.

[quote]Jack Scalia probably best remembered for Fear City (1984).

New Yorkers remember Jack Scalia best for his subtrou posters.

Adam Garcia just judged an Australian TV show, 'Dance Boss', which was a fucking disaster but he still looks good. Paul Mecurio got shat on and is now a successful chef, and a totally lovely guy

I agree regarding Jeremy Northam. He was superbly sexy in the Sandra Bullock movie of long ago and did his usual great acting job. I enjoy seeing him in "Happy, Texas" a lot. He does do theatre work, but all too rarely, in London.

Adam Garcia’s finest performance

R438 There have been a few. Jensen Ackles was on DOOL and Richard Dean Anderson was on GH.

Raoul O'Connell who starred in and directed the short film A Friend of Dorothy which formed part of A Boy's Life. He also appeared in Frisk.

Tom Chambers has made a good enough career for himself on British television, but with pits like these, he should be a huge star.

Kevin Zegers wife is an agent and his career is still dismal.

Kevin Kline, Ray Liotta, Ryan Philippe, Christopher Reeve, Alec Baldwin, Jeff Fahey, and more all appeared in soaps early in their careers...a lot more common for well-known male actors than you think...

Pretty blond Matt Barr is in danger of this. He's still under 35 and has some excellent credits on his resume (such as his turn as Johnse in Costner's HATFIELDS & McCOYS) so there's a good chance for him to come back strong.

Nevertheless, at the present time his agent is handling him with manifest injustice. His last project was trash.

I was sure Enver Gjokaj had a great career ahead of him. He was terrific in a supporting role on Dollhouse, totally outshining the lead. He's been working fairly regularly since but doesn't seem to have done anything notable. A real waste of talent, but he might still get a break.

As someone else noted, Paul Gross and Callum Keith Rennie work steadily in Canada. Gross was in a wonderful TV show called Slings & Arrows. Check it out, especially if you're a theater buff. (The show is about a fictionalized version of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.)

Speaking of Canadian productions, Billy Campbell has fuck-you money. He asked to be written out of The 4400 so he could spend a year sailing around the world.

Chris Atkins was hot for a while after Blue Lagoon, but made too many shitty movies.

Decent career, but Stephen Dorff never quite became the second coming of Steve McQueen (even though he had the cool sexy vibe down.)

R389 I'm sure Joss Whedon will find something else to cast him even though he's a homophobe.

R481 Enver was definitely the stand out in Dollhouse. Everyone outshined Eliza on that show lol

Interesting how some actors wind up having successful careers doing straight to video movies and series on lesser networks, while others seem to drop out of the business entirely as per an earlier thread this year on what happens to actors when they can no longer get work. (Seems many go into real estate.)

One of my favorite parts of Dollhouse was when Enver in Doll state started popping boners in the communal shower.

Ffs post with a pic at least, nobody is googling 200 names for a thread

Rick Hearst from Brain Damage

Just got Brainscan blu ray. The movie is one of the most entertaining I've seen. I'm sure early 90's nostalgia plays a role though.

But both Brad Renfro and Eddie Furlong were getting terrific reviews early in their careers. Furlong gave good performances in more dramatic films like American Heart, Little Odessa, Home of Our Own, Before and After and American History X. It's only lately I've noticed people slamming everything he's ever done just because he became a junkie later in life who desperately tried to cling to his career by starring in a slew of shitty low budget horror. He can't even get those now. They didn't even call him back for the extra features on the new Brainscan blu ray. But he did display a lot of talent early in his career. At least Brad is still spoken highly of today, but he was mocked endlessly when he was still alive.

Timothy and Vincent Van Patten

R487 That movie is so fucking weird.

Speaking of Steve McQueen, his namesake grandson was supposed to be an up and comer. What’s he up to?

I know Steve's son Chad played the savage bully Dutch in THE KARATE KID, and not too much else.

[quote]Enver was definitely the stand out in Dollhouse. Everyone outshined Eliza on that show lol

Heh, yeah, that's not a high bar. Was there an episode where he flirted with Tahmoh Penikett, or was that just a fantasy of mine?

[Quote] Was there an episode where he flirted with Tahmoh Penikett, or was that just a fantasy of mine?

It's entirely possible. I haven't seen the show in a while.

Robert John Burke has a long and extensive of film and TV credits but it appears maybe he avoided becoming a romantic leading man when he was younger. His resume includes obscure Hal Hartley films, Robocop 3, Stephen King’s ‘Thinner’ and Law and Order SVU. Still stunningly handsome, IMO.

Is it too early to add Chace Crawford to the list?

R491 He just starred in his first Hallmark movie, which means his career is currently in limbo.

[Quote] His resume includes obscure Hal Hartley films, Robocop 3, Stephen King’s ‘Thinner’ and Law and Order SVU.

He also played Bart Bass on Gossip Girl.

R482 I always had a thing for me until he did those awful e-cigarette ads where he seemed like a total douchebag.

R337 What are you talking about? He is drop dead gorgeous in that picture.

Andrew Shue has never been an actor, ever. So he is gorgeous but not as an actor.

John Allen Nelson (star of the movie HUNK.)

MacKenzie Astin, though based on his IMDB credits I suspect he has never been interested in mega stardom.

Judd Nelson should’ve had a longer career.

Allan Kayser BKA Bubba On “Mama's Family”

R489 Didn’t Timothy Van Patten direct the Sopranos and other shows?

Michael Landes - I’ve had a crush on him since Lois & Clark.

Oh no, r496...career death. Next step is Lifetime...he’ll play an abusive husband/boyfriend/stalker with an actress with three names.

DW Moffatt

R503 Judd Nelson was an ugly dog.

Page Fletcher didn’t hitch his star to the right agent.

Or suck off the right casting director.

Allan Kayser was the sexiest and had the hottest ass. He really filled out his jeans.

As a gayling born in the 1970s, no one was hotter than Robert Hays from Airplane! and other shitty films. He had the hottest bod and face. How I wanted his babies.

Andrew!

[quote] Judd Nelson should’ve had a longer career.

He used to bully Molly Ringwald. He got exactly the fate he deserved in this town.

Judd Nelson was insufferable. His career was too long as it was.

How Judd Nelson got anywhere with his average looks, average charisma, and average intelligence is BEYOND me.

R466 R487 R513 To add to the list of hot young men of horror don't forget Thom Matthews.

Mathews was ok not great as Tommy Jarvis. The guy who played him in Friday part 5 was way hotter and a better actor.

Page Fletcher looks like a cross between Aiden Quinn and actor Billy Shanks.

David Beecroft (Falcon Crest, Melrose Place).

Martin Henderson (The Ring, Bride and Prejudice, Grey's Anatomy)

John Terlesky had some minor success in television and films, but didn’t get the success he should have received. He directs now.

John Terlesky was HOT! I remember him in Chopping Mall as the cocky, gum chewing douchebag. He kinda had a Seann William Scott thing going on. I think he was the first one to die, too.

Peter Barton never really seemed to want a career. There's a story on the Hell Night Blu-Ray (somehow, they managed to track down the entire cast and there are some wonderful interviews) where Linda Blair said she had to convince him to do Hell Night because he'd already wanted to retire from acting. And that was in '81. He lasted a few more years and then called it quits. Maybe he was hard to cast. He had such wholesome looks - like he could be one of the long lost Brady kids or something.

Matt Keeslar…famous for “The Last Days Of Disco” and “Dune”, then he disappeared to become a nurse?

Russell Scott Lewis did some gay-themed movies in the mid-90's, then quite the business.

[quote]He used to bully Molly Ringwald

What an asshole, but that doesn’t sound surprising.

Mackenzie Astin did a movie with Kevin Spacey when he was younger. Do you think he was groped?

This thread makes me glad I was young and gorgeous before the age of the Internet. I was mostly a 9 with a few people here and there thinking me a 10 or an 8. But I was very confident and thought I was especially good looking. Can you imagine how uncomfortable it must be nowadays for a fantastic looking young actor to easily see how very many many studs failed to make it, despite their great looks?

In earlier days, a man's looks were not scrutinized closely. They are now.

My ex loved Mitch Hewer from SKINS ---- he was the blonde Twink----you may not know his name but you've seen his picture.. hard to believe Nickolas Holt is the one who became the star from SKINS and not Mitch.

R528 It's always been the same. Actors should count themselves lucky to be working and never take their work for granted. I never understood people like Shia Lebouf who bad mouth their projects or earn a bad reputation. As the years proved, working on multi million dollar franchises and with directors like Spielberg doesn't guarantee long term success. Likewise, those who find their niche in teen or horror films should just milk that for however long they can and not hold out for more serious roles. If it happens, great, but it's not inevitable no matter how talented you think you are.

This is a ridiculous thread. Many of these actors work steadily like Martin Henderson.

R531 Shia LeBouf has mental problems. He can't help it.

Watched a horror film several years ago called King of the Ants and being captivated by Chris McKenna. Originally I thought the film must have been directed by David DeCoteau but the film was a lot better than anything he ever did. So imagine my surprise that the film which contains numerous lingering shots of McKenna fully naked was directed by none other than Stuart Gordan of Reanimator fame. The only thing I recognized McKenna in was from a small role in the short lived Opposite of Sex tv series. It looks like he hasn't been doing much besides television commercials these days except commercials and bit parts in tv series. It's quite a shame since he possessed the goods.

McKenna is on the verge of breaking out. Mark my words.

The gorgeous John J York of Werewolf TV series (1987-88). He went on to a play Mac Scorpio on General Hospital for 25 + years, a pretty decent gig. He appeared in several made of TV movies and guest starred on TV shows. Pretty good career after all, but never broke out big.

Dean Geyer of Glee and Terra Nova. Stunningly handsome, and he can really sing. He's still young, about 30 so look for future developments.

LOL, whatever bish. All the shemales from Glee could never be considered drop dead gorgeous.

R537 He looks like a young Colton Haynes

John Robert Burke can currently be seen in “BlackkKlansman” .

[quote]Peter Barton never really seemed to want a career. There's a story on the Hell Night Blu-Ray (somehow, they managed to track down the entire cast and there are some wonderful interviews) where Linda Blair said she had to convince him to do Hell Night because he'd already wanted to retire from acting. And that was in '81. He lasted a few more years and then called it quits.

Barton played Scott Granger on Y&R for several years. He didn’t quit the biz right away.

Chris McKenna is best known to daytime fans for his recent role on Y&R.

[quote]Kevin Zegers wife

Kevin Zegers isn't gay?

James Wilder

R538 I disagree.

Greg Lauren was gorgeous but he made some bad movies and then married, well... this...

David Lasher from Blossom. I crushed hard on him.

Andrew Stevens teaches filmmaking on his webpage.....So, clearly success has found him.

James Maesden made the leap from Major Film Star to television.

Marsden is so fucking hot.

C Thomas Howell was hot for about 5 minutes. Sad. He was a good actor.

Lascher was one of my first crushes. I liked him better pre nose job though.

I liked David Lascher as Kelly's gay boyfriend.

Victor Webster. He could have been a great movie star in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. His career has been very lackluster, bit parts here and there.

Michael Biehn, nowhere? Really?

Billy Zane was such a hot piece of ass. I wish his career had gone further (although he was in Titanic.)

Those lips. Those eyes.

Dat ass.

I thought Ryan Phillipe would have been a much bigger star than he was. He was stunning when younger and still looks good. Who’d he piss off?

Victor Webster is insanely hot.

He didn't piss off anyone - he was just a bad actor and came across as too twinkish for action roles

Ryan Phillippe does not have a particularly natural way of speaking. I think casting people pass him over because of some unconscious dislike of the way he talks (and no, I am NOT talking 'gayvoice').

Why does Craig Bierko always do something weird with his teeth when he smiles? He used to be hot.

I think RP just comes across as rather light-weight. Not much gravitas there. So he really won't be considered for roles in which he has to shoulder a load.

Craig Bierko is hot. If "hot" means "makes people run screaming from the room."

[Quote] Billy Zane was such a hot piece of ass. I wish his career had gone further (although he was in Titanic.)

He was so much fun in Demon Knight.

Listen to Miss Priss @ r564.

Billy Zane needed his hair. End of story.

James Scott probably tried to do movies, but he's too tall.

Also, I suspect he never put out.

He's a cool dude!

If YouTube comedy, IG-whoring and occasional EP releases on Spotify don't count as a career trajectory and we use a flexible definition of "gorgeous", then: cute Millennial actors Drake (Bell) and/or Josh (Peck), formerly of Nickelodeon sitcomry and various cult/indie teen films of the '00s.

Moreso Josh, as Drake in all fairness is constantly touring his music and currently voices the cartoon Spider-Man. Josh does do VO work and occasional films but no-one ever sees them. He just announced his wife (I know, I know) is expecting a baby which will make for a nice resume-gap justification.

Wes Brown

More discussion of Ryan P and loads. Pics if possible.

Josh Henderson or Jesse Metcalf.

Jesse Metcalfe wasted his hottest years on a stupid soap opera. He was already too old to play a teenager when his big break came, then the fame went to his head and he went out of control and winded up an addict, and somehow made a comeback as a country singer, Hallmark actor, and the star of a Christian persecution movie.

Lame.

I thought Tom Everett Scott was going to be huge after That Thing You Do.

The late Biff Warren made a splash in the Saturday morning show "The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. and appeared in some well-known shows during the late 70's, but then his career went nowhere. He became a businessman in his home state of Mississippi and passed away in 1993.

Jonathon Schaech

[quote] Wes Brown

I had forgotten how insanely hot Billy Zane was.

I used to see Jesse Metcalf doing a druggy walk of shame outside the Mondrian Hotel on Sunset back in the day. I think his talent was fucking (male or female, who knows, maybe both). He never was much of an actor, though he was liked on "Dallas".

Even without hair, Billy Zane is still fuckable.

I would have let Fred Ward do 50 dirty things to me when he was in Big Business.

Billy Zane is just meh, could never be drop dead gorgeous, sorry girls.

^Your taste is shit.

Zane looks like a bloated, bald, way too old for his age, asexual lesbian.

Don’t forget Matt Dallas!

Jeff Fahey has had an okay career. But those piercing eyes and hairy chest should have taken him further.

Fahey

[Quote] Jonathon Schaech

The only reason to watch Poison Ivy 2.

Schaech is so fetch.

So much hotness wasted. James Scott could have been like ... Bond or something. He has a lovely voice, too, good for an animated movie or two. Jesus what a waste.

R592

R594 - HA!

Jason Patrick

Very few drop dead gorgeous men posted on this thread. Interesting to see guy's awful taste in men though. Billy Zane? Puke.

[quote]Schaech is so fetch.

Is that a good thing?

[quote]Billy Zane? Puke.

I liked him a lot before he shaved his head.

Skeet Ulrch. Has he been mentioned yet? That’s my pick

You're not kidding, r593.

1/2 a WW for r600.