Actors no one remembers but you

I had a crush on him too! I recently saw an old episode of Ghost Whisperer and it renewed my crush. According to IMDB, he has been busy, most recently in Agents of Shield. He's 51 and looks like he has never been married nor had children. Mmm...…

John Stockwell.

I was a kid when he was in "Losin It" with Tom Cruise, and that scary movie Christine. I watched everything I could with him.

John Stockwell was gorgeous

Count me in for David Conrad, too. I lust for him.

So cute.

When David Conrad went poz they created the fake new husband with his soul in case his health went bad and another actor had to sub in.

Chris Hargreaves used to be gorgeous. Now he's a fat drug dealer.

David Conrad is poz?!

Gaspard Manesse from Au Revoir les Enfants. I remember being impressed with his performance for such a young kid, and thinking he’d likely grow up to be quite attractive. I was right.

David Conrad has been on Agents of Shield from 2013-2018.

Taylor Lautner.

Thomas Byrd

Doug McClure, he was in a TV western.

R13 That's Hugh O'Brien. THIS is Doug McClure. He was in The Virginian with James Drury (another actor no one remembers) and Lee J. Cobb.

Richard Thomas.

Michael Burns? He was a TV actor.

Bubba Berkowitz

Armie Hammer resembles Stockwell a bit. I believe he's a director now.

R16 Michael Burns, yes! I had a crush on him when I was 14 and he was one of the stars of the short lived TV series It's a Man's World (1962). Michael was also 14 at the time. On one hand I related to him as a fellow teen boy and on the other hand I felt he had such tremendous charisma and cuteness plus he was very smart and intelligent. He made me feel *tingly*. Not to mention he was an exceptionally good actor. Great, well written show. Years later he finally did a nude scene in That Cold Day in the Park with Sandy Dennis.

Watch this episode where Howie (Michael Burns) is struck by lightning and the shock to his brain causes him to end up lost and partly amnesiac in the woods while his friends frantically search for him at night in the dark.

Isn’t Chiller Theater happening in a few days? Apparently there’s no one so obscure that they couldn’t find a con to attend.

Trey Ames, from various 80s projects. Tommy Puett from Life Goes On.Never daw why fugly chad Lowe would be picked over him.

Shawn Hatosy.

Loren Dean. I thought he was brilliant in Billy Bathgate.

R2, R3 He starred in this odd little movie which dripped with eroticism.

Loved Ryan Lambert and Andre Gower from the Monster Squad

Mikey from Parker Lewis Can’t Lose. No one admits to ever watching that show

I'm sorry to say that no one gives much serious thought to the person who won Best Actress at the 3rd Annual Tony Awards held on April 24, 1949!

Will Kemp.

William McNamara

Richard Joseph Paul.

John Terlesky.

R22 I remember Shawn Hatosy.

He was talented, a lovely kisser, and the last person to see a tolerable version of Danny Dyer.

R29 Lmao. I had Dream a Little dream on in the background one day. My husband said that the body switching was not a problem compared to the fact that a psycho and Joel was stalking them. He said all he heard from the movie was people yelling No Joel and Don’t do it Joel. He thought one of those lines was the name of the movie. We still laugh about that movie.

*psycho named Joel

Andrew Lowery, from School Ties and other early 90s films. According to imdb, he's been mostly MIA since 1997

William McNamara has aged quite well. He was always such a cutie.

R23, I was going to post Loren Dean too. Marry me now.

Loren Dean was a cutie.

Zane Buzby

with the wonderful Miriam Flynn in Class Reunion

Zane Buzby as Vietnam Punk Rocker Mouling Jackson in Americathon singing "Don't You Ever Say No"

I've lived David Conrad since a short-lived 90s show called Relativity. I'm not sure if he's gay though, he dated Shalom Harlow back then. I remember seeing pics of them in magazines looking gorgeous.

That should be loved. I need to stop posting from my phone.

Does anyone else remember Jason Gedrick? He was my first crush.

Pete Duel - we saw it Alias Smith and Jones in reruns, but my friends and I were devastated to find out he killed himself.

Brit actor Tom Ward. Actually he had a long run on “Silent Witness”, but there are very few projects on his IMDB resume since quitting the show several years ago.

"I'm not sure if he's gay though, he dated Shalom Harlow back then. I remember seeing pics of them in magazines looking gorgeous."

I wondered if he was gay back in the day....he used to do interviews saying how much he wanted to get married and have kids. All these years later, it appears he's still single. Hmmmm.

I watch Agents of shield but I can't for the life of me think who David Conrad is on that show, or what his character does.

Shawn Hatosy is one of the stars of the series "Animal Kingdom." Next season starts this summer.

Patrick Muldoon? I think he used to date Denise before Charlie

Hatosy is still around

Paul Sand from the 70-80s. He used to be in every other movie and TV show during that time. And then he just disappeared. It's so strange when that happens. He's still alive at 87.

Another actor who was in every other movie during this time before disappearing is Michael York. I mean, how do you go from appearing in numerous A-list movies a year to disappearing without a trace? It doesn't make any sense.

Ron Ely. I win.

A major part of my puberty was spent watching him as Tarzan and grinding the bed.

Paul Mantee. He had the lead in the low-budget cult classic "Robinson Crusoe On Mars" (containing a blink-and-you-miss-it nude scene). In later years he was a supporting character in Cagney and Lacey. Rumored to have done nude photography for the Athletic Model Guild.

Ron Eldard. Wasn't he the "next big thing?" Until he wasn't.

[quote] Another actor who was in every other movie during this time before disappearing is Michael York. I mean, how do you go from appearing in numerous A-list movies a year to disappearing without a trace? It doesn't make any sense.

What are you talking about? Michael York has worked steadily through 2014 (and still does the occasional voice work on The Simpsons). The man is 77. What more would you like?

R55, No he hasn't. You've been hallucinating if you think he's been a prominent actor since the 70s.

Bruce Greenwood

Rutanya Alda

R44 He was also in Gidget before Alias Smith and Jones.

R52 I was also very into Paul Sand .

Since you are making me think of early 70s TV Lance Kerwin from James at 15. And then James at 16.

I remember all of these actors save for Zane Busby. They may not have achieved A-List status but they're working actors who will have a nice well-rounded body of work when they look back on their careers.

I also remember Paul Sand. He was on an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show and I think MTM had also created a short-lived show for him.

Hart Bochner. He's another one who disappeared after doing Breaking Away and then things like War And Remembrance - the TV mini series.

Paul Sand is gay. My mother thought he was cute.

Wende Wagner

The late, great Mike Minor from, of all places, "Petticoat Junction." Insanely good-looking, and he sang like a dream.

[quote] [R55], No he hasn't. You've been hallucinating if you think he's been a prominent actor since the 70s.

You're kind of an idiot, aren't you? You said

[quote] how do you go from appearing in numerous A-list movies a year to disappearing without a trace?

This is not "disappearing without a trace."

R64, his real last name is Fedderson as in Don Fedderson, his father, who was the producer of My Three Sons and countless other sitcoms from the 1960s. It's rather fitting he was paired with Linda Kaye Henning on PJ considering her father, Paul Henning produced the show.

^^^ Thanks. Who knew?

Martin Potter

R52 oh my, he showed major VPL hosting the game show "Face the Music" in 1979. I couldn't believe what I was seeing!

Ronald Lewis

R57, Bruce Greenwood is hardly forgotten. He’s on the hit show The Resident right now, recently renewed for its third season.

David Conrad moved his main home a few years ago back to Pittsburgh, where he was born and raised (and, I think, went to college). He probably has a pied-à-terre or an apartment in LA for work, but he's more often in Pittsburgh, and has done a lot of theater there.

And he looks damn good for 51.

[quote] When David Conrad went poz they created the fake new husband with his soul in case his health went bad and another actor had to sub in.

Uh, no.

Pete Koch was a hunky former football player who had a number of roles on crappy shows like Silk Stalkings... he was very, very hot. And very, very large.

I’m sad that someone would post Pete Duel in a category “actors no one remembers but you.” Alias Smith and Jones is still a popular rerun. Pete Duel still gains heartbeats, as he was so charismatic and handsome. Ben Murphy is still healthy and handsome after a lucrative tv and pro-tennis career.

And Bruce Greenwood, Doug McClure, James Drury are posted on this thread? What the heck? The Virginian still is in reruns, and Bruce Greenwood has been in just about everything.

How about -

William McNamara: Stealing Home (Teenage Billy - don't miss the scene where he loses his virginity) Dream a Little Dream (Joel) Doing Time on Maple Drive (Matt - the gay son)

he smokes cigarettes in two of those movies which for some reason really appealed to me at the time

Another for me is:

Matt Keeslar Waiting for Guffman (Johnny Savage) -insert drooling emoji-

R70 I though Ronald Lewis was fairly uninteresting.

But I watch him in the subplot in Alec Guinness' first real dramatic role "The Prisoner" in 54 or so.

He also shocked people wearing Continental style speedos in a silly horror film called 'Scream of Fear' in 1962, I think.

R78 You thoughT Ronald Lewis was fairly uninteresting.

Brendan Hughes, he played a vampire in the 80s in movie nobody remembers.

Lisa Eichhorn

Scott Anthony

Mark Lee from Gallipoli

I remember Pete Duel (he changed the spelling from Deuel) very well and was heartbroken when he died.

I’d forgotten Paul Sand, but upon hearing his name, I immediately recalled him carrying a bass violin on a CBS sitcom. He was another crush of mine.

Chris Makepeace

I'm probably not the only one who remembers John Beck. He was in Rollerball with James Caan, trashy-great The Other Side of Midnight Dallas, where IIRC he was Pam's love interest for a while, and - most memorably for me - the wonderful one-season wonder Flamingo Road with Morgan Fairchild. He was my ideal man at the time. I guess still is, that is, the way he looked back then.

^^... The Other Side of Midnight, Dallas ..."

Annette O'Toole

Another Jason Getrick fan.

R85 I don't remember Chris Makepeace but wasn't there sultry young Canadian ten years ago with a large floppy penis posing for Playgirl called Keiran Makepeace or called Keiran Makeready?

[quote]Annette O'Toole

Yes, completely obscure. She hasn't done anything since appearing in Sueprman III in 1983

Jeremy Brett. No one around here- the city I live in, not DL has heard of him. My all time favourite Sherlock Holmes. Elegant man, handsome in that old fashioned 'English gentleman' kind of way, intelligent and perfect for the role. Also, gay. I'd often wondered why he didn't go further with his career after the Sherlock series but then recently discovered he actually died in '95, and at age 61 he was around twenty years older than i'd always thought.

Forgot to link. Bit like Jeremy Irons, in appearance.

[quote] Lisa Eichhorn

I’ll see your Lisa Eichhorn and raise you a Lisa Eilbacher.

^^^ (ahem)

Jeremy Brett's partner was hot, forgotten actor Gary Bond

Two actors from the old Highlander TV series, the star, Adrian Paul, who I thought would be the next James Bond or something, but hasn't done much since Highlander, and Peter Wingfield who played Methos. I thought he would have a good acting career, but he went back to school and became a medical doctor.

Stan Kirsch from Highlander also hasn't done anything in years.

Omar Townsend from Party Girl.

David Packer from "V"

[quote] Omar Townsend from Party Girl.

I wish Parker Posey had followed his ass out the door.

Excuse me R14 but speak for yourself: I remember James Drury very well. The Virginian was a big show. Such a handsome man.

Kristy McNichol is mostly forgotten today, except for people over 45.

At one time, she was the biggest young star in the world, and then she just walked away from it all. I don't understand people like her. She must have been really fucked up.

Ciarán Hinds

Grant Goodeve - Eight is Enough

Kevin Brophy - Lucan

Mark Shera - SWAT

Peter Barton - The Powers of Mathew Star

[quote] At one time, she was the biggest young star in the world, and then she just walked away from it all. I don't understand people like her. She must have been really fucked up.

Gosh, if only there was some way you could find out what actually happened.

But oh well, I guess we'll never know.

Oh ffs R104 get with the programme.

Anthony Zerbe (Cool Hand Luke, Harry O, etc., etc.)

Ana Alicia.

A trip to imdb would keep some of you from posting some really ridiculous responses, i.e. Ciaran Hinds. He remains a busy working actor.

R105, I always wondered if Mark Shera was gay. He was so hot back in the day.

I used to be madly in love with this actor named Kristoffer Tabori. He was in a short-lived NBC series back in the early '80s called "Chicago Story." (He was also the son of actress Viveca Lindfors.) I think he eventually stopped acting and became a director.

Peter Barton is a Trumper now. I made the mistake of looking at his Facebook.

Christopher Daniel Barnes

Caren Kaye

Carlene Watkins

R100 When Dominique Dunne was being murdered he hid and did nothing, his inaction destroyed his career

John David Carson.

Brian Backer, Tony winner for a Woody Allen play "The Floating Light Bulb" and Mark Ratner in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".. He had small parts more recently in "Loser" and "Vamps". He's also in the first Miramax film, a slasher movie called The Burning.

Christopher Collet. Was in Sleepaway Camp, The Langoliers, and other theatrical and TV movies. Looks like he's almost exclusively a voice actor now, and one site even claims his current profession is "Pilates instructor."

Eva Aulin, the former Miss Sweden who played the title role in "Candy" back in 1968.

Pamela Ferdin, Glynnis O'Connor, Linda Purl, Christina Raines, Candy Clark, Lisa Gerritsen, Marc Copage, Mark Link, Kevin Hooks.

R84 Paul Sand Friends and Lovers was the show 1974 MTM Production. He played for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Does anyone remember TV show Doc? Same year MTM Production. Can you name ALL the cast members shown in photo? Last one to die was in 2017 at 102 years old.

Henry Czerny--great actor, got sucked in and spit out by Hollywood, I think

Winston Rekert

Clark Johnson--had great potential as a director, too but faded out

R114 writes,

[quote]Peter Barton is a Trumper now.

It may have been a career move.

Same happened, during the Obama presidency, with Stacey Dash.

Sebastian Cabot

R121 Don't think many of us around from the 1970s have ever forgotten the great Christina Rains or Candy Clark. Fun bit of trivia: Christina Rains was the first choice to play Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter by the original director Joseph Sargent. Universal went with Loretta'a choice of Sissy Spacek so Joseph Sargent left he project and was replaced by Michael Apted. Joseph Sargent would go on to direct Spacek in Streets of Laredo in 1995.

R96 I well remember handsome Gary Bond and his glistening white buttocks in 'Wake in Fright'.

He suffered a lot starring in that movie and he got tortured again in 'Anne of the Thousand Days'.

R127 Gary Bond was gay. Passed away in 1995 of AIDS.

Richard Warick who co-starred in If... & Derek Jarman's Sebastaine, who also passed away from AIDS in 1997. He was cute as fuck.

Peter MacNicol.

Philippe Forquet from The Young Rebels. My first crush.

Devon Gummersall

R115, At least Caren Kaye got to feel all over Matt Lattanzi's 1983 body!

"You're my tutor!

HOO!!!

Teach me anything you want me to learn!"

John Philpott.

Michael Holoway.

Merritt Butrick

Barry Robins (1945 - 1986)

Fell in love with him in Bless the Beasts & Children (1971) as Cotton

Steve Cochran. The best!

Gail Kobe.

Tom Cruise....oh, you should "Actor."

I saw Paul Sand on Broadway in “Paul Sills’ Story Theater.” He was very funny. Some years later, when I was working at the Plaza Hotel, answering phones in Room Service, he called down for breakfast, and, during the course if a short conversation, came on to me. Not appropriate. Whiny.

I also had a big crush on Paul Mantee, after seeing him in Robinson Crusoe on Mars. So sexy in that, with one of the first glimpses of male nudity I’d ever seen in a movie theater.

(And I had an ongoing crush on Rod Taylor for years. I even met a man at the old Club Baths in New York, who told me he and Taylor had been fuck buddies for about a year, in L.A. around 1961. Of course, Taylor was hardly forgotten, though his career ebbed considerably after the mid-60’s.)

I was a gayling rice queen back in the early 70's. The TV movie, If Tomorrow Comes (1971), starred Patty Duke and a young man by the name of Frank Michael Liu. He was so handsome! Since this movie he seems to have appeared in small roles so I doubt if anyone remembers him.

While I expect others remember him, Keith Gordon never quite had the career I expected he would. He was great in "Christine" with John Stockwell (mentioned above) and unnervingly beautiful in "Dressed to Kill". He seemed to lose his looks rather rapidly, alas. Seems like a nice guy from what I've heard.

Zach Galligan also never seemed to go anywhere after "Gremlins". Still very good-looking.

Chris Eigeman also has worked steadily but seemed to remain mostly a cult figure. Loved him in the Stillman films.

Peter McEnery. He was in Moonspinners with Hayley Mills. Gorgeous.

God, I remember when they used to play that on the Disney Channel every night for months at a time, or so it seemed. And the trailer for it: "Look! The Moooooooooooooooonspinners!" was so fucking annoying I never watched the film. Is it actually a good movie?

R123 You thought wrong about Henry and Clark.

Robin Sabiston, one of the Edison "twins".

Does anyone remember Suzy Kendall? She was a British B actress who was married to Dudley Moore for a few years.

Someone above mentioned Matt Keesler. I had a huge crush on him in the late 90s. He's apparently completely retired from the industry now and works as a nurse.

r142, I remember that movie. If I recall correctly, it was a big deal because it was an interracial romance on TV, which hadn't had a good track record up to that point, and probably for a long time after. I remember he was very attractive.

D.W. Moffett

He was Aiden Quinn's partner in An Early Frost.

Then he was in some Bertolucci film and a number of TV appearances here & there, but nothing that really seemed to catch fire.

[quote] Does anyone remember Suzy Kendall? She was a British B actress who was married to Dudley Moore for a few years.

I remember she was in "To Sir, With Love".

Kendall was also in Argento's first film

R119 I had a crush on him. I used to watch The Manhattan Project all the time.

Some posted about here have given up on a career as an actor, but a lot of them are known working actors. A lot of actors would love to have the career they have had. Sure they aren't leading men or women, but they are making a living at it.

Candy Clark still works a good deal and looks great. I am surprised that Zach Galligan never caught on. I thought he was adorable and he's aged incredibly well and is quite cute.

Christina Raines seems to have not cared much for Hollywood. She gives a killer commentary on the Blu-Ray for The Sentinel where she explains why she hated the production so much. Hint: the director was a major asshole. She comes across as quite funny and self-effacing throughout. It's a great listen.

Kristoffer Tabori

Danny Nucci

Gabriel Olds

Ciarán Hinds is still barely known in the U.S., where we don't have a "programme."

Could Victoria Tennant be described as "basically forgotten"? I have hardly seen her in anything in 20+ years.

DJ Qualls

Victoria Tennant always looked so bitchy like that stern principal or nun you had at your school as a kid. It always seemed like she probably had no sense of humor.

William McNamara wa svery cure. He looks liek shit ow. He even played monty Clift in the Elizabeth Taylor miniseries in 97 I think

Leigh McCloskey

Kevin Brophy

DW Moffett has had a mix of recurring TV roles and was a regular on a basic cable show for several years. George Newbern and DB Sweeney are in that category of working quite a bit, but never becoming a big name.

Peter Carpenter, a hunky actor who had a short-lived career during the early 70's, before suddenly dying. He was good friends with Dyanne Thorne, who played his lover in two films, Blood Mania and and Point of Terror.

Matt Keeslar. He's so square-looking (in a hot way) and sturdy that I'm amazed no one casts him in a big comic book adaptation. Not sure why we need five or six guys named Chris.

Keeslar was to die for!

I don't understand why his career died over this last decade

R168, he's not even trying to be an actor anymore

Christian Camargo

Trent Ford

Old thread on Matt Keeslar. Bascially, he was having trouble landing acting jobs and had a family to support.

[quote]Christian Camargo

I also wonder whatever happened to his mother soap actress Victoria Wyndham ?

Back in the late '90s, there was a big push to make Brad Rowe the next Brad Pitt. But the world didn't really need two Brad Pitts.

^ I feel a bit sorry for him because he was asked to play gay three times.

R121 Glynis O'Conner forgotten? She was the most popular Margo Hughes on ATWT.

R174 I totally forgot about Brad Rowe. He was cute.

Christopher Atkins

John James

Karen Cellini, the second Amanda Carrington on "Dynasty."

Mark “Jacko” Jackson. Former Aussie rules football player. Did Energizer battery commercials and a god awful tv show with Lorenzo Lamas. Think it was called “Highwayman”. I just remember his over the top battery commercials with his Australian accent “The Energizah, it’ll sahprize ya”

Jack Huston

So damned talented.

then

just

*poof*

Casey Siemaszko

Freddie Prinz Jr

For the Mark Shera fans:

I went to college with him in Boston many years ago. We are both approaching 70 now (ouch!). His name was Mark Shapiro back then.

He was a a very sweet guy but couldn't get cast in anything. So it was a big surprise when soon after we graduated he starred in the cop show (SWAT?) and had more financial success than any of the actors in our class. And, sorry to say, he was, and I assume still is, straight.

While I suspect no one has forgotten her in light of recent events, have been always astounded that Sheryl Lee did not have an amazing career.

Amazingly beautiful and an incredible actress.

R132 Thanks for mentioning Devon Gummersall. I liked him on My So Called Life, Seems he never could get another good TV series.

Mark Blankfield was a regular cast member on Fridays from 1980 to 1982. You may not know his name but if you ever watched Fridays (a Saturday Night Live clone) you will remember Mark's Pharmacist.

"As the stressed-out "Drugs R Us" pharmacist who mutters "I can handle it, I can handle it" while careering across the set, Blankfield even contributed a catchphrase to the early Reagan era: "Take a pill!"

Fridays had a great cast of improv comedians including Larry David and Michael Richards.

Olivia Barash

Krista Errickson

Clark Brandon

Rad Daly

Radames Pera

Dana Hill

R188 Dana Hill, so talented and taken so soon I don't think anyone who has seen Shoot the Moon has ever forgotten her.

Joanna Frank

R16, I adored Michael Burns! He was on "Wagon Train" and then on one episode of "Hawaii 5-O" where he played a murderer.

Then he chucked it all to become a history professor at Mt. Holyoke and married the much older and much less attractive (female) president of the college.

Wife of Michael Burns, in blue scarf:

R145, "The Moonspinners" is a wonderful movie, set in Greece, with a proper love interest and a proper villain for Hayley Mills. Love Peter McEnery to this day.

Seeing the name Clark Brandon reminded me of another guy about the same era, Robbie Benson. And now I've vaguely remembered Jimmy McNichol. And Jimmy Baio.

Tammy Lynn Michaels

For all you Paul Sand lovers out there, he's on the current episode of Gilbert Gottfried's podcast.

I worked on a project with Christopher Collet in the mid-90s. Though super cute and quite adorable, he was already losing his golden curls and his interest in show biz. I'm not surprised he's no longer performing.

I also worked on a project with DW (Don) Moffett around the same time. Incredibly handsome man with a gorgeous body.....and not a bad actor either. This is simply a case of luck not being there for someone who deserved more.

Dennis Olivieri

Joanna Pettet. BTW, she was friends with Sharon Tate.

R191 I remember him from when he bared his blond bottom in a very dreary Altman film---

I'm the only person I know who remembers him, but 1970's actor Biff Warren from "The Kids of C.A.P.E.R." was my first celebrity crush. So beautiful, died way before his time. Allegedly developed a heroin habit.

r146 what are they doing now? Johnson was an amazing director-he had nowhere near the career his talent would've indicated, although maybe that was his choice.

Czerny I haven't heard of in years, although I'm out of the entertainment loop now.

R200 I guess you didn't see I already mentioned the nude scene R19 Michael Burns did in That Cold Day in the Park.

Biff McGuire

Actually, I think that may be the wrong Gaspard Manesse at R9.

Still hot.

Gregory Harrison

All the gays of a certain age remember him.

Marjoe Gortner

David Marshal Grant

Danny Hassel from Nightmare on Elm St 4

Christine Elise

Nyree Dawn Porter

Jason James Richter from Free Willy

OP, if you have access to Start network they have just begun showing reruns of Ghost Whisperer. It began yesterday so you didn't miss much.

Pretty boy Shea Farrell

Billy Warlock - and he is still hot as fuck in his 50s!

Edward Albert

For nostalgic reasons I watched some old 80s TV series, Beauty and the Beast, with EA playing the bad guy turning good in the end. He died way too young, had been a heavy smoker all his life, succumbing to lung cancer at the age of 51.

Robert Newton

Always been a huge fan of him. He was the absolutely scene stealer in every movie he was in. Also died too young from drinking.

Erik Rhodes

I was about to say Jordan Brower who sadly officially retired himself from the business years ago to raise a family in Texas and switch careers to work in finance, but as by his own admission he was getting gay fanmail in the early '00s I know some of you bitches care about him now like you did then.

Two actors who fit this category are men I've always mixed up. James Stacy and Michael Callen were everywhere in the Sixties. They were both dark-haired ,clean-cut , incredibly handsome (especially Stacy) guys who were in B-level sitcoms or dramas. Their stars fell about the same time, most notably Stacy, who probably had the hardest fall of any actor that ever lived.

Michael Callan actually created the role of Riff in West Side Story in the original Broadway production in 1957.

Sad that he left NY to become a 3rd rate actor in Hollywood. If he'd stayed in NY a bit longer, he might have gotten a few more big roles on Broadway that would have helped his film career.

phillip law

peter mcenery

dick kallman

Does anyone remember Don Scardino? He was in two of my favorite movies, Cruising and the underrated slashed flick He Knows You're Alone.

He was a likable and charismatic actor, so I don't know why he wasn't a bigger star.

Me, R43!

don grady

Robert Rustler

Michael Ontkean

Scott Antony

(R224) Don Scardino became a producer and a film director. But he didn't age well, like many "twinks" faces.

michael parks, he did have something of a late career, so maybe someone remembers

I remember MIchael Parks from black n white tee vee of the 60s. I thought he was long faded but when he died not long ago, I was surprised to see he'd been working consistently in his last years....just on things I never saw, so I didn't know. Same for Glynnis O'Connor. She's someone who changed her face so much at a certain point years ago I didn't recognize her as the same person any more.

John Friedrich!

An actor mainly in 70's films and TV. He was incredibly memorable, unusually adorable, and a great actor. Always a scene stealer!

Andrea Naschak (aka ex-porn star April Rayne) as "Sabra" in HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME. The comic performance of a lifetime!

michael ontkean, 80's studmuffin, so memorable in "making love" and hot in "slapshot" had a part in Clooney's "the descendants" a few years ago

[quote]phillip law

That's JOHN Phillip Law

Max Pirkis. I had a massive crush on him in Rome when he played Octavius. He was also pretty good in Master and Commander, then he quit acting for whatever reason. Shame as he ended to act circles around everyone around him.

Gerrit Graham was a seventies actor who was in a lot of failed pilots. Hot body with a slight resemblance to Marjoe Gortner.

Dick Kallman was murdered

we know, there was a thread about it

Master Betty

Merritt Buttrick died from AIDS complications.

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^ I was wondering what happened to him. He seems to like his job, so good for him

WEHT Ilan Mitchell-Smith from the movie Weird Science? I thought he was going to be a big star when that movie came out.

He’s a professor r245.

clu gulager

^ Who dreams up names like "Clu"?

Like Clu, also from the Last Picture Show

the pool party host, Gary Brockette

Be still my heart....

[quote] Who dreams up names like "Clu"?

His Cherokee nickname was given to him by his father for the clu-clu birds (known in English as martins,[4] like his middle name) that were nesting at the Gulager home at the time of his birth

Thank you, R250. I suppose a bird's name is just as cerebrally banal as Tab, Rip and Rock.

Scott Brady

Daniel Schlachet, so Brandoesque in Swoon

R252, it’s ironic that Scott Brady’s career was longer, more prolific and less controversial than his brother’s, and yet today Lawrence Tierney is probably the better known of the two.

R253 How did he not go on and have a huge career?

I saw Clu in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents as a prison escapee. He was cute but had very Method-y style acting which was annoying. Here he is now.

I am loving this thread!

So many of these guys I've seen in movies and television shows but never knew their names/backgrounds.

And so many handsome men!!!

Google Image searching almost ALL of them!

Richard Ganoung & Adam Nathan from Parting Glances

Fascinating thread, brings back a ton of memories watching all this as a kid

I’ll never forget Jon-Erik Hexum

What a loss. So beautiful.

The relationship his character Bogg had with orphaned Jeffrey Jones in Voyagers! was sweet.

When I saw this thread, I thought of Doug McClure. I first fell in love with him watching a late evening telecast of his movie "Beau Geste" (1966) which was filled with character actors (Telly Savalas, Leslie Nielsen, Michael Constantine) and starred the now forgotten Guy Stockwell, brother of Dean Stockwell.

"The Last Remake of Beau Geste" was a farce comedy starring ... Ann-Margaret, Michael York and Marty Feldman.

John Ericson

OP, ten years ago, I saw delightful David Conrad in a stage play, Three Days of Rain, by Richard Greenberg, in David's hometown of Pittsburgh.

Nicky Katt - I wonder what happened to him; I watched Sin City last night and saw him in it.

Lowell Gilmore

Jon Foster

Eric Mabius

Johnny Whitworth

Rudolf Martin, who played Anton opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar's Kendall on All My Children back in the 90s. I loved those sleepy eyes and pouty lips ... and that accent! (Allegedly Hungarian on the show but German IRL.)

[quote]John Ericson

Yeah he sure was a pretty thing

^. I'm guessing that's early 50s.

I'm so amused that the Hays Code still insisted at the time that navels were obscene.

Samatha Mathis

Tuojh

R266 don't be absurd. This is a gay board and Mabius has played a closeted gay man at least thrice.

Gordon Pinsent

Clayton Rohner

Meg Foster

John D. LeMay

Jon Finch

Bill Bixby was hot in a completely none threatening way. He was perfect for a young boy's first crush.

Plus, he could introduce you to DL goddess Miyoshi Umeki.

I always had a letch for Elmer Clifton.

The man was delicious.

Nancy Mette.

Sian Barbara Allen

R92- I remember Jeremy Brett from Masterpiece Theatre's "Rebecca". I thought he played the part much better than Olivier.

R211- Nyree Dawn Porter was fabulous in The Forsyte Saga playing opposite Eric Porter who was just as great. I actually thought they were a married couple because they had so much chemistry together.

R238- Gerrit Graham had a great role in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise and I think he always does the Phantom conventions to talk about his role as Beef.

I never see Kenneth David Gilman any more and he used to do a lot of episodic TV- St. Elsewhere and he also had a short lived TV series about a TV station. I did see him in a weird film called "Nights In White Satin" where he played a photographer. I think what might have hampered his career is that he really had an odd kind of voice.

Mitchell Anderson

80s hunk, Hunt Block.

caren kaye barbara parkins marlyn mason susanne reed

Vincent Ventresca

Michael Woods

Lesbo here. Shawnee smith from Becker was just gorgeous to me.

R13 that's the delectable Hugh O'Brian - not the equally gorgeous Doug McClure,

Great choices all and I'll toss in the snarky Laura Johnson who I loved as Terry on Falcon Crest.

I know Glynnis O'Connor - she does indy films and is mostly retired. She has had no work done - she has aged gracefully and is a wonderful lady.

Richard Grieco when he was on “21 Jump Street”. My how the mighty have fallen!

Gardner McKay from Adventures In Paradise. Hot af

I'm surprised no one has yet noted that Jeremy Brett played Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the film version of My Fair Lady

Richard Grieco looks like shit

Thread title should be changed to Actors we all remember.

Sterling Hayden was always good for a sex fantasy or two.

When cartoons like Bugs Bunny or the Flintstones were mocking Wooden actors, they would usually look a lot like Sterling Hayden or Rock Hudson. (Later, Troy Donahue.)

I never found Sterling Hayden attractive but, I guess, standing at 6'5" he would have made his large-faced wife Madeleine Carroll feel petite.

sterling hayden was not obscure, and is remembered by many for, asphalt jungle, johnny guitar, and dr. strangelove as well as for his delicious pits and lucious nips

MadTV cast member Phil Lamarr

I fell in love with Jeremy Brett in MFL when I saw it in the 70s. His beauty elegance kindness and finely tailored Beaton edwardian suits knocked me for a loop.

I went to see him on Broadway in the play Aren't We All when Holmes had just started its run and hadn't yet taken off. It was just myself and an older guy. Not another person. I had him sign my MFL souvenir program book which made him laugh when he saw it as if he hadn't seen it in ages. Maybe nobody had ever asked him to sign it before.

Both his long term lovers died of aids so I wonder if he had as well.

When I watch him now in Lady on bluray he is as handsome and appealing as ever.

[quote] Meg Foster

Rob Zombie casts her in most of his horror films.

Eric Olson

Mark Slade

Tom Byrd

Martin Hewitt

Dack Rambo. I live in Europe and nobody has any idea of who he is here. He was one of my first crushes in the 80's when I saw him in Paper Dolls and Dallas.

"Both his long term lovers died of aids so I wonder if he had as well."

Who were his long term lovers?

Antonio Fargas , many blaxploitation movies from the 1970s and also known as Huggy Bear from "Starsky and Hutch."

David Groh who played Rhoda's husband.

Dennis Bowen

Kandice Stroh

Elizabeth Hoy

Daniel Abineri, hot to death on "Bless Me Father" and in the West End version of "Rocky Horror," but allegedly straight.

It makes me sad that no one remembers Michael Jeter.

I remember Michael Jeter. Good actor.

Who doesn't remember Michael Jeter? He's talked about all the time, from Grand Hotel to The Fisher King.

Brian Patrick Clarke

Tammy Lauren

I remember Tammy Lauren from Homefront

Sterling Hayden also had a significant part in The Godfather, so hardly unremembered. He was also an accomplished novelist.

He was also in 9 to 5, so every queen over the age of 40 knows him.

Rob Stewart in Tropical Heat. I loved his ponytail.

Janet Louise Jackson - the1/2 white sister to LaToya, Janet and Michael who replaced Pamela Sue Martin as Nancy Drew.

Mark Goddard

He was Johnny Ringo (early Aaron Spelling show; 1959-60)

The Detectives (with a cast led by an elderly looking Robert Taylor who was only 47 at the time - 1960-61)

Lost in Space as Major Don West: 1965-68 (cameo in the film reboot in 1998, too)

And starred with Liza Minnelli on Broadway in the musical The Act in 1978.

Lisa Eilbacher

I was just talking about Michael Jeter yesterday!

I'm glad people remember Michael Jeter. I still don't know how he died when he did.

I bet none of you know or remember Trevor Fehrman.

Best known for his work on Kevin Smith’s CLERKS as Elias the geeky virginal Christian and on cancelled ABC sitcom ODD MAN OUT as geeky virginal sex-pest Keith. And..that’s basically it.

It’s a pity, he’s more than decent as a comic actor and can work. Why aren’t reliant funny people ever allowed on television?

sexy billy warlock from society and baywatch

Are you kidding me, R329? Every day I try to forget!

Alan Gelfant

michael jeter is well remembered by many

Former dl fave Justin Berfield

I had a big crush on him when Electric Dreams came out. Had no idea he was still working fairly regularly according to his credits. Don’t that I’d even recognize him if I saw him in something now.

A Soderburgh regular, he seems to have given up acting.

Madolyn Smith

Jill Schoelen

[quote] Brian Patrick Clarke

Heard he's a major Trump supporter. Not as sickening as Scott Baio, but close.

Musetta Vander: beautiful but lousy actress who was most active in the 90s and early 2000s; she was best know for her “genre” work, appearing in Mortal Kombat, Wild Wild West, Star Trek Voyager, Buffy, Xena and more.

Roxana Zal from Something About Amelia. No acting credits from the last 10 years.

[quote] Heard he's a major Trump supporter. Not as sickening as Scott Baio, but close.

Brian Patrick Clarke. No, he's not at all. I know him from posting on his facebook page. He's a democrat. very liberal. very nice, down to earth guy.

I was going to say, R340 he's been married to Olympic gymnast Kathy Johnson forever and she's pretty lib so I can't imagine that he would be alt right.

Who cares what his politics are? Jesus Christ, is that all you people think about? You need to get out more, maybe make some friends or get a hobby.

Michael Pate. He was from Australia and had second billing in some Hollywood movies. He directed “Tim” with Mel Gibson; a movie I used to would wank to. He was my mother’s favorite actor for a reason she could never explain.

Joseph Bottoms.

I went to Juilliard with David Conrad. He still works consistently. There was a period right when he left school where everyone (really, everyone) was trying to make him a breakout star, and he was quite lovely to look at, but he just didn’t have that thing.

Anthony Zerbe Is not long for this world

r324 I once saw a where are they now type show and Mark Goddard is a school teacher somewhere (or was he'd be 83 now)

Wikipedia says Mark Goddard still alive, R347. Yes, he was a special education teacher in Massachusetts for nearly 20 years.

Gosh, he was a looker in his day. Here's an important quiz you can take to find out if you are his type. (Hint: Stay away from dark lipstick!)

David Hubbard—I had a huge crush on him

Olivia Colman

r345, did you have "that thing"?

Dan Cortese from Veronica's Closet with Kirstie Alley. They always used to find a way to get him topless...can't think why

Perry King. And he was a good actor.

Martin Hewitt of Endless Love fame. IMHO He will never not be considered good looking.