Ed Fury- Hot Physique Model from back in the day

As sailor

With horse.

^^^^^^^^ ...as horse

Oh, my!

Did he present anywhere?

Not that I've seen, R4.

He was on an episode of My Little Margie ---Miss Whosis -- he played a model named Hercules.....

A couple of decades ago he was on some cable show that featured men with their wives and secretaries. He was on with his live-in fiancee (woman) and he secretary. He is deaf as a post and couldn't hear a word anyone said.

He did a few nude photo shoots. He also did a few Italian muscleman movies.

Ugh.....don't know what happened to that link....this one might be better.

Bless you, r7.

OMG He is super gorgeous and sexy a real adonis and its wonderful to hear he is still alive!Anyone got any dish or gossip on him please?🔥😘🥰

He's been deaf for decades? That doesn't sound like fun.

I bet Joan Crawford had him.

He's my Cabana boy , down in the RIVIERA, BITCHES !!!!!

He had a nice ass too.

And he seems to be living forever.

I had him first Olivia!

Oh my r13 dreamy lustful thoughts I'm having!😘🥰🔥

Ed Fury with Fury R2

R11 Did they ever work together?

Ed Fury was a regular at Muscle Beach in its heydey. He was spotted there by some talent agents, who got him started in his film career.

Ed Fury looking damned fine nude on the beach ! 🔥

Has anyone ever met him?

In these TV appearances, he was actually an ok actor.

Ed Fury and Richard Harrison stump Bert Convy's guest star panel on 3rd Degree.

Thanks for that clip, r23. Richard Harrison is a friend of mine, but I haven't seen him in years. Impossibly handsome, nutty as a fruitcake in a good way.

A friend of my late partner had an affair with him many years ago. Fury gave him a book specially put together of all the compromising photos taken of everyone, literally everyone, in Hollywood. He kept hold of it but years later it was stolen by some random one night stand. I always hoped photos from it would emerge.

Still waiting.

R25 Ed Fury is gay??

[quote]I had him first Olivia! —Helen Lawson

I had him best.

He was hot

Has he written an autobiography?

Great clips......Gale Storm and Ed Fury in My Little Margie - episode Little Miss Whoosis......referring to Margie.....

Where did Ed get those shoes in the clip?

He was in The Wild Women of Wongo. he deserves to be remembered if only for that.

Info on Richard Harrison. I seen him nekkid when he was about 60. OMFG.

He actually made two movies for AMG and Apollo - one was called "Day of Fury" and the other was called "Because of Him". Both very homoerotic but not overtly pornographic. I give it up to these old AMG and muscle beach guys because this the era before steroids were available, so those muscles were all natural.

Gay?

Thanks for those TV clips. I had never heard Ed's voice before, and it sounds fine. Anyone know why they dubbed his one or two lines in SOUTH PACIFIC? Probably just something to do with Josh Logan's insanity.

Lines dubbed by other actors are usually done to try to fix a bad performance/flat line reading.

r35 I too would love to hear the answer or informed speculation on that question!🔥😘

Mr. Harrison....and, btw, which one did Miss Redgrave recognize at r23?

Mr. Harrison #2...

Mr. Harrison #3...

Mr. Harrison #4....

I've been aware of Ed Fury for years but only recently heard the name Richard Harrison and began to learn anything about him. How hilarious that the old closet queen Josh Logan got them BOTH into the movie of SOUTH PACIFIC. He sure knew how to pick 'em!

[Quote] How hilarious that the old closet queen Josh Logan got them BOTH into the movie of SOUTH PACIFIC.

I don't follow your logic. It wasn't uncommon for muscle men to pose for beefcake photographs.

[quote]I don't follow your logic. It wasn't uncommon for muscle men to pose for beefcake photographs.

Sorry -- what??? My point was I think it's hilarious how Joshua Logan, who was known to have an eye for exceptionally hunky young men and who was famous for getting them to take their shirts off in his shows and movies, made a point of casting both Ed Fury and Richard Harrison in his film version of the musical SOUTH PACIFIC, which was not the kind of movie you'd normally expect to find them in :-)

That's what I don't follow. Movie musicals that featured buff men were mostly likely to feature such men as Ed Fury and the other guy. Where else would they draw from? The average dancer was not built like that.

Sean Connery was into bodybuilding in his youth and one of his first roles was among the "Nothing like a Dame" crew in the London production of "South Pacific."

Young Tommy.

Gorgeous Richard Harrison played the co-pilot in the opening scene of South Pacific. I think he had a few lines, but we never saw him again after that brief scene.

Ed Fury played one of the sex-starved Seabees.

R26 - Im trying to check somehow. It was a long time ago I was told about it so I could be wrong but I was a bodybuilder at the time so that’s why it stuck with me. Trying to find out if there was a British equivalent I could have mixed him up with but, well, there weren’t any.

Ed Fury threesome with Mickey Rooney and Eddie Bracken.

Interviewed by Skip E. Lowe!

[quote]That's what I don't follow. Movie musicals that featured buff men were mostly likely to feature such men as Ed Fury and the other guy. Where else would they draw from? The average dancer was not built like that.

Because, actually, SOUTH PACIFIC does NOT really call for men who were built like Richard Harrison and Ed Fury. They're supposed to be basically, average fit guys who've been drafted (or enlisted) in the army during WWII -- not the kinid of muscle men you'd find in Physique Pictorial, who were far less common in those days anyway. But Logan cast those types because that's what he liked.

Sorry if the logic of my post was so hard for you to follow....

Bless your heart that you're talking about a musical like tits and ass isn't always a consideration.

Holy crap! In that Skip E. Lowe interview that someone posted above, Ed Fury says he first worked with Josh Logan when he played the young male lead role of Marius in the musical FANNY on Broadway. That part was originated by William Tabbert, who was Lt. Cable in SOUTH PACIFIC on Broadway. Only one replacement in the role is listed on ibdb.com, someone named Jack Washburn, who died in 1992. Ed Fury is not listed as an understudy or replacement for Marius under that name Ed Fury or under his real name, Rupert Edmund Holovchik, but that could just be an oversight. I can't imagine he would have lied about it, because why would he?

Bernadette Peters' mother had he lie about the role she played in GYPSY as a child. Bernadette played a Hollywood Blonde. Her mother made her say she played one of the named characters, I can't recall which.

r Probably Dainty June.

Bernadette could still play the role today.

He pings here.

[Quote] Trying to find out if there was a British equivalent I could have mixed him up with but, well, there weren’t any.

Joe Robinson, perhaps?

Wow! Great thread. He is 91 now. People like him should write autobiography of behind the scenes Hollywood.

John Hamill was around in the 1960s.

Sean Connery was in the London production of South Pacific. I think Logan's logic is hard to dispute. He took one look at the chorus boys singing "There is nothing like a dame" and immediately placed Connery front and center.

Love that both Rooney and Bracken (r52) wound up in "The Golden Girls" later on in their careers. Bracken was especially funny as one of Rose's old boyfriends going toe to toe with Miles. Rooney was just his old hammy bad acting self as a bank robber beau for Sophia.

Fury always looked like he was having a great time in the pics taken of him with clothes or without. I bet he has a ton of stories about the casting couch. He looks like a perfect match for Rock Hudson who liked them big and blond, but may have passed Ed by once he found out that Fury wasn't gay porn star hung.

Didn't Hudson prefer slender, boyish types?

Shirtless Hudson and Lee Garlington.

Why would he, r56? For the same reason Vera insisted she was NEVER in the chorus!

I looked under both names on IBDB, r56 and there were no credits. Wiki only has this: "Fury began his acting career as a stage actor."

I believe that was either a bus & truck or summer stock production with Betty Hutton, r57. If I remember correctly, her resume stated she played Dainty June but, indeed, she was a Hollywood Blonde. Although she may have been U/S to her....can't remember.

They were a handsome couple

I wonder if Ed has any Scotty Bowers stories.

I'm Team Mike Henry.

Ed should share all the dirt!

ed fury was the king of the "posing strap" pictorials and homoerotic magazines back in that era... a male bettie page (minus the s & m stuff).....

ONLY STEVE REEVES outshone him in that era, in terms of looks, body and of course career...

fury played the boy toy that replaced jeff chandler's character as THEE boy toy of the beach in crawford's "female on the beach" movie in 1955...

made chandler look like nothing in comparison....

But how did Ed look in pearls and a twinset?

Now HE could carry off polka dots!

R68 "I told you that you didn't have any talent when we were in the chorus together"

Wow, I only “discovered” this guy on Sunday. I was on one of my Columbo binges and noticed him in a very minor background appearance on the episode where Jose Ferrar. This prompted a bit of Google image stalking, of course and I consciously thought “Surely this is the DL Eldergay’s dream, why have I never come across the name before?” and now I see this thread has been rightly bumped! I thought he may have been snubbed for Tinymeat reasons.

* where Jose Ferrar plays the villain.

Let us not forget Mr. Edson Stroll...

Ed appeared in the homoerotic "Ain’t There Anyone Here for Love?" number in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. This is the French dub, couldn’t find the English version on YT (has the Mouse already started clamping down?)

^ Wonder if Jack Cole tapped that

Nice view.

These guys were smokin hot.

I used to pal around with Richard Harrison, and his incredibly patient and lovely wife Francesca. Everyone thought Richard was gay because he always talked about penises. The joke was "how long will it take Richard to bring up penises in a conversation." But after knowing him for many years, I think that he was just nutty enough to be straight. I can't explain it but he is a nut. Richard desperately wanted to be an intellectual, and wrote a manuscript for a book that was basically Gore Vidal's "City and the Pillar." He and Vidal were friends in Italy, and I think Richard wanted to be more than his pretty boy image. And so in his weird naive way glommed onto Vidal's first success. He was fascinated with gay men, but again, didn't seem to be closeted but just curious about what made gay men tick. He is very smart in an unschooled way, and I don't think you can be stupid living the life he did in Italy, and ending up in Palm Springs and Malibu.

Did Jack Cole choreograph "The French Line"?

He does yes r59!

r79 I was happy to bump it for you and enable the benefits and joys of discussing this super hot guy!!🔥😘

[quote]Ed appeared in the homoerotic "Ain’t There Anyone Here for Love?" number in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

I have watched that number many times and never noticed him in it. I just watched it again and didn't see him all through it, so I thought you were mistaken, but then I got to the very end of the number and I'm pretty sure that's him at the far right of the frame, when they all gather around Jane Russell. And yes, he is credited on imdb as appearing in the movie as an "Olympic team member."

r90 He's the one who flexes his biceps, and Jane tells him to be careful he'll hurt himself.

Edson Stroll was a regular on "McHale's Navy."

Edson Stroll also played Prince Charming in "Snow White and the Three Stooges," the Stooges' only color feature.

John Hamill (seen at R62) with Joan Crawford in "Trog."

Was Edson Stroll gay?

I think Ed is the one at the end, whose hair Russell ruffles after she's lifted out of the pool. He's not the "honey, you'll hurt yourself" guy.

R34 where on earth did you get the idea that steroids were not available?

Synthetic steroids have been available (for many years without prescription) since 1934.

R21 I am sure people have met him.

He did a lot of films and I bet he met everyone on the set.

I like Ed and Richard....but I've always been partial to Mark Forest....

[quote][R90] He's the one who flexes his biceps, and Jane tells him to be careful he'll hurt himself.

No, that's obviously not Ed Fury. Completely different face. Ed is obviously the one who has his hair ruffled by Jane Russell in the last moments of the clip.

Please don't spread false info.

The weightlifter Jane fondles is physique model John Weidemann.

r98 Clearly I meant has anyone posting on this thread met him!!!

Just because steroids were available doesn’t mean the culture was prevalent in Hollywood yet.

Steve Reeves was famously natural.

I believe that you believe that R103.

In the Hollywood era of uppers and downers given on set, you are unable to imagine steroids being used. Your naivete is adorable.

aren't uppers and downers quite different from steroids R104? even if they were around, they were i suspect extremely primitive...

Didn't some of these Physique models do actual gay porn?

Let's start to see some proof for your claims, r104.

Oh I do hope so!!!🔥😘 r106

John Hamill, standing to attention.

Scroll up R107 links were already attached.

R105 not primitive at all, the same formulation is being used today.

r100 Nice!

^^^Above should say r109 sorry .

Yes, the bicep guy is obviously not Ed, but can anyone identify him? He's the hottest one in the scene.

He was identified at r101.

John Hamill and a friend.

John Hamill as Hamlet.

Read that as Mark Hamill and I was like "Whaaaat?!"

R101 Damn, that guy is gorgeous.

Bump

John Hamill's film credits include "Trog"! He also portrayed "Porridge Eater #1" in another film.