Who is/was the most handsome male actor in TV history?

Jon-Erik Hexum

Voyagers!

Hotel

Making of a Male Model

Cover Up

OP, I had a massive crush on Mr. Dixon.

My mother loved Pernell Roberts, but dumped him when she discovered he'd lost his hair, she refused to watch a single episode of "Trapper John, M.D.", even though I'd gotten the DVDs made specially as a birthday gift.

I was endlessly horny for Ian Ogilvy in "Return of the Saint".

Gale Harold in QaF

Lloyd Haynes is a great choice, OP.

Sadly, it was Jon-Erik Hexum.

JEH was too beautiful for this world.

but dumb as a box of rocks for shooting off that prop gun at his head

Gregory Harrison

Richard Chamberlain

Lloyd Haynes Is a good choice. ✅

Gregory Harrison was insanely fuckable.

Russell Johnson, aka "The Professor"

James Brolin in Hotel.

Robert Tyler (aka Barry Kaufman).

James Franciscus, television and film actor from the late 1950s through the 1980s.

Best known for playing the title role as a high school teacher in NBC's dramatic series, "Mr. Novak," 1963-1965. Damn he was handsome. Also know for the ABC television series, "Longstreet" in 1971.

Franciscus died of emphysema in 1991 at the age of 57.

James Franciscus' landmark series "Mr. Novak:"

The series showcased many popular actors of the time including Martin Landau, Walter Koenig, Beau Bridges, Tony Dow, Ed Asner, June Lockhart, Sherry Jackson, and many others. This trendsetting show was the first to depict both teachers and students in a dramatic and realistic manner and was very influential on the educational community. Many cutting-edge themes were showcased including racial discrimination, cheating on exams, anti-Semitism, alcoholism, dropouts, drug abuse and political extremism. In its two-year run, the program won over 47 awards from various educational institutions including the National Education Association and was the recipient of a prestigious Peabody Award for excellence.

Richard Chamberlain - Dr. Kildare and various mini-series

James Franciscus

I crushed on David McCallum.

Another vote for James Franciscus

Tony Dow

Don Grady

The guy who played the retard on LA Law

David Conrad from that stupid ghost show.

It's this guy

Television had hotter actors than the movies. Richard Chamberlain looks like Ben Affleck in r11.

R17 thru R20 Reminds me that James Franciscus was actually the producer's first choice to play Dr. Kildare.

[quote] E. Jack Neuman, who developed the show for TV, had decided Franciscus was perfect for the role. Sagal, slated to direct the pilot, agreed. Studio brass concurred. There was one hitch. The pilot had to roll immediately in order to be ready for the next selling season - and Franciscus was riding out the final period of an option that committed him to another series, 'Band of Gold,' which found a sponsor but no network time slot.

[quote] "I loved the Kildare story, and the script was one of the finest ever written, but I'm one of those people who believe things have a way of working out for the best," Franciscus says now minimizing his disappointment. Yet he still counts the exact margin by which he missed the coveted role."My Band of Gold' option had just 17 days to go," he recalls.

Alexander Skarsgard

George Maharis

Using the term "actor" in the loosest sense

Matt Bomer

James Garner - Maverick and The Rockford Files

Bill(y) Campell (Dynasty, Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, the 4400, or as Captain Thadiun Okona On Star Trek: The Next Generation).

Matt Battaglia was/is just about perfect.

Vince Edwards played a doctor in the medical series, "Ben Casey," 1961-1966, which coincidentally were the exact same years that "Dr. Kildare" aired, the other popular medical series of its day starring Richard Chamberlain.

Armie Hammer.

Peter Graves had a certain Daddy somethin’ somethin’ going on with those icy steel blue eyes and silver fox hair.

40 and no mention yet of Robert Conrad, DL, you’re slipping in your devotion. Whether in western wear, military drag or shilling batteries, one of the hottest!

I never watched the show, but I recently stumbled upon some pics of Antonio Sabato, Jr. from "Melrose Place". He was sure beautiful then! He hated on DL, though, right?

What's the consensus on Peter Lupus, face-wise? I know his body was to die for, but I think he's handsome, too - strong and manly.

Clint Walker. For some reason, his chest makes me think of a cross country road trip.

yum-ooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Am I the only one who thinks Chris Noth had a certain something?

R45 - no, you're not.

For my taste, Jon Hamm.

Hart Bochner a VERY close second.

[quote]she refused to watch a single episode of "Trapper John, M.D.", even though I'd gotten the DVDs made specially as a birthday gift.

Not even the ones with DL icon Lorna Luft as Nurse Libby Kegler?

Dr. Kildare:Physicians::Mr. Novak:Teachers

jon erik hexum, robert conrad, clint walker, van williams, lee majors, gil gerard, and just a few others....

Kent McCord of Adam-12.

R51.. good addition, kent mccord was so clean cut chiseled pretty...

Matt Bomer in The Sinner, Season 3. He usually is clean cut with slick hair but I like this messy long-haired version of him.

Here's one no one ever mentions.

Teddy Sears

Here's one no one ever mentions.

Teddy Sears

R55 - never mentioned him, because I never heard of him! He is gorgeous, but only in some pics.

Carl Betz and Guy Williams were the hottest daddies ever on TV.

Blair Underwood, so hot that his name ends in an erection.

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Hugh O'Brian, Gardner McKay, Van Williams, Clint Walker, Robert Fuller, Edd (Kookie) Byrnes, Doug McClure, Ty Hardin, Robert Horton, Gary Lockwood, Glenn Corbett and Vince Edwards were all gorgeous and hairy-chested and kept me watching westerns, medical and cop shows I couldn't have otherwise cared less about. And Robert Conrad in speedos on Hawaiian Eye before he became James West.

Excuse me, queens, but Ron Ely owns this thread and the possible second thread too

It'd be remiss not to mention Robert Wagner as Jonathan Hart, he came from old Hollywood and knew how to work it.

My God r61, his family situation, I hope he's ok. He has kind eyes.

Robert Urich . Beautiful from head to toe !

Don Draper when he wasn't a shambles (goes for Jon Hamm too)!

Contemporary wise, Owen Warner on Hollyoaks is a strong contender. Unlike most of us he spent quarantine working out and adding muscle and has never looked better.

Robert Urich

Randolph Mantooth EMERGENCY!

r65, Jon Hamm meets the requirements for "handsome", but I don't see anything sizzling under the surface, so he doesn't really speak to me, he's missing that special something - granted I never watched Mad Men.

r66, he's trying too hard.

Don't forget to post pictures, here's Mr Mantooth - wow, he was the proto-Keanu!

I was so in love with Randolph Mantooth as a kid!

Clooney! ER and peak hotness with the caesar cut!

Jeffrey Hunter

Two 80s juggernauts, Dynasty and The Colbys, gave us John James, I got lost looking at pictures of him, he puts a dopey grin on your face, somehow adorable and extremely handsome at the same time - I couldn't decide on one photo, so here's a corny, red-faced publicity still instead

For those Robert Urich fans - I won't start a whole thread on this, but I watched a couple of seasons of "Vegas" and made way too many caps of him (like 50). So here they are in an album, if you like him and have some time on your hands. A few shirtless, mostly butt shots, although I'm not crazy about the style of the jeans he wore.

Shemar Moore

Gary Sandy is the total, um, package of laid-back anthing-goes coach vibes who offers to drive you home after a late practice and manages to rest his hand on your thigh and you let him go up further and he noticed you like it and you wind up sucking him off in a empty dark field hidden in the trees.

Milo V:

Robert Conrad

hmm, did someone turn up the contrast, or was John blushing?

Fred Dryer

actually maybe not ^

Burt Reynolds on Gunsmoke.

I’ll get shit for this on so many levels, but Matt Lanter was stunning on Timeless.

Van Williams put Bobby Conrad in the shade.

R7, 8 and 9 are are all correct. JEH was stunningly beautiful but clearly had the IQ of a retarded budgie. RIP hot, gorgeous man.

Lots of other solid choices here too.

Chad Everett as Dr. Joe Gannon on Medical Center back in the 70s.

James Franciscus was Jane Fonda's first boyfriend. Took her virginity. Eventually, he bored her. Something about an unfinished epic written in iambic pentameter. Here they are at her father's French villa in 1957.

Lyle Waggoner

Another actor from Hollyoaks would be Kyle Pryor who played "Laurie Shelby".

Great choices here, but Robert Conrad is the undisputed king of this thread. Love him or hate him, you just couldn't help but feel, well, moist when e started taking that shirt off.

A close runner-up has to be the yet-unmentioned Brian Kelly from "Flipper".

Really there are so many. Certainly Robert Conrad but also Ryan O'Neil, James Franciscus, Richard Chamberlain, Chad Everett, Clint Walker, Gardner Mckay...

I guess I went for the same hairy daddy types, but I thought David Jansen from the Fugitive, Hugh Beaumont (Ward Cleaver) and Carl Betz (Dr. Alex Stone) were all fucking handsome, hairy and sexy.

Maybe they needed to be grouped and identified by decade?

I haven't seen Hollyoaks (Brit soap) in over a decade, the only actor I remember for this is Jamie Lomas, sort of wounded looking, played a gangster type

I wish each poster had declared their age with their choices because I think it'd be no surprise to find the choices related to the poster's teenaged years when they were most impressionable.

But that said, I'd still assert that Bob Conrad would rank in anyone's Top 3 no matter their age.

Robert Conrad was hot, but I had to put him on ignore after the felony DUI that led to that young man being seriously injured. (And there really is reason to believe that he eventually died as a result of his injuries.)

i liked the Jewish.. from "Run for Your Life" Ben Gazarra

^^^^^^

R98 Biagio Anthony Gazzarra was pure Italian.

James Marsden does it for me. (Runner-up would be Brian Kelly, the father on the old series Flipper.)

Broadway star Brian D'Arcy James is Brian Kelly's nephew.

No one's mentioned Tom Selleck?

George Maharis was a well known T room queen back in the day. Got arrested in the mid 70s. The cops caught him fucking a male hairdresser in a gas station restroom.

Interesting about Tom Selleck!, r102!

As sexy as he was in the1980s on Magnum and in a few movies, he's aged into such a humorless old grouch it's very hard to see any sexuality at all there any more. I would imagine anyone here too young to remember him early in his career and only know him from those awful insurance commercials and Bluebloods would be shocked to think he was ever considered a hottie.

+1 on Gale Harold

I loved Tristan Rogers on "General Hospital" when I was a young teen. I thought he more than compensated for dreary Anthony Geary, who unaccountably got all the attention.

The ability of our Eldergays to remember actors who appeared on TV almost 70 years ago is remarkable. (And I am not being sarcastic. I hope I have that sort of memory when I am older)

Forget arrogant drunk Hamm. This is a real man.

There were a couple of Westerns that only lasted about two seasons called Tombstone Territory and Hondo. Both had lead actors that should never have worn a shirt.

Would’ve gone to Twin Peaks with this man.

The only reason I watched that stupid Ally McBeal.

R108: As a 12-year-old, circa 1977, (yup, 12), it was Gil Gerard. As a middle aged man, Kyle Chandler & Jay Harrington do it for me, now.

R75 Robert Urich was gorgeous. Died too young. Thank you for remembering him!

Guy Williams, Michael Landon, George Clooney.

Mark Goddard, "Lost in Space"

I always thought Don Galloway was hot.

William Shatner. He was very handsome when he was younger.

Clarence Gilyard, Jr. (Matlock and Walker, Texas Ranger)

Guy Madison, Ricky Nelson, Lee Majors, Ryan O’Neal, Joe Penny, Perry King, Chris Meloni, Adrian Paul, Harry Hamlin, Wilson Cruz and Jimmy Smits just off the top of my head. I am 72 y.o.

Ricky!! Read through the whole thread to find my choice in the last post! Let's hear it for the twinks. He looks like a young Alain Delon - with a bit of Elvis thrown in. And to think he always advised his daughter to only fly commercial.

Tom Ellis from Lucifer. He should be the next 007

Tom Ellis

It's true that TV has better looking actors than the movies.

Bob Conrad was the king of TV handsome.

The Robert Conrad troll is really working overtime in this thread. Sheeeesh!

Well he was late in coming R124, I had to nominate him at R40 to get him even mentioned. If he’s the official troll, he should have posted in the top ten immediately. He’s slipping and should be replaced.

Can’t believe I didn’t do this earlier, but headlining the men currently on TV who, by and far, blows just about everyone out of the water past or present is Jared Keeso, one of the most strikingly handsome, funny and talented men.

Jonathan Groff, especially in Glee

Thomas Gibson, standard issue handsome

I agree with Lloyd Haines, great choice.

Billy Campbell, definitely.

I don't know who Jon Eric Exum is, but I agree that he is beautiful. I looked him up and it's sad that he died so young.

Michael Ealy gets my vote.

^^Sorry, *Jon-Erik Hexum

Clint Walker. Stud daddy in his prime.

robert conrad unfortunately aged not very well due to drinking and tanning..

everyone raves about his ass in the wild wild west show and those pants, however, i actually prefer his ass a decade later in the mid 70's when he did "black sheep squadron"!! his ass was bigger, more manly and the way he filled out those spray painted on khaki pants defies nature!..

it's one thing to show off that ass in "stretchy form fitting "pants like he wore in the wild wild west, it's a whole another thing to show off that ass in thicker rigid material like khakis and wear them so tight that they look spray painted on and you could see his underwear "panty lines" in them!..... WOW!..

and yes, more handsome men in TV than in movies... (we haven't even touched the handsomest men in soap operas yet! like shawn christian and paul telfer)...

here's another guy not mentioned yet i believe: CHIP MAYER one of the replacement dukes on the dukes of hazzard! drop dead gorgeous!...

Mantooth was hot but he also looked like he should have been a regular on Electric Company or something, especially in the inset at R70.

It's Thanksgiving R125, cut him some slack. He was probably in a turkey coma.

If you can find it, there's a made for TV movie called Endangered Species with Robert Urich and in a couple scenes he is hotness personified. Also stars DL fave Jo Beth Williams.

He's also hot in Ice Pirates, a terrible movie that I watched with the sound off, just to see Urich in pirate shirts and tight pants.

Cheers was on this morning and by coincidence it was an episode where Robert Urich makes a cameo!

Now I'm obligated to throw Ted Danson in the ring, and since I feel bad for backtracking on my Fred Dryer nom, I'll leave the rest to Ms Shelley Long -

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r131 Most definitely. Lloyd Bridges from "Seahunt" wasn't too shabby either.

Blair Underwood was often a guest hunk in the 1990s and beyond.

Paul Nicholls was edible. (Rumor has it that his TV father thought so too and that the pair had an affair.)

Sadly, he's struggled throughout his life with drugs and alcohol.

R121 “Tom Ellis from Lucifer. He should be the next 007”

I completely agree with you

Robert Urich! James Garner! Rock Hudson!

I know he's not exactly a TV "star", but I think Bill Rancic is about as handsome as you can get.

I'm here for R108 and

George Maharis WAS into T-rooms, but he wasn't busted for fucking a guy in one. He was sucking him off.

Bill Bixby, whom I've heard was a lovely inside as he was on the outside.

I would have thought David Cassidy would be #1 with Eldergays

Danny Markel (Another World)

I'll take Grant Show then, and now.

Of course.

Did the beauteous Shemar Moore ever come out?

[quote]I would have thought David Cassidy would be #1 with Eldergays

He looked like a girl. A very pretty girl. So if you were into men, he wasn't tops on the list. Cute though.

Pube shot below.

He'll only ever be a blip in TV history, but Dylan Sprayberry is gorgeous.

Robert Ulrich must of had a special somethin’, somethin’, my mentally unstable aunt thought she was getting secret messages from him, packed her suitcase and waited by the road him to come pick her up in his red Thunderbird convertible. Unfortunately, only the thing that showed up were the men with the straitjackets to cart her off to the looney bin. I somehow feel she wasn’t the only one getting those secret messages from him, Robert Ulrich, you so bad!

R156 Sprayberry always wins for having the most seductive name.

[R155] yup...way too fem, even in that pic.

Lots of great choices on here, starting with OP's. We all have our own types. For me, Tom Selleck was my ideal man. He was so handsome. My first partner resembled him a lot, right down to the hairy chest and mustache. I also liked Burt Reynolds--dark, hairy chest, later on the mustache. Burt did a lot of TV before hitting it big in the movies. Jon Amos used to make me quiver when I was a young gayling. Also loved James Garner.

In the handsome face category, even though they're not my types, Richard Chamberlain was beautiful. I think Matt Bomer verges on being pretty. Jon Erik Hexum had face for days. I've always also thought that Kyle Chandler is a truly handsome man.

Simon MacCorkindale!

MoreCorkindale:

John Bennett Perry and Mark Harmon in 240-Robert.

Monte Markham or as the DL knows him, Blanche's gay brother.

More Ms Long, this time with Mr James Read.

R155- Someone else even more than David Cassidy looked pretty, actually he looked like a hot CHICK- Leif Garrett.

Ted Danson, at least in the initial years of Cheers, was very hot, as was the young Woody Harrelson.

OP, Lloyd is delicious. I’ve had more than a few men like him and they never disappointed!

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

Walter Brennan

Mark Shera was a cutie:

Gardner McKay

It's really too hard to choose. David McCallum was my first TV crush.

R171 - thanks for that - I learn so much on here about guys I've never heard of before.

I went to college with Mark Shera at Boston U. where he was still known as Mark Shapiro. He was adorably straight back then (early 1970s) and couldn't get cast in anything except for the lead in a new play written by fellow student Danny Lipman (who eventually went on to create the US Queer as Folk).

A google search of “Mark Shera today” yielded a few pics of older men, but I don’t think any are actually him.

Not sure if Shera-piro is actually 69 in this photo, R174/R175, but he does seem to have aged well, at least initially

Some of you have questionable taste in men. Yikes!

James Franciscus as "Mr. Novak" in the 1960s is still the most stunning man ever on television. I prefer a man with darker good looks, but blond Franciscus was just so unbelievably gorgeous. High school dramas in the '60s were the best.

I was only about 13 when Dr. Kildare first came on TV but the medical plots didn't interest me too much. And unlike Westerns, I figured they'd never find a place for Kildare to take off his shirt (until the fabulous 2 parter "Tyger, Tyger" where the good doctor went surfing with doomed Yvette Mimieux). But OMG all the girls in junior high were wild for him and regularly wore Dr. Kildare "blouses" to school. By far the biggest teen sensation of my childhood until The Beatles a few years later.

But I much preferred Mr. Novak, adored James Franciscus (he had a much earthier presence than Chamberlain), and I loved the plots of each episode. I remember it as a very respectable intelligent series. I wonder if it would still hold up? I must look for it on youtube.

Denzel Washington in St. Elsewhere . His looks and charisma just outshone everybody.

Sorry R180- Mark Harmon especially with his mustache-VGL

R179 What horrible surfer disease did Yvette have?

Tony Goldwyn had a few years of rugged manly handsomeness about him that makes him a contender.

R181, Denzel was the better actor though.

Jason Behr as the emo alien had a beautiful boyish handsomeness about him that made me want to protect him at all costs and run away together.

Clint Walker and Hugh O'Brian. Big slabs of manly men.

anyone mention denny miller yet?

Eddie Cibrian

R187 - I mentioned Denny in a different thread when I loaded an album of photos of him from "Gilligan's Island" (see link).

John Hamill.

WHET Eddie Cibrian?

He married Leann Rimes.

Jan Michael Vincent

The young Don Johnson

^^any age Don Johnson!

wtf? u mr haynes momma? pass

jon erik hexum of course.....

Happy Thanksgiving Saturday everyone... Michael Ealy and Goran Vsjic(from ER after Clooney left) I know the last name is wrong, but Good God he was handsome on the show. Black hair, pale skin, permanent 5 o'clock need a shave.,tall well built, well hung, dark eyes.

There are far more Hexum trolls than there are Conrad trolls this week. Hexum trolls are probably ten years younger but more commonly seen here and at DaddyHunt.

Clint Walker

[Quote] wtf? u mr haynes momma? pass

Oh, dear.

well clint walker was and always will be THEE epitome of a M-A-N!...

nearly everyone else are boys...

Gorge

This shot of Clint Waker, Hugh O'Brian, and John Lupton is both embarrassingly cheesy and strangely provocative. I wonder if Mr. O'Brian has ever found himself in the middle of a sandwich.

Daniel Markel is still hot.

R205.. never heard of daniel markel! gorgeous he is....

I wonder if younger posters here who weren't alive yet to see Clint Walker and Hugh O'Brian in their TV programs get how truly hot they were? Even on b&w small screens. I guess because they were who I grew up with, none of their successors really come close to the masculine sexuality they projected.

Stephen Collins in “Tales of the Gold Monkey”. Yeah he turned out to be a perv but fuck he was handsome.

Buz

I've always had the impression, going back to the original airing of Rout 66, that George Maharis was very rebellious, wouldn'ot put up with publicity nonsense and might even have come out as gay if the times were different. His career never really went any where after he left Route 66. I think Hollywood had no patience for him.

Now appearing with Miss Jessica Walter in Barefoot in the Park!

Bette Rogge was a classier version of Bobbie Wygant. Rogge did news, and had her own exercise show.

R211 - thanks, that's great! What a sexy guy, I love the jet black hair.

Don't you mean "hair" r213?

David Hedison, best known as Captain Lee Crane on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Honorable mention, Gil Gerard in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Lucky Vanous was famous for being just handsome

By the time he was playing Wild Bill Hickok on TV in the '50s, Guy Madison had aged somewhat, but he was still quite the looker.

Jesse Spencer from House

George Maharis had multiple wigs that he would rotate throughout the month, to give the impression that his hair grew (and then had been cut).

R220, I went bald very young (19) and after seeing how a hairpiece completely changed a friend’s disposition, did the same.

I had many dark, light, and highlighted units- wavy. etc but always defaulted to a blonde tipped, surfer dude style because it blended right in with my own. I’d slick a soupy Aveda gel through it, then let it dry and I had a few that literally looked like the hair was growing out of my head. The trick is to have a master stylist cut it into your own hair with a razor, not too thick and shatter any weight. I’d throw them out after six months because no matter how you care for them the hair oxidizes or sheds and becomes detectable.

I even had a platinum one once and wore it to a circuit party, then a week later put a dark root in so it looked like it was growing out. Mary!

Troy Donahue.

I appreciate your dedication to Follicle Motion, r221.

Gary Collins

R218 Guy Madison was smoking hot older

more honourable mentions

David Rasche

Nah. Guy Madison got scrawny. Was he an alkie?

Michael Billington who very nearly became James Bond in "Live and Let Die", he would have appeared with Jane Seymour who he was acting with in "The Onedin Line" at the time, as seafarer Daniel Fogarty (pictured).

[quote] He was screen-tested for the role of James Bond more than any other actor, and was said to have been Albert R. Broccoli's first choice had Roger Moore not been available (see: 1981's For Your Eyes Only). Billington did a photo shoot for On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and met the film's director Peter Hunt.[1] He was also screen-tested for Live and Let Die (1973), Moonraker (1979) and Octopussy (1983). He ultimately appeared in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me, playing Sergei Barsov, Agent XXX's ill-fated lover, at the start of the film.

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Anthony Andrews

r204, your picture illustrates r207's point about Clint Walker better than the shirtless shots posted, he reminds me of a buff Crispin Glover!

Billington hasn't aged well.

^ this gentleman is a theatre critic, Michael Billington the actor passed away in 2005.

And the critic assumed his identity? Creepy!

R118- He looks like GORTONS OF GLOUSTER

On the Theatre Gossip Thread someone brought up Robert Horton (Wagon Train) and asked if the rumors, despite his long marriage, were true that he was gay? Anyone else hear that?

That older photo of Guy Madison posted above at r225 doesn't even look like the same man who created "beefcake" in the 1940s. By the time Guy was doing Wild Bill Hickok he'd really lost it. He was gorgeous in Since You Went Away and Till the End of Time, Henry Willson's first big "discovery."

R238.. i once did a google search on actor robert horton gay and saw (was it the same theatre thing you did?) that some reviewer wrote about the play he was in on broadway, writing gay actor robert horton so on and so on... it wasn't a review actually it was just his personal comments and thoughts years and years later on the play...allegedly, horton and co-star Ward Bond did not get along as Bond was a complete super right wing republican and horton was the opposite... supposedly, horton also found out that Bond just to piss Horton off, would spread rumors on the set that Horton was gay... how Bond would know who knows?...

Horton was married 3 times, but had no children... my gaydar on him as he's one of my western hunk favorites (clint walker, denny miller, doug mcclure included) doesn't see or get any gay vibe from him... he seemed to be very masculine confident and sexy straight acting to me, then again, he did love musical theater and singing and they were his true career loves?

I agree with all you say, r240 and could have written your post myself. But I'm going to do some more digging on Horton this morning.

Horton here's a homo?

[Quote] doesn't see or get any gay vibe from him... he seemed to be very masculine confident and sexy

Oh.

Robert Redford did a lot of television in the early 60's and even got an Emmy nomination in 1963. He was certainly the hottest incarnation of Death, as seen below in the Twilight Zone.

Still miss ya Phineas.

Jensen Ackles.

A google search on "Robert Horton gay" really leads nowhere, FWIW. "Horton" and "gay" mostly points to dear old Edward Everett Horton.

joli laid

OMG Richard Boone! Incredibly sexy man! Haven't thought about him in years, could he have been gay? He had that outlier vibe thing going on....

I believe Miss Maureen O'Hara wrote that during the filming of Kangaroo in Australia, Boone and Peter Lawford were caught in the raid of a male brothel.

I've always liked Ty Burrell and hear he's a nice guy:

I did a play with Ty Burrell just a few years before he found fame and wealth on TV. He was nice, very handsome, kind of boring and straight with his girl friend always in tow out of town.

Me too, r251, and his nice guy reputation just adds to his allure.

Greg Evigan was nice.

Surprising that Jan-Michael Vincent has only been mentioned once. He was the quintessential gay poster boy way back.

r248 How'd you get a pic of Lillian Hellman wearing a cowboy hat?

I took it when Lilly and I were at a dude ranch spa one summer.

Wayne Maunder and James Stacy in “Lancer”.

Jan-Michael Vincent was white trash.

Yes, exceedingly handsome white trash, which would apply to many in Hollywood.

Rick Cosnett is very pretty, has a hot body, a great Zimbabwean/Australian accent and is very gay.

Chad Everett... and his pants.

Rick Cosnett is also very funny and very clever.

Hard to choose only one, but I'll settle on the dashingly handsome Leigh McCloskey.

Colin O'Donohgue

Colin Donnell

Tyler Hoechlin

Perry King

Baywatch era Jason Momoa was a beauty.

Sultry Jason.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

Marc Elliott.

David Giuntoli.

Sean Maguire

Richard Burgi

Oh, Sean Maguire. That nosejob is a no.

Maguire's original nose was fine.

Jason looks very ethnic.

Lamon Archey, DOOL

Jesse Williams

Of the current shows it’s Ryan Eggold of “New Amsterdam”. Hate the show but I occasionally tune in just to see him walk around in scrubs.

WHET Keith Hamilton Cobb?

R281 That's not New Amsterdam. This is New Amsterdam - with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as John Amsterdam.

As long as we are doing TV series about handsome guys who are immortal like John Amsterdam - Tom Mison from Sleepy Hollow.

And of course there was the immortal Ioan Gruffudd in Forever.

Ruggedly handsome Mark Valley

Peter Parros

Dennis Cole was a frequent guest star on all the usual cop and detective shows when I was growing up in the 70's. He was one of those guys you saw everywhere but didn't know his name, at least not until he briefly became Mr. Jaclyn Smith.

He wasn't really my type, but he did have those classic handsome, matinee-idol type looks you couldn't help but notice.

Apparently he did star in a few short-lived series in the 60's, and he was a regular on a daytime soap later on.

R286... yeah, love me some mark valley.. he was SO DAMN BEAUTIFUL AND PRETTY when he played Jack on "dools"... and he even had a affair with jennifer's mother who had no idea that she was seducing her son in law and he his mother in law!! awesome!..

Alexander Draymon, handsome and able to defeat anyone in a sword fight,.

What's sadly lacking in the photo of Dennis Cole above was the almost platinum blonde hair he usually sported and made him quite memorable and distinctive. I don't know if it was natural...probably not. Didn't he pass away in recent years?

Here ya go, R291.

I remember him as you do, with the blond hair, but when I was looking at all the photos, I just didn't think he looked as good with the longer 70's hair.

I gotta say, the guy's good looks held up well into his 50s, but then he hit the wall hard. He died in '09.

One thing I found interesting and sad about him was that his son was killed at age 30 in a home invasion robbery in Venice (California), in which his son's friend, punk legend Henry Rollins, survived. The killers have never been caught.

Bubba (Allan Kayser)

Duchovny:

Jensen Atwood:

BD Wong:

Bergin & Chokachi

They should've had their own spin-off series, like a Starsky & Hutch crime drama.

Robert Stack:

Will Kemp

Charles Shaughnessy:

The one, the only, Patrick Stewart:

[quote] I've always liked Ty Burrell and hear he's a nice guy:

How sweet.

But no one, [italic]including[/italic] you, would ever in a million, billion, trillion years consider him "the most handsome male actor in TV history."

Now people are just posting photos of TV actors they find attractive.

Why?

Taye Diggs

[quote]Now people are just posting photos of TV actors they find attractive. Why?

Covid. We have nothing better to do.

Murray Bartlett is a hot daddy

David Duchovny in the early The X-Files days. Gillian and he made a striking pair.

Kristian Kordula.

Perhaps best known for his recurring role as Landon, the political strategist, on The Haves and Have Nots.

R299 More like Will Unkemp.

James Franciscus

R288, I recall Dennis Cole telling After Dark Magazine that when he worked as Troy Donahue's stand-in, he would get all the girls chasing Troy that he couldn't handle.

Robert Fuller in his "Laramie" days.

R74 I peed at a urinal next to John James in 1985, when he was still super hot in Dynasty.

Yes, I peeked. Yes, it was big and thick.

R84 I was going to say Matt Lanter too. He was fucking gorgeous on 90210.

John Russell

R315 - I have a cousin who looks EXACTLY like a younger version of John Russell. And that's not a common look!

We've gone from the most handsome -- the Guy Madisons, Armie Hammers, John Saxons, Jon-Erik Hexums, Robert Conrads, Richard Chamberlains, etc -- to just anyone someone feels like posting.

Truism: The longer a DL thread, the less it has to do with its original post. Soon we'll be getting photos of Meghan Markle and Cher.

R317 When did Armie do TV?

Agreed, r317. Handsome is not the same as sexy/attractive/offbeat.

Richard Hatch:

Loved James Drury as The Virginian.

Young William Smith was a looker...

Smith was sexy but not a beauty by Hollywood standards.

Over 300 posts, r323, we're having to go a bit more 2nd tier. Unless of course you can come up with someone who hasn't been mentioned yet.

James Darren:

James Drury was a very attractive guy. He died earlier this year.

A shirtless Gary Sandy

[quote]Now people are just posting photos of TV actors they find attractive. Why?

Some posters are terrified of that cunt who starts lighting their caftans on fire if they post someone who's already been posted. I, for one, do not give a shit if that bitch dies from the overexposure, so here's Danny Markel for the third or fourth time, long after his time on TV has passed.

Bite me, "r923 see R721" queen.

Julian Morris

Joel Crothers on [italic]Dark Shadows[/italic] was one of my earliest TV crushes.

Hal Smith

Yes, r329, Julian Morris. I wish CBS would turn the episode of The Good Fight he was in into a crossover for his own series. There is no actor I'd rather see in a series now.

Joel was gorgeous

WEHT the actors in that TV series about the two hot plastic surgeons, I think it was one of Ryan Murphy's first efforts? Anyway, the 2 male leads were so hot....can't even remember their names now....are they still acting? The Julian above reminded me as one actors was Julian Something....

r334 = Miss Dannii Minogue.

Stuart Whitman!

R336.. WOW! i had no idea stuart whitman EVER looked like that!!! that's almost crossing into clint walker territory.. i wonder what production this photo is from?.

Sands of the Kalahari. He basically wears that for most of the picture.

R338 thanks so much for the info!....

Elliott Page.

The original Will Kemp.

No TV images extant.

David Chokachi, who shares my birthday

David Chokachi again

Chokachi again

Not the best photo of David Chokachi, but it's his cock in a pouch.

David Chokachi inherited James Franciscus' good looks.

The post about Dennis Cole reminded me of another guy who had a similar career on TV, Christopher George. He had several moderately succesful TV shows (Rat Patrol, The Immortal) and some low-budget movies. I was shocked when he did that nude magazine spread.

Anybody remember another actor who was always on crime shows in the Sixties and Seventies, Paul Carr?

Robert Culp was a handsome man back in his day:

Steve Forrest:

TRUE BLOOD ftw. Alexander Skarsgard, Ryan Kwanten, Joe Manganiello, Nelson Ellis, Mehcad Brooks, Stephen Moyer and Sam Trammell are all ridiculously gorgeous, and all were near/fully naked often throughout the show’s long run. Thank you Alan Ball!

The thread police want pictures of 4 guys and then close the discussion. Too much fun was detected?

Jason Mamoa but only during his Baywatch days

In ascending order:

5. Patrick McGoohan ("Secret Agent," "The Prisoner")

4. Guy Williams (Disney's "Zorro")

3. Ricky Nelson (" The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet")

2. Gardner McKay ("Adventures in Paradise")

1. Robert Conrad ("Hawaiian Eye," "Wild, Wild West". Not so much as Pappy Boyington.)

Nick Zano

I miss seeing Derek Theler’s sexy mug and hot body on Baby Daddy.

Pierce Brosnan was pretty dreamy in REMINGTON STEELE.

Derek Theler is super hot.

Rick Nelson

Gardner McKay

Rob Lowe

Pierce Brosnan

Jeffrey Hunter

Robert Redford

R353.. in regards to conrad in black sheep squadron, by the mid 70's tanning and drinking has hardened his pretty boy looks, but however, his ass was still spectacular, perhaps even more than in his younger wild wild west days! it was bigger, more meatier, and boy oh boy did he wear those khaki pants so spray painted on you could actually make out his underwear "panty lines" in them! OMG! outrageous!... i wonder if he ever got any "grief" from the guys whether actors or the crew on his pants and how extremely tight they were?.... conrad also looked good in ass when he did that 1 season of "a man called sloane"... always in spray painted on polyester pants...

R355 and R357..DEREK THELER ON BABY DADDY! OH HELL YEAH! TALK ABOUT A HIMBO CHARACTER!.... PRETTY RACY STUFF for a so called "family show"!...showing him off in towels, innuendo sex talk, including showing him in one night stands scenes..

R356... OH YEAH, PIERCE BROSNAN ON REMINGTON STEEL! MMMMMMM! totally my type with the dark hair, piercing blue eyes and chiseled face...

Robert Wagner:

Matt Bomer in his White Collar days.

Peter Krause in SFU

Rodney Harvey.

His TV older brother wasn't so bad either.

Earl Holliman

I see homosexuals.

Robby Benson decades ago.

Jay North, not recent

"Race" Bannon...

R363 - wow, I haven't given Rodney Harvey a thought in decades! I don't even remember him passing away. He was definitely beautiful.

Dack Rambo. RIP.

Ken Olin from Thirtysomething.

Carl Betz

Yikes that bulge on Dack. RIP.

Dack's twin brother Dirk was also a TV actor appearing in shows like The Virginian and Dragnet. The twins were discovered by Loretta Young and appeared on her TV show. Dirk died in 1967 from injuries suffered in a head-on car crash. So sad.

Beautiful boy trio #1: Life as We Knew It starring Sean Faris (touted as TV’s Tom Cruise) Chris Lowell and Jon Foster. All would also star on other shows as well, with Foster and Lowell being stronger on other ones, but this is where Sean really shone bright.

The pic at r376 might as well be a painting.

Marco Drapper

Jerry's brother Charlie O'Connell was the better looking one.

Beautiful boy trio #2: Enlisted starring again Chris Lowell, Geoff Stults and Parker Young who had hands down one of the most phenomenal bodies on TV. Probably Geoff’s best work as a caring, but exasperated brother looking out for his siblings and in daddy bear mode with an in shape daddy bear body. There were many shirtless scenes and some weirdly homoerotic even though they play brothers.

I guess Dack was versatile but I always saw him as being more of a bottom.

Beautiful boy trio #3 vintage edition: Here Come the Brides with the ethereal Bobby Sherman, David Soul and Robert Brown. This isn’t the best image of Soul, but Bobby and his hair were carrying he show, Robert Brown looks like a strikingly handsome man, wonder what happened to him?

Bobby Sherman had an affair with a DL fave. Was it Tab Hunter?

Matt McColm (former model) in the cheesy superhero tv show 'NIGHTMAN"... what a beauty, great build and sexy as heck... only wished his costume was designed by joel schumacher and beyond homoerotic!....

Bobby Sherman was getting fucked by Sal Mineo when Mineo's girlfriend Jill Hayworth walked in and caught them. It was in Sal Mineo: A Biography by Michael Gregg Michaud.

Thanks. I knew it was someone of that standing.

Danny Roberts.

I grew up in single parent family with my mother and siblings. My father was largely absent from our lives. I used to watch "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" and pretend that actor Bill Bixby was my Dad. I always thought that he was handsome.

Parker Stevenson was definitely A Separate Piece...

R382 - now that photo has a whole lot of handsome in it.

[quote]I guess Dack was versatile but I always saw him as being more of a bottom.

He died of complications from AIDS, so you may be right.

Parker Stevenson was a horseface.

R388 - another version of Bill Bixby. Freaky green eyes as the Incredible Hulk.

Travis Fimmel in his Tarzan days.

The "Go Fish" episode of BUFFY was special. It featured Wentworth Miller...

and Shane West...

... not to mention "Xander" in a speedo.

R342, David Chokachi's proudly-shared "Birthday Twin."

Eerie!

Sam Neill and Peter Strauss.

You don't have to agree with me but it was Johnny Depp on 21 Jump Street. Runner ups: Jason Priestly, 90210, Sasha Mitchell, Step By Step. For the older times, I 'll go with Ricky Nelson.

Helpful Hint: When you put the link in for the pic you're posting wait until you see it appear under the post so we don't have to click on the damned thing.

Such a crush I had on Tom Wopat.

Wolf Larson still seen on TV in Mexican Tarzan

[quote]Helpful Hint: When you put the link in for the pic you're posting wait until you see it appear under the post so we don't have to click on the damned thing.

It's so tiring to click.

Hot Ginger Michael C. Hall.

It really is R404. But not as tiring as you Miss Offsite Image.

I used to watch angsty My So Called Life in hopes of seeing sexy dad Tom Irwin.

Here's some sort of promo clip of him. He's aged....OK. I'd still do him.

Lloyd Haines was indeed a handsome man. When I was stationed at the Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, I used to drive past his house.

R408...and I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain...

Larry Pennell

Like Robert Conrad, Tom Irwin swung both ways.

Pauly Shore

Joel Higgins:

Gordon Thomson:

Tom Irwin is decidedly gay. I've worked with him at Steppenwolf in Chicago for many years.

Gordon Thomson also came out several years ago.

Tim Daly

My mother was always a fan of Cesare Danova:

Michael Ontkean

Ray Danton. Did a lot of TV in the 50s-70s. He was fine.

Hands OFF, bitches, he's mine!

Ray Danton was very sexy yet there was something off about him, he looked like a wax figure. Tony Franciosa was an earthier and therefore hotter version of Ray.

David McCallum

(60s tv series The Man from UNCLE)

Sorry, r423, but Illya was a bit odd looking.

He is still living, r424. Age 87.

R424 He's hot

Then tell him to remove his sweater.

LOL R427. Here he is at his other job.

There are several that I think are gorgeous, including John Allen Nelson.

Handsome men quartet: Jeremy Garrett, Brett Cullen, Grayson McCouch, Ron Melendez from "Legacy."

DL Fave and Detective Derek Mallory, Dennis Parker.

Yannick Bisson

R431 Also known as porn star Wade Nichols.

Ken Olandt who did both tv and film in the 80s and 90s.

Ben Murphy was so gorgeous back in the day:

Who was Flipper's dad? He had a hairy chest and was so handsome.

[quote]Who was Flipper's dad?

Brian Kelly, uncle of Broadway's Brian d'Arcy James.

Jeff Yagher

Phil Torres that appears on Josh Gate's Expedition X

More scientist than actor.

Billy Warlock

Robert Taylor (no--not that one) from "Longmire."

I worked with Billy Warlock about 15 years ago and he was adorable and goofy as well as beautiful. Also, very straight. When the other actors (mostly gay) in the cast were joking about all the movie hunks they had crushes on as kids, Billy named Raquel Welch as his fave.

Charlie Cox in Boardwalk Empire

r430, I thought I was the only one who watched Legacy! WEHT Jeremy Garrett, I had a huge crush on him

Dudley Do-Right.

Adrian Paul

A younger Micheal Nouri Tim daly

I preferred Dennis Parker's original profile.

More Early Dennis.

Charlie Hunnam

Mark Harmon, who I thought was just beautiful when he was younger:

Speaking of Longmire...Bailey Chase

Peter Breck as Nick Barkley. He was described as "the strongest" on TV. He wiped the floor with Heath.

James Remar was twinkalicious once up a time.

I was *always* a Breck girl, r453.

Okay, r413 shows the utter deterioration of this thread.

[quote]Okay, R413 shows the utter deterioration of this thread.

I think R412 beat him to it.

Jack Scalia.

Matt Czuchry. I've had a crush on him for years.

This thread died after 50 or so replies. Most of you are just pulling random actors names out of your asses.

And this is a surprise, how exactly, r460?

Dustin "Screech" Diamond

Obviously!!!!

How can it be that no one's mentioned Ed Marinaro or Corbin Bernsen or Martin Kove?

Because R463 none of them are the most handsome male actors in TV history.

This thread has become "Who is/was the most slightly handsome male actor in TV history."

r393 I think he stole them from Meg Foster.

r400 Ricky Nelson's brother David used to turn my crank. What a jaw! He was gorgeous in the film "Peyton Place." Could have easily been an 'Arrow Shirt' man BITD. Same with the actor who plays the young police constable on the Australian series "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries."

[quote]This thread has become "Who is/was the most slightly handsome male actor in TV history."

And Pauly Shore at R412 wouldn't even qualify for that.

Barry Van Dyke

Has someone posted that Dennis guy from "Moonlighting" yet? This thread has become a joke.

Donald Trump on The Apprentice

r467 Long-lost twin to the late Aussie actor, and DL fave, Antony Hamilton?

Oh stop you're kvetching, r468. What did you think would happen when it's nearing 500 posts?

Anthony Hamilton was gorgeous

It's like posting Ellen Barkin on a most beautiful actress thread. The woman was sexy. She was NEVER beautiful.

Yes, r470, unfortunately his father Dick couldn't afford to keep both boys, so Anthony was put up for adoption...in Australia.

[quote]Some people just love to bitch

Are you new here?

R474. Really? Splitting up twins seems cruel. Can't imagine doing that. Maybe they lived close by. So many beauties taken too soon.

No, r476, I'm sorry - I was kidding. Barry Van Dyke was Dick Van Dyke's son.

R465 I agree about the Nelson brothers, David and Ricky. They were both super handsome in their own right.

Joe Penny

Harry Hamlin

Jimmy Smits

Benjamin Bratt

I didn't realize Robert Fuller has such a nice body.

When did anyone claim Ellen Barkin was beautiful?

Donnelly Rhodes, especially during his silver fox days on Soap.

R482 I love him as Dutch!

Donnelly was just as gorgeous in his young days as when he was older:

ROBERT FULLER STAYING ALIVE

This thread really proves beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I recognize that actor R482, R484 and I never thought he was memorable looking at all.

Really, r486?? That's unimaginable to me.

Who are your favorites?

R487 I think I watched him on Danger Bay when I was a kid, I guess I just think of him as a dad type. He kind of reminds me of a better looking Peter Falk.

I mentioned Johnny Depp and Jason Priestley, above. I admit this guy aged better than they did. He's handsome but doesn't have the kind of features I like. If I had to pick an older actor I'm attracted to it would be Stewart Granger, but he was in the movies.

I remember that even as a young, pre-pubescent kid in the eighties, I found myself feeling very attracted to a hairy-chested Lee Majors in "The Fall Guy". I couldn't explain it then and didn't even know why he stirred up those feelings in me.

The first TV hunk I remember having an erotic dream about was Chip Mayer, who played TJ on the soap, "Santa Barbara". I have vivid memories of wanting him to take his shirt off and wanting to kiss him.

R489.... lee majors in season 4 and 5 of the 6 million dollar man! oh hell yeah! totally offered up as sex on a stick, with his comically wide open unbuttoned shirts showing off his hairy chest, the very snug jeans and polyester pants and episodes of homoerotica (i.e. the episode "rollback")...the lighter colored hair, the porn mustache in season 4 and so on and so on....

and CHIP MAYER as one of the replacement Dukes of hazzard guys! major sigh! that man was truly beautiful with that dark thick rich full head of dark hair and those brilliant piercing blue eyes and chiseled face! whew!..

lucky blonde actress Teri Copley managed to have mayer as a husband and then all time blonde gorgeous chippendale great charles wahlheim too as a husband and in her bed! what a combo! lucky lucky lady!...

Chip Mayer! Oh yeah baby!!

R491 And he died of a stroke at just age 57!

R492 And he was married to soap star and BH housewife Eileen Davidson and Teri Copley, both for only two years each. Wonder what his problem was? Drugs?

Clint Walker owns this thread.

Gotta give it to Robert Fuller. He was fine as fuck back in the day.

For the Robert Fuller fans, next time you watch Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, you'll get a few quick glimpses of him as part of the Olympic team in the song Bye Bye Baby near the beginning of the film.

Sadly, he didn't seem to make the cut in everyone's favorite number Ain't There Anyone Here For Love?

Yeah, I'm dating myself but Robert Fuller was the man who made me realize what I was. First time I saw him on TV as a kid, before I even knew what sex was, I knew.

in regards to Chip Mayer, i read that he died of "natural causes"? how does a seemingly healthy man just die at that age 57 from natural causes?

CLINT WALKER? enough said... that man was a M-A-N!.. the government should have paid him enormous amounts to milk him of his sperm/semen/cum and then use the testosterone in it to make super soldiers! or at least super alphas! laugh!...

Back before he was really "famous," Chip Mayer and Kelly Harmon used to do a commercial for a radio station in Denver where I grew up. I remember seeing him as a young gayling and feeling all tingly down there.

[quote]how does a seemingly healthy man just die at that age 57 from natural causes?

I had a heart attack at 54. Other family members died in their 50s from the same thing. Not all that unusual. Genetics.

R480 that Laramie scene was classic. Little Andy Sherman(Bobby Crawford) had a flaming crush on Jess Harper(Fuller).

A young (he's in his sixties now, I believe) Jimmy Smits gets a mention here.

Chip Mayer was a far rightwing crazy who after bouts with drugs discovered Jesus and used to go on Pat Robertson's show and talk about how Jesus saved his career. Then he killed died of what was probably drug related causes.

[quote]in regards to Chip Mayer, i read that he died of "natural causes"? how does a seemingly healthy man just die at that age 57 from natural causes?

Do you know what "natural causes" means? Pretty much everyone dies from natural causes unless they commit suicide, overdose on drugs, or are murdered.

There was that summer that Jimmy Smits stole my heart onstage in a workshop-only production of Officer and a Gentleman. I suppose that might be called emotional embezzlement.

Smits is a damn good actor in addition to being a beautiful man.

Gene Barry was hot back in the day - way back - "Burke's Law"

Tom Jones had a variety show too that was shown in America.

I like 'em craggy.

Oh and Roger Moore as "The Saint"

He was dreamy in War of the Worlds, r507.

I don't get the love for Jimmy Smits at all.

One of my very first crush as a youngster was Gary Lockwood when I saw him on an episode of Star Trek. He later had a tv show called The Sargent (?). Yes, I'm an oldster.

He starred in 2001 Space Odyssey with Keir Dullea- another crush I had although he was rarely on tv. They're both old men now but Keir has aged gracefully and is still handsome, Lockwood has gone to pot.

Hart Bochner

Peter Duel - Alias Smith & Jones tv show from the 70's. It's a shame that he killed himself at such a young age-31.

Gary Lockwood in the movie Model Shop was very handsome and hot. But it doesn't translate to still photos very well. Some actors look better in motion. And some look better in stills.

My mom told me she had a thing for John Newland, a handsome actor and the host of One Step Beyond. She and I were never attracted to the same type of guy, which was a good thing as far as I was concerned.

R514, you're right, Lockwood comes off better in motion. He was a gorgeous hunk of a man. Here he is shirtless in a scene from 2001 Space Odyssey.

He spends most of Model Shop in a dark blue T shirt and looks so cute/hot. (The movie is so LA-late-60s.)

Hart Bochner definitely. Loved him since his preppie role in "Breaking Away" You forgot a picture though...

Wasn't Hart Bochner's father on Dynasty? I have a distant memory of him dying on Alexis and messing up one of her grand schemes.

John Forsythe was very handsome.

R510 - I saw him once filming an episode of NYPD Blue in NYC, right where Sixth and Fifth Avenues split and go in different directions, around 25th Street. He was wearing that dusky trademark Armani coat, and I'm telling you he was drop-dead handsome, about 6'2", broad-shouldered, and his skin colour had a faint, intriguing hint of violet or mauve under it that people of mixed colour sometimes have. He was simply gorgeous. I was stunned, because usually stars look Less Than when you see them in the flesh. Smits was More Than. Television didn't do justice to him.

No love? Bitch, please: if he showed up as a blind date you'd be on your knees before the door closed behind him.

I know I'll never hear the end of this but . . . Guy Williams, the original Zorro in the Disney weekly series. Yes, we got that across the Pond. And let's face it: in that outfit he couldn't lose.

And loathe him as you might due to his conservative politics later on, Fess Parker (Davy Crockett) wasn't an eyesore in his prime, either.

Fess at his youthful best. I believe he did both Crockett and Daniel Boone.

[quote]I don't get the love for Jimmy Smits at all.

Neither do I. He and Ben Affleck are the two I mention first in all "I Can't Believe They're Successful Actors" threads.

[quote]NYC, right where Sixth and Fifth Avenues split and go in different directions, around 25th Street.

Fifth and Sixth Avenues never intersect, so they never "split." They run parallel to each other. I think you're talking about 5th Avenue and Broadway, which intersect between 23rd and 25th, at Madison Square Park.

Speaking of seeing actors in person, I once saw Timothy Daly in the flesh in Williamstown, MA, hanging around outside the theater (where one of his cast mates from Wings was performing). I was really shocked by how good looking he was. I also met Rob Lowe in Williamstown, he was very cute, and Anthony Edwards, who wasn't handsome at all in person. But for some reason Tim Daly was the best looking.

The thing about Tim Daly (LOVED him in Wings too) is that, besides being handsome, he has beautiful skin, even now.

R526 Hard to believe he's Tyne Daly's brother.

What the hell happened there?

LOL R527. Well, they both have beautiful skin. I actually never knew they were even related.

1950s/60s Westerns seemed to always have homoerotic undertones. Probably the directors.

Ah. Pernell.

LOVED Pernell Roberts!!! So sexy in those black western shirts with his dark chest hair curling out of his shirt collar. I loved him years later as Trapper John, too....handsome daddy bear.

I've worked with Jimmy Smits a couple of times and agree, he's so much handsomer and striking in person. Beautiful cocoa skin. And a really nice guy.

.R526 Yes I think that was what was so amazing was that he had great skin, that made him look really good. He was there with a blonde, and some blond girls that I assume were his kids. The kids wearing white. They all looked unreal. But the funny thing was on TV or in Diner, or whatever, I never found him all that handsome, I thought he was "generic handsome" and it didn't register as anything.

I must be older than all of you because I have dreamy memories of Gary Lockwood from an early 60s TV series called Follow the Sun in which he and the very handsome Barry Coe and Brett Halsey played some sort of vagabond adventurers that would take them to exotic locations weekly to show off Gary's hot bod in swim trunks. This was one of those typical series of the times with a triumvirate of sexy young guys like 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat and Surfside Six.

Speaking of Surfside Six, has VAN WILLIAMS been mentioned yet?

To me Gary Lockwood was the most handsome guy in the 1960s. And sexy as hell. The Lieutenant, Follow The Sun, The Model Shop, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Gary was also married to Jennifer Hart herself, Stefanie Powers, for a time.

Follow the Sun

Surfside 6

George Reeves?

One more (I think) interesting career note about Gary Lockwood: he appeared as a killer on almost every season of "Barnaby Jones." If not for the fact he was playing a different character each time, you would've sworn he was a semi-regular he was on there so often.

Hawaiian Eye

John Travolta

WHET Poncie Ponce?

Ponce died in 2013

I met Gary Lockwood, when he worked with my father inn the late '70s. Professional, even-keeled, solid-performer and a genuinely nice guy.

I was surprised he was married to Stephanie Powers.... she became a much bigger tv star than he so I wonder if that doomed their marriage. I saw him on tv a lot in the 1960s but he seemed to disappear in the 70s. He must have been a real ladies man though, his girlfriend before Powers was Tuesday Weld and soon after he left Powers, he got another woman pregnant.

Tony Goldwyn - Scandal.

Kyle Chandler

Early Edition & Friday Night Lights

r548 I remember him from Joan Cusack's sitcom "What About Joan." I thought he was awfully cute.

Yes R534. Van Williams was mentioned upthread. But he deserves another pic. There was no one could touch him in those days. He gave up his acting career and made a fortune in the corporate sector. Said he didn't care for the "games" one had to play in showbiz, which I imagine had to do with fending off the casting couch creatures. Sadly for my fantasy, he was straight.

Mike Henry was one of the most beautiful men who played Tarzan. Some remember him as Jackie Gleason's idiot son in Smokey and the Bandit. Lord, he was gorgeous!

One of Mike Henry's more interesting photos. Whatcha got under there Tarzan?

Ross Thomas did movies and television. He had a recurring role on General Hospital as 'Brandon,' a hardened criminal just released from jail. Thomas has also appeared on NCIS, Lie to Me, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: NY, Cold Case, & Living with Fran.

John Boy from The Waltons (Richard Thomas) wasn't a heartthrob but more of a corn-fed nerdy cute guy.

Was Mike Henry on television? No.

R524 - I was visiting, admittedly, but that shot isn't where I saw Smits. Don't Fifth and Sixth switch places at some point, near the Flatiron Building? There is, or was, an island right in the middle which is where they were filming. Not a native New Yorker, so will take your word for it, but it's a spot where visitors often get confused - I took the bus downtown and was looking for a place called, let me think, "City Crab"?

And it occurs to me that as the poster who mentioned the god-like Clint Walker, I didn't put up a photo . . . the one someone else put up is grainy . . .

And have we all forgotten the toothsome young Clint Eastwood (speaking of Clints) in "Rawhide"?

R524 - I was visiting, true, not a native New Yorker, but don't Fifth and Sixth sort of switch places just above the Flatiron Building? There is (or was) a large island in the middle of the intersection and that's where they were filming. I was amongst others navigating heavy traffic to stand at the edges of the island and look at Smits. I took the bus downtown from midtown by the 42nd St. Library, the area where I got off I was supposed to meet a friend at someplace called, I think, "City Crab"?

Whatever, it was in that area. I note that as the poster who first mentioned Clint Walker, I did not attach a photo. Here it is.

And, no one has mentioned the very toothsome other young Western Clint - Eastwood, in "Rawhide".

Young "Rawhide" Eastwood.

He looks a bit like Hugh Laurie.

Demme it, sorry for the double posts, I kept not seeing the first one after refreshing, so tried again. Apologies.

R556, click on the link to see the map of Manhattan around the area you're describing.

I'm not familiar with City Crab, but there was once apparently a place called City Crab Shack on E. 16th between Fifth and Union Square West. Fourth Avenue and Broadway kind of agglomerate at the southeast corner of Union Square. Maybe that's what you're thinking of. In either case, Union Square is only six blocks southeast of Madison Square, as you walk along Broadway.

Fifth and Sixth don't intersect, however. They remain parallel at every point in their shared 50+ blocks. See the map.

SPEAKING OF MIKE HENRY, AND HIS 3 TARZAN MOVIES... well, the movies DID play on tv, so i guess that would make him in "tv history"?...

ALL I KNOW IS the most muscular and ripped tarzan ever who wore the smallest loincloth ever of any tarzan... i have all 3 movies on dvd and trust me they have been used countless, countless times for right arm workouts! laugh!....(2nd favorite tarzan would be 50's bodybuilder hunk gordon scott!)...

speaking of tv, has anyone mentioned REB BROWN OR CAL BOLDER YET?....

and CLINT WALKER was THEE M-A-N!....

R560 - You're right, that's it! I was remembering too far up, that's it exactly! Well, it was the early 1990s and my memory isn't what it was, but that's the place and area, exactly. That area once you get out of midtown can be confusing for visitors. Thanks.

James Marsden on Modern Family & Ally McBeal (also sang so bonus points). Matt Bomer on White Collar. Tyler Hoechlin on Teen Wolf.

I've always found a young Phil Carey to be smoking hot although he is probably best remembered for playing "Asa Buchanan" on DL favorite OLTL later in his career as older man.

William Conrad

Oh, r555, almost to 600 posts and you want to nitpick...

I have no idea who this is - just that he's some Colombian telenovela star. I used to see the end credits of his show before mine started and I made these caps. Super cute, I think.

R567 He's beautiful, and I love his cock-sucking lips.

What about Mike Connors...

So no one is going to mention John Travolta? He starred as Vinnie in Welcome Back, Kotter. As a young stud, he was pretty hot and after Staying Alive, his career exploded like a SuperNova in the 70s.

R564 philip carey indeed was a sexy and extremely handsome man back in the day...

speaking of tv, we haven't even discussed the countless gorgeous men of spanish telenovas ( soap operas)!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or the great soap opera studs of years and shows past and current in the good ole u.s.a.

R570, R542 mentioned him. I never found him handsome, though.

Somebody already mentioned Jack Scalia, but I'd like to mention him again.

Grant Williams

R573... jack scalia on DALLAS was hot hot! loved sue ellen seducing him into her regular lover and sperm/semen/cum depositer....

I put up PART 2 of this thread.

Oh, dear God....

[Quote] Oh, dear God....—WHY???

Because at 600 the thread closes?

You haven't noticed it's been dragging to get to 600 with postings of such flotsam and jetsam?

[Quote] You haven't noticed it's been dragging to get to 600 with postings of such flotsam and jetsam?

No. Sorry.

The thread was started 11 days ago. That isn't terrible.

As kid I had such a crush on Alejandro Rey.

Alejandro Rey was hot

Ty Hardin, "Bronco"

What about the sitcom kids who grew into hot young studs? Tony Dow, Don Grady.....um..... Paul Petersen?

And Richard Crenna who was adorable as teenage high school student Walter Denton on Our Miss Brooks, quite sexy as farmer Luke McCoy on The Real McCoys and later on as any number of hot daddy types?

And speaking of Our Miss Brooks, what about Robert Rockwell as Philip Boynton, the shy but very handsome biology teacher Connie Brooks was always trying to fuck?

Richard Crenna was in his 20s when he was on "Our Miss Brooks."

r586 Is that so wrong?

I clearly stated Walter Denton was a teenager, not Dick Crenna.

Ty Hardin came me a hard-on

I met Ty Hardin once. He was in his 70s and looked fucking amazing. His wife was a middle-age trophy wife. A guy like that must have reclined naked on an office couch at one time.

R590 He was one of Henry Willson's boys, so I'm pretty sure he did.

Look at that face! Beautiful.

Ty Hardin had ties to militias in the Pacific Northwest...takes the hot away.

r592, was he in the Nanny and the Professor?

Edward Mulhare

robert long

LOVED JEH.

Superman is usually a pretty safe choice...

All 3.

Tony Dow was such a babe:

R596, his name was actually Richard Long.

VERY, R597.

Don't you mean Richard Long?

Don't you mean Richard Long?

Oh you're right, r600. Sorry.

Close it out

SHUT IT DOWN!!!!