Beautiful men with no talent

From the 1960s: John Gavin

Britney Spears' Persian boytoy

Lol R1, first guy I thought of too.

DL Fave Ben Barnes

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Henry Cavill

Judas

Matt Bomer

John Barrowman

John Saxon in his prime.

Rock Hudson

Chris Pine

John Gavin was pretty bad in some of his movies but is very funny and charming in "Thoroughly Modern Millie," so maybe he just needed the right roles and the right directors.

Not Russell Crowe. He has always been very talented.

Chris Noth

Dolph Lundgren

[quote]Rock Hudson

He was a "medium talent."

It takes great talent and skill to look beautiful, otherwise 65% of American people wouldn't be so obese like this.

Joe Magliano

I think Hitchcoick actually refered to Gavin as a 'block of wood' or an equivalent metaphor...

Ted McGinley

Rob Lowe is OK at comedy, but in dramatic roles he's a stick of wood.

I'm going to get blasted for this by the fan brigade, but there are worse fates... Tim O'Tay. Nice cheekbones, but same ol' bag of tricks in every movie.

The scorchingly hot, yet perpetually bland, Jonanthan Schaech.

Viz. Rock Hudson. His problem was that he was so goodlooking his talent was eclipsed. If you haven't seen "Seconds", give it a whirl. I wouldn't recommend getting too stoned beforehand, though.

Gregg Sulkin

Brock O'Hurn

E21 Ted McGinley had a talent for getting every show he was on cancelled.

Jon Erik Hexum

R25 That movie is chaotic, ill-focused and Mr Hudson looks as unreal as ever.

I've told someone reveals their penis in it— but I couldn't find it.

Julian Morris?

Jesus ,R24, even for DL that photo feels...kind of too much.

Blandsome Alex Pettyfer.

Hall Of Fame dude

^ His # has been retired.

Martin Hewitt from Endless Love.

Guy Madison

Shemar Moore

David Chokachi

Ryan Phillippe

Rob Lowe acts the exact same way in every single role.

Chace Crawford

Paul Walker

Every Instaho. This man Max Wyatt. Nothing but a rich oil prince's whore.

Josh Duhamel

Scott Eastwood

The male cast of every WB/CW, ABC Family/Freeform and Netflix teen show.

Blue Lagoon's Christopher Atkins

taylor j phillips

Steve Grand, the country singer? I don't know. I have no idea whether he's actually talented because I don't listen to that kind of music but he's so pretty and his photos are so hot and I admire his being out and proud in a professional niche where that used to be professional suicide.

Brad Pitt....sorry

No need to apologize.

Most DL faves.

Most of Bruce Weber's "discoveries"

Rodney Harvey

Michael Schoeffling

Sasha Mitchell

Brody Jenner

Most soap opera actors after 1985 or so.

Robert Redford

Adam Woodward is a stunningly beautiful man who was on the soap opera Hollyoaks, but recently killed off, but had trouble acting his way out of a paper bag. David Tag, another actor big on muscles and looks, but lacking thespian skills was also recently killed off. The newer show runners seem to be eliminating the pretty boys who have little skill or depth. Hopefully Owen Warner as Romeo remains safe, he has some real talent if they would just give him a storyline beyond being shirtless exercising and looking in the mirror.

David Tag

Brad Pitt, for me. The man can't act for shit, but his looks made him a movie star giving him the opportunity to star in the best movies surrounded by the best acting talent. I always fall back on the starkest example, 'Seven'. The principals, Freeman, Spacey and, yes, Goop, were clearly in a different class, giving clinics in subtlety while he was hamming it up, only saved by the fact he was at the peak of his physical beauty. But in a fair world, William Bradley Pitt would've gone the way of male models like Mark Vanderloo or Michael Bergin.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

Raoul Bova

Brothers edition: The beautiful and extremely wealth Brant boys, Peter and Harry- now just Peter.

Brothers edition part two: The Rhodes Twins, Austin and Aaron. At least they burnt bright and quick and were gone in short order.

Matthew Crawford was absolutely stunning, but was someone who you worried about leaving the house and not being able to find his way home.

DL fave…I feel tremendous guilt just posting this…I can’t post his name…

[quote]Martin Hewitt from Endless Love.

WHO the fuck?

Crawford is still stunning R65. Besides marketing himself on OnlyFans, he started a business (Dirty Merch) where people can sell their used intimate clothing to fans.

Mario Lopez

R60 Fuck y'all.

R37 Guy's talent was horizontal.

Y'all rang.

Freddie Prinze Jr. I know he had a reputation for being all brawn no brains in his 90s teen era, but having rewatched She’s All That, I was amazed by not only how wooden he is, but how I likeable. He’s not only outperformed by the genuinely talented Kieren Culkin and Anna Paquin in bit parts, but Paul Walker and Rachel Leigh Cook.

Ashton Kutcher

Russell Crowe has NEVER been beautiful.

How *unlikeable Freddie Prinze is

Nepotism babies like Freddie Prinze Jr don't tend to be likable. He wasn't even that hot. His dad was better looking.

I don't want whatever R77 is smoking.

R78 Ok neither Prinze is beautiful. But at least one of them had talent and it wasn't Jr.

Calling Freddie Prinze Jr a nepotism baby is laughable. His dad had a career for about 2 years and blew his brains out 20 years before Jr got a career. Jr is no Olivier, but I busted many nuts to him back in the day. He seems content to be Buffy's househusband.

Like Jennifer Aniston and George Clooney, FPJ had a door opened to him because of his name. He certainly didn't get it opened for his talent. Even if his hand wasn't held the whole way like Dakota Johnson or Gwyneth Paltrow, his name gave him an edge over competition.

The nepotism troll is really off the rails. Casting does not care who you are if you can't deliver. It's show BUSINESS. Not a daycare for celeb kids.

Did anyone in the mid-90s remember Freddie Prinze Sr? I really think it's a stretch saying his long-dead briefly working father was a leg up. Aniston I'll give you, though she can now buy her father multiple times over.

Anyone could have played the jock in She's All That and Fred in Scooby-Doo. So I don't think he delivered anything distinctive.

If you consider giving bomb-ass blowjobs to old Hollywood execs a type of talent then I'm sure over half of the guys named on this list were talented.

^ If it were that easy to get cast in major films then you'd certainly be a STAR.

R19 Who the fuck is Joe Magliano?

R86 How many of the people on this list are still stars?

Edward Burns

Affleck

Affleck does have some talent. Some.

But he has no beauty.

Lovely Jamie Dornan

Rupert 😥

Ben Affleck's talent is playing himself, a self-absorbed douchebag from the East Coast. Also he was never a beauty. Butterface

Affleck was a sex symbol. A matinee himbo. Of course, not to your recherché taste.

He always had nice moobs!

Jean Marc Barr

I hate to wax his car, but he is a double Oscar winner.

Stephane Rideau

I think Casey Affleck is better-looking and more talented despite his chipmunk voice.

Ben had help with the films that he won Oscars for. And no, he’s not hot. Especially with those chicken legs and nonexistent buttocks.

They don't usually cast ugly guys as Batman. Unless you count Michael Keaton.

Keaton definitely isn't ugly.

Someone called me?

Andrew Shue

- admitting I'm probably the only one who thought he was a beauty

No r106, he was a beautiful man. But his acting hurts my feelings.

Most of them to be honest. Every now and then, you have someone effortlessly likable, charismatic, and talented like Paul Rudd who also happens to be very attractive, but it's rare.

John Ritter was another one. I always thought he was incredibly sexy, but his talent for comedy and the fact that he didn't take himself very seriously made him even more attractive.

I'd say Zac Efron, but he really excels in musicals and comes across well in those. They just don't make many of them and he's forced to do terrible bro comedies and lower tier "dramas" that show off his weak spots.

Sam Cushing Matthew Coinslot Dempsey Colton Underwood Colton Haynes Nick Mascardo

Cameron Dallas (in Mean Girls)

Eric Nies.

Matt Dillon

Franco

Christensen

Pasolini had a talent for finding riveting nobodies, and getting one performance out of them.

Hooking up with a rich, past-her-prime singer... James Brolin is #GOALS, yo.

The men annually hosting the New Year's Eve festivities coverage on CNN?!

Who?

Omg

Jonathan Groff

^ really??????? I think not.

Lorenzo Lamas

Maxwell Caulfield.

Maxwell has talent. He was great on The Colbys!

Don't you have Google, R67?

Costas Mandylor before he turned into a bloated Trumptard

Zac Efron

This thread is divine! Lots of hot guys for me to Google who I am unfamiliar with!🥰😘😘

Grant Show

I kind of liked Ted McGinley.

Jack Scalia

keanu reeves...old now tho...

Reeves is good in Speed, My Own Private Idaho, and Bill and Ted, where he played himself. He wasn't bad in Constantine, either.

I actually am in the process of majorly reassessing Keanu.

One begins to suspect that, like Marilyn, "Keanu Reeves" is a character he plays.

Acting is about pretending to be something you're not and being competent at it. So I don't think an actor who is only good as themselves should count as talented.

R135 Any time an actor is playing any part, they're acting. They're not "being themselves". They have to make lines written on a page sound real and believable, they have to react as the character. They also have to do many technical things you probably don't know anything about. But they're always giving a performance. An actor can play something they're not, or they can play something close to who they are. That's not really relevant. They're always playing a character within a dramatic situation.

Sean Connery was immensely talented playing himself, even after he could no longer rely on incredible good looks.

He made himself seem likeable.

Keanu only excels in films where he doesn't speak a lot. I've seen some of his earlier sci-fi films and oh boy...they were soooo bad!!!

The older I get, the more I realize that simply being attractive and aging well with dignity is a talent all by itself.

The best pretty boy actors are the ones who get into their 30's and come to the conclusion that they won't be pretty forever and go into character acting. A lot of them can surprise and have long careers with some very interesting work.

Jeffrey Hunter owns this thread.

Billy Baldwin.

[quote]Jeffrey Hunter owns this thread.

Ahem...

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Hurd Hatfield. I just watched The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). OMG, Hurd is so dull, stone-faced, with zero charisma. What a bore!

R140 You really think Jeffrey Hunter had no talent? I don't know what you're basing that on. He was quite good in The Frogmen, Hell To Eternity, and some other stuff. I guess you didn't think he was good in The Searchers? (I did, and his other Ford films).

R143 That's a good one.

[quote]Joe Magliano

WHO?

Think you meant Mr. Sofía Vergara, Joe Manganiello?

Ted McGinley has apparently lost the ability (or the will) to keep himself well groomed for the cameras.

But for all those minimally talented yet beautiful actors we'd have no movie industry. Face it, the actual percentage of truly great actors in the movie industry is minuscule. And that percentage is getting smaller and smaller all the time. Back in the day when they had the studio system, actors may have been treated like livestock, at least until they lucked into a role that made the studio a lot of money and made the executives sit up and take notice and pay them good money, but they were well trained by top notch acting coaches. These days we have too many actors who've never studied acting at all. They have to do a scene umpteen times until some director decides they've finally got a performance good enough to print. And many of them become big stars doing it that way. I don't know if that says more about their talent, or the fact that most movie goers have very low expectations. Lots of people couldn't tell a good performance on the screen to save their lives. As long as the actor looks handsome or pretty, they can do no wrong.

149 comments and no mention of Armie Hammer? Wtf??

Ben was HOT AF in THE TOWN. Why he doesn’t stick to that look, is beyond me. Ever since he got back with JLo, his best lewks are that of a half assed Italian gigolo, who may have the onset of dementia.

Sorry, but I have a soft spot for Pitt. I know, I know. Things didn’t end well with his ex, but I don’t plan on ever marrying the guy, so I can crush away. No harm. No foul.

And yes, I think both men ARE talented, in the right films, with the right directors.

R149, I agree with pretty much all you wrote, except for the part that most people wouldn’t be able to distinguish a good or even excellent performance, from a bias one.

Good and great acting is what makes anyone from a bus driver to a top film executive walk out of a movie theater with tears in their eyes, or laughing their asses off.

I understand the calculus for executing an perfect to almost perfect film are MANY facets, but in the end, if an actor isn’t very good to excellent in his role, the audience knows. This doesn’t stop them from loving the film. Same with lesser known British films, in America. European film in general, actually. You can get a gang banger from South Crntral to go in hard on an obscure film and cast, if the acting performances are excellent. Which underscores your point about trained actors being superior to untrained actors. Brits are usually very well trained in the dramatic arts. That’s why a gangbanger can really connect with Daniel Day Lewis. Because the best acting is when Daniel Day Lewis disappears and Abraham Lincoln has been waiting to meet you once you get on a time machine to go… back.

Great actors are great for many other reasons, however, don’t think most people don’t know great acting when they see it. They do. But they’re OK with mediocre talent as well, because that’s entertainment. Just entertain us by any means, and we’re happy. That is who we are, regardless of what particular medium of entertainment beseeches us.

Correction:

“people wouldn’t be able to distinguish a good or even excellent performance, from a bland one”.

Barry Coe.

R142: The OP said "beautiful men." Lutz has the body. His face is nothing special.

Plenty of people think Jason Momoa is beautiful. I don't, but I get that he has sex appeal. He can't act and relies on his charm in every movie.

The Town was 2010 - so shot maybe 13 years ago. Time marches. on, honey. It's the different between 36 and 49 and a zillion liters of booze and vats of fast food.

Ed Quinn

Has anyone mentioned Madison Cawthorn yet?

^ NO thank goodness.

Maddie has a talent for poopy pants.

I am reassessing Keanu because I think he realized early on why they were casting him, and it definitely wasn't his nonexistent acting talent.

The reassessment is because I think he acts the role of Keanu--wooden headed actor. I think he's something else entirely in RL that few know about.

He also knows why he is there--to be Keanu. He takes it unseriously, but still performs it. I think that's interesting.

Billy Moses of Falcon Crest (now streaming on imdb)

Bill Paxton

Bill Pullman

Zac Efron.

Jeremy Sisto

Clayton Moore

Jon-Erik Hexum

Jon Hensley

Thomas Gibson

Tammy obviously.

Henry Cavill

Tom Cruise is a fantastic actor. He has grown a lot since his early movies. He is well respected in Hollywood and continues to be an A-list actor.

R173 = scientologist 🤮

R173 So you really do post here, Tom!

R156 And he's STILL as hot. Sorry.

Chris pine is a bit of an interesting actor, doesn’t here. I was going to say neither does Jonathan Groff then I realized he does. Christ Pine too.

*belong

Gleb

Bomer

They're a dime a dozen on Instagram and TikTok. They are handsome -- some indeed are beautiful -- and they have 0% fat on their gym-honed (and steroid-helped) bodies. They shimmy and shake their crotches and butts to clips from old or current songs. They pout, they smile, or they try to look seductive.

They have no other talents.

Here's one. You might quibble with me about his beauty, but you get the picture.

R57 Redford is excellent in All the President’s Men.

Elliot Gould

r181, yup

It is becoming more prevalent. Casting directors and producers care now more how many social media followers they have than how much training they've had or what's on their resumes.

Some of the people mentioned in this thread aren't "no talents" though. Merely mediocre and can be good in the right roles.

I guess there should be another thread for beautiful men with *some* talent.

The delicious Kirk Cameron, r186.

[quote] Tammy obviously.

Who, pray tell, is "Tammy"?

Tammy Fae, Rose! The years without Jim have been very kind her.

R187 Is his talent Nearer My God to Thee?

Whatever you think of Kirk, he does have talent and is the handsome, athletic straight guy next door that WE ALL DESPERATELY WANT in our beds. Don't deny it!

Thank you, Miss Cameron.

Kirk is objectively VGL. That smile could melt ice, and you want to swim and get lost in his beautiful hazel eyes. He's basically a better looking version of NPH.

He looks like a leathery muppet.

Wait, which Muppets were made out of leather, I don’t think I remember those?

Oh, there was only one. His name is "Kirk".

Tom Welling and Ian Somerhalder

[quote]Chris pine is a bit of an interesting actor, he doesn’t belong here. I was going to say neither does Jonathan Groff then I realized he does.

Groff definitely does not belong here. Y’all are hateful.

Groff does not belong here because he's fugg. And an insufferable queen.

Groff is not attractive in the least. He has the type of look that will only increasingly make him resemble a lesbian as he ages.

What about Dash Riprock?

James Goodwin

Any soap hunk belongs here. I know you queens worship Grant Aleksander because of his legendary endowment (which I can attest to btw), but he was really a lousy actor. He didn't have the talent to make it outside of daytime.

Chris Pratt

JLo posts here as well, as witnessed on R74!

Carol Channing

R182 All the President's Men is hardly a difficult role. Good casting nothing more.

The male cast members of ABC's new drama series Promised Land, cancelled after five episodes.

Mario Lopez.

When you looked like this... talent is optional.

I thought Affkeck deserved an Oscar nomination for The Last Duel. Great support for the other actors and had some dazzling moments in his performance. I was honestly surprised.

Robert Scott Wilson

R161 Thinks all those Einsteinesque quotes of Marilyn's she reads on Facebook are real.

Jamie Dornan

Tom Welling is a great example. He was never the worst actor I'd seen, but he sure didn't bring a lot to the plate besides his perfect face. But what a face it is!

So far that I know Jamie Dornan has put in 2 very good performances - The Fall and Belfast. Haven't seen him in anything else I recall. I cannot say he has no talent. But I can say he is beautiful.

I hadn't enjoyed Dornan in much, but he was amusing and funny in that Barb and Star movie. I was surprised by how game he was to make a fool of himself.

Chris O'Donnel

Donald Trump, Jr. The man is gorgeous and could make a cactus wet, but he has no talent for politics. Still, which of us WOULDN'T do him?

Robert Scott Wilson is horrible, this 'actor' brings new meaning to the expression 'wooden acting'. I stopped watching that soap he was on, I gather this guy still has a job?

[quote]Donald Trump, Jr. The man is gorgeous and could make a cactus wet, but he has no talent for politics. Still, which of us WOULDN'T do him?

Do you have cataracts AND glaucoma? This freak is not "gorgeous". Never was, is not now. He's another Drumpf chinless wonder.

Be gone, troll.

Yup, he's a looker...

[quote]Donald Trump, Jr. The man is gorgeous and could make a cactus wet, but he has no talent for politics. Still, which of us WOULDN'T do him?

Guys' tastes in male looks really surprise me aroiund here sometimes.

Gotta love the sarcasmAnonymous

Trump's ugly genes infected all of his spawn. Ivanka had plastic surgery, so doesn't count.

* anonymous will do once

Has the beautiful, but inert Cameron Dallas been mentioned yet? Him and all those MagCon guys had sparkle, but not much more beyond that. It’s amazing how much a nonentity Blake Gray has become in a short time.

R227 I forgot about that bitch. Definitely cute and definitely talentless. Was taking money from chickenhawks as a barely legal twink while being a homophobic Bible-thumper.

R227, good lord. That's what Brad Pitt's daughter would look like if she transed.

Joe D'Alessandro was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful but was more wooden than a plank of wood. He managed to have a career beyond Warhol/Morrissey, starring in French and Italian movies throughout the 70s, still bearing it all.

[quote]Has the- beautiful, but inert Cameron Dallas been mentioned yet? Him and all those MagCon guys had sparkle, but not much more beyond that. It’s amazing how much a nonentity Blake Gray has become in a short time.

Yes, R227...I mentioned him (R110). I also included video from his Broadway debut in Mean Girls.

Finn Wittrock

R232 ...sounds like a Flintstones character

That would be Flint Wittrock

Tuc Watkins. He had good comic timing on the soaps, but he is cringe at anything remotely dramatic.

Joey could read. Don't expect too much!

R215 which is why he was perfect for the CW.

Add me to the mix if you must.

That stud Robert Tyler from that awful soap Loving. I'd watch just for him. His "acting" was atrocious, but who cares when you look like that. As a teen gayling, he was my go-to JO fantasy. I use to tape the show, pause the screen when he appeared shirtless, and JO away.

That idiot who played Jesus. Caveziel or something like that. This guy

Finn Wittrock is very talented, though. Saw him on stage a few times and he was wonderful. Stage is the real test of someone's talent (or lack thereof) and he passed with flying colors.

Finn Wittrock was really good on All My Children. But he was too good for soaps. He's definitely a talented guy. I think he dated one of his (female) co-stars from the show.

It's Finn Wolfhard who can't act. But he's cute.

R240, you wouldn't want to be friends with Jim Caveziel...he's an absolute religious nut job! Trumper?

R66, don’t you go there.

[quote]Joe D'Alessandro was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful but was more wooden than a plank of wood. He managed to have a career beyond Warhol/Morrissey, starring in French and Italian movies throughout the 70s, still bearing it all.

Joe Dallesandro appeared in many mainstream TV series, for some reason he got hired, he sure wasn't getting naked on primetime TV. He appeared in a few episodes of Miami Vice, Matlock and he was a regular during the first season of Wiseguy.

Joe also appeared as the gangster Lucky Luciano in Coppola's The Cotton Club. Last I heard he's managing an apartment building in California with his third wife.

Joe and his oldest son Mike.

The late lamented Antony Hamilton

Someone started a thread on this creature…

How could we forget Kit Harington aka Jon Snow the Emo Crow?

Klinton Spilsbury

Franco Nero in Camelot. So beautiful, so terrible. But maybe he’s a better actor in Italian.