Who is the most handsome man in the 20th or 21st centuries?

How fucking drunk are you?

R1 Oh pardon me, fuckface. I didn’t realize that this topic was beneath you.

Guy Madison. He's the one you'll always come back to.

Ryan Reynolds. There I said it.

Cary Grant

Marlon Brando

Agree with R3 - Guy was ridiculously sexy

William Holden

Paul Newman

Usually it's a turnoff, but one of the best things about Guy is that he seemed to know how hot he was. He also seemed to have a sense of boredom about his looks too. It's a good mixture.

Montgomery Clift, pre-1956.

Tanner Novlan

Carrot Top

I would crawl through broken glass for the young Franco Nero.

Gregory Peck is near perfection

Agreed. Mr Peck was a beautiful looking man.

Warren Beatty

I don’t think anyone currently is more handsome than Nicholas Alexander Chavez of General Hospital and Netflix’s upcoming Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story.

Tyrone Power.

Garrett Neff

Howard Stern

Rick Nelson

Chaz Bono

Really, R1?? I’d bet$100 that you’d be all over someone who looked exactly like him and wanted to shag you. He may not be your top pick in answer to the question, but most people with a brain and at least one good eye would say that, in his prime, JFK, JR. was a piping hot dish.

A guy I knew slightly in college.

So what I'm getting here mostly is young people, or people that were young when the poster was? Because I could find hot looking 20-30 year olds on TikTok that could match these suggestions on looks alone, acting ability or rizz notwithstanding.

Marcello Mastroianni

Qwhite the list, DL.

Who do you think is on DL, r29? And whom would you choose?

[quote] Who is the most handsome man in the 20th or 21st centuries?

Well, it would be highly immodest of me to reveal the answer…

Quite big tits, r19.

The gold standard.

I'm either 12 or 82!

Guess which it is!!!!!!

The new gold standard

Clint Walker

Cary Grant.

Poster r35 = Picasso.

R16- I agree

TOTAL dreamboat- which for me means very good looking but also a good person on the inside.

I thought r19 was GG, of GG thread fame.

Clark Gable. Hands down.

I could also go a couple rounds with Jon Hamm or Jason Momoa if they could keep their yaps shut. Their personalities annoy me but they are both super handsome.

Gary...

Elias Koteas

Henry Cavill

Timothee Chalamet

Enver Gjokaj floats my boat. (Though not enough to watch an NCIS show.)

Goran Visnjic

Denzel Washington

Marcus Chong

Tyson Bedford

Shemar Moore

Bradley Cooper

[quote]Enver Gjokaj floats my boat. (Though not enough to watch an NCIS show.)

You can watch him on Resident Alien this season.

Demond Wilson

Cha Eun Woo - Korean Actor/Singer

'50s-'60s bodybuilder Dick Dubois was the handsomest man I've ever seen.

Alain Delon

R36, You can see him every 11:00 a.m. on the "Heroes and Icons" Channel.

Nic Cage

R20, I’ve never seen the beauty in Tyrone Power. Same with John Wilkes Booth, the so-called handsomest man of his era.

Viggo Mortensen

James Edwards

Seriously, R57?

Stephen Boyd

Yep, R60.

Christopher Walken

Broad opinion questions of this superlative nature are really stupid.

No one had a better chin than Stephen Boyd.

Marcus Chong

Gregory Peck. He also had a swoonworthy voice.

Eric Trump

R3 That's exactly who I was going to say.

Jeffrey Hunter

Hart Bochner

Francis X Bushman makes my sphincter dilate.

^ He did the trick for me.

Francis is interesting. I read his book. It's amazing how many statues in NYC he posed for.

R57 Actor Booth, his brother, was the handsomer brother anyway.

Young Brad Pitt.

William Holden

Paul Newman

Paul Walker

Alain Delon

R57, It's his "defect" of double sets of eyelashes, same as Elizabeth Taylor had.

But truth to tell, I forgot about #1 ALAIN DELON, so thank you, r54 and r80!

Alain:

Trying a different link:

Edgar Ramirez

George Santos.

Matt Bomer

Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power for me. It's a tie.

Two examples of physical perfection, Tyrone Power and Loretta Young.

Jon Erik Hexum was better looking than many of these men. Interestingly, like JFK Jr, he was homely as a teen, and then exploded into great beauty as an adult.

Young Vincent Price.

JFK JR homely as a teen? Get your fucking eyes checked.

R90 Damn! Vincent Price was a hot piece!

Until he opened his mouth and every purse in the state of Maine fell out of Vincent's mouth.

FUN FACT

Vincent Price was Melissa Rivers’ godfather.

We really need a poll on where we stand on Tyrone Power’s looks.

Go look at Tyrone is something other than stills. Most of his movies are up on YouTube. Gene Tierney was in love with him for most of her adult life.

R96, So was Lana Turner.

So interesting, their all beautiful,can’t decide-great question OP

I always loved Dirk Bogarde

If we lined them up, the majority share a lantern jaw and pronounced temples.

r100, please look through the portfolio of pics at r21 and tell us if Garrett Neff has a lantern jaw and pronounced temples. Thank you so much.

Surprised no one's mentioned John Barrymore.

Or John Gilbert, or Robert Taylor.

I agree with the young Gary Cooper.

^ Not the image of "young" Coop I intended to post.

George O'Brien

James Dean

John Wayne

Sean Connery

Rudolph Valentino

Impossible. BUT if I HAD to choose...Henry Cavill.

Sidney Crosby

Obscure model/actor Thyago Alves of David's Birthday. He was Antinous redux. Now sells real estate in Brazil

Tyrone Power was in love with Judy Garland. They had an on again off again relationship. He really wanted to marry her but she knew he "had issues." He was forced into a marriage to Linda Christian. But he pined for Judy. He and Linda had a rocky time of it.

Right now I am watching A Streetcar Named Desire and my gawd, Marlon Brando was a beauty! I think I will put him on the list. Young Marlon was seriously a perfect combination of pure sex and pure beauty.

Can we confine our selections to those who did Talkies?

In his prime, Marlon Brando is hard to beat. Paul Newman comes close, but Brando was a little less pretty and a little more handsome.

R114, Would one of Tyrone’s issues have been that he liked dick?

That certainly didn’t stop Judy from marrying other gay men.

R114, Tyrone Power knocked up Lana Turner and after she aborted the pregnancy, he went off with Linda Christian.

JFK, Jr is definitely top ten for me, as well as Gregory Peck.

Damn…

Young Chet Baker was a dreamboat. Both as a singer, musician and as a looker. Shame the dope took its toll on him.

6th one down:

Sadly Tyrone Powers hard living was already destroying his looks before age 30.

^ Thought it was the poop sandwiches.

here

....and here.

Harry Belafonte

R115 Pretty sure John Barrymore did talkies...

Tyrone Power’s WML? mystery guest appearance at 17:10 was one of the most unusual ever.

JWB

^ And he was the most handsome man of his era?!

R131, Fuck, yeah.

^ If so, I would have been a god back then.

R108 needs a separate thread

R130 and R132 aren't the same person.

The parameters of this question are quite broad, but I'll give my very subjective answer: Idris Elba.

R132 is Robert Todd Lincoln, Abe and Mary’s boy.

Who would say “No” to John Wilkes Booth?

He was quite the cocksman, juggling sleeping with several women at the same time.

Booth was obviously good looking, but the standards then were different for male beauty. Most grown men (except Lincoln) were built like adolescents and weren't very tall or robust. There were not a lot of celebs, then, either, or actors people had seen in person. And you can't judge by photos alone.

In order to really appreciate John Wilkes Booth’s allure, you had to see him in person.

If Booth was obviously good-looking, he was obviously not photogenic.

R141 needs to visit an optometrist.

R142 types fugly.

I don’t understand those who don’t see the handsome in Tyrone Power. In his early career he was one of the best looking men on the screen.

R144 And his son, Tyrone Power Jr., was one of the aliens in the movie Cocoon. He was the spitting image of his father and was absolutely gorgeous.

R145 Tyrone Power Jr. in Cocoon.

All of these guys had it when they were young. Buy how many were able to do this 30 years apart.

Not many

sorry about that

Clive Owen

R1, r25, r89, r91:

Mario Girotti aka Terrance Hill

Raul Bova

Robert Iannucci by Bruce Weber for Calvin Klein:

The 63-year old Robert Iannucci todayish.

r155, is there a way to see that if you're not a Linked In member? Thank you.

Hmm, R156, I'm not a LinkedIn member & I can view it. Google Robert Iannucci LinkedIn. The first hit should be "20+ 'Robert Iannucci' profiles". He's the 2nd guy on the list.

R156 . . .

Ronald Colman.

This is one of the more beautiful young men I've ever seen.

Brant Daugherty.

Agreed, R160. He auditioned on American Idol a few years ago.

Marion Morrison aka John Wayne looks like a gay Bono in the photo @r108. No wonder he was John Ford’s favorite actor.

Sometimes I just look at this and think how could one guy could get it all.

R163 You look at that and see Bono?

[quote] This is one of the more beautiful young men I've ever seen.

Here is Louis Solywoda's (aka Lou Dawg) Idol audition.

R166 - he sure is a beauty!

Very good looking. I knew a guy who looked something like this in college, but he had real problems interacting with other people. He would piss people off just by being so cold and without friendliness. Someone actually asked me to befriend him - his girlfriend - because he had no guy friends. I tried, and couldn't. Not a bad person, not mean, not a jerk, just shut down and cold.

Harry Hamlin

With the sound off The Mark of Zorro looks like the Mexican version of The Dueling Cavalier. Si, si, si. No, no, no, ⚔️

Terence Stamp

[quote] Who would say “No” to John Wilkes Booth?

Anyone who realized he did not belong to the 20th or 21st centuries.

John Wilkes Booth is timeless.

Sic semper ad interfectores.

Surprising no one has mentioned Jude Law… in his prime, perhaps the most beautiful man alive, especially in The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1998. Twenty years later, in his late-40s in the HBO series The Young/New Pope he was/is incredibly sexy, charismatic and beautiful. And, bonus, he can actually act!

Richard Chamberlain

Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley, showing everything.

Eduardo Noriega is the most gorgeous man I've ever seen in the last 25 years.

French actor Alain Delon

I don't care for Jude Law's looks, I don't get it at all. Average-looking. And a big head on a small body.

And balding.

Surprised no one mentioned Rock Hudson. Or Robert Taylor.

(Oh, I forgot. I mentioned Taylor.)

"Everybody knows this answer. Just today a General in my Army---I say 'my Army' because they still love me, you know that, right? I told the Tabilan, the Tall bans, you know Old Joe wants to ban your gas stove, your gas car, but we have oil. We have diesel. Those Pelosi Windmills kill Bald Eagles, that's like killing America, but Biden wants that. I told those Afkhazi leaders in my White House---I can still call it 'White,' right? Don't want Fani Fani Bo Banni to arrest me on another phony carge---great leaders, I told them Trump would get American soldiers out of Afghannesburg. That's why my Army loves me.

And this big strong General comes up to me with tears in his eyes, and he says to me, 'Sir, You are more than America's greatest President. You have been the best-looking man in America in more than a hundred years!'

So I have to nominate myself."

Was just watching "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and John Gavin was the most impossibly beautiful man ever.

That's a really gay sentence.

British actor Nicholas Clay (1946 - 2000) RIP. Beautiful face and body, especially that rocking ass.

"Most handsome," compared to Alain and Tyrone and Paul, r187?

Are we now just naming actors?

Any minute now someone will post "Steve Buscemi."

Tom Berrenger

Of all the posts on here, r188, you take issue with Nicholas Clay? He's gorgeous.

Another Nicholas Clay photo.

Tom Berenger was breathtaking (Mary!) in Looking For Mr. Goodbar… who knew he had that rocking body as a youth? Of course, the film is famously little-seen due to the music rights issues, but his beauty in it is a thing to behold.

Elvis

Nicolas Clay is mostly remembered for his ass in “Evil under the Sun”.

I love Nicolas Clay in Peggy Sue got Married and Moonstruck. but most handsome?

Michael Pare

Oh wow R196 who is he?

Hideo Muraoka, half-Japanese, half-Brazilian. All beautiful.

Shahid Kapoor

Godfrey Gao.

Bruce Campbell

Is that a joke, r195?

Donald Trump

John Gavin was impossibly handsome, but he had no personality whatsoever and he couldn't act if his life depended on it. He quit acting to become the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. I get that he quit acting, but I was mystified by his appointment as a diplomat.

R204 He was half Mexican, fluent in Spanish, and had some experience in that area. Also he was a Republican (appointed by Ronald Reagan).

R200 That's a good one. RIP

Matt Gaetz

Rock was a10. John Gavin was a 9. Apples and oranges. I like both. 🤓

Michael Pare looks like Marlon and Sal’s surrogate love child birthed by Jill Haworth.

Yes, R128 in replay to R115 - John Barrymore certainly was in talkies. He was, in fact, in one of the best star-studded comedies of the 1930s, Dinner At Eight (and if Marie Dressler isn't a DL fave, she should be). By 1933, when DAE was made, Barrymore was pretty washed up in the looks department, if you ask me. That worked for him in the role. When he was in his 20s, though, he was hot hot hot! Here's another one:

in *reply*

So many hot men on this thread.

John Gavin.....Ahhhhhhh........

Man, there's no accounting for taste.

T. Chalamet

If R214 is responding to R213, that is most definitely not a representative photo of John Gavin.

Watch Midnight Lace and Psycho if you want to see Gavin in all his glory. Although Paul Newman will always be first on my list of the most beautiful men in film. And I agree with r216. That photo doesn’t do JG justice.

Tyrone Power in his early prime. I'm talking about his twenties. His hard living of chain smoking (4 packs a day), excessive drinking of hard liquor and poor sleeping habits did a real number on his looks and his health. He was already looking badly aged by 30. In retrospect it shouldn't have been a big surprised he looked like he was pushing 60 by age 44 when he died.

No love for Bob Conrad, the handsomest man of the1960s?

Steve

Not sure when the linked photo of Tyrone Power was taken, but god almighty he looks older than his death age of 44.

R221 Same with Steve Inhat, who was mainly a TV character actor with roles on Star Trek, Gunsmoke, Mannix, etc.

He was only 37 when he died of a heart attack in 1972, but he looked at least 50.

Paul Newman (he was like a Greek god) or Robert Redford during his Sundance kid period (nobody wore a better mustache).

R221 Tyrone Powers was a cautionary tale of how not to live. Burning the candle at both end for 20 years not only destroys one's looks, it can also significantly cut your life span.