PETER O’TOOLE, OF COURSE. NEVER WAS THERE ANYONE MORE BEAUTIFULLY HANDSOME THAN PETER AS T.E. LAWRENCE IN “LAWRENCE OF ARABIA”. HE WAS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS IN HIS GREAT, UNFORGETTABLE PERFORMANCE. ONE OF THE GREATEST ACTORS EVER IN ONE OF THE GREATEST FILMS EVER.
Jimmy Stewart
Alain Delon
Marcello Mastroianni
Jean-Pierre Léaud
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I thought I had weird taste in men, but I guess I’m not that different from Nessa and Andrea:
Christopher Lee, Leslie Howard, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jimmy Stewart, Basil Rathbone, Robert Donat, David Niven in “A Matter of Life And Death”, Gene Kelly, Bogart (esp. in “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”, for some reason), Jeremy Irons, James Spader, anyone with the last name Sutherland, pre-1990 John Cusack, Harrison Ford, Edward Norton. :-)
I don’t really find any other actors at all attractive.
I guess I would have to say Johnny Depp is really gorgeous on many levels. I love him the most in Edward Scissorhands, and in Before Night Falls, strangely.
In addition:
Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Benicio Del Toro in Excess Baggage
Maurice Ronet in Le Feu follet – very particularly Parisian sort of boyish charm
Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – really because his acting is so stellar in this film
and I thought Nuri Bilge Ceylan was quite ruggedly handsome in Climates, I was thinking about certain close-ups of his face for some time after watching the film.
Oh yes, and I always thought Rhett Butler in ‘Gone With the Wind’ really had something.
Totally, Jenny, totally.
It’s sad that T had to explain the definition of an actor to some of you. People who post here are supposed to know this stuff already.
If we’re wanting to talk male actors, though, I think Albert Finney was pretty good looking in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning. And no one is more handsome than Cary Grant. He just can’t be out-handsomed. George Clooney would be his modern equivalent, but it’s not really close.
Walter Matthau.
Arnold Stang kaff-kaff
Peter Stormare
Armageddon was a terrible movie, but I thought he was freaking hilarious. Also those Volkswagen commercials, classic.
Marlon Brando in his prime
Ralph Fiennes
Paul Newman
Rene Lavan
That Castelnuovo fella
Fabio Testi
William Holden in Sunset Blvd.
Gerard Butler
That Victor Krum dude
Mel Gibson up until the early 90s
Tatsuya Nakadai was fine
James Taylor in Two Lane Blacktop
Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man
Jean-Pierre Cassel in Army of Shadows
Alain Delon in anything
Jean-Paul Belmondo in anything
Joe Dellesandro. Isn’t he supposed to be Warhol’s statuesque ideal of masculine beauty?
Alain Delon. He’d turn me gay if I was a hundred years older.
Dermot Mulroney
Billy Crudup
Harpo Marx! no doubt about that :)
C’mon, everybody needs to love Harpo. It’s terapeutic.
Gort
Robby
R2D2
Greta Garbo.
James Dean and Clint Eastwood from the 50s and 60s.
I’m infatuated with Kim Novak in Vertigo.
Toshirō Mifune
Joe is Paul’s ideal of male beauty. Andy’s was Philip Fagin — a “Black Irish” hustler who appeared in “Harlot” (1965) and who Andy shor more 3 minute silent “portrait” of than any ohter individual.
Paul Newman
this topical view of people isn’t very healthy for cinema or life
this is not a topical view of cinema or life, but a heartfelt view of a topical subject.
no apologies for my drooling over the Butler’s topical awesomeness.
EDIT: well, “topical view of people”, it was said… still, no apologies. beauty is a gift from the heavens.
It’s too hard for me to pick the most beautiful actor first to mind is James Dean but then I thought of about 100 others also some actors only looked handsome in some roles to me. (ex: Buster Keaton- The General).
Most beautiful actress on the other hand is by far Grace Kelly
Kathy Burke
Doinel
Peter Lorre