# Who were the five most beautiful \*men\* in the history of film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853 "2005-12-22T20:08:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/21 "2005-12-22T23:16:10Z")
At last, a thread I can get behind 100%. Gregory Peck in Spellbound. Breathtaking. Paul Newman in anything. Johnny Depp in anything, even at his grungiest. Gary Cooper in Morocco (rumor has it that he broke his male co-star’s heart during that picture) Montgomery Clift before the accident ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/22 "2005-12-22T23:16:41Z")
Who am I kidding? Sex scenes in movies are NOT realistic. I should have said “more graphic.” ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/23 "2005-12-22T23:32:37Z")
Paul Newman George Clooney Ekin Chang - I’d link to a picture, but none of them do him justice. You gotta see the boy in motion. Gregory Peck Young Elvis and my all time favorite: Antonio Banderas ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/24 "2005-12-22T23:41:28Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > It’s odd, but the classic hotties are guys (with the exception perhaps of Valentino and James Dean) you don’t particularly care about seeing nekkid, while the current hotties are marketed that way (in fact, most you’ve seen nekkid on screen). I’m going to beg to differ here. One of the great sorrows of my life is never seeing Gregory Peck naked. And there’s not a man on my list that I wouldn’t have kept chained to the bed given the opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/25 "2005-12-22T23:44:51Z")
[Gary Cooper](http://silentgents.com/PCooper.html) [John Gilbert](http://silentgents.com/PGilbert1.html) [Max Linder](http://silentgents.com/PLinder.html) [Ramon Novarro](http://silentgents.com/PNovarro2.html) [Rudolph Valentino](http://silentgents.com/PRudy2.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/26 "2005-12-22T23:55:06Z")
> [@Kitchen Wench](#): > > And you know what? I think the romantic kisses between say, Grace Kelly and Cary Grant were just as steamy as the sex scenes in Basic Instinct. Whatever happened to leaving more to the imagination? For me one of the sexiest scenes ever was when Rhett grabbed Scarlett and carried her up the staircase with her fighting him but very obviously wanting it just as much as he did (and her next morning glee). Not so much as an ankle was seen and somehow you knew they hadn’t spent the night playing a heated game of Texas Hold 'Em. (The deleted scene where a drunken Mammy carries a fighting Ashley up the stairs is almost as sexy, but not quite.) I don’t pretend not to like the site of pretty male flesh on screen (I’d walk 40 NYC transit free blocks to see _Brokeback Mountain_), but for sexy rather than sexual the imagination has it. The “book” scene from _Remains of the Day_ between Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins was in many ways much hotter than 90% of the graphic sex scenes in movies. ---
**Author:** ![Sinek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Sinek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinek)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/27 "2005-12-22T23:55:58Z")
[Takeshi Kaneshiro](http://www.kineda.com/photos/film/perhaps_love.jpg) [Paul Newman](http://tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/images/4145n034.jpg) [Jude Law](http://empress.buzzstuff.net/archives/Jude%20Law-thumb.jpg) [Alain Delon](http://www.younggalleryphoto.com/photography/perier/images/photo08.jpg) [James Dean](http://home.earthlink.net/~walkoffame/Deanphoto.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/28 "2005-12-22T23:56:36Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > [Max Linder](http://silentgents.com/PLinder.html) I think that losing the moustache would improve him 200%. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/29 "2005-12-23T00:01:23Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Young [Marlon Brando](http://www.bookofjoe.com/images/v_17.jpg) You got somethin’ against bald, obese older guys? Sheesh… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/30 "2005-12-23T00:17:34Z")
[Rudolf Valentino](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1315/0819_0323.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Valentino,%20Rudolph&seq=6) [Erroll Flynn](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1260/0803_1015.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Flynn,%20Errol%20(I)&seq=17) [Gregory Peck](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1310/0288_0143.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Peck,%20Gregory&seq=16) [Sidney Poitier](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1368/5502_0006.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Poitier,%20Sidney&seq=48) [Val Kilmer](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0132512/AU29_2_25.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Kilmer,%20Val&seq=25) ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/31 "2005-12-23T00:55:30Z")
In order: Gregory Peck Laurence Olivier Young Harrison Ford Young James Garner Cary Grant ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/32 "2005-12-23T01:00:52Z")
Ewan McGregor Christian Bale Goran Visnjic Cary Grant Gregory Peck ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/33 "2005-12-23T01:19:47Z")
Gregory Peck Robert Redford Orlando Bloom Brad Pitt Antonio Banderas And I like [David Wenham](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/2456/Events/2456/DavidWenha_Grani_2659181_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Wenham,%20David) (Faramir in LOTR), big nose and all, he looks like my old high school sweetheart. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/34 "2005-12-23T01:42:03Z")
**Alive** Johnny Depp Jason Statham Ian Gryffyd ( Horatio Hornblower) Colin Firth Brad Pitt Oliver Martinez Antonio Banderas Rob Lowe ( Can’t act, but pretty to look at.) Hugh Laurie The Nasty Cocksucker Bar Owner from Deadwood. There are several Asian actors whose names escape me that make me go Humina Humina… **Dead** James Cagney Errol Flynn Tyrone Power ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/35 "2005-12-23T01:43:33Z")
**Yul Brynner** ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/36 "2005-12-23T02:02:57Z")
Denzel Washington Tom Cruise Brad Pitt Ryan O’Neal Vin Diesel ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/37 "2005-12-23T02:16:20Z")
“Guys and Dolls”-era Marlon Brando Gregory Peck Ralph Fiennes Robert Sean Leonard Denzel Washington ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/38 "2005-12-23T02:52:46Z")
Good lord, how could I have forgotten [Djimon Hounsou](http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050720/050720_hounsou_vlg_4p.widec.jpg)?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Stinkum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Stinkum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinkum)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-the-five-most-beautiful-men-in-the-history-of-film/336853/39 "2005-12-23T04:11:52Z")
Ralph Fiennes Sidney Poiter (even as a seasoned citizen – rowr) Brad Pitt James Dean ---
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