After the six months of work on the 100 most beautiful actresses of all-time list it seemed daunting to do all of this again. Please note: this list has nothing to do with talent or character or lack thereof. The question was superficial - who are the best looking actors of all-time. That was it. You could vote for one person or ten. Thank you to the media mavens for sharing your favorites. Thankfully, there are tons of television and movie fans who know what they are talking about. This list is for fun and obviously, there are many issues we should be concerned about in our daily lives. This is meant as a fun distraction. The descriptions are intentionally corny!
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1) Paul Newman - Wit, talent and one of the most beautiful men - ever. The blue eyes were famed, but his spot-on sarcastic deliveries and sense of humor made the already stunning man even more glorious to get all goofy over. If you had the good fortune to see him in person you knew you had never seen a better looking man. Movies to watch: The Long, Hot Summer, The Hustler, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict
2) Robert Redford - The image - Redford as the Sundance Kid. Could there possibly be a more visual display of gorgeousness than Redford as the Sundance Kid? Can I move? I'm better when I move. Movies to watch: This Property is Condemned, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor
3) Brad Pitt - A sexy and physically beautiful guy without being a pretty boy. His Legends of the Fall scenery may be the best of his best. Talk about objectifying men. Movies to watch: Thelma & Louise, A River Runs Through It, Legends of the Fall
5) William Holden - Smile a little smile for me. Outside of Redford in the 1960's and 1970's, no man ever had a more gasp inspiring smile. He was a golden boy indeed. Meet him on Sunset Boulevard or at a picnic - either way you'd be having a nice day. Movies to watch: Stalag 17, Picnic, Golden Boy, The Bridge on the River Kwai
6) Don Johnson - Bone structure, eyes, hair, lips, nose. Nothing was wrong with the physicality of the man who made big white jackets and sockless feet darn right cool. He aged well to boot. Watch a Miami Vice repeat. Do yourself a favor. Movies to watch: Tin Cup
2) Robert Redford - The image - Redford as the Sundance Kid. Could there possibly be a more visual display of gorgeousness than Redford as the Sundance Kid? Can I move? I'm better when I move. Movies to watch: This Property is Condemned, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor
3) Brad Pitt - A sexy and physically beautiful guy without being a pretty boy. His Legends of the Fall scenery may be the best of his best. Talk about objectifying men. Movies to watch: Thelma & Louise, A River Runs Through It, Legends of the Fall
4) Steve McQueen - A movie legend for the ages. Not necessarily a classically handsome man, but may very well be the sexiest on-screen actor of all-time. His spin in Bullitt remains the definitive in cool. Cool watch. Cool car. Cool. Just plain out cool. Movies to watch: The Magnificent Seven, Love with the Proper Stranger, Le Mans, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt
5) William Holden - Smile a little smile for me. Outside of Redford in the 1960's and 1970's, no man ever had a more gasp inspiring smile. He was a golden boy indeed. Meet him on Sunset Boulevard or at a picnic - either way you'd be having a nice day. Movies to watch: Stalag 17, Picnic, Golden Boy, The Bridge on the River Kwai
6) Don Johnson - Bone structure, eyes, hair, lips, nose. Nothing was wrong with the physicality of the man who made big white jackets and sockless feet darn right cool. He aged well to boot. Watch a Miami Vice repeat. Do yourself a favor. Movies to watch: Tin Cup
7) Jeffrey Hunter - He rode the range in a few classic films and even portrayed a stunningly gorgeous blue-eyed Jesus Christ. Jesus was perfect, but I suspect a Jewish man in Israel probably didn't have fair skin with blue eyes. Movies to watch: King of Kings, The Searchers
8) Errol Flynn - Flynn was a womanizing cad and women loved him for it. Go figure. He was also one heck of man to look at. Unfortunately, he was his own worst enemy and pretty much looked awful by the time he turned 40. Movies to watch: Captain Blood, They Died with Their Boots On, The Sun Also Rises
9) Tyrone Power - So beautiful. If you know a woman who has seen him in a movie let her tell you what she thinks. He died at the age of 44, so his family, friends and fans were denied the privilege of seeing him live a long life. Movies to watch: Anything with Loretta Young and The Long, Gray Line
10) Clint Eastwood - Handsome man, even though he is rarely described as handsome. Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk. With the exception of Humphrey Bogart, no actor has emoted more lines of note. Movies to watch: Play Misty For Me, Tightrope, Dirty Harry, Sudden Impact, The Outlaw Josey Wales
11) Mel Gibson - I must admit it would be difficult to find a more gorgeous face than Mel Gibson in The Bounty. The scene in the car while it's raining in The Year of Living Dangerously is quite dream worthy. Freedom! It doesn't necessarily give you this face, but it does offer more options. Movies to watch: The Road Warrior, The Passion of the Christ (he's not in this film, but he directed a superbly magnificent piece of filmmaking)
12) Gregory Peck - Absolute class act, but he was a class act with a sincerely perfect face. Just a handsome movie star that also created some memorable screen moments. Movies to watch: Roman Holiday, Gentlemen's Agreement, To Kill a Mockingbird
13) Cary Grant - Witty, quick, clever, charming and he looked like Cary Grant. A romantic lead as well as a good dramatic actor and gifted with superb comic timing. Movies to watch: Monkey Business, Arsenic and Old Lace, An Affair to Remember
14) Rock Hudson - Perfectly featured man. A face for the ages. Movies to watch: Anything with Doris Day.
15) Mark Harmon - The young Mark Harmon was the classic all-American guy. Perfect example of inherited good genes.
16) Robert Wagner - Oh that smile. The suave, cool, collected Wagner. Try watching an episode of It Takes a Thief. Well, it hasn't worn well, but he was a beauty. He literally never took a bad photo.
17) Tom Selleck - He reached his physical peak in the Magnum, P.I. series. The smile could nearly kill. Great looking man.
18) Alain Delon - The French actor was almost always more beautiful than any of his leading ladies. The face lives on and remains highly memorable for anyone who ever gazed on it.
19) John Wayne - Movie buffs cannot look away from the face. His young man's face was a smoldering masculine boldness and he aged well. Movies to watch: Stagecoach, The Searchers, Red River
20) Fred Williamson - Have you seen Williamson's Public Service Announcement for Wounded Warriors? If not, look it up. He looks pretty much the same as his youthful good looks from an earlier era.
21) Richard Gere - Clearly, a sexy guy. He excels at playing romantic leads and yet he rocks out bad guys better than any other actor from his generation. Movies to watch: No Mercy, Yanks, Hachi
22) Russell Crowe - L. A. Confidential, Gladiator and the little seen The Quick and the Dead all make for one good bad boy who could probably turn a good girl into not such a good girl. Master and Commander indeed.
23) Clark Gable - Gone With the Wind. His image still resonates all these years later, so in cinema history the wind couldn't even take him away. As Adela Rogers St. Johns said about him, "No complexes, no inhibitions, no fixations, no phobias."
24) Gary Cooper - Great looking, manly man! Gorgeous features. He wasn't the luckiest man alive, but he certainly had a memorable career and face.
25) Sean Connery - Glorious bone structure. Connery is one of the best looking actors of all time. Daniel Craig may be the best Bond ever (Ian Fleming's version), but Connery will remain Bond, James Bond for a long time to come.
26) Chad Everett - Everett was a real specimen of good looks. Perfect face. Imagine that Medical Center doctor walking into the room to check up on your health?
27) Patrick Dempsey - He worked in films for years, but it was a McDreamy role on television that made him a household name.
28) Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - Fairbanks was suave and elegant and he managed to still be stunning as an old man.
29) Jack Scalia - One of the finest looking men ever to walk on planet earth. I interviewed him once and when he walked into the room I almost passed out. Well, not literally.
30) Simon Baker - Cutie pie. Baker is about as elegant as an actor in today's day and age is going to get. Aesthetically appealing.
31) Henry Cavill - Cavill is absolutely gorgeous. Pity the woman who actually lands him, since the idolatrous and stalking types will probably not let him live a normal life until he hits 75 years old. Much more than Superman.
32) Montgomery Clift - Always sad looking no matter what he was playing. A Place in the Sun brought out the ultimate in male on-screen sadness.
33) Liam Neeson - Who would you want in a foxhole with you (movie image version)? He'd be one. Man's man and woman's man. Movies to watch: Schindler's List, Rob Roy, Taken
35) Johnny Depp - The weirdest choice good looking guy in the entire history of cinema. Movies to watch: Pirates of the Caribbean
36) Warren Beatty - One heck of a gorgeous man. Heaven Can Wait may have been his best looking period. Movies to watch: Bonnie & Clyde, Splendor in the Grass
37) Matthew McConaughey - Eclectic and seemingly down-to-earth. A terrific actor with great looks. His Oscar acceptance speech was one of the most sincere acceptances of all-time. Seems real in an unreal world.
38) Denzel Washington - Always a sturdy presence in any film. Great looks spanning a wildly successful long-haul career. Movies to watch: The Equalizer series of films, The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
39) George Clooney - How do you not put him on this list? Lots of women still hark back to his television days and not his film career.
40) Rob Lowe - Absolutely beautiful and he has aged well. Unavoidably handsome.
41) Colin Firth - Whether playing a King or Mr. Darcy this is one fine looking specimen of maleness.
43) Jack Lord - Star of the original Hawaii Five-O survives via repeats. Nearly fifty years later those early year episodes give us the display of a handsome man.
44) Ryan Reynolds - Funny and cute. Will he be around for the long-haul? We can hope.
45) John Gavin - Gorgeous. Nothing else needs to be said.
46) Andy Garcia - Appealing actor and handsome. The only reason to sit through The Godfather 3 movie.
47) Antonio Banderas - Desperado. Basically, you need to see nothing beyond this film and it may be the reason why he even landed on the list.
48) Tom Cruise - He is literally one of the biggest movie stars of all-time and he is certainly the biggest movie star of his era. Highly likable and adorable. Movies to watch: Top Gun, Cocktail (it's bad, but he's so cute), Mission Impossible series of films, Top Gun: Maverick
49) Leonardo DiCaprio - The last of the true movie stars who can honestly open a movie. Beautiful face. Perfectly cast as Jay Gatsby. He defined what Fitzgerald put on the page. Movies to watch: The Great Gatsby, The Revenant
50) George Peppard - Gorgeous guy whether having breakfast at Tiffany's or being a carpetbagger.
51) James Dean - September 30,1955. A sad day in film history. The world lost James Dean. Lovely to look at.
52) Sidney Poitier - Sophisticated and elegant and we respectfully say to sir with love.
53) Christopher Jones - A gifted actor who left the screen after the traumatic experience of 1970's Ryan's Daughter (long story, but look it up, since it's interesting and sad). He should have been one of the biggest stars in the world.
54) Burt Reynolds - One of the most underrated actors ever. The laugh alone is glorious.
55) Colin Farrell - A stunning face. Those brows!
56) Pierce Brosnan - Suave and elegant. Quite pleasing to the eye.
57) Eric Bana - A strong and cultured bone structure. Nice looking man.
58) Stuart Martin - A full bodied man of masculinity and charisma. He's also a superb actor. He plays guys bent on action, but we want to see him in a love story.
59) Hugh Jackman - Jackman is power pumped with a massively attractive physique, but he has a great face as well.
60) Chris Hemsworth - The guy certainly has it all.
61) Sam Elliott- Sexy, manly actor and that voice. That voice. Katharine Ross makes a lovely wife too.
62) Robert Urich - Urich was a dreamboat and he died way too young. A terrific actor who happened to be a dreamy guy. Long and lean with perfect features.
63) Blair Underwood - Good looking man and classic looking as well.
64) Tom Hardy - May not exactly frame vulnerability, but when he smiles, he lights up the screen.
65) Terrence Howard - Howard is darn near pretty. Women love his face.
66) Marlon Brando - As Irene Selznick said about him "I honestly think that broken nose made his fortune. It gave him sex appeal. He was too beautiful before."
67) Josh Lucas - Masculine guy with a pearly set of baby blues.
68) Richard Burton - The face was only slightly less stunning than that amazing voice. What voice could top that?
69) Robert Taylor - Somewhat forgotten now, but not by the true old movie buffs.
71) James Marsden - Nice looking man indeed.
72) Peter O'Toole - The image of him from Lawrence of Arabia may very well be the most hauntingly beautiful image of any man at any time.
73) Paul Walker - God rest his soul. What a stunner.
74) Keanu Reeves - Effortless is about all you have to say.
75) Theo James - The Divergent series proved he's got the manly abilities and he's proven he can act. In any other era he would already be a huge star, but in the world of no celebrities, 500 channels and fewer and fewer films being made he hasn't broken out.
76) Idris Elba - Any women who has seen him - gets it.
77) Gerard Butler - Big and brawny and all man.
78) Alexander Skarsgard - I don't know if you can handle this. Too much going on.
79) Sean Bean - How on earth did Sean Bean not become a household name? One of the sexiest men ever in films and television. Handsome Brit who could be Luke Bracey's father. Someone make that casting happen. Masculine manly man!
81) Alex Pettyfer - I Am Number Four. He could never be a number four. Don't hold Magic Mike against him. Gorgeous, gorgeous guy. T-shirts and blue jeans or tuxedos. Doesn't matter.
82) Michael Douglas - Douglas could do no wrong. Energy, positivity and self-assurance.
83) Henry Fonda - Finely featured man who held a long-haul career in a fickle business.
84) Richard Harris - Crossing the Atlantic you tend to get men like Richard Harris. There is a scene in the film Hawaii that defines Harris and his reason for obviously making this list.
85) Farley Granger - Granger had one heck of a great face. Now, that's a profile shot to end all profile shots.
86) Tim Kang - Gorgeous Kang needs to have a bigger career.
87) Billy Dee Williams - Brian's Song, Lady Sings the Blues and just about anything he was in. Watch them all.
88) Chris Noth - Guts, sarcasm, a wink and a smile.
89) Roger Moore - Not the best of Bonds, but certainly one with a darn near perfect face.
90) James Garner - He made wit, charm and a sense of humor appealing and sexy.
91) Robert Conrad - Take a ride with a wild, wild West. Those eyes.
92) Kurt Russell - How much cuter can a guy get? Women love that smile.
93) Christian Bale - One of the great actors of all-time is also a looker.
94) Jack Nicholson - People tend to forget Nicholson's killer smile was a force all its own before it almost became a caricature. Movies to watch: Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He even made Randall P. McMurphy sexy.
96) Ryan O'Neal - Dashing and romantic.
97) Richard Madden - Game of Thrones and Disney's Cinderella. Wavy hair and structured features. Do yourself a favor - watch Klondike. Seriously, watch Klondike.
98) Ryan Gosling - Romantic lead for a reason and he can actually act.
99) Aidan Turner - Turner is quite the example of the luck of the Irish. Superbly crafted face - a gift from his folks and God. He's quite handsome and hopefully he will have a career where people are still talking about him ten years from now.
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What a wonderful celebration of male beauty! One forgets how many truly stunning men have graced our screens. Your comment about Antonio Banderas made me laugh. Desperado is playing on the TV as I write this and it was his sublime face that led me to look for this list. ��
ReplyDeleteMy personal choices would have also included Taye Diggs, Raoul Bova (Under The Tuscan Sun) and the tragic Australian actor, Jon Blake.
Dubbed as 'the next Mel Gibson', Blake's fast-rising career was halted abruptly when his car crashed after the last day of filming 'The Lighthorsemen', leaving him with severe brain damage. I'd been following his career and remember being shattered when I heard the news. A gorgeous and talented man.
Kerensa, What a lovely reply. We appreciate your taking the time to comment with such clarity and elegance.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent lists, with some pretty faces I'd forgotten about--young Alec Baldwin, Chris Noth. I would add Jeff Chandler--what an underrated Hollywood hunk.
ReplyDeleteWhere's James Franco
ReplyDeleteI surely would think that Elvis (33 films) would qualify as one of the top 100 most handsome actors in Hollywood history but what do I know.
ReplyDeleteTom I - Elvis is one of the most gorgeous men God ever created. Shockingly, he received very few votes and we assume it's because most people don't associate him with acting. His dominance in music is so profound that this can be the only reason why he didn't get votes.
DeleteI was wondering the same thing!
DeleteJim Caviezel has to make any list like this.
ReplyDeleteKaren17 - Those of us on this blog love Jim Caviezel, but he didn't get enough votes to get into the top 100.
DeleteWhere is Robert Di Nero???
ReplyDeletewhat about Steven Seagal?
ReplyDeleteI would have included Horst Bucholz and George Chakiris
ReplyDeleteTerrific list but where's Burt Lancaster?
ReplyDeleteIm expecting Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap to appear in the list as well. So shocked that he did not make it to Top 100.
ReplyDeleteCalvin Lockhart belongs on the List- The Man was Stunning...
ReplyDeleteWhat about Jon eric hexum> I am a guy, a straight guy...but he has to at least be top 20
ReplyDeleteRiver Phoenix (Rest In Peace)
ReplyDeleteZac Efron...he's absolutely beautiful.
How about Dana Andrews, Glen Ford and Ray Milland?
ReplyDeleteHeath Ledger was beautiful! May he Rest In Peace.
ReplyDeleteGreat list, but you left off quite a few other stunning actors like Jimmy Stewart, Sean Connery, Robert Culp, Mike Connors and Gene Barry just to name a few.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot the handsome, sexy, cowboy Robert Fuller as Jess Harper in Laramie.
ReplyDeleteWhat about beautiful Edward Albert.. star of Butterflies Are Free. He was gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteNo way. He is not one of the best looking actors of all-time. Subjective opinions.
DeleteNever heard of Patrick McGoohan?
ReplyDeleteYes, we have heard of Patrick McGoohan and he is not one of the 100 most beautiful actors of all-time.
ReplyDeleteI can't forget the ones I look at time after time, Jeremy Renner and Brendan Fraser. Here my favourite are Russel Crowe, George Peppard, Robert Wagner and Bradley Cooper.
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