The Sexiest Actors?

[Dame Starry]

Originally Posted by batman ... and has a great ass too, I'm told Bats.

Interesting Bats - does Leo keep a lot of livestock?

...and don't think your signed photo of Maxwell Reed impressed me - I've heard all about HIM!
In retaliation I may have to post my own signed photo of Tom Adams - he of 'The Great Escape' - but he's not quite as high in my Top 10 as Sam. And, if I was 20 years youn.......oh, alright then........30 years younger, I wouldn't look twice at half of these baby-faced boys now. Well okay, I'll admit Jack Davenport's not bad...............but I'll only admit that under pressure!

Starry x.

[batman]

Originally Posted by Starry-Eyed Interesting Bats - does Leo keep a lot of livestock? ...and don't think your signed photo of Maxwell Reed impressed me - I've heard all about HIM! In retaliation I may have to post my own signed photo of Tom Adams - he of 'The Great Escape' - but he's not quite as high in my Top 10 as Sam. And, if I was 20 years youn.......oh, alright then........30 years younger, I wouldn't look twice at half of these baby-faced boys now. Well okay, I'll admit Jack Davenport's not bad...............but I'll only admit that under pressure! Starry x.

I bet what you heard about Max comes from Joan Collins' dreadful book ... a couple of people came out in defence of Max at the time of it's publication so I'll go along with them. He may not have been a saint, but then who is? Well, apart from all those people who are Saints like St. Paul etc.

I met Tom Adams once on the set of one of those furniture ads he used to do. A very nice chap I thought.

As for Leo's livestock, I hear he also is the proud owner of a very lively male chicken Bats.

[Joenoir]

Originally Posted by batman I bet what you heard about Max comes from Joan Collins' dreadful book ... Bats.

Max Speaks!

[batman]

Originally Posted by Joenoir Max Speaks!

FANTASTIC !!!! Where on earth did you find that? More please ...... Bats.

[Lord Brett]

Originally Posted by batman etc. I met Tom Adams once on the set of one of those furniture ads he used to do. A very nice chap I thought.

Would you have met Alan Perry at the same time? He's an ex-Gerry Anderson director who made those adverts for years. An entertaining guy who's always good for a story or two.

[batman]

Originally Posted by Lord Brett Would you have met Alan Perry at the same time? He's an ex-Gerry Anderson director who made those adverts for years. An entertaining guy who's always good for a story or two.

I wasn't introduced to the director but he seemed like a nice friendly guy too ... is he any relation to Bill Perry who used to do Sale of the Century? I knew Bill's son Adam quite well years ago when we both had saturday jobs in a car parts shop !!!

Bats.

[silverwhistle]

Originally Posted by Moor Larkin Wasn't Jeremy Irons rather a dish?[/IMG]

I think Jeremy has improved with age, looks-wise. (I remember him as a presenter on Playaway!)He was one of the best things in Kingdom of Heaven. It was a total balls-up historically, with a dreadful script (DC no better than theatrical cut), but the cinematography was good, and Jeremy at least looked like the descriptions of his character's real-life original, Count Raymond III of Tripoli.

[silverwhistle]

Originally Posted by Mrs Rickman Alan Rickman wins for me! He's closely followed by Jason Isaacs and Gary Oldman. I also have a soft spot for Christopher Lee, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan.

Jason Isaacs is someone who needs to swashbuckle more. He's very good at it (St Ives, The Patriot), and I'd love to see him in the hero role. Mind, for some of us he was, in The Patriot! I have spoofed the trailer for the latter, correcting his uniform colour in the process: The Scud, aka Ghostbusters.

[silverwhistle]

Of course, no discussion of Sexiest Actors should omit mention of rural Sussex boy turned Hollywood movie-star Seth Starkadder, from Cold Comfort Farm! This icon of parodic Lawrentian raunch has twice been brought to the screen:



Both versions have much to recommend them, but as my friend Elma observed shrewdly, compared to Peter Egan, Rufus Sewell wears far too many clothes! (Rufus did remove his shirt once, but Peter appeared much like this for most of the series. )We salute Flora Poste (played respectively by Sarah Badel and Kate Beckinsale) for not being easily distracted!

[Cassandra]

Ah, here’s a topic to which I’ve given a lot of thought and on which I’ve done extensive research. And the conclusion this American girl has reached is that British actors are by far the sexiest on the screen.

I’ve just read through the whole thread and I agree with some of the less conventional choices mentioned – Eric Portman (gee, I thought I was the only person alive to find him sexy!) and Roger Livesay (it’s the voice), among them.

I also think a lot of actors known primarily for their TV and stage work are pretty sexy – Robert Lindsay, Michael Kitchen, and certainly Ian Richardson as the evil Francis Urquhart (yum!). I’ve always thought Hugh Laurie was dishy – even when he was being Bertie Wooster.

But my top four sexy-in-any-era British actors are:

Leslie Howard

James Mason

Dirk Bogarde

Patrick McGoohan

Of all the under-40 actors, there’s only one I’ve seen who might have a shot at stacking up to these guys and that’s Toby Stephens. He certainly caught my attention in Jane Eyre.

[ukwood]

David Hemmings in Blow Up.

Alan Bates Women in Love

Albert Finney in Tom Jones

Leanord Whiting in Romeo and Juliet

Kate
Ukwood

[Aaryk Noctivagus]

Originally Posted by ukwood Leanord Whiting in Romeo and Juliet...

I've met Leonard Whiting in real life several times, we used to have a mutual friend... many many years ago now, but after his star had well and truely fallen..

I remember he gave me a lift home once in his beaten up old Volkswaggon Beetle... with a crooked axel!!! He told our mutual friend that he thought me quite Dickensian!!! What he meant by that, compliment or insult, I haven't the foggiest.

[Joenoir]

That sounds like the basis of a good game, if you could choose to be any character from Dickens ..... Maybe I would be Uriah Heap, because I'm ever so 'umble, sir!

[batman]

Originally Posted by Joenoir That sounds like the basis of a good game, if you could choose to be any character from Dickens ..... Maybe I would be Uriah Heap, because I'm ever so 'umble, sir!

Bats.

[Joenoir]

Maybe not!