The Sexiest Actors?

[Fellwanderer]

(Harbottle @ Dec 31 2005, 01:49 PM)

Ok getting things back on track a couple of hunks here, Harbottle senior and younger

Carefully, Harbottle - you'll have the ladies swooning



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[Rob Compton]

I always spit out the blackberry ones!



rgds

Rob

[joanwebster]

bill paterson is nice i agree and they should get back to their ghetto

[Darling]

(joanwebster @ Jan 1 2006, 01:50 AM)

bill paterson is nice i agree and they should get back to their ghetto

Hello, Joan.



Ahhh, such discerning taste!



Mmmmm...those barely clothed scenes in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet…and the sexy bits with Maddy in Comfort and Joy….sigh…and he still looks just as good now….sigh…

[Darling]

I have to say that John Hannah isn’t half bad. I just recently had another look at Truth or Dare and that pre-sex scene with Helen Baxendale raised my temperature just a bit (possibly the same applies to the guys for Helen???!).



I agree with you about Ian McShane and Patrick McGoohan. Lovejoy was not only sexy but also very classy. Oliver Reed in the Sixties, as well. Also Gareth Thomas when he was in Blake's 7....and Gavin Richards in the early '80s (Driving Ambition)....



....but Bill Paterson is still the one! I'm really looking forward to the third series of Sea of Souls. Just seen a trailer of Rag Tale on the 'net which I hope we'll get here in Oz eventually.

[Johnjackgilbert]

(Harbottle @ Dec 31 2005, 01:49 PM)

Ok getting things back on track a couple of hunks here, Harbottle senior and younger





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Thank you so much! It still makes me laugh... Cheers Harbottle!



Anyway, sexiest actors...



I'll have to say it again -



CONRAD VEIDT!

He is quite lovely...

[Izkovitch]

(By the way DB7 I am not Lady Lois! Although I am her sister.)



Sexiest actor for me is Robert Newton!



His beautiful soft black hair, glittering eyes, lovely smile and lilting voice:

[smudge]

Bob Newton I can understand as he was quite the English gentleman in his prime, and (as you say) a wonderful voice. Great in THEY FLEW ALONE (even if it's nt a brilliant film) and excellent in THIS HAPPY BREED. However, Mr. Veidt has that hint of brooding cruelty in his face, I think.



Will try to contribute some other ideas to the thread if I can ; mind you, I may not be thinking of 'sexiest', more in the vein of 'dashed good looking' or 'charismatic' chaps....



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[Fellwanderer]

(Izkovitch @ Jan 1 2006, 11:18 PM)

(By the way DB7 I am not Lady Lois! Although I am her sister.)

I had a feeling you might be when I read your posts in other threads!

Sexiest actor for me is Robert Newton!



His beautiful soft black hair, glittering eyes, lovely smile and lilting voice:

Looks like the ladies are attempting a takeover

[Darling]

(Fellwanderer @ Jan 2 2006, 03:50 PM)

Looks like the ladies are attempting a takeover



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We're giving it our best shot! Come on, ladies, we're on a roll here, only another 17 pages to catch up with Sexiest Actresses!

[Ascoyne D'Ascoyne]

(Izkovitch @ Jan 1 2006, 11:18 PM)

(By the way DB7 I am not Lady Lois! Although I am her sister.)



Sexiest actor for me is Robert Newton!



His beautiful soft black hair, glittering eyes, lovely smile and lilting voice:

Especially in "Blackbeard the Pirate" - one of the funniest characterisations ever put on to celluloid for my money!

I've never understood how such actors as Victor Mature, Kirk Douglas, Telly Savalas or Jack Palance could have been regarded as sex symbols -big ugly geysers, every one of them! I'm surprised that Arthur Mullard didn't have the girls chasing after him.

As a real red-blooded guy I'll refrain from commenting on actors' sex -appeal but have to admit that Tyrone Power was extremely handsome.

[Johnjackgilbert]

(smudge @ Jan 2 2006, 07:20 AM)

Bob Newton I can understand as he was quite the English gentleman in his prime, and (as you say) a wonderful voice. Great in THEY FLEW ALONE (even if it's nt a brilliant film) and excellent in THIS HAPPY BREED. However, Mr. Veidt has that hint of brooding cruelty in his face, I think.



Will try to contribute some other ideas to the thread if I can ; mind you, I may not be thinking of 'sexiest', more in the vein of 'dashed good looking' or 'charismatic' chaps....



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Brooding cruelty



Eric Portman... yummy!

[Steve Crook]

(Lady Lois @ Jan 4 2006,

Brooding cruelty



Eric Portman... yummy!

They look like they're from 49th Parallel. Portman was wonderfully chilling in that.

He was also great, mysterious and slightly menacing in A Canterbury Tale.



He's one of the great leading men of Powell & Pressburger films. Along with Anton Walbrook, Roger Livesey, David Farrar and of course Conrad Veidt.



Steve

[smudge]

Portman was a damn good actor - wish I'd had a chance to see him on the stage. They recently revived THE CREEPER with Ian Richardson in the lead originated by Portman. Good as IR was I am sure I would have been transfixed by EP. Also good as the somewhat reduced former soldier in GREAT DAY.



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[Johnjackgilbert]

Eric Portman is a dish...

[Steve Crook]

(smudge @ Jan 4 2006, 07:22 PM)

Portman was a damn good actor - wish I'd had a chance to see him on the stage. They recently revived THE CREEPER with Ian Richardson in the lead originated by Portman. Good as IR was I am sure I would have been transfixed by EP. Also good as the somewhat reduced former soldier in GREAT DAY.



SMUDGE

I find that the rarely shown or seen Great Day makes a fascinating comparison with A Canterbury Tale. They both star Eric Portman as the slightly dodgy "respectable figure" in the village and both have Sheila Sim as a Land Girl. They were both filmed by Erwin Hillier, and they both have Desmond Dew doing the sound.



But Great Day is very "studio bound" whereas A Canterbury Tale has all the joys of the countryside with some marvellous location work.



Of course, I might be slightly biased. But I do much prefer A Canterbury Tale.



Steve

[Johnjackgilbert]

I too prefer "A Canterbury Tale" to "Great Day" - although Portman is excellent in both.



"Great Day" is a simple flag waving piece without depth, although the thoughtful performances give the film a lot of heart. Portman as the deeply flawed father, shameful cadger of drinks and heavily in debt, whilst maintaining a facade of respectability and past heroic deeds... but then he is found out... he is such a wonderful actor... very good at the repressed emotional stuff, glimmering eyes, trembling lips...



"A Canterbury Tale" involves the slightly sinister aspects of Portman's personality and the haughty, arrogance of the country squire who doesn't invite girls to his lectures... but pours glue into their hair if they dare date a soldier... or go out after dark. Obviously a far more complex film but the characters are not as fleshed out as in the former, but then there are less 'character types' in A.C.T.



Ah, yes, Steve - "The 49th Parallel" - my absolutely favourite Portman performance - chilling but my God he is so SEXY in that uniform... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whip.gif[/img] and out of it... I mean in plain clothes!



My favourite bit has to be the plane crash... Ray Lovell is a scream!

[Steve Crook]

(Lady Lois @ Jan 5 2006, 12:19 AM)

Ah, yes, Steve - "The 49th Parallel" - my absolutely favourite Portman performance - chilling but my God he is so SEXY in that uniform... and out of it... I mean in plain clothes!



My favourite bit has to be the plane crash... Ray Lovell is a scream!

It always makes me laugh when the plane's about to crash & he suggests throwing out the cushions! It's not to lighten it but says it's because he can't see where the surface is because of the way the light's reflecting on it. But if they did throw anything out then they'd be well past it by the time those things hit the water so it still wouldn't help.



But Raymond Lovell nearly drowned in the scene where the seaplane crashes. Even those who could swim (Lovell couldn't) became flustered when the seaplane sank faster then expected. The stink bomb that was that was thrown in to "heighten the turmoil" added greatly to the chaos. A member of the camera crew jumped in and saved Lovell.



Steve

[Steve Crook]

(Lady Lois @ Jan 5 2006, 12:19 AM)

I too prefer "A Canterbury Tale" to "Great Day" - although Portman is excellent in both.

There's another Portman film that is "Missing, believed lost" called Squadron Leader X (1943). Written by Emeric Pressburger, Portman stars as a Luftwaffe "ace" who is really quite a coward. He's sent on a mission to occupied Belgium to pretend to be an RAF pilot and to create some anti-British propaganda. But the resistance help him out and send him back to Britain!



I got the complete story from a 1943 fan magazine and it does look like it'd be a good film. But there's no sign of it anywhere.



Steve

[Johnjackgilbert]

I also like to think of the submarine blowing up - and how the actors had, moments before, been standing on it whilst it was already laden with explosives - after the explosion Portman was apoplectic, shouting expletives and generally shaking with rage and fear! Michael Powell had such a sadistic streak...