Jake Gyllenhaal in The Prince of Persia
Let’s look back at some of Hollywood‘s beefiest beefcakes relaxing on the set or acting their hairy (or hairless) chests off. There are fifty pics here in this post, so you can breeze through them in a minute or two, unless you get stopped at Jake Gyllenhaal or Paul Newman. There’s something here for everyone –hopefully. You’re welcome.
Bradley Cooper on the set of American Sniper
Ryan Reynolds
Christian Bale in American Psycho
Marlon Brando on the set of The Men, 1949
Paul Newman was a golden god
Farley Granger
Mickey Rooney
Mutiny on the Bounty
Jon Hall in the 40s
40s and 50s leading man Dane Clark
Actor Larry Parks (clothed) has some hot workout buddies
Ida Lupino in Private Hell 36 (1954) with bare-chested Steve Cochran and (her real life husband) Howard Duff
16 Fathoms Deep (1948) produced by and starring Arthur Lake
Manfish (1956) starred the hunky John Bromfield, here with Lon Chaney Jr.
Sean Connery filming Dr. No
70s sex symbol Burt Reynolds
The Unknown Comic (spoofing Burt Reynolds famous Cosmo centerfold.) His real name was Murray Langston and he was a frequent guest on The Gong Show.
Erik Estrada costarred on CHiPs but this shot is from the 1982 TV-movie, Honeyboy.
Hugh O’Brian
Tarzan’s Revenge (1939) starred Glenn Morris
Michael Billington in a bedroom scene with Barbara Bach (Mrs. Ringo Starr) in The Spy Who Loved Me
An unrecognizable, mustache-less Sam Elliot
James Garner in 1963’s Thrill of It All, featuring a hairy chest which used to be a screen no-no
John Ashley and Jody McCrea in a scene from 1965’s How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
James Stacy worked in films and TV, notably Lancer (1968-1970.)
Hairy William Holden often had to shave his chest for movies. He loathed it.
Sammy Davis, Jr enjoys a coke
James Darren was in several of the Gidget movies
Dewey Martin in 1955’s Land of the Pharaohs
Robert Goulet in the TV spy series Blue Light (1966)
1959’s Tarzan, the Ape Man, with UCLA basketball star Denny Miller
Mike Henry, seen here in Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968.)
Alex Cord on the set of Stagecoach (1966)
Model Rick Edwards later became an actor on the daytime soap Santa Barbara
Tony Curtis
Robert Conrad working out with Van Williams
Tom Wopat of The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985) lost his shirt from time-to-time including during the boxing match shown in the inset.
Football great turned actor, Jim Brown
Ryan O’Neal
The late Andy Gibb
Clint Walker works it out
Ron Ely played Tarzan on TV and also portrayed another famous hero
in Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975).
The late Jon Erik Hexum
Brian Bloom, a soap actor on As the World Turns, 1983-1987
Gardner McKay
Paul Newman and Robert Redford take a break from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Steve McQueen
(via Poseidon’s Underworld)
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