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Updated 4/12/2008.
Here, you'll find photos of beefcake actors from the 1930s through the 1980s. For some of the actors here, I'm currently trying to build pages. Check back soon for updates. Click on the alphabet listing below to advance through the pages.
Todd Armstrong
Todd Armstrong's acting career lasted just a few brief years. His biggest role was as Jason in Jason and the Argonauts (1963; with Nancy Kovack and Honor Blackman). By the late 1960s, his acting career was gone. Armstrong died in 1992 at the age of 55.
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Michael Blodgett
Michael Blodgett has served as actor, writer, producer, and even choreographer for a variety of films and television shows. He made a big splash in the 1965 soap opera Never Too Young, but the series was cancelled in 1966. From there, he acted in a number of B movies, such as The Trip (1967), Catalina Caper (1967; with Tommy Kirk, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). He made a few more film appearances in the 1970s, but then stepped behind the camera; he's written screenplays for such films as Turner and Hooch (1989) and The White Raven (1998). Blodgett married actress Meredith Baxter in 1995, but the couple separated in 2000.
Lloyd Bridges
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Lloyd Bridges acted in a number of mostly lower-budget westerns and dramas. His greatest role came in his 1957 TV series Sea Hunt, which stands as one of the most successful syndicated series of all time. But younger audiences will recognize Bridges from his appearances in comedies in the 1980s and 1990s, including the films Airplane! and Hot Shots. Bridges passed away in 1998 at the age of 85.
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Jim Brown
Pro football hall-of-famer Jim Brown was a fullback with the Cleveland Browns for about ten years in from the late 1950s through the late 1960s. His fame and good looks got him cast in a number of films in the late 1960 and 1970s, including Ice Station Zebra (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), and Riot (1969). In the 1970s, Brown starred in several blacksploitation films (such as Slaughter's Big Rip-Off in 1973). By the late 1970s, however, he concentrated his efforts on production rather than acting, although on occasion Brown still accepts film roles.
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Georges Bruggeman
Georges Bruggeman was born on November 1, 1904 in Antwerp, Belgium. He immigrated with his family to the US in l918 at the conclusion of World War I. After starving for four years during the war, he pledged that he and his family would never be hungry again. He began a workout regimen that earned him the California AAU title "Most Perfectly Developed Body" of 1928, the forerunner of the "Mr. California" contest. Attempting to break into the movie industry, he climbed the wall of a major studio to win a plumb role in a major film. His natural athletic ability led him to prefer the stunt business. He doubled for many of the major stars over the next 36 years, among them Buster Crab, Johnny Weissmueller, Clark Gable, Gig Young and Richard Green. He made the transition into bit work when he no longer felt the confidence in himself to perform stunts. His last film appearance was in the 1967 release The Graduate, where he can be seen warding off the cross wielding and swinging Dustin Hoffman at the church wedding. Georges Bruggeman passed away in June 1967 at the age of 62, a loss to his beloved family and friends.
Francis X. Bushman
Handsome, charismatic stage actor Francis X. Bushman became the screen's first matinee idol soon after entering films in the early 1910s and was possibly the first beefcake actor. However, Bushman caused one of Hollywood's first scandals when he divorced his first wife (the mother of five of his children) to marry actress Beverly Bayne in 1918. The scandal wrecked both of their film careers. For the rest of his life, Bushman attempted film comebacks with some success, but he had better luck on stage and in radio. Into his eighties, he occasionally acted in B movies, including 12 to the Moon (1960; with Ken Clark) and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966; with Tommy Kirk and Deborah Walley). Soon after the release of the latter film, Bushman died at age 83 in August 1966.
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Robert Clarke
Robert Clarke made dozens of films in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1940s, he was under contract to RKO; by the time his contract lapsed in the late 1940s, Clarke had appeared in many films, but often in small roles. He had more success when he began freelancing in numerous B movies, including The Man From Planet X (1951; with Margaret Field), The Sword of D'Artagnan (1951), and Captive Women (1952). In the mid 1950s, he married a member of the King Family. Afterward, he acted in fewer films, preferring touring with the family of singers instead. Clarke passed away in June 2005 at the age of 85.
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Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift was an accomplished stage actor before making his film debut in the 1948 western Red River. Throughout the 1950s, Clift was a hot property; his dashing good looks and acting talent helped him become popular with audiences and critics alike. Clift's life and career were seriously derailed in a 1957 car accident, which left him disfigured. Plagued by health problems his entire life, Clift passed away in 1966 at the age of 45.
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Barry Coe
Barry Coe started out in bit parts in the 1950s but soon worked his way up to better roles in a variety of "A" and "B" films, including Love Me Tender (1956), Thundering Jets (1958), and The Wizard of Baghdad (1960). Avid TV viewers may remember Coe's 1961-1962 TV series Follow the Sun which also featured Brett Halsey and Gary Lockwood. By the mid 1960s, Coe had cooled his acting career; he made sporadic appearances in films and TV shows until the late 1970s, when he called it quits.
Dennis Cole
Handsome Dennis Cole has acted in several films during his lengthy acting career, but he's better known for his prolific work in television. Cole began as a physique model in the early 1960s, modeling for Bob Mizer and other well-known photographers. Soon he moved to television and films. Cole has starred in several television shows, including Felony Squad (1966-1969), Bracken's World (1969-1970), and Bearcats! (1972-1973). Cole has also made numerous guest appearances on popular TV shows, such as Lancer, Charlie's Angels, and Pacific Blue. Today, Dennis Cole is primarily a stage actor.
Sean Connery
Before starring as James Bond in the 1962 classic Dr. No, Connery made a number of low-budget films. The center photo is from the 1973 camp/cult classic Zardoz. An interesting note: in 1953, Connery entered the Mr. Universe competition, coming in third in the tall division. He was spotted for films in the contest. Visit the Classic Bodybuilders web site for a photo of Connery from the Mr. Universe contest.
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Glenn Corbett
Handsome Glenn Corbett got his start as a physique model for Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild, most often appearing on the pages of AMG's Physique Pictorial under the moniker Glenn Robinson. But by the end of the 1950s, Corbett had begun making films and ended his association with Mizer's studio. One of Corbett's earliest performances was in the Ed Wood-penned 1956 low-budget shocker The Violent Years. Also look for him in the William Castle film Homicidal (1961; with Patricia Breslin and Joan Marshall), which is an interesting version of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. He was more successful in television, starring in series such as Route 66, The Road West, and on the TV soap The Doctors. He's also the star of the made-for-TV movie The Stranger (1973), which aired on Mystery Science Theater 3000 as episode #305: Stranded in Space. Sadly, Corbett passed away in 1993 at the age of 58 from lung cancer.
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