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Achilles appeal: Brad Pitt enters top 10 most handsome screen idols
London news review ^ | 8/16/05 | staff

Posted on 08/16/2005 7:32:23 AM PDT by pissant

With his role as Achilles - 'the handsomest man in Greece' - Brad Pitt has confirmed his position as one of the handsomest men ever to grace the silver screen.

Not only has his starring role in Troy transported Pitt into the superleague of Hollywood earners, but this epic showcasing of his legendary looks has driven him up to an impressive 5th position on the list of the most handsome men in Hollywood history.

Here is the list in full. Under each star is the film in which he was at his most handsome...

THE TOP TEN MOST HANDSOME MEN IN SCREEN HISTORY

1. Anthony Perkins

Best in: Fear Strikes Out (1956)

Almost too handsome to look at, Perkins is how the devil would look if he took human form. Suave beyond measure, Perkins could carry off knitwear better than anyone.

2. Gergory Peck

Best in: Roman Holiday (1953)

Quite extraordinarily good looking: tall and noble as a mighty oak, dark as night but strangely comforting. As god-like as Perkins is devilish.

3. Pierce Brosnan

Best in: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

The half-smiles, the naughty eyes: he looks like he’s been chiselled out of sex. Brosan is as handsome as David Niven should have been.

4. Cary Grant

Best in: The Philadelphia Story (1940)

With Grant, it’s all about poise. So at ease with his extraordinary looks that he can even make you forget how handsome he is (most famously in Bringing Up Baby).

5. Brad Pitt

Best in: Troy (2004)

Perfect torso, perfect face and perfect hair meet in an explosion of beauty. No longer can anyone argue that his arms are too thin for him to be regarded as truly handsome.

6. Richard Barthelmess

Best in: The Patent Leather Kid (1927)

Broody, but clean cut. His eyes were infinite pools of longing. No one before or since could take a zoom like Barthelmess.

7. Johnny Depp

Best in: The Ninth Gate (1999)

The best hair since Peck. Mercilessly well-defined, Depp’s features are so sharp they could cut the screen.

8. Paul Newman

Best in: Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Adonis on the chain gang. Does with filthy, torn denim what Brosnan can do with a $10,000 suit.

9. Ronald Colman

Best in: Raffles (1930)

The gentleman hero with the best moustache in Hollywood and a devastating, come-to-bed chin. The Mills & Boon anti-hero par excellence.

10. Roger Moore

Best in: Live and Let Die (1973)

Steely but debonair. A truly magnificent forehead.


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KEYWORDS: hunks
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To: PaulaB
Hugh is number one on my list. Though I am falling madly in love with Gerard Butler:


161 posted on 08/16/2005 11:43:44 AM PDT by rintense
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To: atomicpossum

Another gay one needs to be added?


162 posted on 08/16/2005 11:44:08 AM PDT by pissant
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To: Shyla; teenyelliott

I wouldn't know Sam Elliot for Teenyelliott. LOL


163 posted on 08/16/2005 11:45:04 AM PDT by pissant
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To: MotleyGirl70

You're soooo right....

Paul Newman has aged better than any man alive. He's still quite the man.


164 posted on 08/16/2005 11:45:14 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: rintense
Well I'm sorry to hear THAT. I guess I can stop holding my breath now.

:^)

165 posted on 08/16/2005 11:45:15 AM PDT by Argh
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To: pissant
Harrison has not aged well, IMO.

Guess that skinny chick sucked all the blood out of him. ;)

166 posted on 08/16/2005 11:46:54 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Feelings are not a tool of cognition, therefore they are not a criterion of morality." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: rintense

Atilla!
or
Attila!


167 posted on 08/16/2005 11:47:02 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

My wife thinks Johnny Depp is hot stuff. Why she likes me is a mystery!


168 posted on 08/16/2005 11:47:04 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
Another gay one needs to be added?

The title's 'Best Looking,' not 'Most Hetero.'

169 posted on 08/16/2005 11:47:15 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: RedBeaconNY

I've accepted my lot in life. Please the chicks on FR. LOL


170 posted on 08/16/2005 11:47:51 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant
Oh, yes, and the guy who plays Niles is so gay it hurts.

OK, finished now.

171 posted on 08/16/2005 11:47:51 AM PDT by Argh
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To: teenyelliott

No you shant!


172 posted on 08/16/2005 11:48:17 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

He's the hottie now in CSI, but was particularly cute in Manhunter (despite the cheesy 80's clothes)


173 posted on 08/16/2005 11:48:18 AM PDT by Hoodlum91
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To: pissant
He's got that whole "smoldering-sexy-I-just-ooze-desire" thing goin'....

Or it could be transference.
174 posted on 08/16/2005 11:48:21 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: Dashing Dasher
Yeah, Brad's best look (non movie role) was when he posed for the cover of Vanity Fair:


175 posted on 08/16/2005 11:48:48 AM PDT by rintense
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To: SweetCaroline

Hi SC!


176 posted on 08/16/2005 11:49:01 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Hrmpt!

No comment. >:>


177 posted on 08/16/2005 11:49:07 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: cowboyway

Now yer talking. LOL


178 posted on 08/16/2005 11:49:25 AM PDT by pissant
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To: colorcountry

A gross oversite on the author's part. Stay tuned for the real list! LOL


179 posted on 08/16/2005 11:49:59 AM PDT by pissant
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To: najida

I'll take both. He was HOT in that mini series!!!!


180 posted on 08/16/2005 11:50:04 AM PDT by rintense
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