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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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To: pissant

Tom Selleck?


41 posted on 08/16/2005 7:49:58 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: najida

Hey, its Billy Idol!!

And he's dressed in nice clothes too!


42 posted on 08/16/2005 7:50:16 AM PDT by subterfuge (Obama, mo mama...er Osama-La bamba, uh, bama...banana rama...URP!---Ted Kennedy)
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To: Tax-chick
Well, after getting a gander at THIS guy
Ronald Coleman, I think it was a gay male who made the list

MY list would include these two to start with

To steal from "Joan of Arc" I wanna man who smells like a man.

43 posted on 08/16/2005 7:51:49 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: Dashing Dasher

I'm working on my list (just pulling from the Freeperette Hunks page :) )


44 posted on 08/16/2005 7:52:29 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: pissant

I did give Cary Grant a "yes." I just never did like Gregory Peck much, even before I knew he was a raving moonbat liberal.


45 posted on 08/16/2005 7:52:39 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Officially around the bend, at least for now.)
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To: pissant

Brad Pitt?!? Where's Sean Connery? Harrison Ford? Tom Cruise? ;)


46 posted on 08/16/2005 7:53:01 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: najida

Look how he's sucking in his cheeks! That is SO mincy!


47 posted on 08/16/2005 7:53:36 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Officially around the bend, at least for now.)
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To: Dashing Dasher

Yeah, I know JD needs a bath (hence is nick "Uncle Stinky")

HOWEVER, there have been moments when I've watched him on the screen and thought "Hey, E! You don't have a sense of smell....so what's the problem!?!" ;)


48 posted on 08/16/2005 7:53:55 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: pissant
Forget Pierce Brosnan.

Even now, Mr. Connery is more attractive.

49 posted on 08/16/2005 7:54:08 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkes.)
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To: pissant

Other handsome screen idols:

Sean Connery

Lawrence Olivier

Erroll Flynn

Richard Burton

Robert Redford

Runner-up: Ryan O'Neal


50 posted on 08/16/2005 7:54:20 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: najida

LOL.


51 posted on 08/16/2005 7:54:55 AM PDT by pissant
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Sean, yes...
HF, mebby,
TC...No way! Even I'M taller than him.

And as for alpha male,

I think he's more like a delta or lower.


52 posted on 08/16/2005 7:56:12 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: najida
I think it was a gay male who made the list

I agree. The second and third pictures are pretty good ... too young, though, check them out again in ten years.

53 posted on 08/16/2005 7:58:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Officially around the bend, at least for now.)
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To: najida

For starters (like, OK, so he can start me anytime).

54 posted on 08/16/2005 7:58:30 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: najida

Cruise is a dweeb, but he was a very good looking dweeb 15 years ago. Connery is still The Man. ;)


55 posted on 08/16/2005 7:59:21 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: najida; Dashing Dasher
Don't forget Hugh Jackman


56 posted on 08/16/2005 7:59:23 AM PDT by PaulaB
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To: pissant

OK - Cary Grant + Pierce Brosnan Oh Yeah!

I must add William Peterson (for his amazingly kissable lips!)


57 posted on 08/16/2005 8:00:23 AM PDT by Hoodlum91
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To: pissant

I just don't see it. To me he'll always be less a man because of his big ego, tied no doubt to his "reputation". Ben Affleck was a People "sexiest man" too until jLo. Pride cometh before a fall.


58 posted on 08/16/2005 8:01:30 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: pissant

I have a thing for Heath Ledger- A Knights Tale

and Matthew McCaughnehey


59 posted on 08/16/2005 8:02:27 AM PDT by conservativebabe (Down with Islam)
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To: pissant
Brad Pitt
Gregory Peck
Cary Grant
Robert Mitchum
Pierce Brosnan
Sean Connery
Heath Ledger

Mel Gibson
Tom Selleck
George Peppard - Breakfast at Tiffany's!
Thure Riefenstein - obscure - but I like him!!!!

Johnny Weismueller?


Oh.... never forget DeVito... hubba
60 posted on 08/16/2005 8:02:31 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.)
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