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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: PaulaB

61 posted on 08/16/2005 8:02:47 AM PDT by gate2wire (We Honor Those Who Serve---WE REMEMBER--Thank you)
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To: conservativebabe

I hear ya ...


62 posted on 08/16/2005 8:02:57 AM PDT by PaulaB
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To: pissant

No Valentino?


63 posted on 08/16/2005 8:03:07 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

No gays!=No Tom Cruise


64 posted on 08/16/2005 8:03:28 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.)
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To: Dashing Dasher

65 posted on 08/16/2005 8:04:40 AM PDT by conservativebabe (Down with Islam)
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To: najida

No way ... what died on his head?


66 posted on 08/16/2005 8:05:14 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Officially around the bend, at least for now.)
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To: conservativebabe

Needs a bath and a shave.

I'm considering volunteering.

;-)

DD


67 posted on 08/16/2005 8:05:53 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.)
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To: PaulaB

68 posted on 08/16/2005 8:07:05 AM PDT by conservativebabe (Down with Islam)
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To: conservativebabe

Oh yes! Heath Ledger!

I have a thing for those big brown eyes.


69 posted on 08/16/2005 8:07:11 AM PDT by Hoodlum91
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To: Dashing Dasher

Yes, a dirty country boy, YUMMY!


70 posted on 08/16/2005 8:07:56 AM PDT by conservativebabe (Down with Islam)
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To: conservativebabe

He's a southern boy to sweetie...

Texas ;)


71 posted on 08/16/2005 8:08:40 AM PDT by PaulaB
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To: conservativebabe

Oh my,
oh hep me hep me hep me!

I'm sooooo glad I saw this picture while alone. Geez woman,
You're my friend for life!


72 posted on 08/16/2005 8:09:47 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: najida

Armand Assante (sound of heavy breathing ...)

73 posted on 08/16/2005 8:10:01 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Officially around the bend, at least for now.)
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To: PaulaB

Oh yeah, love that Texas accent. Soooo hot!


74 posted on 08/16/2005 8:10:05 AM PDT by conservativebabe (Down with Islam)
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To: Tax-chick

It's the voice darlin'....A voice will do it for me everytime.

After watching him in those Tarentino movies....
~~sigh~~


75 posted on 08/16/2005 8:11:07 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: najida

Which one Heath or Matthew? or both, you bad girl. LOL!


76 posted on 08/16/2005 8:11:26 AM PDT by conservativebabe (Down with Islam)
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To: conservativebabe

Matthew,
Heath just borders on jailbait (not that I care)

But geez louise! What a pic!


77 posted on 08/16/2005 8:13:02 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: najida

Oh, I can't watch that stuff. He was good in "Mambo Kings," though, with Armand Assante :-).


78 posted on 08/16/2005 8:13:06 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Officially around the bend, at least for now.)
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To: Tax-chick

He's OK...just a tiny bit too polished (OK, so I like em primal ;) )


79 posted on 08/16/2005 8:14:33 AM PDT by najida (OK, sometimes cropping a picture keeps you from getting in trouble.)
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To: pissant

Can't forget about Sam Elliott


80 posted on 08/16/2005 8:14:39 AM PDT by Shyla
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