My first was, very oddly, Roger Perry in the American TV series (1960) "Harrigan & Son." I was 5! Then I remember Gene Barry in "Burke's Law" when I was around 8. Looking back, I think you made a much better choice.
I can go back further than any of you (which is hardly surprising, considering). On my mother taking us kids to see 'Gone with the Wind' (I would have been about 10/11) I remember her saying that she really loved Leslie Howard. If she hadn't said that I've often wondered since then if I'd have been so strongly drawn to him, inexplicable on hindsight. Not that there's anything wrong with him, he's just so far away from the kind of male I was to later got crushes on.
My sister fell in love with 'Cheyenne Bodie' as a primary school girl and still thinks he's gorgeous. My first love was Virgil Tracey from Thunderbirds. In fairness, I was very young, and to be honest, in those days you just didn't see the strings!
Donny Osmond David Cassidy Jame McArthur (Hawaii Five O) Kojak ( bald head got me going) John Travolta Lead singer of Showaddywaddy Michael Jayston Love men with sexy voices like Sean Connery. Bring it on
Kind of odd because I am 53 (young for this list) but I guess I needed a daddy....Rex Harrison (who they say was a real jerk), Rock Hudson and Brian Keith.
Hey, I used to watch Roy Rogers and Dale Evans just about every day when I was a kid. Roy had a squinty-eyed wholesome sexiness. All that fringe on his shirts didn't hurt either.
Donny Osmond then later Paul Newman... sigh. I loved watching Elvis in films ....swoon. However as a little girl, I had a thing for John Mills ! My mum organised for me to meet him when he was starring in Great Expectations at The Threate Royal Brighton. I was star struck !
Marilyn Monroe made something happen in my trousers. She was vulnerable and gorgeous. Even though I was only ten when she died I would still have made her a good husband.
The Hoff ..... Knight Rider ..... Paul Michael Glaser ... Starsky and Hutch... Can't think of his name but he was the dark haired fireman on Engine 51... ooops these are all TV stars i hope thats okay... movies... probably Roger Moore.. 007... Hugs! deb
Clint Walker was a beautiful looking man. I never missed watching Cheyenne. My first love at 6 years old, though, was Tonto. I have always liked the strong, silent type.
Ben Murphy from "Alias Smith & Jones". Later on David Mc Callum...And now (sad face) Alan Rickman. Oh how I loved his voice and hands. If I'd been Maid Marion I'd not have turned him down.
Started out with Elvis I think, but the first very serious crush must have been Harrison Ford, still is. Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery yes, but Clint Walker??? Looks nice, though.
Hard call between three, and the answers people give rather shows their age. Ron Ely, Tarzan. Mark Goddard, Don in Lost in Space. This one is weird but I liked the goofy Jethro in Beverley Hillbillies, Max Baer.
First female crush was Cher. I was about 10. The next year I had a crush on Barbara Eden as Jeannie.
First male crush was Sam Elliot in Lifeguard, a movie I saw on TV when I was about 16. I had gay fantasies for several years leading up to that, but the men in them were always generic men, probably because I reluctant to have fantasies about men at all. I eventually gave myself the freedom to ogle men (as long a they were on big or small screen), and Elliot was the first. I also fantasized about Patrick Duffy as The Man from Atlantis, Charlton Heston in the Planet of the Apes, the various Tarzans including Ely and Weissmuller and even Lou Ferrigno as The Incredible Hulk--I had a thing for bare-chested men, even green ones.
When I was about 18, a curious thing happened. I developed a crush on, of all people, Truman Capote. This was in the late 1970s, and his good looks had long since faded. He was fat and basically homely, but I didn't care. I don't know how much you saw of him in the U.K., but he was on American talk shows a lot. He was an unapologetic flamer who didn't care what straight folks thought of him, and that just turned me on (the fact that I would have stood a better chance with him than the heterosexual Elliot might have also had something to do with it.) I'm currently writing a short story with Capote as a character, so there still is a kind of lingering obsession with him.
I'm occasionally attracted to drag queens. RuPaul does nothing for me, but I had a crush on Boy George when he first became popular.
should I actually respond?...117 before me? What the hell. I researched Clint a few years ago, as he actually was mine too. It turns out he was one of the nicest, most level headed actors in Hollywood and loved his wife dearly. That makes him even more attractive!
Yul Brynner. Wowza. And of course Race Bannon from the Johnny Quest cartoon. And... David McCallum. First as Ilya Kuriakin & now as Ducky... lovely man.
for some awfully strange reason for a lesbian, it was Patrick Swayze, Dirty Dancing still love that film now :D
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean, mine was jaclyn Smith From Charlie's Angels
DeleteAll the Angels, really, were super foxy.
DeleteAmen to that, sister! ;-)
DeleteHopalong Cassidy!!!!!
ReplyDeleteChristopher Lee as Dracula. I wanted to be one of his sacrificial virgins. Oh and Michael York in the 3 musketeers.
ReplyDeleteadam west. and he STILL looks damn good for age 90 (I met him last year).
ReplyDeleteOooohhhh Gregory Peck! Swoon! It broke my heart when I read that he'd died.
ReplyDeleteAlso - 'Adam' (Pernell Roberts) from Bonanza.
Stockard Channing as Rizzo in Grease. She was cool, she was mean, she was sexy. Everything an impressionable girl wants to be.
ReplyDeleteOoooo I adored Jeff Conway as Kenickie!!
DeleteMissFifi
He was so much cuter than John Travolta!
DeleteDonna Douglas!
ReplyDeleteLassie!
ReplyDeleteSteve McQueen, George Harrison
ReplyDeleteDonny Osmond !!!
ReplyDeletePaul Newman and Robert Redford in films. Later on TV it was that dishy priest in Thorn Birds: Richard Chamberlain.
ReplyDeleteHands down, Richard Chamberlain!!
ReplyDeleteRobert Mitchum ... the voice ..
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ReplyDeletePaul Newman in The Long Hot Summer and James Garner in Maverick...
ReplyDeleteYour question immediately brought to mind a young actor nobody probably remembers: Robert Francis of "The Caine Mutiny"
ReplyDeletehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Francis_(actor)
DeleteJanet Ellis from 'Blue Peter'.
ReplyDeleteA MILF, !
DeleteMy first was, very oddly, Roger Perry in the American TV series (1960) "Harrigan & Son." I was 5! Then I remember Gene Barry in "Burke's Law" when I was around 8. Looking back, I think you made a much better choice.
ReplyDeleteIt has to be the delicious Sidney Poitier.
ReplyDeleteNigel Havers in Chariots of Fire. I was 15.
ReplyDeleteArilx
Robert Shaw in the Buccaneer, then Roger Moore in Ivanhoe, then Michael Medwin in The Army Game. Love Andie xxx
ReplyDeleteAaahhhh yes, Robert Shaw :)
DeleteClint Walker was an early one of mine, too.
ReplyDeleteBut I think my first real one was Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan. Oh! That loincloth!
I can go back further than any of you (which is hardly surprising, considering).
ReplyDeleteOn my mother taking us kids to see 'Gone with the Wind' (I would have been about 10/11) I remember her saying that she really loved Leslie Howard. If she hadn't said that I've often wondered since then if I'd have been so strongly drawn to him, inexplicable on hindsight. Not that there's anything wrong with him, he's just so far away from the kind of male I was to later got crushes on.
Strangely enough, my mother liked Leslie Howard, too. He certainly never turned me on - I don't see what the attraction was.
DeleteScott Tracy, in Thunderbirds.....
ReplyDeleteOh yes! and Captains' Scarlet and Blue of course. :-)
DeleteImalways wanted to be virgil but captain scarlett was a dish
DeleteDavid Bowie, his music, his unique look and frequent change of image ... I loved it all.
ReplyDeleteGardner McKay as Adam Troy in Adventures in Paradise!
ReplyDeleteTommy Steel in A Little White Bull
ReplyDeleteMy first crush was Brigitte Bardot....I think I was around 10 at the time.
ReplyDeleteMy first male crush was probably Richard Chamberlain in 'Dr.Kildare'.
My sister fell in love with 'Cheyenne Bodie' as a primary school girl and still thinks he's gorgeous. My first love was Virgil Tracey from Thunderbirds. In fairness, I was very young, and to be honest, in those days you just didn't see the strings!
ReplyDeleteI think mine was Clint Walker as well, but it might have been adulation rather than what I felt for Hayley Mills.
ReplyDeleteLust for hayley mills oh how awful
DeleteShe was older than me at the time. She probably still is.
DeleteMust admit she was quite an eye-catcher in 'The Family Way'.
DeleteBasil Rathbone, Groucho Marx and Clark Gable from the black and white era.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness...Clint Waker as Cheyenne Bodie...definitely.
ReplyDeleteDonny Osmond
ReplyDeleteDavid Cassidy
Jame McArthur (Hawaii Five O)
Kojak ( bald head got me going)
John Travolta
Lead singer of Showaddywaddy
Michael Jayston
Love men with sexy voices like Sean Connery. Bring it on
Kind of odd because I am 53 (young for this list) but I guess I needed a daddy....Rex Harrison (who they say was a real jerk), Rock Hudson and Brian Keith.
ReplyDeleteMarc Bolan, handsome and pretty at the same time.
ReplyDeleteJack Lord & Bobby Sherman.
ReplyDeleteChrush - what is that, exactly?
ReplyDeleteDoctor Kildare. He made a very good job of hiding his sexuality.
ReplyDeleteWhen I started to think about this there were too many to mention...
ReplyDeleteRoy Rogers.
ReplyDeleteYou're kidding!
DeleteHey, I used to watch Roy Rogers and Dale Evans just about every day when I was a kid. Roy had a squinty-eyed wholesome sexiness. All that fringe on his shirts didn't hurt either.
DeleteOliver Tobias , still looking good !
ReplyDeleteDonny Osmond then later Paul Newman... sigh. I loved watching Elvis in films ....swoon. However as a little girl, I had a thing for John Mills ! My mum organised for me to meet him when he was starring in Great Expectations at The Threate Royal Brighton. I was star struck !
ReplyDeleteMarilyn Monroe made something happen in my trousers. She was vulnerable and gorgeous. Even though I was only ten when she died I would still have made her a good husband.
ReplyDeleteBob Crane from Hogan's Heroes...
ReplyDeleteThe Hoff ..... Knight Rider ..... Paul Michael Glaser ... Starsky and Hutch... Can't think of his name but he was the dark haired fireman on Engine 51... ooops these are all TV stars i hope thats okay... movies... probably Roger Moore.. 007... Hugs! deb
ReplyDeleteMarc Bolan, definitely. Also Liv Ullman, Julie Christie, Isabelle Adjani, Maria Schneider. Too many to name really.
ReplyDeleteClint Walker was a beautiful looking man. I never missed watching Cheyenne. My first love at 6 years old, though, was Tonto. I have always liked the strong, silent type.
ReplyDeleteI love that you loved Tonto!
DeleteRobert Vaughn in Man from Uncle which made me an outsider because most of my contemparies were swooning over David McCullum as the Russian.
ReplyDeleteOh my. I do not know Clint Walker. WHY do I not know Clint Walker?!
ReplyDeleteMy first cinematic/tv crush was my age -- Lance Kerwin. But then he grew up to become an evangelical Christian. So much for that.
William Holden in anything!
ReplyDeleteHe was hot in LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDOURED THING
DeleteHa! Me too!!! I owed my love of Westerns to him and my second crush Audey Murphy (not so hot!!!)
ReplyDeleteTony Curtis...
ReplyDeleteLee Van Cleef!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI should add when he was in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
DeleteMichael Rennie - long before your time I am afraid.
ReplyDeleteFdid your earth stop weaver?
DeleteMe too Weaver.
DeleteBen Murphy from "Alias Smith & Jones". Later on David Mc Callum...And now (sad face) Alan Rickman. Oh how I loved his voice and hands. If I'd been Maid Marion I'd not have turned him down.
ReplyDeleteJames Coburn.......and Alan Rickman more recently!
ReplyDeleteRory Cslhoun. And then Tom Jones.
ReplyDeleteAnd Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates.
DeleteMichael Aspel!Reading the news!
ReplyDeleteJames Coburn from his In like Flynt movies.
ReplyDeleteXoxo
Barbara
Sean Connery.....he's still amazing!
ReplyDeleteJohn, flicking through the comments, left to you in answer of your question, I am amazed what people will admit to.
ReplyDeleteU
Or NOT as the case would seem ursula
DeleteLewis Collins
ReplyDeleteI snogged Lewis Collins.....
DeleteGasp! Do tell!!
DeleteRoger Moore
ReplyDeleteTony Curtis
Am I being greedy?
Always liked camp men. Don't know why. Julian Claret. George Michael, Andy Bell when he was young not now he's had a horrendous face job.
ReplyDeleteThe actor from The Man From U.N.C.L.E, David McCallum, the one who played Illya Kurakin.
ReplyDeleteAlways a sucker for an accent!
Started out with Elvis I think, but the first very serious crush must have been Harrison Ford, still is. Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery yes, but Clint Walker??? Looks nice, though.
ReplyDeleteAdam Faith in 'Budgie' and I'm not in the least bit embarrassed to admit it!
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, I had the hots for Terence Stamp in "Billy Budd" - - and I was only about ten years old.
ReplyDeleteJimmy nail....it was the accent
ReplyDeleteHard call between three, and the answers people give rather shows their age. Ron Ely, Tarzan. Mark Goddard, Don in Lost in Space. This one is weird but I liked the goofy Jethro in Beverley Hillbillies, Max Baer.
ReplyDeleteSam Elliott...those eyes ..sigh sigh .. Clint Eastwood in the dollar films ...strangely my daughter also finds Sam very very attractive....
ReplyDeleteIts the tach
DeletePaul Newman....Yummo! <3
ReplyDeleteOk i feel i need to balance this out
DeleteThe women i have had girl chrushes on
Are Audrey Tatou
Laura Linney
Helen Hunt
Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.
ReplyDeleteThe posh one from ' The Good Life ' .......the neighbours , can't recall her name ..
ReplyDeletePenelope Keith
DeleteOmg jason!
DeletePosh totty
DeleteMargot
DeleteDavid Cassidy. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteIts ok...someone had to
DeleteHmmm, maybe the Cisco Kid, but I think it was mostly because of his beautiful horse, Diablo. :D
ReplyDeleteI just remembered watching the adventures of robin hood when i was 7 or 8...richard greene was quite handsome with those dimples and nice smile
ReplyDeleteElvis
ReplyDeleteClint Walker retired northeast of here in Auburn/Grass Valley area and is still with us at 89 years old. One resilient cowboy.
ReplyDeleteGrizzly Adams.
ReplyDeleteJason Patric in the Lost Boys
ReplyDeleteCaptain Kirk
ReplyDeleteShould have added back in 1970 when he was young and handsome.
ReplyDeleteFirst female crush was Cher. I was about 10. The next year I had a crush on Barbara Eden as Jeannie.
ReplyDeleteFirst male crush was Sam Elliot in Lifeguard, a movie I saw on TV when I was about 16. I had gay fantasies for several years leading up to that, but the men in them were always generic men, probably because I reluctant to have fantasies about men at all. I eventually gave myself the freedom to ogle men (as long a they were on big or small screen), and Elliot was the first. I also fantasized about Patrick Duffy as The Man from Atlantis, Charlton Heston in the Planet of the Apes, the various Tarzans including Ely and Weissmuller and even Lou Ferrigno as The Incredible Hulk--I had a thing for bare-chested men, even green ones.
When I was about 18, a curious thing happened. I developed a crush on, of all people, Truman Capote. This was in the late 1970s, and his good looks had long since faded. He was fat and basically homely, but I didn't care. I don't know how much you saw of him in the U.K., but he was on American talk shows a lot. He was an unapologetic flamer who didn't care what straight folks thought of him, and that just turned me on (the fact that I would have stood a better chance with him than the heterosexual Elliot might have also had something to do with it.) I'm currently writing a short story with Capote as a character, so there still is a kind of lingering obsession with him.
I'm occasionally attracted to drag queens. RuPaul does nothing for me, but I had a crush on Boy George when he first became popular.
As you see, my crushes run the gamut.
Inperfection attracts me, so does humour, kindness, generosity of spirit and masculinity.......its a complicated thing
DeleteThanks for the reply
should I actually respond?...117 before me? What the hell. I researched Clint a few years ago, as he actually was mine too. It turns out he was one of the nicest, most level headed actors in Hollywood and loved his wife dearly. That makes him even more attractive!
ReplyDeleteRace Banner
ReplyDeleteNow who is he?
DeleteOMG Race Bannon! The body-guard from Johnny Quest cartoon. Platinum hair, muscles & brawn. Yummy!
DeleteExactly the one.
DeleteOmar Sharif - those eyes...
ReplyDeleteI remember standing in front of the TV screen in the early 50s chanting "I love Tonto, I love Tonto." Was that Ed Ames?
ReplyDeleteBilly Mumy from Lost In Space....before anyone gets all offended he was an older man at that time and still is.
ReplyDeleteYul Brynner. Wowza.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course Race Bannon from the Johnny Quest cartoon.
And... David McCallum. First as Ilya Kuriakin & now as Ducky... lovely man.