Icons of manliness...

[teamhavoc28]

I toss my hat in for Tom Selleck and George C. Scott. Yul Brynner also. Let's not forget Jimmy Stewart. Gregory Peck needs a mention.

 

[goodkat]

I can not believe this thread has gone this far and no one has mentioned The Duke.

3rd post.

 

[maduroman]

Eddie Albert, earned a silver star or navy cross, (don't remember what one anymore) @ tarawa pulling wounded marines off the beach...

 

[teamhavoc28]

Audie Murphy was another one in the bio pic "To hell and back". Did a lot of westerns after that.

 

[bubblehead]

Didnt John Wayne play Red Adair in a movie?

Hellfighters, he played a character based on Adair. If I remember correctly, Red Adair was technical advisor for the movie. Also starred Jim Hutton.

 

[hauntedmyst]

Professional figure skater, Johnny Weir

 

[grouchy]

claude akins. who could forger audei murphy in the classic shane :puffpipe:

 

[collindow]

Audie Murphy is such a man. John Wayne...Clint Eastwood. I would kill a room a bunnies to shake any of their hands.

 

[docwatson]

Charlton Heston NRA past president, and Tom Selleck past NRA president. Both great actors and not Girly men!!!!

 

[bambam]

Always been a fan of Edward G. Robinson. Didn't do westerns but was a great gangster,

 

[kanaia]

 

[warren]

Alan Ladd starred in "Shane."
Was EGR worried that someone was going to steal his slippers?

 

[mso489]

I always liked the persona of James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillion in the long-running TV series. It wasn't

the most sophisticated script, and you never doubted Marshal Matt would have the upper hand, but given

that, Arness did a convincing job. Unlike many actors, he was an actual combat veteran and had been

wounded at Anzio early in World War II while the U.S. military was on a learning curve with combat landings.

My uncle was in the Pacific landing at Tarawa which was a particularly miserable "dress rehearsal" for

amphibious landings. He figured out you didn't have to take each load of fuel drums to the beach and line

them in in neat little rows, but could just ride them in on the tide. It saved a lot of lives and he earned

the Bronze Star (landing craft officer was his role).

 

[fadingdaylight]

Without question:

Both

Indiana Jones

Han Solo

 

[pipetraveler]

Lee and the Duke in Donovons Reef

 

[saint007]

I'm not buying into Hollywood actors as being icons of manliness! :P
They didn't come more manly than good ole Gen George Washington or Gen Thomas Jackson. :wink:

 

[fadingdaylight]

Conan. Just sayin. Lol.

 

[goldsm]

Let me put General Douglas MacArthur.

 

[oldtoby]

John Wayne in The Quiet Man.

 

[fadingdaylight]

If I name Kevin, will I get automatic purple status?