Damon Charles: 1st On-Screen, BIGGEST Actors in the Business List ... and We're Not Talking Box Office or Height!
by a-17 | created - 08 Feb 2014 | updated - 11 months ago | PublicBecause of what we do, costumers and makeup artists have long been privy to the personal lives of some performers, including certain attributes they may possess larger than others. Performers that for whatever reason are more than happy to strut their stuff ... so to speak ... with sexual orientation not really relevant. Once, when I came into the makeup trailer, I found a star in full glory. I immediately said, "What do you want me to do with it? ... Throw it over my shoulder and burp it?!" That was the last time the subject ever came up. (Sorry, bad pun.)
While most of the people on this list are already known, been photographed nude, written up, had anatomical duplications made, or have been verified in other ways, one can always suspect that a few may just be rumors started by themselves. In any case, I tried to par down what I "knew" to be "rumored", but a few may have slipped in. (For those of you who look regularly, you will notice some names have been taken off because proof showed otherwise.)
Please take this list for what it is ... great party talk when things get boring. This list is in no particular order, and while I know or knew some of these people personally, I did not put anyone ahead of another because of their larger attribute. This list will be added to or changed as more proof is verified.
Enjoy, Damon Charles
It used to be that if you wanted to write me or make comments, you could do it on the IMDb Message Board at the bottom of the Damon Charles webpage. Unfortunately on February 17, 2017, IMDb discontinued this feature on all pages. Sadly, contacting me now is impossible as I am not on Facebook or any other social networks. I here give you full permission to feel free and put a link to this list on YOUR Facebook or other social media pages. Let's make this "List" soar with viewers. I do appreciate all the responses I did get in the past, and more than appreciate all the positive feedback I had been getting for having it up.
Thanks, Damon Charles
1. Milton Berle
Actor | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Milton Berle was an American comedian and actor.
Berle's career as an entertainer spanned over 80 years, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theatre (1948-55), he was the first major American television star and ...
Actor/Comedian
2. Rock Hudson
Actor | Giant
Rock Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr. in Winnetka, Illinois, to Katherine (Wood), a telephone operator, and Roy Harold Scherer, an auto mechanic. He was of German, Swiss-German, English, and Irish descent. His parents divorced when he was eight years old. He failed to obtain parts in school ...
Actor,
Personal Note: Early on in our working relationship I knew that Roy had a "thing" for me. I was already with Andy at the time, and nothing was going to separate us. But Roy did try. One day after filming, I came into his dressing room to remove his makeup and cut his hair. When I arrived he was already sitting in the makeup chair with his back to the door I entered, but I could see he did not have on a shirt. As I approached I realized he was completely naked and he was showing off what he was overly endowed with. I just looked at him and politely said: "What do you want me to do ... throw it over my shoulder and burp it?" That was the last time that particular subject ever raised its head. (I cannot believe I said that) He did try for a long time with other gestures and statements to try and get me to become interested in him "physically". It was just never going to happen ... even though I liked him very much. He was just too sad a person who really needed attention.
3. Tab Hunter
Actor | Damn Yankees
Dreamy Tab Hunter stood out in film history as one of the hottest teen idols of the 1950s era. With blond, tanned, surfer-boy good looks, he was artificially groomed and nicknamed "The Sigh Guy" by the Hollywood studio system, yet managed to continue his career long after his "golden boy" prime.
...
Actor
4. Roddy McDowall
Actor | Fright Night
Roddy McDowall was born in Herne Hill, London, England, to Winifriede Lucinda (Corcoran), an Irish-born aspiring actress, and Thomas Andrew McDowall, a merchant seaman. Roddy was enrolled in elocution courses at age five and by ten had appeared in his first film, Murder in the Family (1938), ...
Actor
5. Clint Walker
Actor | The Dirty Dozen
Clint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in Hartford, southwestern Illinois, to Gladys Huldah (Schwanda), a Czech immigrant, and Paul Arnold Walker, who was from Arkansas. Walker almost single-handedly started the western craze on TV in the 1950s as Cheyenne Bodie in Cheyenne (1955). Growing up ...
Actor
6. Forrest Tucker
Actor | The Abominable Snowman
Forrest Tucker, best known to the Baby Boom generation as Sergeant O'Rourke on the classic TV sitcom F Troop (1965), was born on February 12, 1919, in Plainfield, Indiana. He began his performing career at age 14 at the 1933 Chicago "Century of Progress" World's Fair, pushing big wicker tourists' ...
Actor,
Personal Note: The stories told about Forrest's giant "tree" were not exaggerated ... well maybe some. But the man liked to show it off, or at least talk about when he could. And in some films you can actually see it flopping in his pants near his knee. The story about his golfing episode at The Lakeside Golf Course has had much speculation, but insiders I was close with (and at the game) confirmed Forrest DID putt that ball in the hole (with his mighty putter, or 11 plus iron) for a money dare from his fellow players.
7. George Raft
Actor | Some Like It Hot
George Raft was born and grew up in a poor family in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. He was born George Ranft, and was the son of Eva (Glockner) and Conrad Ranft, a department store deliveryman. His parents were both of German descent. In his youth, ...
Actor,
Personal Note: According to Forrest Tucker, one night after heavy drinking at a bar, and bragging about probably having the biggest "member" of anyone in the place, George Raft took on a money bet with him and the two proceeded to show their stuff. First Forrest who was close to 11 inches laid it on the bar. Then in Forrest's own words; "George laid his on the bar ... and it also hung over the edge." Forrest supposedly lost the money bet.
8. Rudolf Nureyev
Actor | Valentino
He was an ethnic Tatar. He was educated at the Leningrad Ballet School and starred with Kirov Ballet. His first film was a USSR short Le Corsaire (1958). While performing in Paris in 1961 he defected to the West. He then performed internationally, becoming an Austrian citizen in 1982. The English/...
Dancer/Actor/Self
9. Gary Cooper
Actor | High Noon
Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper. Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa (then called Iowa College). His first stage experience was during high school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a ...
Actor
10. Richard Selzer
Costume_department | Promises..... Promises!
Richard Selzer was born on August 29, 1922 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and costume designer, known for Promises..... Promises! (1963), Juvenile Court (1938) and Truck Turner (1974). He died on October 19, 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Self AKA: Mr. Blackwell
11. Michael Fassbender
Actor | Shame
Michael Fassbender is an Irish actor who was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a German father, Josef, and an Irish mother, Adele (originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland). Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south-west Ireland, where his family moved to when ...
Actor
12. Ewan McGregor
Actor | Moulin Rouge!
Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. His uncle is actor Denis Lawson. He was raised in Crieff. At age 16, he left Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents ...
Actor
13. Jon Hamm
Actor | Mad Men
Jon Hamm is an American actor and producer from St. Louis, Missouri who is known for playing Don Draper in Mad Men. He also played Mister Sinister in a deleted scene of The New Mutants and Legion, Brogan from Shrek Forever After, and other films and shows including Sucker Punch, Million Dollar Arm,...
Actor
14. Tyson Beckford
Actor | Into the Blue
Tyson Beckford was born on December 19, 1970 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Into the Blue (2005), Biker Boyz (2003) and Zoolander (2001).
Model/Self
15. Michael Landon
Actor | Little House on the Prairie
Michael Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz, on Saturday, October 31st, 1936, in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. In 1941, he and his family moved to Collingswood, New Jersey.
When Eugene was in high school, he participated -- and did very well -- in track and field, especially javelin throwing, ...
Actor
16. Willem Dafoe
Actor | Spider-Man
Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...
Actor
17. Steve McQueen
Actor | The Great Escape
He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular ...
Actor
18. Snoop Dogg
Actor | Training Day
Snoop Dogg is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, media personality, entrepreneur, and actor.
His music career began in 1992 when he was discovered by Dr. Dre and featured on Dre's solo debut, "Deep Cover", and then on Dre's solo debut album, The Chronic. He has since sold over 23 ...
Musician/Self
19. David Duchovny
Actor | The X Files
David William Duchovny was born on August 7, 1960, in New York City, New York, USA. His father, Amram Ducovny, was a writer and publicist who was from a family of Jewish immigrants (from Ukraine and Poland), and worked for the American Jewish Committee. His mother, Margaret (Miller), was a ...
Actor
20. Steve Martin
Writer | Roxanne
Steve Martin was born on August 14, 1945 in Waco, Texas, USA as Stephen Glenn Martin to Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1913-2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914-1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor. He was raised in Inglewood and Garden Grove in California. In 1960, he got a job at the Magic ...
Actor/Writer/Comedian
21. Cary Grant
Actor | North by Northwest
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."
Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...
Actor
22. Desi Arnaz
Producer | I Love Lucy
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III was born in Santiago, Cuba on March 2, 1917. His father was the mayor of Santiago. The 1933 revolution led by Fulgencio Batista had landed his father in jail and stripped the family of its wealth, property and power. His father was released because of the ...
Singer/Actor
23. Soulja Boy
Soundtrack | Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
DeAndre Cortez Way (born July 28, 1990), known professionally as Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, or simply Soulja Boy, is an American rapper, record producer, actor and entrepreneur. In September 2007, his debut single "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The single ...
Musician
24. Jeff Stryker
Actor | Underground
Jeff Stryker was born on August 21, 1962 in Carmi, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director.
Actor
AKA: Charles Peyton
25. Serge Ibaka
Producer | Fight Like a Girl
Serge Ibaka is known for Fight Like a Girl (2024), Serge Ibaka x Tayc: Leggo (2021) and Lupe Fiasco Feat. Trey Songz: Out of My Head (2011).
Self
26. Liam Neeson
Actor | Kinsey
Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an ...
Actor
27. James Woods
Actor | Vampires
James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather ...
28. John Holmes
Actor | The Jade Pussycat
Born John Curtis Estes on August 8, 1944, in rural Pickaway County, Ohio, the youngest of four children, porn legend John Holmes was raised by a religious fanatic mother named Mary and an abusive alcoholic stepfather named Harold Bowman. He was a bible student, but at the age of 16 dropped out of ...
Actor
29. Errol Flynn
Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood
Errol Flynn was born to parents Theodore Flynn, a respected biologist, and Marrelle Young, an adventurous young woman. Young Flynn was a rambunctious child who could be counted on to find trouble. Errol managed to have himself thrown out of every school in which he was enrolled. In his late teens ...
Actor
30. Jonah Falcon
Jonah Falcon was born on July 29, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Blacklist (2013), Up Here (2023) and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015).
Actor
31. Lyle Lovett
Actor | Short Cuts
A singer-songwriter who plays guitar, Lyle Lovett won a 1989 Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. His albums, the first of which was released in 1986, incorporate elements of country, Western, folk, swing, jazz, bebop, blues and gospel music. He graduated from Texas A&M with degrees in ...
Actor/Musician
32. Lou Reed
Soundtrack | V for Vendetta
He formed the group The Velvet Underground with Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale, second guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Maureen Tucker in New York in 1965. The group soon became a part of Andy Warhol's Factory scene, which housed a great number of the most freaked and experimental ...
Musician
33. Jim Nabors
Actor | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Tall, spade-jawed, hopelessly genial balladeer/actor Jim Nabors was born in James Thurston Nabors on June 12, 1930 in Sylacauga, Alabama and raised there, graduating from the University of Alabama. A typing clerk at the United Nations in his salad days, he eventually moved to Los Angeles, ...
Actor
34. Huey Lewis
Soundtrack | Back to the Future
Huey Lewis was born on July 5, 1950 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Back to the Future (1985), Short Cuts (1993) and Wag the Dog (1997). He has been married to Sidney Conroy since July 20, 1983. They have two children.
Actor/Musician
35. Jason Priestley
Actor | Beverly Hills, 90210
Jason Priestley was born on August 28, 1969 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990), Call Me Fitz (2010) and Cas & Dylan (2013). He has been married to Naomi Lowde-Priestley since May 14, 2005. They have two children. He was ...
Actor
36. Randolph Scott
Actor | Roberta
Handsome American leading man who developed into one of Hollywood's greatest and most popular Western stars. Born to George and Lucy Crane Scott during a visit to Virginia, Scott was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina in a wealthy family. After service with the U.S. Army in France in World War I, ...
Actor
37. Frank Sinatra
Actor | From Here to Eternity
Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants Natalina Della (Garaventa), from Northern Italy, and Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra, a Sicilian boxer, fireman, and bar owner. Growing up on the gritty streets of Hoboken made Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. ...
Actor/Singer
38. Burt Ward
Actor | Batman
From Caped Crusader to Canine Crusader
Little did aspiring actor Burt Ward know that learning martial arts in addition to his mental and athletic prowess would change his life forever. As a teen-age, Burt had all the makings of a true boy wonder. As an all around athlete, strong in martial arts, ...
Actor
39. Rudy Vallee
Actor | The Palm Beach Story
Rudy Vallee started his career as a saxophone player and singer and later became a bandleader. In the 1920s and early '30s he had a hit radio program, The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour (although his explosive, ego-driven personality made his cast and crew hate him). In the early 1930s he was ranked with ...
Actor/Singer
Personal Note: Rudy gave me at least 50 reviews from live shows he performed at. In each article the writer said something about Rudy's giant endowment that would make some of the women in the first row scream orgasmically. True or not, I found it hard to believe someone would actually print that in an article ... but there it was in black and white.
40. John McLaren
Actor | Goldfinger
John McLaren was born on October 10, 1911 in Keoma, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Goldfinger (1964), The Avengers (1961) and The Wind of Change (1961). He was married to Hella Toros. He died on May 10, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Actor
41. Victor Mature
Actor | The Robe
American leading man Victor John Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Clara P. (Ackley) and Marcellus George Mature, a cutler and knife sharpener. His father, born Marcello Gelindo Maturi in Pinzolo, Trentino, was Italian, and his mother was of Swiss-German and German descent. Mature worked ...
Actor
42. Daniel Trent
Actor | My Blue Heaven
Daniel Trent was born on November 6, 1951 in Alameda County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for My Blue Heaven (1990), Best Seller (1987) and Out of Sight, Out of Mind (1990). He died on March 7, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Actor
43. Dave Bergeson
Editor | Exterior Day
Dave Bergeson is known for Exterior Day (2021), Respect Your Elders (2012) and Wheels Locked (2001).
Director
44. Larry Vigus
Actor | Underdog
Larry Vigus was born on May 14, 1948 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He is an actor, known for Underdog (2007), Snake Skin Jacket (1997) and Falling in Love Again (1980).
Actor
45. Bel Gris
Actor | XConfessions Night
46. Mike Edward
Actor | Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Mike Edward is a New Zealand based actor.
He has worked extensively on film and stage for the last 20 years. He trained at Unitec Performing Arts school in the 1990's.
An ex decathlete, Mike runs a small circus theatre company called the Dust Palace. They create circus theatre shows for arts ...
Actor
50. Damon Charles
Make_up_department | The Confessional
Damon grew up in a suburb of San Diego, California, a small community known as Lomita Village. From ages of 5 and 10, he put on plays in his backyard and garage ... writing, directing, building sets, doing makeup, and acting. By the time he was 11 and continuing until a year before he finished high...
Makeup Artist/Actor/Self
Disclaimer: Not confirming anything other than putting me on this list makes keeping track of it easier.
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