When Christopher George posed for
Playgirl, in June 1974, he was 43 years old and a Hollywood veteran
, famous for
Rat Patrol and about 50 gung-ho, "can we win this time?" war and cowboy movies.
He reclines, eating watermelon, a little paunchy in middle age, but hirsute, tanned, gold-chained, the sharp phallic knife accentuating his obvious gifts beneath the belt.
IMDB calls him a "solidly built, boyishly handsome leading man." He was born in 1931 to Greek immigrants, and didn't learn English until he was six years old. In high school in Miami, he played football, soccer, and track, drove trucks, and shot alligators.
He was planning to become a Greek Orthodox priest, but in 1948 he dropped out of high school to join the Marines, and got the acting bug. While waiting for his break, he held a variety of macho jobs, like bouncer, private investigator, and owner of a beer bar. He started on the stage, roles in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mr. Roberts, The Moon is Blue, and Stalag 17.
In 1965, he got a guest spot on Bewitched as George the Warlock, a Hugh Hefner-like playboy with a harem of women. Endora hires to seduce Samantha, but he likes her attractive neighbor more.
He was also cast in In Harm's Way. with John Wayne as a naval officer who wants to beat the Japanese during World War II. The two shared a gung-ho, macho philosophy, and became lifelong friends.Lots of rough, true-grit war and cowboy movies, flag-waving reactions to the pot-smoking, draft-card-burning, "can't tell the boys from the girls" hippies: Massacre Harber, The Thousand Plane Raid, The Devil's 8, Midway, Mayday at 40,000 Feet!
In
Project X, 1968, Christopher plays a spy whose memories of a top-secret Commie weapon are being suppressed, so the good guys use advanced technology to extract them. He has sex with the naked lady on the movie poster.
Christopher also did some modeling. That's how he met Lynda Day, who became famous for her work on
Mission Impossible and her
Playboy centerfold. They were married in 1970.
A heavy drinker and smoker throughout his life, Christopher died of a heart attack on November 28, 1983. He received a Greek Orthodox funeral. In 2009, the Marines flew a flag at the Iwo Jima memorial
Is there any gay potential to such an indefatigably macho, hetero-horny, beefy, boyishly handsome Hugh Hefner?
Answer after the break
