George Chakiris Looks Embalmed!! (2025)

He’ll be 90 in September

His memoir is coming out soon.

I can’t remember — is he gay? Wikipedia doesn’t say…

[quote] Lol that’s the Alamy logo

I had to enlarge the photo to realize that. At first I too thought they were weird teeth

Perfect placement for that logo

Yeah, that Alamy logo makes him look like one of the Walking Dead.

He used to be so handsome.

[quote]Passed what?

The bar exam, Rose.

[quote]Have no idea who he is-

My dear, you must try watching "West Side Story" one of these days, the 1961 version.

[quote]George's worst film. With Lana Turner and LSD!

In GOWNS BY TRAVILLA.

We should all look so good at his age. He's still active, still designing jewelry. He's very gracious to his fans. He recently wrote and published a book.

He had a hot ass, but he won't live forever.

I like the picture, R41, but I don't know if it deserves a—

[quote]Holy shit.

Not sure if George Chakiris is in Jane Russell's big number from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes film; but he did become close to MM during filming and they remained friends until her death.

Seem recall a story that George Chakiris was caught cottaging in some NJ department store restroom (Bamberger's?) many years ago.

In any event it's widely known in Hollywood and musical theatre circles GC is gay. He won't confirm nor deny it, but there you are.

Can understand why GC wouldn't come out publicly years ago, but at this stage of his life and career can't see what harm it would do. The man is nearly 90; get shot of wearing and coloring (what's left) of his hair, lay off plastic surgery/fillers and just come out already.

It's not like George Chakiris was Tab Hunter, Andy Perkins, or Rock Hudson. He barely was a "B" grade actor known mostly as a dancer who got lucky with roles after WSS.

[quote] Seem recall a story that George Chakiris was caught cottaging

Are you thinking of George Maharis?

How many other "B-grade actors" who "got lucky" won an Oscar?

You never hear a bad word about him from anyone who worked with him. So he dyes his hair -big deal.

R46

Yes, that's the fella.

We didn’t hook up.

(We’re both bottoms).

R58

Others know and likely could write or have written quite juicy books, but it would be playing with fire IMHO.

Scores of rent boys, hustlers and others adjacent to Hollywood or maybe part of scene know exactly who was doing who (or is that whom?), going back decades. Depending upon who you wish to believe for example late Scotty Bowers was full of shit, or told the truth many didn't want known.

Roddy McDowall likely took so many secrets of gay Hollywood with him to the grave.

For a skinny young (then later older) man by all accounts Roddy was packing serious trade. That alone would have made him popular with size queens of power gay Hollywood set.

[quote] late Scotty Bowers was full of shit

In other words, a liar.

[quote] His book has the potential to blow Old Hollywood stars out of the water.

Yes, out of the water and into the frying pan.

It seems like Chakiris did a lot of B movies that back in the day played on the bottom half of a double bill. One exception would be 1966s Is Burning? an all-star 3-hour bore.

The NY Times Nov. 11, 1966 the urgent question is not Is Paris Burning which is the foregone inquiry made in the title of the new motion picture that opened at the Criterion last night. The question is whether the customers who shell out good money to see this film will be burning after sitting for almost three hours trying to get with it

[quote] "If he let his hair go totally silver white it would be very softening. Also get rid of the stubble which lookd dyed too."

I agree, R32. The shoe polish dye job look is never a good thing. I like the guy, but it's ridiculous.

I'm looking at the OP's picture and he has those four of those awful "strings" in his neck.

Can anything be done to avoid that condition when I get into my senior years?

George is a lovely man.

I dropped my wallet in a parking structure in the early nineties and he found it and tracked down my identity through my mother (before the internet!) and mailed my wallet to my mother! She then made sure I signed a "Thank You Note" to this stranger, and mailed it to him with a 10 dollar bill to cover his expenses for mailing the wallet to her!

YEEEEEARS LATER, watching E! Entertainment TV, i recognized the name of the man, as the man that found my wallet, (and mailed it to us!) I was profoundly embarrassed that I didn't recognize his name, at the time (in the Nineties)

He deserves respect and I wish I could've repaid him somehow for his kindness.

[quote] "Are you thinking of George Maharis?"

He was definitely the more physically attractive of the two, R46. His features weren't as sharp & feminine. I don't really know what he looks like today, at age 93.

Those Alamy teeth are alarming! Get it? Alamy/ alarming?

Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week…

[quote]Not sure if George Chakiris is in Jane Russell's big number from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes film; but he did become close to MM during filming and they remained friends until her death.

I don't know him.

"Sal Mineo the coolest hottest gay from the golden era of Hollywood..."

What a cup! Who wouldn't have wanted a bit of that themselves?

Think crown hair is a piece with hairline perhaps helped along with transplants.

There are a host of brush, spray and comb on "root" hair colors that will blend grey or white hair.

Either way George Chakiris must take same amount of time as a trans or some fraus to get himself ready to go out doors. It takes some work to camouflaged what must be by now significant amount of white hair.

He's shaved off, plucked out or done something with eyebrows. You truly know you've hit old age when your eyebrows start going white. Much of the good stuff like Roux lash and brow tint has been taken off market.

Why persist with the tragedy that is that stubble?

What a thing to cling to!

R99 redo

WEHT Rachel Zegler and David Alvarez?

I'm looking at the OP's picture and he has those four of those awful "strings" in his neck.

Can anything be done to avoid that condition when I get into my senior years?

—Anonymous

yes, R71 slit your throat!

Martin Balsam is the poor man's Eli Wallach.

Eli Wallach was the poor man's Marlon Brando in the 50s. And after that he was another David Kossoff or David Opatoshu.

Balsam had a remarkable and long career. With film and TV credits from1944-1996 the year he died.

He was in Cape Fear the original and the remake, Murder on the Orient Express, Psycho, 12 Angry Men, Catch-22, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Taking of Pelham 123, The Carpetbaggers, Tora, Tora, Tora, Little Big Man, Seven Days in May, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. All the President's Men . . .

[quote]Martin Balsam

J'adore his fir trees.

[quote]He deserves respect and I wish I could've repaid him somehow for his kindness.

Hey, r72, you sent him ten bucks.

[quote]Balsam had a remarkable and long career. With film and TV credits from1944-1996 the year he died.

Not to mention having been George Clooney's father-in-law.