1965
Search results
American professional bodybuilder and actor
- Stephen Lester Reeves (January 21, 1926 – May 1, 2000) was an American professional bodybuilder and actor. He was famous in the mid-1950s as a movie star in Italian-made sword-and-sandal films, playing the protagonist as muscular characters such as Hercules, Goliath, and Sandokan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reeves
People also ask
Who is Steve Reeves?
How did Steve Reeves die?
What did Steve Reeves do for a living?
What do you think about Steve Reeves?
Stephen Lester Reeves (January 21, 1926 – May 1, 2000) was an American professional bodybuilder and actor. He was famous in the mid-1950s as a movie star in Italian-made sword-and-sandal films, playing the protagonist as muscular characters such as Hercules, Goliath, and Sandokan.
Steve Reeves was born in Montana in 1926, yet by age 10 moved to Oakland, California where he first became captivated with the art of bodybuilding at age 16, placing pioneer John Grimek as his top role model. After two years of bodybuilding Steve's body weight reached 203 lbs by high school graduation, but was he then inducted into the Army.
- January 21, 1926
- May 1, 2000
Steve Reeves. Actor: Hercules. Handsome bodybuilder Steve Reeves certainly had an enviable Herculean physique, and made plenty good use of it in Europe during the late 1950s and early 1960s portraying some of filmdom's most famous bronzed gods. Reeves was originally a Montana boy born on a cattle ranch in 1926.
- January 1, 1
- Glasgow, Montana, USA
- January 1, 1
- Escondido, California, USA
Apr 30, 2024 · Steve Reeves (born January 21, 1926, Glasgow, Montana, U.S.—died May 1, 2000, Escondido, California) was an American bodybuilder and actor. He was one of the handsomest and best-built men of his era.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 5, 2000 · Steve Reeves, the bodybuilder turned movie muscleman whose 1959 film ''Hercules'' ushered in a cycle of sword-and-sandal epics, died Monday at the Palomar Medical Center in Escondido,...
Natty Life. 226K subscribers. Subscribed. 14K. 1M views 1 year ago. An exploration of the life and achievements of Steve Reeves, my favorite bodybuilder. Old School Bodybuilding playlist: • Old...
- 10 min
- 1M
- Natty Life
On September 18, 1946 Steve finally arrived back to Oakland, California. The complete story in my book Steve Reeves A Moment in Time that is covered in detail his training and fighting. I always knew that there was a great story with his service. In Milton Moore's book on Steve many years ago he had a short paragraph about Steve's service.
