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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. 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.
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.
14K. 1M views 1 year ago. An exploration of the life and achievements of Steve Reeves, my favorite bodybuilder. Old School Bodybuilding playlist: • Old School Bodybuilding Natty Lifter's Club...
May 4, 2000 · TIMES STAFF WRITER. Steve Reeves, the Mr. Universe who won a film role as the mythical strongman Hercules and became one of the world’s top box office draws of the 1950s, has died. Reeves was...
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, Calif. He...
Jul 10, 2023 · Steve Reeves - The Man, The Legend (2002)Documentary of the life of Bodybuilder and Actor Steve Reeves. It covers all aspects of his life including Bodybuil...
Apr 30, 2024 · Steve Reeves was an American bodybuilder and actor. He was one of the handsomest and best-built men of his era. By Reeves’s own account, at his bodybuilding peak he stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 metres) tall, weighed 216 pounds (98 kg), had 18.25-inch (46.4-cm) biceps, a 52-inch (132-cm) chest, a
Oct 1, 2003 · Avard Fairbanks, a Guggenheim fellow and world-famous sculptor whose works include numerous sculptures of Abraham Lincoln and the Pony Express monument) once said, 'Steve Reeves is the epitome of a man bringing his physique into harmony with the universe he is a part of. He's the grandest example I have ever seen of Michelangelo's dream come true.
Steve Reeves Biography. This book has it all from little known facts and photos to back it up. Cosidered as the best book ever written on Steve's life you can miss with this book. Information from Steve directly and from years of research. Buy it now at out store, we are the publishers.
