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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.
- Bodybuilder, actor, philanthropist
- Stephen Lester Reeves, January 21, 1926, Glasgow, Montana, U.S.
- 1949-1968
- May 1, 2000 (aged 74), Escondido, California, U.S.
Steve Reeves was a Hollywood star in the 1950s and 1960s, best known for playing Hercules in several films. He was also a champion bodybuilder, a horseman, and a writer of screenplays.
- Actor, Writer
- January 21, 1926
- 2 min
- May 1, 2000
Learn about the life and career of Steve Reeves, a legendary bodybuilder and actor who starred in Hercules and other sword-and-sandal epics. Find out his achievements, awards, trivia and more on IMDb.
- January 21, 1926
- May 1, 2000
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...
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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