With his classic good looks and top-notch physique, George Nader was in a league of great beefcake actors of the 1960s that included Tony Curtisand Rock Hudson. He did a total of 48 feature films, some of them popular, some not so. He can be seen in Two Tickets to Broadway (1951) with Janet Leigh, You’re in the Navy Now (1951) with Gary Cooper, Phone Call from a Stranger (1952) with Bette Davis, The Winning Team (1952) with Doris Day, Four Guns to the Border (1954) with Rory Calhoun, The Unguarded Moment (1956) with Esther Williams, and The Female Animal (1958) with Hedy Lamarr. Featuring hair on his chest (almost unheard of at that time), you can see his 6’1” frame get a whip-lashing as Nick West in The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967), a United Kingdom film he did during the middle of a bunch of German films. German? Yes, for it seems that Hollywood turned on George in the mid ‘60s. Rumor has it the actor could have had a bigger career, had he not deflected the attention from his good friend Rock Hudson’s suspected homosexuality. Though he officially came out as gay in 1986, he had a decades-long (55 years) relationship with Mark Miller, which he neither flaunted nor hid, bringing “suspicion” upon his sexual preferences. As a second career after acting, George wrote a book, Chrome, in 1978. It was one of the first sci-fi thrillers to have a homosexual theme that included gay robots. George passed away in 2002 at the age of 80.
