Cinemas 10 Greatest Mustache Men

Cinema’s 10 Greatest Mustache Men

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Actors have many different signatures to their look, and here we’re paying homage to the best mustaches in the biz.

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Cinemas 10 Greatest Mustache Men

As more actors go with either a clean-shaven or full beard look, the standalone mustache has gone by the wayside. The lip rug is still sported for specific roles, typically in period pieces, but is rare for actors off-camera.

Many of Hollywood’s most prominent leading men used to warm their mouths with manes, so to honor them, we’re recognizing the ten best face lace wearers to grace the silver screen. Apologies in advance to guys like Daniel Day-Lewis, but this isn’t about actors who had a couple great mustaches, these are actors with a consistent mustache record on and off-camera, the actors you cannot picture without whiskers.

10 Charles Bronson

Cinemas 10 Greatest Mustache Men

One of the toughest mustache men on this list, Bronson’s lip was bare in his early ensemble roles like The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), The Dirty Dozen (1967), or Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), but once he became a stand-alone star in The Mechanic (1972), his signature stache became a mainstay.

Bronson popularized the mustache among tough guys thanks to several action roles he took on throughout the 1970s and 80s, such as Mr. Majestyk (1974), Breakheart Pass (1975), Death Hunt (1981), Murphy’s Law (1986), and the Death Wish series.

9 Eddie Murphy

Cinemas 10 Greatest Mustache Men

With a mustache so natural you almost forget it’s there, Murphy began shaping his stache with SNL roles like Mr. Robinson and Clarence Walker. When the comedian made the shift to feature pictures with the Beverly Hills Cop series, his mustache came with him.

Murphy’s caterpillar has since delivered laughs across four decades with hits like Trading Places (1993), Coming to America (1988), The Nutty Professor (1996), Doctor Dolittle (1998), Daddy Day Care (2003), Tower Heist (2011), Dolemite Is My Name (2019), and could add a fifth decade with Coming 2 America.

8 Billy Dee Williams

Cinemas 10 Greatest Mustache Men

Billy Dee Williams became unquestionably the coolest looking man in space when he and his mustache portrayed Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983).

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Williams utilized the mustache look on various TV shows and movies years beforehand, but no role came close to his iconic part in the Star Wars franchise, which he recently reprised in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), though he became notably the only portrayal of Harvey Dent to sport a stache in Batman (1989).

7 Clark Gable

Cinemas 10 Greatest Mustache Men

One of the sexiest mustaches to ever exist graced the upper lip of Clark Gable, Hollywood’s suavest leading man of the 1930s. Gable and his gentlemanly thin stache got a huge breakout with his Oscar-winning role in It Happened One Night (1934) before his most iconic role as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Gable’s facial hair never turned back after the Butler role, as he’d go on to star in 27 more movies from 1940 to the end of his career in 1961, keeping his mustache for all of them.

6 Charlie Chaplin

Cinemas 10 Greatest Mustache Men

In the silent film era, Charlie Chaplin was the master of movie mustaches. Chaplin starred in dozens of shorts before his feature-length debut in Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914), in which he sported a mustache different from the one viewers were used to.

After several more shorts, it was in Shoulder Arms (1918) that Chaplin’s signature toothbrush mustache finally saw its first of many features. A certain German dictator went on to ruin the look, but Chaplin spun that negative into a positive with his Oscar-nominated satire – The Great Dictator (1940).

5 Danny Trejo

Cinemas 10 Greatest Mustache Men

Trejo overcame a troubled youth and incredible odds to become the action star he is today. With about 400 acting credits to his name, ‘The Mayor’ is no stranger to the big screen, and neither is his awesome mustache.

An ex-prison boxing champion, Trejo is built as tough as they come, and so are the Robert Rodriguez roles he’s most recognized for – From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), the Mariachi trilogy, the Spy Kids franchise, and the Machete franchise, all of which make use of Trejo’s muscles and mustache.

4 Burt Reynolds

Cinemas 10 Greatest Mustache Men

Burt Reynolds was mustache-less in his break out feature role of Deliverance (1972) before viewers saw him have an on-again/off-again relationship with his lip carpet through his next few movies, including The Longest Yard (1974), which featured Reynolds both with and without his mustache.

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Once Reynolds’s furry lip kicked ass in Gator (1976) though, he became truly known for the look. His mustache only became more powerful through hits like the Smokey and the Bandit series, The Cannonball Run (1981), Boogie Nights (1997), The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), and his animated self in Archer.

3 Tom Selleck

Cinemas 10 Greatest Mustache Men

Though it’s known more from television than movies, it would be a sin to leave out the legendary mustache of Tom Selleck.

Selleck was best known for the action crime show Magnum, P.I. before he made the jump to movies, starring in several action-adventure flicks through the 80s and 90s, the most notable of which were Lassiter (1984), Quigley Down Under (1990), and the comedy Three Men and a Baby (1987). His theatrical success never matched his TV career, prompting his mustache to resurge to prominence on the cop drama Blue Bloods.

2 Groucho Marx

Cinemas 10 Greatest Mustache Men

Though it was enhanced on camera with makeup, Groucho’s comically large and rectangular mustache was the cornerstone of a look so iconic that the look he was known for can still be purchased in novelty stores to this day.

Alongside his brothers – Chico, Harpo, and sometimes Zeppo – Groucho’s jokes and mustache tickled audiences from 1929 – 1949 with 15 movies that still stand up today, like Animal Crackers (1930) and Duck Soup (1933). After the Marx Brothers retired from filmmaking, it was only Groucho that maintained a career in show business.

1 Sam Elliott

The only thing more recognizable than the deep velvet voice that comes out of Sam Elliott’s mouth is the thick curtain that sits above it. Though Elliott is rarely the star of the show, he almost always steals it.

He had several TV appearances before starring in the popular TV movie The Quick and the Dead (1987), but he truly went mainstream with the mustache all-star cast in Tombstone (1993) before an iconic comedic role in The Big Lebowski (1998). His stache is still kicking ass and breaking hearts today in movies like The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018) and A Star is Born (2018).

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