Benedict Cumberbatch...

Going back to Benedict, I will watch anything with him in it - though didn't care for him much in Parade's End. He looks spookily like his mother Wanda Ventham, doesn't he?

Jeremy Brett did make a good Maxim de Winter but no one did contempt half so well as Alan Badel in The Count of Monte Christo.

Ohh YES absent I remember that, it was very flush making!

BC does nothing for me! There's something strange about him!

Oh absent now your talking! Remember that one well and he was a wonderful Mr.Darcy around the same time. He was also in the Narold Pinter play The Lover with Vivien Merchant I believe and of course he was a wonderfully sinister Count Fosco in A Woman in White.

Was surprised to find he was married to Anna Massey. Perhaps I thought he'd be married to a glamorous type.

She was a good actress - I'll never forget her in 'Peeping Tom'...

I rather resent the comparison between Benedict and Matt Smith (Dr. Who) Benedict is beautiful and Matt Smith is repulsive in my eyes although I know a lot of women go crazy over him. Gabriel Byrne isn't bad looking but has no oomph.

Oh but he's oirish, and he's got that oirishness that I'm a sucker for .

Gabriel, that is...Jeremy Irons is of the same ilk.

No interest in Ola Jordan's backside. The only female bottom I'm interested in is my own. Making sure it stays looking good ;)

BC is not beautiful, by any stretch of the imagination!

Well as they say "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

Who is Jeremy Brett?

You're right of course, benedictalina

Ariadne, surely you watched the Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett as Holmes? I always thought he looked very aristocratic - and a bit louche!

Ana I don't think he was acting

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX6a--uu6QM

Well, what have I started!

Brad Pitt has definitely gone off the boil, but in Thelma and Louise he was simply beautiful! BC doesn't really do it for me!

As Jeremy Brett was an Etonian, he probably wasn't acting, Ella. And Benedict is an old Harrovian.

Etonian doesn't equate to aristocratic, surely?

Not if some of our politicians have anything to do with it! But I do think these 'top' public schools confer a certain arrogance of bearing.

What some call arrogance others would call class. I would say JB had class and BC HAS it. Not sure what politicians have to do with it.

If I was doing the dinner party thing, I would have to include Robbie Coltrane. and NOT for his looks! (But personality wise, he does have a certain je ne sais quois" ! (sp)

In his 'Cracker' days ....