Who were your teen idols?

Oh crikey; yes I remember those two, and very tasty they were. James Garner was everyones favourite actor was he not and made several different series after Maverick. On the subject of actors, I liked Horst Bucholz [sp] in The Magnificent Seven and Gill Favour in Wagon Train [not Rowdy Yates]. I also had an old film annual with a picture of Rudolph Valentino in Son of the Sheik, and fancied him so much [don't laugh] I used to worry that I could get pregnant by being in love with someone from afar [we were very naive in those days!].

Oh crimson it would have been a case of virtual conception,how innocent we where then.

Two completely contrasting singers - Elvis and Pat Boone.
Manolito from The High Chaparral and James Mason

As well as the usual Cliff and the Shadows, I loved Michael Landon playing Little Joe in the western at the Ponderosa (can't remember the title)and later as the dad in "Little House on the Prairie"

shysal it was called Bonaza and it was the best on the TV at the time,I used to sit in front of TV and not move when it was on.

David Essex - sucker for blue eyes!

First was Adam Faith - I loved his brooding looks - Cliff was too squeaky clean. Then I loved Bob Dylan,The Stones, The Kinks, John Lennon. Kittylester I had a friend who lived in Curzon Street [London] opposite Dave Clark who's flat had a balcony - he had loads of parties all with young men only hmmmmm - anyway everytime we saw him we would hang a loud speaker outside the window and play 'Glad All Over' at top whack. We thought it was hilarious bet he didn't!

Well, my first was Pat Boone when I was 12 years old - he was on Family Fabourites singing nearly every Sunday singing "I'll be Home" whilst my Mum was serving the Sunday lunch. I saw every one of his films (awful if you see them now) wrote to him and bought his books Twixt Twelve and Twenty and Between Me, You and the Gatepost. When I saw him recently on American TV I felt so ashamed to have felt this way about him as he is so right wing, ultra religious and part of the gun lobby, so everything I abhor - so I am so glad I grew out if him and went onto the Beatles, Elvis Presley and now............Tony Bennett (that's a sign of the times!!!!!).

Silverfoxygran, you`ve triggered another memory now with your mention of Robert Horton, wasn`t he GORGEOUS?!! He was the only reason for my sitting through Wagon Train each week!

Marc Bolan, so pretty! David Essex, Robert Plant, Jimi Hendrix in fact it seems I liked most male singers circa 1970. I could not bear the Osmonds though!!

I love David Essex too but now find it difficult, watching him in Eastenders, to believe he could be so horrid to one son in preference to the other one. Dorsetpennt luckily I didn't fancy Dave Clarke was just worried about coming to a tragic and early end if the balcony collapsed. I loved Mike Smith who, I think, played keyboard.

Elvis without question.You had to be an Elvis or Cliff fan back then.Also the
Beatles especially Paul. I moved on to the Rolling Stones Saw them at the City
Hall Newcastle. You could actually sit on the stage behind them for half a crown.They were the cheap seats then but we were so close it was brilliant
even if Mick did have his back to us.

syberia; did you see that interview with Robert Plant that was on BBC4 a few months ago? Such an interesting man and so funny. A mobile phone went off in the background and he said 'oh, that must be the wife' then chuckled and said 'oh, I haven't got one'. kiitylester; another Mike Smith fan I see. Oh I forgot; Keith Relf from the Yardbirds.

I, too, loved Cliff and the Shadows.................but after reading the Bonanza 'stuff', I remembered how much I loved watching it with my absolute teen idol..........my lovely Dad Is that allowed under this thread..........?

No-one's mentioned Dirk Bogarde - am I the only one who idolised him? I had his picture on my wall as a teenager, but it was years later, (when I had moved on to Elvis, then the Everleys and John Lennon) that I discovered he was gay. Too bad! Rock Hudson was another one.

Oh yes, ollibee, I really fancied Dirk in the 'Doctor' films. Something about those eyes! Funnily enough I never lusted after Rock Hudson. I don't know why - can't quite define it.

crimson forgot Keith Relf too, I think it was the hair! Do I vaguely remember Jeff Beck being in the Yardbirds too - just shows how shallow I was as a teenager - only looks counted, blow how good a guitarist they were! I can remember after Tom Jones had been on Top of the Pops that all the school bus windows got really steamed up - at least upstairs where the girls sat! I loved Allan (sp?) Clarke of the Hollies too.

Never fancied Dirk in the doctor films much, but in Campbell`s Kingdom, he was great, also he pulled out all the stops in Victim.

Just thinking, all the idols I had as a teenager, the only one I ever actually wrote to was Huw Thomas, the ITN newscaster in the 60s. I really idolised him, even made up a fantasy life for myself, married to him. Then he dropped out of sight for many years, and a few years ago I started trying to find out what had happened to him. I was put in contact with a man who used to work for ITN, he put me in contact with Huw, who wrote me a very nice letter, with a photo from the 60s, his friend had already sent me pics of him in the present day, and very handsome and didtinguished he still looked! Sadly, I`ve since read of his death.

Mick Jagger, and Michael Caine after watching him in Alfie - still my favourites to this day.

I'm with you nanny1, I've always loved the 'pretty boys' and had my bedroom plastered with pinups of Cliff and Fabian.

OOh Ollibee Dirk Bogarde! I loved him, sat through Tale of Two Cities twice - does anyone remember coming in halfway through a film and watching to where you'd come in and then you left - or just watched to the end. I had a poster of Dirk Borgarde [I was 12 years old] that I had set very carefully on card - it was from Girl comic - I measured it and framed it really carefully and put a piece of white card on the bottom to write 'Dirk Bogarde my Favourite Flim[sic] Star.I duly put it on the wall. It was ages before I understood why my family kept looking at it and giggling. In fact my brother mentions it to this day some 55 years later.

It can't really be classed as a teen crush as it was much more recent, but strange as it may seem, I've always had a crush on Zach Dingle.. never watch Emmerdale but I did years ago, and he was strangely sexy!! oh my goodness I need to take more water with it. I can't believe I just admitted to having a crush on Zach Dingle!!

No one has mentioned Frankie Vaughn ---- I just adored him , very dark and sultry , oh and definately David Essex . I watch Eastenders just to see him , and I am a great grandmother !!!! I guess we never really grow up !!!

riclorian no one mentioned Frankie because he was hiding behind The Green Door but hey he was the business I saw him in Liverpool at the Empire yrs ago,not my style but what a showman.