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Steve Reeves. 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. At the peak of his career, he was the highest ...
Steve Reeves. Actor: Hercules. Handsome bodybuilder Steve Reeves certainly had an enviable Herculean physique, and made plenty good use of it in Europe during the late 1950s and early 1960s portraying some of filmdom's most famous bronzed gods.
- January 1, 1
- Glasgow, Montana, USA
- January 1, 1
- Escondido, California, USA
Steve Reeves was born in Montana in 1926, yet by age 10 moved to Oakland, California where he first became captivated with the art of bodybuilding at age 16, placing pioneer John Grimek as his top role model. After two years of bodybuilding Steve's body weight reached 203 lbs by high school graduation, but was he then inducted into the Army.
- January 21, 1926
- May 1, 2000
Teenage Steve Reeves began creating his masterpiece with only dumbbells and a barbell in the garage of his stepfather’s house in Oakland, CA, and, even when he found his way into the rare gym 70 years ago, the most sophisticated machine was a primitive, plate-loaded, cable-and-pulley device.
May 4, 2000 · May 4, 2000 12 AM PT. 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 ...
Steve Reeves - The Man, The Legend (2002)Documentary of the life of Bodybuilder and Actor Steve Reeves. It covers all aspects of his life including Bodybuil...
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Owing to the volume of requests I've received, here is my full interview with the legendary Steve Reeves. In 1986 I took a trip to Valley Center, California ...
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