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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.
John Carroll Grimek (June 17, 1910 [2] – November 20, 1998) was an American bodybuilder and weightlifter active in the 1930s and 1940s. Grimek was Mr. America in 1940 and 1941, and Mr. Universe in 1948. [3] [4] In 1949, he won his last contest, the AAU Mr. USA, [4] against a field that included Steve Reeves, Clarence Ross, George Eiferman ...
Steve Reeves, Valérie Lagrange, Ivo Garrani: Film about Henry Morgan (c. 1635 – 1688) Pirates of the Coast: Italy Domenico Paolella: Lex Barker: Queen of the Pirates: Italy Mario Costa: Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Scilla Gabel: Set in the 16th century in the Mediterranean Sea Robin Hood and the Pirates: Italy Giorgio Simonelli: Lex ...
In the mid-1940s, Joe and Ben Weider started the IFBB as an alternative to the AAU. They held their opposing contest, the IFBB Mr. America, in 1949 and then from 1959 through 1977. [ 1 ] Rights to the Mr. America name have been sold several times after AAU discontinued holding the contests in 1999.
Physique contests for women were virtually non-existent in the 1940s, and Stockton held only one such title during her career – she was named "Miss Physical Culture Venus" in 1948. She received the Steve Reeves International Society Pioneer Award in 1998 and was inducted into the IFBB (International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation) Hall ...
Sylva Koscina (Italian: [ˈsilva ˈkɔʃʃina]; born Silvija Košćina, Croatian: [sǐlvija kǒʃtɕina]; [1] [2] 22 August 1933 – 26 December 1994) was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960).
In 1995, Reeves, who was best known for portraying Superman, suffered a spinal chord injury following a tragic horse-riding accident at 42. Consequently, he became depressed and was hospitalized ...
The film stars Steve Reeves as the titular hero and Sylva Koscina as his love interest Princess Iole. Hercules was directed by Pietro Francisci and produced by Federico Teti. The film spawned a 1959 sequel, Hercules Unchained (Italian: Ercole e la Regina di Lidia), that also starred Reeves and Koscina.