When you are growing up in the years that will somewhat shape the kind of person you will be, something that will form no matter how you look at it is the type of person you are attracted to. Straight, gay, or in between, a lot of what we see that influences us into determining who we like happens to be on the big screen or the television at home. So many of us have an attraction to bears and bear types, yet there had to be a starting off point that got us to where we are today, whether it is from a dating or sexual viewpoint. I recently polled a ton of my bear & bear loving friends with the simple question- “Who was the first bear-type of guy that did it for you on television and/or the movies?” The colorful responses I got were quite in depth and interesting, as the tastes varies depending on body hair, age, charisma, race, and so much more.
Here is a good gallery of who they were inspired by. Who was your first?
Tom Selleck
Kevin James
John Goodman
Christopher Meloni
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin
Bill Goldberg
Alec Baldwin
Richard Karn
Steve Guttenberg
Mr. T
Tom Wopat
Joey Fatone
Burt Reynolds
Dan Lauria
Abraham Benrubi
Ed Asner
Guy Williams as Zorro. Definitely.
Alec Baldwin!
I have had several actually Lee Majors, Gil Gerard from Buck Rogers, Tom Selleck, Alec Baldwin, Greg Evigan from BJ and the Bear, Razor Ramon from WWF
Richard Karnak and Tom wopat
Joel Brooks
Always Burt Reynolds
Theres no selection for Alex Kerris??? for those of you to young to remember, he was Wbsters Dad, a Chicago Bears Lineman and played Burts bodyguard in Victor Victoria 🙂
The original: Dan Haggerty!
Alex Karras
Sebastian Cabot, from Family Affair. And.. Brian Keith as well.
Bam Bam Bigelow is in there somewhere too
There are some of these that I would not consider bears.They might have been at some point, but not in their highlighted years. There are also a few that should be on the list. My first crush actually is, and is considered a bear, and that is John Goodman. I remember him from Rosanne.
And, next to Al, Burl Ives!!
Raymond Burr
OMFG! What a list! No Brits though!