Ready, Willing and Egan

As we head into the weekend, one that will be filled (for me at least!) with plenty of sun and water, I decided to leave you with a photo collection featuring the burly, brawny, beefy, Brylcreemed charms of one Richard Egan. We don't necessarily count Egan as one of our obsessive favorites, but he is an amiable enough presence in some movies we love (such as A Summer Place, 1959, in which he was Constance Ford's unhappy husband, and The Big Cube, 1969) and worked alongside some of our favorite people such as Joan Crawford in The Damned Don't Cry (1950), Dana Wynter in The View from Pompey's Head (1955), Dorothy Malone in Tension at Table Rock (1956), Jeffrey Hunter in Seven Cities of Gold (1957), Joan Collins in Esther and the King (1960) and Barry Coe in The 300 Spartans (1962.) He was also a costar of Jane Russell in Underwater! (1955) and The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) as well as Elvis Presely in Love Me Tender (1956) among many other things. Egan lived a steady, quiet life with his only wife of nearly thirty years and their five children. He was taken prematurely by prostate cancer at age sixty-five in 1987 (at which time he was essaying a key role on the daytime soap Capitol.) Take a look at some of these shots and see if he makes an impression on you!