You asked about the hunk on the left in this publicity shot from The Explosive Generation (1961).Short answer:
He's high school student Dan Carlyle (Lee Kinsolving), helping classmate Bobby Herman (Billy Gray) hold up a girl in a scene that doesn't appear in the movie (it's about teaching sex education).
You're probably more interested whether there are any more beefcake shots.
So am I.
Long answer:
Arthur Lee Kinsolving Jr. was born in Boston on August 30, 1938, son of Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, Rector of Trinity Church, and Mary Kemp Blagden. He had three younger siblings (born in 1940, 1942, and 1948). In 1947, Rev. Kinsolving became Rector of the extremely prestigious St. James Episcopal Church at Madison and 71st in Manhattan.
He enrolled at Trinity College, an exclusive private college in Hartford, Connecticut. The summer after his freshman year, he was performing at the Westchester Playhouse, when a Broadway scout signed him on to star in Winesburg, Ohio (which ran from February 5th to 15th, 1958, at the National Theater). He played Seth.
Next Agent Richard Clayton, the gay agent who signed on such gay and gay-vague stars as James Dean, Tab Hunter, and Richard Chamberlain, signed Lee on and got him gigs on some East Coast tv programs (Playhouse 90, Alcoa Theater).
I wonder if Richard Clayton had a casting couch.
His movie credits include: All the Young Men, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (which won him a Golden Globe nomination), Ah Wilderness, and The Explosive Generation.
He retired from acting in 1966 due to "personal frustrations with the business." That is, he hadn't worked in 2 years.
He managed the hip restaurant Toad Hall in Manhattan from 1968 to 1969. I wonder if it's the same Toad Hall in Soho today.
In 1969 he moved to Palm Beach, Florida, where he managed the Lillian Phipps Gallery and later the Wally Findlay Gallery, which "became the opulent setting for flamboyant openings for socially prominent artists."
Must have been some gay people wandering around. Wally Findlay himself died in 1996 at the age of 92, never married.
Lee also raced speedboats and acted as the captain of the DuPont Family yacht.
This guy was well-connected!
He was linked romantically with Tuesday Weld and Candace Bergen, and was married to model Lillian Bishop Crawford from 1969 to 1972. I don't know what "linked romantically" means, but such a short marriage may indicate that he was gay and closeted.
Sometime in 1974, he contracted a respiratory disease that didn't display any symptoms, so no one was aware that he was sick until, on December 4th, he collapsed at his apartment and died. He was 36.
The Photos of Celebrities Website claims that the following shirtless and nude photos are of Lee Kinsolving. Which ones are real?
1. Doubtful.
2. No way.
3. Not even the right hair color.