MALE ACTORS TATTOO INDEX - J K

Actors like Robert Mitchum and Sean Connery were men who made a career playing hard-bitten tough guys, and both had tattoos from their youth. Actors with working class backgrounds or who had served in the military were far more likely to have tattoos than other members of Actors Equity. During the social revolution of the sixties and the rise in the popularity of rock and roll music, increasing numbers of performers expressed their independence from the mainstream by acquiring body art. The cross-over between the entertainment worlds of music and film meant that there was a powerful cross pollination. In films and television themselves, tattoos on actors were generally covered up, unless you were a character actor, like Danny Trejo in any number of films, or cast members of shows like OZ -- think Evan Seinfeld. Conversely, many characters in films had elaborate fake tattoos to flesh out their characters. Robert Mitchum's "Love and Hate" knuckledusters in Cape Fear and Rod Steiger in the "Illustrated Man". Today, no edgy, hip young actor would be caught dead without a little soul-searching body art.

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