During the 1970s and early 1980s, producers started realizing that heterosexual women like to look at men, so they began marketing male physiques to them --
Playgirl magazine,
the Chippendale Dancers, Gregory Harrison in
For Ladies Only , Jon-Erik Hexum in
Cover Up. Of course, gay men were watching, too. The producers usually pretended that they were unaware of the existence of gay men, but the performers knew.
Daniel Greene (aka Danny Greene) rode in on the tide of "female" adulation of the male form. He began making the rounds of guest hunks on tv in 1982:
Trapper John MD, Alice, Three's Company, The A-Team, a sex comedy called
The Rosebud Beach Hotel (1984), an aerobics movie called
Pulsebeat (1985) (Yes, there were aerobics movies.)
It didn't matter, as long as he took his shirt off, or better yet stripped down to his underwear or a Speedo, and the camera panned out to shots of ladies lusting over his killer bod.
His biggest role was in the nighttime soap
Falcon Crest (1985-86), playing Dwayne Cooley, a truck driver who somehow finds his way into the ultra-rich family and begins having affairs with the ladies (thus cleverly combining the trucker and glitz fads). He was so popular that he even got fan mail from Governor Bob Graham of Florida, his home state.
Afterwards Danny played buddy-bonding man-mountains in
Hands of Steel (1986), Skeleton Coast (1988), The Opponent (1988), and
Soldier of Fortune (1990), but he really wanted to market himself "to the ladies" (and the gay men) again.
So he played Buck on the gay-themed
Brothers (1985), Bob, mild-mannered hunk who is romanced by the saucy
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988), and "Fantasy Rusty" in the sitcom
Babes (1991).
Not a lot of starring roles during the 1990s and 2000s, when every actor worth his Equity card knew his way around a gym, so a body by Michelangelo was no longer a guarantee of stardom.
Danny is married to actress/model LaGena Hart, and according to wikipedia works for a company called ACN in Florida.
"Pulsebeat" is hysterical and his scenes with Peter Lupus are very homo erotic
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