Ray Stevenson -- Looks Like : Monte Markham?

A critic or two noted that while "Kill the Irishman" wasn't really the right vehicle for it, Ray Stevenson had a commanding, macho, manly-yet-sweet(with the ladies) presence and coulda been a star.

Evidently he isn't.

But what drove me nuts watching Kill the Irishman is how much Stevenson looked like a now gone(dead?) totally obscure American television actor of the 60s and 70's named Monte Markham.

I guess you have been sort of old(like me) to even remember Markham. In the 60's he had a sitcom called "The Second Hundred Years." In the 70's, he starred in a reboot of "Perry Mason." I also think he was one of the plane hijackers in "Airport 77."

Markham's face was handsome enough in a special way to make an impression back in the 60s -- and damned if that same damn face is on Ray Stevenson in the 21st Century..

Also: from some angles, Stevenson has the face of a more slight and spindly actor named Matthew Rhys (The Americans) who, ironically enough as I write this, is ALSO playing Perry Mason in a new reboot in 2020.

But there is more Monte Markham there.

And its too bad: with those features on a face on a much bigger body than Markham's , Ray Stevenson indeed probably COULD have been a big star. An action star maybe.

But it didn't happen.

He's good in "Kill the Irishman" though.