After being reminded by the Still The Place Podcast that William (Billy) R. Moses was on Melrose Place, I checked out a few episodes. I not only forgotten he'd been on the show, I also forgot his character Keith turned out to be a psychopath. So many of the male guest stars on the show ended up being stalkers, killers or psychopaths. In the 1990's, female characters it seems, were often written as victim. It seemed the 'go to' move for writers on many shows, including Melrose Place.
I've posted about Billy before, but I'd been planning on another one after scrolling into the US magazine cover above. As many FH know, I've been taking a closer look at those old 'hot suit' issues of the magazine, featuring some of televisions hottest hunks, often in tight speedos. I didn't realize Billy had been apart of the swimsuit series until noticing his small image next to Suzanne Somers on the cover.
Billy posed with actress Lindsay Bloom, an actress I'd never heard of before. I checked her IMDB and she was busy working on many television shows in the 1980's. Unfortunately, Moses bucked the trend of the previous hot suit pieces I did, by sadly not donning a speedo. All of the shots from the shoot I could find featured Billy only in board shorts.
Billy is one of those actors I always thought should have been a bigger star. After his turn on TV, and in Mystic Pizza, I thought a film career was in front of him. He was successful for sure, appearing regularly on television and the occasional film throughout his over 40 year career. Sadly, he never really got that big break or that breakout role.
I don't think any of the actors who appeared on the big Prime Time Soaps of the 1980's really made it big. The exception being Alec Baldwin who spent a short time on Knots Landing. Unlike Billy however, Alec doesn't seem as connected to Knots as Billy and others are to their nighttime soap roles. Maybe because he wasn't on as long, or maybe it's just about timing and luck.
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Sadly, Moses also never did an on-screen nude scene. He's still hot, so maybe there's still a chance, it wouldn't be the first time an actor did their first nude scene after the age of 60. Although he didn't wear a speedo for US Magazine, he did give us plenty of speedo views during his multiple appearance on Battle of the Network stars. My series hasn't quite gotten to the point when Billy was on, but still, had to add a few.
