Stephen Shellen: Orchestrated Exit?

Conspiracy theories are a funny thing, most are fairly easy to quickly dismiss. Most also however, have something about them that makes you pause and wonder. Although I am not a huge believer in most conspiracy theories, I find them immensely fascinating, especially when they are based in a past truth.

Stephen Shellen was a hard working busy Hollywood actor for most of the 80's and 90's. Shellen appeared with some of the industries biggest stars together with Brad Pitt, Whoopi Goldberg and Angelina Jolie in films including; A River Runs Through It, The BodyGuard, Casual Sex, Burglar and Gone In 60 Seconds. Shellen also appeared on television with roles on 21 Jump Street, Tales From The Crypt, Counterstrike, Law & Order, Due South and the 80's mini-series Hollywood Wives.

Although many actors see their careers and roles take a dip, according to Shellen, his exit from Hollywood was far more orchestrated. According to Shellen, after attempting to find out who assaulted his wife, and who was threatening his 4 year old son, he endured years of harassment leading to a blacklist from the industry. Although one might want to quickly write off Shellen as crazy, blacklisting as we all know is nothing new in Hollywood, and whether real or imagined, Shellen's tale is fascinating one to research.

Now here's where things get sort of interesting, or maybe just a fun and ironic coincidence. Back in 2009, I did a birthday piece on Stephen. If you click on the link, (HERE:) you will see all of the images in the piece were blackened out. Stephen himself saw the piece and made a comment. Stephen's images and video's disappearing seemed to be a pattern. What is strange is that all of the images were still in my storage, but despite my efforts, I was unable to put them back. On it's own, I am sure it means nothing, but at the same time, even though this has happened a few other times in the last eight years, this was the only piece I was not able to easily fix.

Modeling

Shellen eventually moved from Hollywood and is now a respected artist living, working and exhibiting in Montreal. Shellen's last on screen role was in 2010's Territories (see image below) and he continues to do voice work including voicing the character of David Sarif for the video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Below are a few shots from some of Shellen's movies, but... this is of course FH. Scroll down for some of Shellen's hottest skin scenes over the course of his fascinating career.

Casual Sex (1988)

A few screen caps from more recent movies:

With Bo Derek in Frozen With Fear (2001)

Territories (2010)

Stephen Shellen on Facebook

Stephen Shellen: The Skin

Gimme An F  (1984)

'Getting Discovered' seems to be a theme in many of Stephen (Steve) Shellen's nude scenes. There is a sexy voyeuristic pattern in so many of his movies. Brad Pitt and Craig Sheffer come upon a naked, and very sunburned Shellen in Robert Redford's A River Run Through It. Whoopi Goldberg gets an eye full of Shellen while hiding in a closet in Burglar. A classical music composer comes upon a naked Shellen and his wife in a 1984 episode of The Hitchhiker.

My favorite scene however, is when two girls come upon Shellen doing his wet, tighty whitey dance in 1984's Gimme An F. Shellen quickly see's he has an audience and plays to the crowd. Shellen's gymnastic background came in handy and as you can see from the video, Shellen did most of his own stuntwork for the complicated, but incredibly sexy scene.

Vivid  (1999)

Burglar  (1987)

The Hitchhiker, Lovesounds (1984)

A River Runs Through It (1992)

Happy Belated Birthday: Stephen Shellen

Yesterday was Canadian actor Stephen Shellen's birthday but I decided to wait and post today as I did not have the time to find my DVD of 'A River Runs Through It'. I have loved Stephen since the late 80's when I remember seeing him all over movies and tv in projects such as 'Casual Sex', '21 Jump St', 'The Bodyguard' and more. Happy Birthday Stephen who turned 52 yesterday!



Above: Stephen in 'Tales From The Crypt'


Below: Stephen in 'A River Runs Through It' (1992).

Stephen Shellen in Gimme An 'F'

The longer you look, the better it gets, and the better you look, the longer it gets...'

Recently when researching another post, I came upon an image of actor Stephen Shellen's tighty whitie dance from 1984's Gimme an 'F'.  I've featured Stephen, and the video before, and went back to my previous Actors & Skin post (HERE:) to re-watch the scene.  It's a hot scene, and certainly worthy of a re-watch.

Shellen with choreographer Steve Merritt

When I went back to the post, I noticed the Youtube video I embedded had been taken down.  This scene must be popular as that was the third time, from three different Youtube accounts, that I embedded in the piece over the years.  This time, instead of embedding another version, only have it deleted, I'd upload the video directly to the site. Let's hope this tie it sticks!