Jason Patric

Jason Patric (born 1966) is an American actor who has appeared in such films as Speed 2: Cruise Control. The last two decades of his life were spent in Valley Center (Escondido), California. Played Konstantin Koverchenko in The Beast. Later in his life, Reeves promoted drug-free bodybuilding and bred horses. In that year he appeared as himself in the made-for-television A&E Biography: Arnold Schwarzenegger - Flex Appeal. His last on-screen appearance was in 2000.

He went on to appear, starting in the 1950s, in a string of Samson and Hercules-type (also known as sword and sandal) movies. Reeves first film was the 1949 Kimbar of the Jungle, made for television. De Mille, who considered him for the part of Samson. After WWII military service, Reeves came to the attention film director Cecil B.

Survivors from the Muscle Beach era recall how crowds used to follow Reeves when he walked along the beach, and how people who knew nothing about him would simply stop and stare, awestruck.. He was handsome, personable, and had a magnificent physique. Reeves was the right man in the right place at the right time. No champion was known to the general public--that is, until Steve Reeves came along.

However, bodybuilding still remained an obscure sport. .. By [the 1940s] the distinction between lifting weights purely for strength and training with weights to shape and proportion the body had been clearly made. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Encylopedia of Modern Bodybuilding states:.