Douglas Fairbanks- The Original Action Hero Basil Rathbone- Maybe the Cinema's greatest swashbuckler Tyrone Power- Another amazing manly man.
The simple fact, and one that you have pointed out well on this site, is that men are simply too lazy to learn the arts that used to make being a man something honorable. Time has become the master, not quality. There is a point in which men cross the line from being Barbarians, into Warriors, even further into Warrior-Poets then Back into a form of Barbarism which could be interpreted as slavery to our dollars.
Bring back pride in what we do, and thus you will find a more faithful and enduring man to look up to.