Jim Carrey

You wouldn’t think so since he’s almost never bearded, but Jim Carrey can grow a mean beard.

You wouldn’t think so since he’s almost never bearded, but Jim Carrey can grow a mean beard.

When Jackie C. wrote me to suggest Kurt Russell, I was sure I had already featured him. Kurt Russell’s beard in The Thing is arguably the greatest cinematic beard of all time. Clearly, this post is long overdue.

No contest. Not that Ryan Gosling looks bad without the beard, but just as bacon can enhance any food, so too can a beard enhance any face.

Martin Freeman (who can currently be seen beardless as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit) doesn’t have the most impressive beard, but it is still a beard, and he looks better with it.

I randomly decided to type “Bruce Willis beard” into Google, thinking I’d come up empty - lo and behold, there was Bruce Willis with a surprisingly voluminous beard. Good times.

Arnold Schwarzenegger — who has a new movie coming out in mere weeks (!!!) — obviously looks better with a beard. Obviously.

I had to bring this tumblr out of hibernation if only to include Mandy Patinkin. Why? Because LOOK AT THAT BEARD, that’s why.

Like his Big Bang Theory co-star Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg is clearly better with a beard. [Thanks, Thibault L.]

Bearded Ian McShane is looking pretty happy. You want to know why? Look at that beard, that’s why.