During a time when studios included morality clauses in movie stars’ contracts, silver screen swashbuckler Errol Flynn lived in a mansion filled with two-way mirrors and racked up so many successful conquests the phrase “in like Flynn” is said to have been coined in his honor. But the actor did more than make love with his notoriously large member; Flynn was so well-endowed that he once used his penis to tap out “You Are My Sunshine” on a piano in the middle of a party, as celebrity biographer Marc Eliot told The Independent.
In a 2025 YouTube video reflecting on his relationship with Rock Hudson, Tales of the City writer Armistead Maupin confirmed the rumors, saying, “He did have a legendarily large penis. It wasn’t the prettiest one I’d ever seen, but it was the biggest.” (Maupin added that Hudson was a “very sweet man” who “seduced the world…by being so kind and attentive.”)
Rock Hudson • Photo: Pictorial Press.
Frank Sinatra’s second wife Ava Gardner famously stated, “He’s only 110 pounds, but 10 pounds is cock.” (Some sources even quote Gardner as saying “19 pounds.”) In a 2025 interview with Page Six, Paul Anka backed up Gardner’s claim. “Yeah, it was huge,” Anka said, adding that he had trouble making eye contact with Sinatra when he and The Rat Pack hit the saunas in Vegas.
According to Anka, however, Milton Berle’s outsized knob eclipsed Ol’ Blue Eyes. “Crazy, of all people,” Anka said. Indeed, many have reported that Berle was fond of whipping it out and showing off his size — a habit he apparently had in common with David Bowie. In her book Face It: A Memoir by Debbie Harry, the Blondie singer remembered the moment Bowie gave her a peek at his remarkable manhood.
“One time David and Iggy [Pop] were looking for some blow,” Harry wrote. “Their connection in New York had suddenly died and they were out. A friend had given me a gram, but I had barely touched it. I didn’t care for coke too much — it made me jittery and wired and it affected my throat.”
“So I went upstairs with my vast quantity of cocaine and they just sucked it right up in one swoop,” she continued. “After they did the blow, David pulled out his cock — as if I were the official cock checker or something. Since I was in an all-male band, maybe they figured I really was the cock-check lady. David’s size was notorious, and he loved to pull it out with both men and women. It was so funny, adorable and sexy.”
It’s possible that Bowie shared this formidable trait with fellow rock star Mick Jagger, but whether or not the Rolling Stones frontman really had the sword to match his swagger is still up for debate. In his memoir, Life, Keith Richards blasted his bandmate for having a “tiny todger,” adding, “I know he’s got an enormous pair of balls, but it doesn’t quite fill the gap.” However, another rock autobiography, Pete Townshend’s Who I Am, stated the opposite.
Mick Jagger in Playgirl • Photo: David Bailey.
“Mick is the only man I’ve ever seriously wanted to fuck,” Townshend wrote. “He was wearing loose pajama-style pants without underwear; as he leaned back I couldn’t help noticing the outline of his ample cock lying against the inside of his leg. From then on, I encouraged the band to arrange our ‘equipment’ for maximum effect, especially onstage or in photographs.” When asked to provide further details at a press conference, Townshend elaborated: “What I remember of the size of Mick Jagger’s penis — I remember it as being huge and extremely tasty,” he said, according to Rolling Stone. “I don’t remember anything about Roger [Daltrey]’s…and wouldn’t dare to mention it. Let’s hope that makes the internet.”
Other famously large joysticks have been documented on film. Legendary ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev’s glorious schlong was artfully captured for posterity by Richard Avedon’s camera; Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee’s heavy hog was the real star of his sex tape with Pamela Anderson (he even steered the boat with it). Michael Fassbender’s family jewels were immortalized in Steve McQueen’s 2011 sex-addiction drama Shame. (“Your penis was a revelation,” Fassbender’s Prometheus co-star Charlize Theron told him while accepting the Ally for Equality award. “I’m available to work with it any time.”)
Other times, filmmakers have gone to great lengths to conceal a star’s massive junk. As Lars Von Trier explained in an interview with The Boston Phoenix, he was forced to use a stand-in for Willem Dafoe in Antichrist because of the actor’s “enormous dick.” “Everybody got very confused when they saw it,” Trier said. While filming Mad Men, Jon Hamm was reportedly asked by crew members to start wearing underwear because his so-called “Hammaconda” was too obvious (it stands out in multiple paparazzi pics, too). “When people feel the freedom to create Tumblr accounts about my cock, I feel like that wasn’t part of the deal,” Hamm complained in an interview with Rolling Stone. “But whatever. I guess it’s better than being called out for the opposite.”
Jon Hamm in ‘Mad Men’ • AMC.
Thankfully for curious fans, it’s not uncommon for co-stars to spill about what they saw on set — like the time Dame Judi Dench recalled seeing Daniel Craig’s manhood.
“It was an absolute monster,” she said, according to The New York Post. “Maybe I shouldn’t have said that. How uncouth of me!”
Similarly, Emilia Clarke told Glamour that Jason Momoa’s dong might be too much for Game of Thrones viewers to handle.
“I saw his member, but it was covered in a pink fluffy sock,” she said. “Showing it would make people feel bad. It’s too fabulous.”
Of course, this admission just confirmed what many already suspected, given Momoa’s overall stature. And while it’s important to note that height and dick size are not always correlated, it’s unlikely anybody was too surprised when Janice Dickinson revealed in her memoir No Lifeguard on Duty that hulking ex-boyfriend Liam Neeson —who stands 6 feet, 4 inches tall — had “the biggest penis of any man alive. He unzipped his pants and an Evian bottle fell out.”
Sam Jones in Playgirl • Photo: Norbert Jobst.
Ariana Grande estimated Pete Davidson’s cock to be “like 10 inches” in a since-deleted tweet. On a 2025 episode of The Breakfast Club, the comedian — who said he was “embarrassed” by the attention — reflected on the moment he was officially stamped with the BDE label.
“I think it was like the New York Times or something when I started dating someone that I guess they considered out of my league, which I think everyone is out of my league, but you know, uh they were like, ‘This guy must have big dick energy.’ And then someone confirmed it,” Davidson said.
Embarrassing or not, in an interview with Variety, Davidson seemed to have accepted his fate as a bearer of BDE.
“I don’t hate it,” he said. “I’m just really, really happy, and if that means I have big dick energy, then sick.”
And that’s what having BDE is all about.
