Tom Forman
Actor
- Born
- February 22, 1893 · Mitchell County, Texas, USA
- Died
- November 7, 1926 (age 33)
Tom Forman (February 22, 1893 – November 7, 1926) was an American motion picture actor, director, writer, and producer of the early 1920s.
Texas-born Forman made his first film for Jesse L. Lasky's production company in 1914. With the exception of service at the front during World War I, he had a successful career as both an actor and director. Forman directed Lon Chaney's Shadows (1922), but his biggest achievement was realised directing the second screen version of Owen Wister's The Virginian (1923). After his career faltered, he was reduced to working on cheap Poverty Row melodramas. Forman is also known for his work with Edith Taliaferro in Young Romance.
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Forman was set to direct the Columbia film The Wreck, which was to start shooting on November 8, 1926. However, on the evening of November 7 Forman died by suicide, by shooting himself through the heart at his parents' home in Venice, California. Adela Rogers St. Johns based the character of Maximillan Carey in her original story for What Price Hollywood? (1932) on Forman.
He was a cousin of silent screen star Madge Bellamy.
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Known for
Acting36
- 1926Devil’s Dice
- 1922White Shoulders as Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother
- 1920The Round-Up as Jack Payson
- 1920The Sea Wolf as Humphrey Van Weyden
- 1920The Tree of Knowledge as Brian
- 1919Told in the Hills as Charles Stuart
- 1919The Heart of Youth as Russ Prendergast
- 1919Louisiana
- 1919For Better, for Worse as Richard Burton
- 1917Hashimura Togo as Dr. Garland
