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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1893-02-22 (132 years old)

Place of Birth

Mitchell County, Texas, USA

Tom Forman

Biography:

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.

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

Acting

1920

The Sea Wolf as Humphrey Van Weyden
The Round-Up as Jack Payson

1919

For Better, for Worse as Richard Burton

1917

The Cost of Hatred as Ned Amory
Those Without Sin as Bob Wallace
The American Consul as Geoffrey Daniels
Forbidden Paths as Harry Maxwell
The Evil Eye as Leonard Sheldon
Her Strange Wedding as Lee Brownell

1916

The Yellow Pawn as Philip Grant
To Have and to Hold as Lord Carnal
The Ragamuffin as Bob Van Dyke
The Thousand-Dollar Husband as Douglas Gordon
The Clown as Bob Hunter

1915

The Marriage of Kitty as Jack Churchill
The Wild Goose Chase as Bob Randall
Out of the Darkness as Tom Jameson
Young Romance as Tom Clancy
Kindling as Dr. Taylor
The Woman as Tom Blake
The Unknown as First Private
Chimmie Fadden as Antoine, Butler-Thief
The Puppet Crown as Lieutenant Von Mitter

Directing

1926

Devil’s Dice as Director

1925

The Midnight Flyer as Director

1924

Roaring Rails as Director

1923

The Virginian as Director
The Broken Wing as Director
Are You a Failure? as Director
April Showers as Director

1922

The Woman Conquers as Director
Shadows as Director

1921

A Prince There Was as Director
Cappy Ricks as Director

1920

The Ladder of Lies as Director

Writing

1923

The Broken Wing as Writer

1920

The Round-Up as Writer