Tom Forman
Born: 1893-02-22 in Mitchell County, Texas, USA
Died: 1926-11-07
Known For: Acting
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
1926
- Whispering Canyon ... (Director)
- Devil’s Dice
1925
- The People vs. Nancy Preston ... (Director)
- The Midnight Flyer ... (Director)
1924
- Roaring Rails ... (Director)
- The Fighting American ... (Director)
- The Flaming Forties ... (Director)
1923
- The Girl Who Came Back ... (Director)
- Are You a Failure? ... (Director)
- The Broken Wing ... (Director)
- April Showers ... (Director)
- The Virginian ... (Director)
- Money, Money, Money ... (Director)
1922
- White Shoulders as Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother
- Shadows ... (Director)
- If You Believe It, It's So ... (Director)
- The Woman Conquers ... (Director)
1921
- The City of Silent Men ... (Director)
- The Easy Road ... (Director)
- A Prince There Was ... (Director)
- Cappy Ricks ... (Director)
- White and Unmarried ... (Director)
1920
- The Sins of Rosanne ... (Director)
- The Round-Up as Jack Payson
- The Tree of Knowledge as Brian
- The Ladder of Lies ... (Director)
- The Sea Wolf as Humphrey Van Weyden
1919
- Louisiana
- For Better, for Worse as Richard Burton
- The Heart of Youth as Russ Prendergast
- Told in the Hills as Charles Stuart
1917
- Hashimura Togo as Dr. Garland
- Forbidden Paths as Harry Maxwell
- The Jaguar's Claws as Harry Knowles
- The Cost of Hatred as Ned Amory
- Her Strange Wedding as Lee Brownell
- Those Without Sin as Bob Wallace
- The Trouble Buster ... (Story)
- On Record as Rand Calder
- The American Consul as Geoffrey Daniels
- The Evil Eye as Leonard Sheldon
1916
- Public Opinion as Phillip Carson
- The Ragamuffin as Bob Van Dyke
- To Have and to Hold as Lord Carnal
- The Clown as Bob Hunter
- The Thousand-Dollar Husband as Douglas Gordon
- The Yellow Pawn as Philip Grant
1915
- The Woman as Tom Blake
- The Wild Goose Chase as Bob Randall
- Chimmie Fadden Out West as Antoine
- A Gentleman of Leisure as Sir Spencer Dreever
- The Unknown as First Private
- The Marriage of Kitty as Jack Churchill
- The Measure of a Man ... (Story)
- Out of the Darkness as Tom Jameson
- Young Romance as Tom Clancy
- The Puppet Crown as Lieutenant Von Mitter
- Kindling as Dr. Taylor
- Chimmie Fadden as Antoine, Butler-Thief
1914
- Virtue Its Own Reward as Seadley Swaine
- The Lion, the Lamb and the Man ... (Screenplay)