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