Dick Foran
Born: 1910-06-18 in Flemington, New Jersey, USA
Died: 1979-08-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
John Nicholas 'Dick' Foran (June 18, 1910 – August 10, 1979) was an American actor, known for his performances in western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures. Foran was still billed as Nick Foran when he signed a contract with Fox in 1934. In 1935, Foran, who stood 6-foot-2 and had red hair, was hired by Warner Bros. as a supporting actor, changing his first name to Dick. He would also croon when called upon in films such as Change of Heart (1934) with Janet Gaynor, made for Fox Film Corporation. His handsome appearance and good-natured personality made him a natural choice for the supporting cast. He first appeared as a singing cowboy in his first starring role, in Moonlight on the Prairie (1935). Other singing cowboy features included Song of the Saddle (1936), Guns of the Pecos (1937), Empty Holsters (1937) and Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938). In 1938 Foran moved to Universal Studios, where he acted in many different genres of film from horror to comedies with Abbott and Costello such as Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942). In 1942, Foran starred as Lon Prentice in a 68-minute war support film, Private Buckaroo. Foran starred in The Petrified Forest (1936), The Sisters (1938), Rangers of Fortune (1940), The Mummy's Hand (1940) and Keep 'Em Flying (1941). One of his last film roles was a small one in Donovan's Reef (1963), starring his longtime friend John Wayne. His final film appearance was as the prospector "Old Timer" in the sentimental film Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1967) with Joseph Cotten, Pat Conway and Karl Swenson Description above from the Wikipedia article Dick Foran, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2008
- Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge as Self (archive footage)
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
- Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1968
- Adam-12 as Fred Haines
- Mayberry R.F.D. as King Beaumont
1966
- Brighty of the Grand Canyon as The Prospector
1965
- O.K. Crackerby
- Taggart as Stark
1964
- Daniel Boone as Jeremiah
1963
- The Great Adventure as Colton
- The Dakotas
- Donovan's Reef as Sean O'Brien
1962
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Paul Adams
1960
- The Big Night as Ed Robello
- Studs Lonigan as Patrick Lonigan
1959
- Rawhide as Major Taggert
- The Swamp Fox as Gabriel Marion
- The Atomic Submarine as Dan Wendover
1958
- Lawman as Ed Kelly
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Sheriff D. Wilkes
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Yancy Derringer as Mr. Halligan
- Violent Road as Frank 'Sarge' Miller
- The Fearmakers as Jim McGinnis
- Thundering Jets as Col. Henry Spalding
1957
- Perry Mason as Dr. David Craig
- Maverick as Sheriff Edwards
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as David Steele
- The O. Henry Playhouse as Calliope
- Chicago Confidential as Artie Blaine
- Sierra Stranger as Bert Gaines
1956
- State Trooper
- On Trial as Newcombe
- Please Murder Me as Joe Leeds
1955
- Cheyenne
- Matinee Theater
- Gunsmoke as Sheriff
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Thomas Mara
- The Millionaire as Hugh Waring
- Night of Execution as Robert Maxwell
- The Miracle on 34th Street as Thomas Mara
- Treasure of Ruby Hills as Alan Doran
1954
- Lassie
- Climax! as Robert Maxwell
- Father Knows Best as Burt
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Phil
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Esau Hepburn
- Cavalcade of America
- Death Valley Days as Ferguson
- The Kill as Jeff Clark
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- Al Jennings of Oklahoma as Frank Jennings
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Bob
1949
- Suspense
- Deputy Marshal as Joel Benton
- El Paso as Sheriff La Farge
1948
- Studio One
- Fort Apache as Sgt. Quincannon
1947
- Kraft Television Theatre
- Hollywood Wonderland as Singing Cowboy (clip from "Sunday Roundup", 1936) (uncredited)
- Easy Come, Easy Go as Dale Whipple
1946
- Movieland Magic as (archive footage)
- Blow-Ups of 1946 as Self
1945
- Guest Wife as Christopher Price
1943
- Hi, Buddy as Dave O'Connor
- He's My Guy as Van Moore
1942
- The Mummy's Tomb as Prof. Stephen A. Banning
- Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
- Private Buckaroo as Lon Prentice
- Butch Minds the Baby as Dennis Devlin
- Behind the Eight Ball as Bill Edwards
1941
- Horror Island as Bill Martin
- In the Navy as Dynamite Dugan
- Ride 'Em Cowboy as Bronco Bob Mitchell
- Keep 'Em Flying as Jinx Roberts
- Road Agent as Duke Masters
- Riders of Death Valley as Jim Benton
- Four Mothers as Ernest Talbot
- Mob Town as Frank Conroy
- Unfinished Business as Frank
- The Kid from Kansas as Kansas
1940
- The Mummy's Hand as Steve Banning
- Rangers of Fortune as Johnny Cash
- The Fighting 69th as Long John Wynn
- The House of the Seven Gables as Matthew Maule
- My Little Chickadee as Wayne Carter
- Winners of the West as Jeff Ramsay
1939
- Daughters Courageous as Eddie Moore
- Four Wives as Ernest Talbot
- I Stole a Million as Paul Carver
- Inside Information as Danny Blake
- Hero for a Day as Brainy Thornton
- Private Detective as Jim Rickey
1938
- The Sisters as Tom Knivel
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Secrets of a Nurse as 'Killer' Lee Burke
- Out Where the Stars Begin as Dick Foran
- Four Daughters as Ernest
- Heart of the North as Alan Baker
- Over the Wall as Jerry Davis
- Boy Meets Girl as Larry Toms
- Cowboy from Brooklyn as Sam Thorne
- Love, Honor and Behave as Pete Martin
1937
- Black Legion as Ed Jackson
- Sunday Night at the Trocadero as Dick Foran
- Land Beyond the Law as Charles "Chip" Douglas
- The Devil's Saddle Legion as Tal Holladay
- The Cherokee Strip as Dick Hudson
- Prairie Thunder as Rod Farrell
- Breakdowns of 1937 as Self
- Blazing Sixes as Red Barton
- The Perfect Specimen as Jink Carter
- Empty Holsters as Clay Brent
- She Loved a Fireman as James "Red" Tyler
1936
- The Petrified Forest as Boze Hertzlinger
- Public Enemy's Wife as Thomas Duncan McKay
- California Mail as Bill Harkins
- Song of the Saddle as Frank Wilson, Jr.
- Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
- The Big Noise as Don Andrews
- Treachery Rides the Range as Red Taylor
- Earthworm Tractors as Emmet McManus
- Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
- Trailin' West as Lieut. Red Colton
- The Golden Arrow as Tommy Blake
- The Sunday Round-Up as Parson Ted Burke
- Guns of the Pecos as Steve Ainslee
1935
- It's A Small World as Motor Cop
- Dangerous as Teddy
- Shipmates Forever as Gifford
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Walt Lansing
- The Lottery Lover as Cadet
- Accent on Youth as Butch
- One More Spring as Park Policeman
- Moonlight on the Prairie as Ace Andrews
1934
- Stand Up and Cheer! as Nick Foran
- Gentlemen Are Born as Smudge Casey
- Student Tour as Assistant Manager
- Change of Heart as Nick