Tom Forman
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1893-02-22
Day of Death
1926-11-07 (33 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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Acting
(1920)
The Round-Up
as Jack Payson
(1920)
The Tree of Knowledge
as Brian
(1920)
The Sea Wolf
as Humphrey Van Weyden
(1919)
For Better, for Worse
as Richard Burton
(1919)
Told in the Hills
as Charles Stuart
(1917)
The Cost of Hatred
as Ned Amory
(1917)
Those Without Sin
as Bob Wallace
(1917)
Forbidden Paths
as Harry Maxwell
(1917)
The Evil Eye
as Leonard Sheldon
(1917)
The American Consul
as Geoffrey Daniels
(1917)
Her Strange Wedding
as Lee Brownell
(1916)
The Ragamuffin
as Bob Van Dyke
(1916)
The Yellow Pawn
as Philip Grant
(1916)
To Have and to Hold
as Lord Carnal
(1916)
The Clown
as Bob Hunter
(1916)
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
as Douglas Gordon
(1915)
Young Romance
as Tom Clancy
(1915)
The Woman
as Tom Blake
(1915)
Kindling
as Dr. Taylor
(1915)
The Unknown
as First Private
(1915)
The Wild Goose Chase
as Bob Randall
(1915)
Chimmie Fadden Out West
as Antoine
(1915)
Chimmie Fadden
as Antoine, Butler-Thief
(1915)
Out of the Darkness
as Tom Jameson
(1915)
The Puppet Crown
as Lieutenant Von Mitter
(1915)
The Marriage of Kitty
as Jack Churchill
Crew
(1926)
Devil’s Dice
Director
(1925)
The Midnight Flyer
Director
(1924)
Roaring Rails
Director
(1924)
The Flaming Forties
Director
(1924)
The Fighting American
Director
(1923)
Money, Money, Money
Director
(1923)
The Virginian
Director
(1923)
The Broken Wing
Writer, Director
(1923)
Are You a Failure?
Director
(1923)
April Showers
Director
(1922)
The Woman Conquers
Director
(1922)
Shadows
Director
(1921)
A Prince There Was
Director
(1921)
Cappy Ricks
Director
(1921)
White and Unmarried
Director
(1920)
The Ladder of Lies
Director
(1920)
The Round-Up
Writer
(1920)
The Sins of Rosanne
Director
(1915)
The Measure of a Man
Story