Tom Forman
Known for Acting · 35 credits
- Born
- 1893-02-22
- Died
- 1926-11-07
- Place of birth
- Mitchell County, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- Thomas Powers Forman · Tom Powers Forman · Tom P. Forman · Tom P. Foreman · Thomas Forman · Thomas Foreman
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
Movies (35)
Public Opinion
1916
as Phillip Carson
Hashimura Togo
1917
as Dr. Garland
Louisiana
1919
White Shoulders
1922
as Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother
Forbidden Paths
1917
as Harry Maxwell
The Ragamuffin
1916
as Bob Van Dyke
The Heart of Youth
1919
as Russ Prendergast
The Round-Up
1920
as Jack Payson
Those Without Sin
1917
as Bob Wallace
Virtue Its Own Reward
1914
as Seadley Swaine
The Jaguar's Claws
1917
as Harry Knowles
Chimmie Fadden Out West
1915
as Antoine
Her Strange Wedding
1917
as Lee Brownell
For Better, for Worse
1919
as Richard Burton
The Unknown
1915
as First Private
To Have and to Hold
1916
as Lord Carnal
Out of the Darkness
1915
as Tom Jameson
The Wild Goose Chase
1915
as Bob Randall
Told in the Hills
1919
as Charles Stuart
Kindling
1915
as Dr. Taylor
On Record
1917
as Rand Calder
Young Romance
1915
as Tom Clancy
The Tree of Knowledge
1920
as Brian
Devil’s Dice
1926
The American Consul
1917
as Geoffrey Daniels
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
1916
as Douglas Gordon
The Sea Wolf
1920
as Humphrey Van Weyden
The Cost of Hatred
1917
as Ned Amory
The Woman
1915
as Tom Blake
The Marriage of Kitty
1915
as Jack Churchill
The Puppet Crown
1915
as Lieutenant Von Mitter
The Clown
1916
as Bob Hunter
The Evil Eye
1917
as Leonard Sheldon
Chimmie Fadden
1915
as Antoine, Butler-Thief
The Yellow Pawn
1916
as Philip Grant
About Tom Forman
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… With 35 credits spanning from 1914 to 1926, Tom Forman has appeared in 35 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Public Opinion (1916) — as Phillip Carson
- Hashimura Togo (1917) — as Dr. Garland
- Louisiana (1919)
- White Shoulders (1922) — as Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother
- Forbidden Paths (1917) — as Harry Maxwell
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