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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Movies (50)
Devil’s Dice
1926
Whispering Canyon
Director (Directing)
1926
The Midnight Flyer
Director (Directing)
1925
The People vs. Nancy Preston
Director (Directing)
1925
The Flaming Forties
Director (Directing)
1924
Roaring Rails
Director (Directing)
1924
The Fighting American
Director (Directing)
1924
The Broken Wing
Writer (Writing)
1923
April Showers
Director (Directing)
1923
The Virginian
Director (Directing)
1923
The Girl Who Came Back
Director (Directing)
1923
Are You a Failure?
Director (Directing)
1923
Money, Money, Money
Director (Directing)
1923
The Woman Conquers
Director (Directing)
1922
Shadows
Director (Directing)
1922
White Shoulders
as Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother
1922
If You Believe It, It's So
Director (Directing)
1922
A Prince There Was
Director (Directing)
1921
Cappy Ricks
Director (Directing)
1921
White and Unmarried
Director (Directing)
1921
The City of Silent Men
Director (Directing)
1921
The Easy Road
Director (Directing)
1921
The Sins of Rosanne
Director (Directing)
1920
The Round-Up
as Jack Payson
1920
The Ladder of Lies
Director (Directing)
1920
The Sea Wolf
as Humphrey Van Weyden
1920
The Tree of Knowledge
as Brian
1920
Told in the Hills
as Charles Stuart
1919
The Heart of Youth
as Russ Prendergast
1919
For Better, for Worse
as Richard Burton
1919
The Trouble Buster
Story (Writing)
1917
Hashimura Togo
as Dr. Garland
1917
Forbidden Paths
as Harry Maxwell
1917
Her Strange Wedding
as Lee Brownell
1917
The Jaguar's Claws
as Harry Knowles
1917
The Cost of Hatred
as Ned Amory
1917
Those Without Sin
as Bob Wallace
1917
On Record
as Rand Calder
1917
The American Consul
as Geoffrey Daniels
1917
The Evil Eye
as Leonard Sheldon
1917
The Yellow Pawn
as Philip Grant
1916
The Clown
as Bob Hunter
1916
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
as Douglas Gordon
1916
To Have and to Hold
as Lord Carnal
1916
The Ragamuffin
as Bob Van Dyke
1916
The Unknown
as First Private
1915
Chimmie Fadden Out West
as Antoine
1915
Out of the Darkness
as Tom Jameson
1915
The Woman
as Tom Blake
1915
The Marriage of Kitty
as Jack Churchill
1915