Acting

Tom Forman

Born 1893-02-22

Mitchell County, Texas, USA

Department: 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

1917

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (65 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
Devil’s Dice	Self / Appearance	Movie	1926
Devil’s Dice	Director	Movie	1926
Whispering Canyon	Director	Movie	1926
The Midnight Flyer	Director	Movie	1925
The People vs. Nancy Preston	Director	Movie	1925
The Flaming Forties	Director	Movie	1924
Roaring Rails	Director	Movie	1924
The Fighting American	Director	Movie	1924
The Broken Wing	Writer	Movie	1923
The Broken Wing	Director	Movie	1923
April Showers	Director	Movie	1923
The Virginian	Director	Movie	1923
The Girl Who Came Back	Director	Movie	1923
Are You a Failure?	Director	Movie	1923
Money, Money, Money	Director	Movie	1923
The Woman Conquers	Director	Movie	1922
Shadows	Director	Movie	1922
White Shoulders	Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother	Movie	1922
White Shoulders	Director	Movie	1922
If You Believe It, It's So	Director	Movie	1922
A Prince There Was	Director	Movie	1921
Cappy Ricks	Director	Movie	1921
White and Unmarried	Director	Movie	1921
The City of Silent Men	Director	Movie	1921
The Easy Road	Director	Movie	1921
The Sins of Rosanne	Director	Movie	1920
The Round-Up	Jack Payson	Movie	1920
The Round-Up	Writer	Movie	1920
The Ladder of Lies	Director	Movie	1920
The Sea Wolf	Humphrey Van Weyden	Movie	1920
The Tree of Knowledge	Brian	Movie	1920
Told in the Hills	Charles Stuart	Movie	1919
The Heart of Youth	Russ Prendergast	Movie	1919
Louisiana	Self / Appearance	Movie	1919
For Better, for Worse	Richard Burton	Movie	1919
The Trouble Buster	Story	Movie	1917
Hashimura Togo	Dr. Garland	Movie	1917
Forbidden Paths	Harry Maxwell	Movie	1917
Her Strange Wedding	Lee Brownell	Movie	1917
The Jaguar's Claws	Harry Knowles	Movie	1917
The Cost of Hatred	Ned Amory	Movie	1917
Those Without Sin	Bob Wallace	Movie	1917
On Record	Rand Calder	Movie	1917
The American Consul	Geoffrey Daniels	Movie	1917
The Evil Eye	Leonard Sheldon	Movie	1917
The Yellow Pawn	Philip Grant	Movie	1916
Public Opinion	Phillip Carson	Movie	1916
The Clown	Bob Hunter	Movie	1916
The Thousand-Dollar Husband	Douglas Gordon	Movie	1916
To Have and to Hold	Lord Carnal	Movie	1916
The Ragamuffin	Bob Van Dyke	Movie	1916
The Unknown	First Private	Movie	1915
Chimmie Fadden Out West	Antoine	Movie	1915
Out of the Darkness	Tom Jameson	Movie	1915
The Woman	Tom Blake	Movie	1915
The Marriage of Kitty	Jack Churchill	Movie	1915
The Puppet Crown	Lieutenant Von Mitter	Movie	1915
Kindling	Dr. Taylor	Movie	1915
Chimmie Fadden	Antoine, Butler-Thief	Movie	1915
The Wild Goose Chase	Bob Randall	Movie	1915
A Gentleman of Leisure	Sir Spencer Dreever	Movie	1915
The Measure of a Man	Story	Movie	1915
Young Romance	Tom Clancy	Movie	1915
The Lion, the Lamb and the Man	Screenplay	Movie	1914
Virtue Its Own Reward	Seadley Swaine	Movie	1914