Tom Forman
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 22, 1893
- Died
- Nov 7, 1926 (aged 33)
- Place of birth
- Mitchell County, Texas, USA
- Credits
- 36
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
Filmography
Devil’s Dice
1926Movie
White Shoulders
1922Movie
Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother
The Round-Up
1920Movie
Jack Payson
The Sea Wolf
1920Movie
Humphrey Van Weyden
The Tree of Knowledge
1920Movie
Brian
Told in the Hills
1919Movie
Charles Stuart
The Heart of Youth
1919Movie
Russ Prendergast
Louisiana
1919Movie
For Better, for Worse
1919Movie
Richard Burton
Hashimura Togo
1917Movie
Dr. Garland
Forbidden Paths
1917Movie
Harry Maxwell
Her Strange Wedding
1917Movie
Lee Brownell
The Jaguar's Claws
1917Movie
Harry Knowles
The Cost of Hatred
1917Movie
Ned Amory
Those Without Sin
1917Movie
Bob Wallace
On Record
1917Movie
Rand Calder
The American Consul
1917Movie
Geoffrey Daniels
The Evil Eye
1917Movie
Leonard Sheldon
The Yellow Pawn
1916Movie
Philip Grant
Public Opinion
1916Movie
Phillip Carson
The Clown
1916Movie
Bob Hunter
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
1916Movie
Douglas Gordon
To Have and to Hold
1916Movie
Lord Carnal
The Ragamuffin
1916Movie
Bob Van Dyke
The Unknown
1915Movie
First Private
Chimmie Fadden Out West
1915Movie
Antoine
Out of the Darkness
1915Movie
Tom Jameson
The Woman
1915Movie
Tom Blake
The Marriage of Kitty
1915Movie
Jack Churchill
The Puppet Crown
1915Movie
Lieutenant Von Mitter
Kindling
1915Movie
Dr. Taylor
Chimmie Fadden
1915Movie
Antoine, Butler-Thief
The Wild Goose Chase
1915Movie
Bob Randall
A Gentleman of Leisure
1915Movie
Sir Spencer Dreever
Young Romance
1915Movie
Tom Clancy
Virtue Its Own Reward
1914Movie
Seadley Swaine