About

Known credits:
40
Birthday:
1893-02-22
Place of birth:
Mitchell County, Texas, USA
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Tom Forman

Overview

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

Acting
1920 The Round-Up Actor Jack Payson 58
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1920 The Sea Wolf Actor Humphrey Van Weyden N/A
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1919 For Better, for Worse Actor Richard Burton 59
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1917 Forbidden Paths Actor Harry Maxwell N/A
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1917 The Cost of Hatred Actor Ned Amory 58
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1917 Those Without Sin Actor Bob Wallace N/A
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1917 The American Consul Actor Geoffrey Daniels N/A
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1917 The Evil Eye Actor Leonard Sheldon N/A
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1916 The Yellow Pawn Actor Philip Grant N/A
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1916 The Thousand-Dollar Husband Actor Douglas Gordon N/A
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1916 To Have and to Hold Actor Lord Carnal N/A
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1916 The Ragamuffin Actor Bob Van Dyke N/A
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1915 The Unknown Actor First Private 58
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1915 Chimmie Fadden Out West Actor Antoine N/A
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1915 Out of the Darkness Actor Tom Jameson 59
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1915 The Woman Actor Tom Blake N/A
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1915 The Marriage of Kitty Actor N/A
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1915 Kindling Actor Dr. Taylor N/A
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1915 Chimmie Fadden Actor Antoine, Butler-Thief N/A
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1915 The Wild Goose Chase Actor Bob Randall N/A
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1915 Young Romance Actor Tom Clancy 59
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Directing
1925 The Midnight Flyer Directing Director N/A
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1924 The Flaming Forties Directing Director N/A
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1924 Roaring Rails Directing Director 59
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1924 The Fighting American Directing Director 58
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1923 The Broken Wing Directing Director N/A
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1923 April Showers Directing Director N/A
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1923 The Virginian Directing Director 58
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1923 Are You a Failure? Directing Director N/A
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1923 Money, Money, Money Directing Director N/A
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1922 The Woman Conquers Directing Director N/A
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1922 Shadows Directing Director 59
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1921 A Prince There Was Directing Director N/A
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1921 Cappy Ricks Directing Director N/A
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1921 White and Unmarried Directing Director N/A
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1920 The Sins of Rosanne Directing Director N/A
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1920 The Ladder of Lies Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1923 The Broken Wing Writing Writer N/A
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1920 The Round-Up Writing Writer 58
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1915 The Measure of a Man Writing Story N/A
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