Tom Forman

Acting Feb 22, 1893 Nov 7, 1926 (aged 33) Mitchell County, Texas, USA

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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35 Acting Credits

28 Crew Credits

Tom Forman

Acting

For Better, for Worse

The Round-Up

Young Romance

The Tree of Knowledge

The Cost of Hatred

Out of the Darkness

The Sea Wolf

The Unknown

Told in the Hills

Devil’s Dice

White Shoulders

The Heart of Youth

Louisiana

The Marriage of Kitty

The Yellow Pawn

To Have and to Hold

Those Without Sin

The Wild Goose Chase

The Ragamuffin

The Thousand-Dollar Husband

Kindling

The American Consul

The Woman

Forbidden Paths

Crew

Shadows

The Round-Up

Roaring Rails

The Fighting American

The Virginian

The Midnight Flyer

The Ladder of Lies

The Woman Conquers

A Prince There Was

The Flaming Forties

The Broken Wing

The Sins of Rosanne