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Tom Forman

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Movies: 53Series: 0Crew credits: 27

TMDB ID: 1353439

IMDb ID: nm0286379

Known for: Acting

Born: February 22, 1893

Died: November 7, 1926

Age: 33

Place of birth: Mitchell County, Texas, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1914 - 1926

Years active: 13

Wikidata: Q3530727

Also known as

Thomas Powers Forman • Tom Powers Forman • Tom P. Forman • Tom P. Foreman • Thomas Forman • Thomas Foreman • Tom Powers Forman Sr.

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Director (24)Screenplay (1)Story (1)Writer (1)

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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