Tom Forman

Tom Forman (22 February 1893 – 7 November 1926) was a motion picture actor, writer, and producer of the early 1920s.

Life and career

Texas-born Forman made his first film for Jesse L. Lasky's production 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. He directed Lon Chaney's "Shadows" in 1922, and reached his biggest achievement directing the second screen version of Owen Wister's The Virginian (1923); after which his career faltered and he was reduced to working on cheap poverty row melodramas. He is also known for his work with Edith Taliaferro in "Young Romance". He was set to direct the Columbia film, The Wreck, which was to start shooting on November 8, 1926, but on the evening of November 7, Forman shot himself through the heart at his parents' home in Venice, CA.

Family

He was a cousin of silent screen star Madge Bellamy.

Filmography

Actor

*Devil's Dice (1926)
*Hoboken to Hollywood (1926)
*Kosher Kitty Kelly (1926)
*White Shoulders (1922)
*The Round-Up (1920)
*The Sea Wolf (1920)
*The Tree of Knowledge (1920)
*Told in the Hills (1919)
*The Heart of Youth (1919)
*Louisiana (1919)
*For Better, for Worse (1919)
*Hashimura Togo (1917)
*A Kiss for Susie (1917)
*Forbidden Paths (1917)
*Her Strange Wedding (1917)
*The Jaguar's Claws (1917)
*The Tides of Barnegat (1917)
*The Cost of Hatred (1917)
*Those Without Sin (1917)
*On Record (1917)
*The American Consul (1917)
*The Evil Eye (1917)
*The Yellow Pawn (1916)
*Unprotected (1916)
*Public Opinion (1916)
*The Clown (1916)
*The Thousand-Dollar Husband (1916)
*Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1916)
*To Have and to Hold (1916)
*The Ragamuffin (1916)
*The Unknown (1915)
*Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915)
*The Explorer (1915)
*Out of the Darkness (1915)
*The Marriage of Kitty (1915)
*The Puppet Crown (1915)
*The Fighting Hope (1915)
*Kindling (1915)
*Chimmie Fadden (1915)
*The Wild Goose Chase (1915)
*Stolen Goods (1915)
*The Woman (1915/II)
*The Governor's Lady (1915)
*A Gentleman of Leisure (1915)
*Young Romance (1915)
*Lights and Shadows (1914)
*Virtue Is Its Own Reward (1914)
*The Alibi (1913)
*Baffled, But Not Beaten (1913)
*John, the Wagoner (1913)
*The Treachery of a Scar (1913)

Director

*Devil's wife (1926)
*Whispering Canyon (1926)
*The Midnight Flyer (1925)
*The People vs. Nancy Preston (1925)
*Off the Highway (1925)
*The Crimson Runner (1925)
*Flattery (1925)
*The Flaming Forties (1924)
*Roaring Rails (1924)
*The Fighting American (1924)
*April Showers (1923)
*The Virginian (1923)
*The Broken Wing (1923)
*Are You a Failure? (1923)
*The Girl Who Came Back (1923)
*Money! Money! Money! (1923)
*The Woman Conquers (1922)
*Shadows (1922)
*White Shoulders (1922)
*If You Believe It, It's So (1922)
*A Prince There Was (1921)
*Cappy Ricks (1921)
*White and Unmarried (1921)
*The City of Silent Men (1921)
*The Easy Road (1921)
*The Sins of Rosanne (1920)
*The Ladder of Lies (1920)

Writer

*The Broken Wing (1923)
*The Round-Up (1920)
*The Trouble Buster (1917)
*Sins of Her Parent (1916)
*The Desert Breed (1915)
*The Threads of Fate (1915)
*The Measure of a Man (1915)

External links

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