Tom Forman
Director
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.
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Filmography
For Better, for Worse
as Richard Burton 1919
The Round-Up
as Jack Payson 1920
Young Romance
as Tom Clancy 1915
The Cost of Hatred
as Ned Amory 1917
The Tree of Knowledge
as Brian 1920
Out of the Darkness
as Tom Jameson 1915
The Unknown
as First Private 1915
The Marriage of Kitty
as Jack Churchill 1915
The Yellow Pawn
as Philip Grant 1916
To Have and to Hold
as Lord Carnal 1916
Those Without Sin
as Bob Wallace 1917
The Wild Goose Chase
as Bob Randall 1915
The Ragamuffin
as Bob Van Dyke 1916
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
as Douglas Gordon 1916
The Sea Wolf
as Humphrey Van Weyden 1920
Kindling
as Dr. Taylor 1915
The American Consul
as Geoffrey Daniels 1917