Tom Forman
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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Movies 36
Virtue Its Own Reward
as Seadley Swaine
1914
The Heart of Youth
as Russ Prendergast
1919
White Shoulders
as Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother
1922
For Better, for Worse
as Richard Burton
1919
The Jaguar's Claws
as Harry Knowles
1917
The Round-Up
as Jack Payson
1920
Public Opinion
as Phillip Carson
1916
Those Without Sin
as Bob Wallace
1917
A Gentleman of Leisure
as Sir Spencer Dreever
1915
Out of the Darkness
as Tom Jameson
1915
Told in the Hills
as Charles Stuart
1919
The Marriage of Kitty
as Jack Churchill
1915
The Ragamuffin
as Bob Van Dyke
1916
The Sea Wolf
as Humphrey Van Weyden
1920
The Cost of Hatred
as Ned Amory
1917
Forbidden Paths
as Harry Maxwell
1917
The Wild Goose Chase
as Bob Randall
1915
To Have and to Hold
as Lord Carnal
1916
Hashimura Togo
as Dr. Garland
1917
The Tree of Knowledge
as Brian
1920
The Woman
as Tom Blake
1915
Louisiana
1919
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
as Douglas Gordon
1916
Chimmie Fadden Out West
as Antoine
1915
Devil’s Dice
1926
The Evil Eye
as Leonard Sheldon
1917
Young Romance
as Tom Clancy
1915
The Yellow Pawn
as Philip Grant
1916
On Record
as Rand Calder
1917
The Unknown
as First Private
1915
Kindling
as Dr. Taylor
1915
The Clown
as Bob Hunter
1916
The Puppet Crown
as Lieutenant Von Mitter
1915
Her Strange Wedding
as Lee Brownell
1917
The American Consul
as Geoffrey Daniels
1917
Chimmie Fadden
as Antoine, Butler-Thief
1915