Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 22, 1893
Died
Nov 07, 1926
Place of Birth
Mitchell County, Texas, USA
Credits
61 titles
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Filmography
Devil’s Dice
Whispering Canyon
Director
The Midnight Flyer
Director
The People vs. Nancy Preston
Director
The Flaming Forties
Director
Roaring Rails
Director
The Fighting American
Director
The Broken Wing
Writer
April Showers
Director
The Virginian
Director
The Girl Who Came Back
Director
Are You a Failure?
Director
Money, Money, Money
Director
The Woman Conquers
Director
Shadows
Director
White Shoulders
Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother
If You Believe It, It's So
Director
A Prince There Was
Director
Cappy Ricks
Director
White and Unmarried
Director
The City of Silent Men
Director
The Easy Road
Director
The Sins of Rosanne
Director
The Round-Up
Jack Payson
The Ladder of Lies
Director
The Sea Wolf
Humphrey Van Weyden
The Tree of Knowledge
Brian
Told in the Hills
Charles Stuart
The Heart of Youth
Russ Prendergast
Louisiana
For Better, for Worse
Richard Burton
The Trouble Buster
Story
Hashimura Togo
Dr. Garland
Forbidden Paths
Harry Maxwell
Her Strange Wedding
Lee Brownell
The Jaguar's Claws
Harry Knowles
The Cost of Hatred
Ned Amory
Those Without Sin
Bob Wallace
On Record
Rand Calder
The American Consul
Geoffrey Daniels
The Evil Eye
Leonard Sheldon
The Yellow Pawn
Philip Grant
Public Opinion
Phillip Carson
The Clown
Bob Hunter
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
Douglas Gordon
To Have and to Hold
Lord Carnal
The Ragamuffin
Bob Van Dyke
The Unknown
First Private
Chimmie Fadden Out West
Antoine
Out of the Darkness
Tom Jameson