Tom Forman
Known for ActingBorn 1893-02-22 — died 1926-11-07Mitchell County, Texas, USA
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.
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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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Known for
Hashimura Togo
1917 · as Dr. Garland
Louisiana
1919
Forbidden Paths
1917 · as Harry Maxwell
White Shoulders
1922 · as Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother
The Heart of Youth
1919 · as Russ Prendergast
The Ragamuffin
1916 · as Bob Van Dyke
Public Opinion
1916 · as Phillip Carson
The Jaguar's Claws
1917 · as Harry Knowles
The Cost of Hatred
1917 · as Ned Amory
The American Consul
1917 · as Geoffrey Daniels
Told in the Hills
1919 · as Charles Stuart
On Record
1917 · as Rand Calder
Virtue Its Own Reward
1914 · as Seadley Swaine
The Round-Up
1920 · as Jack Payson
Those Without Sin
1917 · as Bob Wallace
For Better, for Worse
1919 · as Richard Burton
The Clown
1916 · as Bob Hunter
The Wild Goose Chase
1915 · as Bob Randall