- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 22, 1893
- Place of Birth
- Mitchell County, Texas, USA
- Died
- November 7, 1926
Tom Forman
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 Ven…
Filmography
movieDevil’s Dice
1926 · , Director
movieWhispering Canyon
1926 · Director
movieThe Midnight Flyer
1925 · Director
movieThe People vs. Nancy Preston
1925 · Director
movieThe Flaming Forties
1924 · Director
movieRoaring Rails
1924 · Director
movieThe Fighting American
1924 · Director
movieThe Broken Wing
1923 · Writer, Director
movieApril Showers
1923 · Director
movieThe Virginian
1923 · Director
movieThe Girl Who Came Back
1923 · Director
movieAre You a Failure?
1923 · Director
movieMoney, Money, Money
1923 · Director
movieThe Woman Conquers
1922 · Director
movieShadows
1922 · Director
movieWhite Shoulders
1922 · Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother, Director
movieIf You Believe It, It's So
1922 · Director
movieA Prince There Was
1921 · Director
movieCappy Ricks
1921 · Director
movieWhite and Unmarried
1921 · Director
movieThe City of Silent Men
1921 · Director
movieThe Easy Road
1921 · Director
movieThe Sins of Rosanne
1920 · Director
movieThe Round-Up
1920 · Jack Payson, Writer
movieThe Ladder of Lies
1920 · Director
movieThe Sea Wolf
1920 · Humphrey Van Weyden
movieThe Tree of Knowledge
1920 · Brian
movieTold in the Hills
1919 · Charles Stuart
movieThe Heart of Youth
1919 · Russ Prendergast
Louisiana
movieLouisiana
1919
movieFor Better, for Worse
1919 · Richard Burton
movieThe Trouble Buster
1917 · Story
movieHashimura Togo
1917 · Dr. Garland
movieForbidden Paths
1917 · Harry Maxwell
movieHer Strange Wedding
1917 · Lee Brownell
movieThe Jaguar's Claws
1917 · Harry Knowles
movieThe Cost of Hatred
1917 · Ned Amory
movieThose Without Sin
1917 · Bob Wallace
movieOn Record
1917 · Rand Calder
The American Consul
movieThe American Consul
1917 · Geoffrey Daniels
The Evil Eye
movieThe Evil Eye
1917 · Leonard Sheldon
movieThe Yellow Pawn
1916 · Philip Grant
Public Opinion
moviePublic Opinion
1916 · Phillip Carson
movieThe Clown
1916 · Bob Hunter
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
movieThe Thousand-Dollar Husband
1916 · Douglas Gordon
movieTo Have and to Hold
1916 · Lord Carnal
movieThe Ragamuffin
1916 · Bob Van Dyke
movieThe Unknown
1915 · First Private
movieChimmie Fadden Out West
1915 · Antoine
movieOut of the Darkness
1915 · Tom Jameson
movieThe Woman
1915 · Tom Blake
movieThe Marriage of Kitty
1915 · Jack Churchill
movieThe Puppet Crown
1915 · Lieutenant Von Mitter
Kindling
movieKindling
1915 · Dr. Taylor
movieChimmie Fadden
1915 · Antoine, Butler-Thief
movieThe Wild Goose Chase
1915 · Bob Randall
The Measure of a Man
movieThe Measure of a Man
1915 · Story
movieYoung Romance
1915 · Tom Clancy
movieThe Lion, the Lamb and the Man
1914 · Screenplay
movieVirtue Its Own Reward
1914 · Seadley Swaine