Tom Forman
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 22, 1893, Mitchell County, Texas, USA
- Died
- November 7, 1926
- Movies
- 62
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1926 | Devil’s Dice | |
| 1922 | White Shoulders | Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother |
| 1920 | The Round-Up | Jack Payson |
| 1920 | The Sea Wolf | Humphrey Van Weyden |
| 1920 | The Tree of Knowledge | Brian |
| 1919 | Told in the Hills | Charles Stuart |
| 1919 | The Heart of Youth | Russ Prendergast |
| 1919 | Louisiana | |
| 1919 | For Better, for Worse | Richard Burton |
| 1917 | Hashimura Togo | Dr. Garland |
| 1917 | Forbidden Paths | Harry Maxwell |
| 1917 | Her Strange Wedding | Lee Brownell |
| 1917 | The Jaguar's Claws | Harry Knowles |
| 1917 | The Cost of Hatred | Ned Amory |
| 1917 | Those Without Sin | Bob Wallace |
| 1917 | On Record | Rand Calder |
| 1917 | The American Consul | Geoffrey Daniels |
| 1917 | The Evil Eye | Leonard Sheldon |
| 1916 | The Yellow Pawn | Philip Grant |
| 1916 | Public Opinion | Phillip Carson |
| 1916 | The Clown | Bob Hunter |
| 1916 | The Thousand-Dollar Husband | Douglas Gordon |
| 1916 | To Have and to Hold | Lord Carnal |
| 1916 | The Ragamuffin | Bob Van Dyke |
| 1915 | The Unknown | First Private |
| 1915 | Chimmie Fadden Out West | Antoine |
| 1915 | Out of the Darkness | Tom Jameson |
| 1915 | The Woman | Tom Blake |
| 1915 | The Marriage of Kitty | Jack Churchill |
| 1915 | The Puppet Crown | Lieutenant Von Mitter |
| 1915 | Kindling | Dr. Taylor |
| 1915 | Chimmie Fadden | Antoine, Butler-Thief |
| 1915 | The Wild Goose Chase | Bob Randall |
| 1915 | A Gentleman of Leisure | Sir Spencer Dreever |
| 1915 | Young Romance | Tom Clancy |
| 1914 | Virtue Its Own Reward | Seadley Swaine |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1926 | Devil’s Dice | Director |
| 1926 | Whispering Canyon | Director |
| 1925 | The Midnight Flyer | Director |
| 1925 | The People vs. Nancy Preston | Director |
| 1924 | The Flaming Forties | Director |
| 1924 | Roaring Rails | Director |
| 1924 | The Fighting American | Director |
| 1923 | The Broken Wing | Writer, Director |
| 1923 | April Showers | Director |
| 1923 | The Virginian | Director |
| 1923 | The Girl Who Came Back | Director |
| 1923 | Are You a Failure? | Director |
| 1923 | Money, Money, Money | Director |
| 1922 | The Woman Conquers | Director |
| 1922 | Shadows | Director |
| 1922 | White Shoulders | Director |
| 1922 | If You Believe It, It's So | Director |
| 1921 | A Prince There Was | Director |
| 1921 | Cappy Ricks | Director |
| 1921 | White and Unmarried | Director |
| 1921 | The City of Silent Men | Director |
| 1921 | The Easy Road | Director |
| 1920 | The Sins of Rosanne | Director |
| 1920 | The Round-Up | Writer |
| 1920 | The Ladder of Lies | Director |
| 1914 | The Lion, the Lamb and the Man | Screenplay |
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