Tom Forman (actor)

For other people of the same name see Thomas Forman

Tom Forman
1915
Born	William Webster Campbell February 22, 1893 Mitchell County, Texas, U.S.
Died	November 7, 1926 (aged 33) Venice, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, Film director, Film producer, Writer
Years active	1913–1926
Spouse(s)	Mary Mersch (1 child)

Tom Forman (February 22, 1893 – November 7, 1926) was a motion picture actor, writer, and producer of the early 1920s.

Life and career

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 committed 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.^[1]

Family

He was a cousin of silent screen star Madge Bellamy.

Filmography

Actor

• Devil's Dice (1926)
• Hoboken to Hollywood (1926)
• Kosher Kitty Kelly (1926)
• White Shoulders (1922)
• The Round-Up (1920) with Roscoe Arbuckle and Wallace Beery
• The Sea Wolf (1920) with Noah Beery, Sr.
• The Tree of Knowledge (1920)
• Told in the Hills (1919)
• The Heart of Youth (1919)
• Louisiana (1919)
• For Better, for Worse (1919)
• Hashimura Togo (1917)
• A Kiss for Susie (1917)
• Forbidden Paths (1917)
• Her Strange Wedding (1917)
• The Jaguar's Claws (1917)
• The Tides of Barnegat (1917)
• The Cost of Hatred (1917)
• Those Without Sin (1917)
• On Record (1917)
• The American Consul (1917)
• The Evil Eye (1917)
• The Yellow Pawn (1916)
• Unprotected (1916)
• Public Opinion (1916)
• The Clown (1916)
• The Thousand-Dollar Husband (1916)
• Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1916)
• To Have and to Hold (1916)
• The Ragamuffin (1916)
• The Unknown (1915)
• Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915)
• The Explorer (1915)
• Out of the Darkness (1915)
• The Marriage of Kitty (1915)
• The Puppet Crown (1915)
• The Fighting Hope (1915)
• Kindling (1915)
• Chimmie Fadden (1915)
• The Wild Goose Chase (1915)
• Stolen Goods (1915)
• The Woman (1915/II)
• The Governor's Lady (1915)
• A Gentleman of Leisure (1915)
• Young Romance (1915)
• Lights and Shadows (1914)
• Virtue Is Its Own Reward (1914)
• The Alibi (1913)
• Baffled, But Not Beaten (1913)
• John, the Wagoner (1913)
• The Treachery of a Scar (1913)

Director

• The Devil's Wife (1926)
• Whispering Canyon (1926)
• The Midnight Flyer (1925)
• The People vs. Nancy Preston (1925)
• Off the Highway (1925)
• The Crimson Runner (1925)
• Flattery (1925)
• The Flaming Forties (1924)
• Roaring Rails (1924)
• The Fighting American (1924)
• April Showers (1923)
• The Virginian (1923)
• The Broken Wing (1923)
• Are You a Failure? (1923)
• The Girl Who Came Back (1923)
• Money! Money! Money! (1923)
• The Woman Conquers (1922)
• Shadows (1922)
• White Shoulders (1922)
• If You Believe It, It's So (1922)
• A Prince There Was (1921)
• Cappy Ricks (1921)
• White and Unmarried (1921)
• The City of Silent Men (1921)
• The Easy Road (1921)
• The Sins of Rosanne (1920)
• The Ladder of Lies (1920)

Writer

• The Broken Wing (1923)
• The Round-Up (1920)
• The Trouble Buster (1917)
• Sins of Her Parent (1916)
• The Desert Breed (1915)
• The Threads of Fate (1915)
• The Measure of a Man (1915)

References

1. TV Guide review of What Price Hollywood?

External links

• Tom Forman at the Internet Movie Database

Tom Forman at Find a Grave