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Tom Forman
Mitchell 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 f…
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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
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1926
Devil’s Dice
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1926
Whispering Canyon
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1925
The Midnight Flyer
Movie Director
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1925
The People vs. Nancy Preston
Movie Director
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1924
The Flaming Forties
Movie Director
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1924
Roaring Rails
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1924
The Fighting American
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1923
The Broken Wing
Movie Writer
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1923
April Showers
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1923
The Virginian
Movie Director
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1923
The Girl Who Came Back
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1923
Are You a Failure?
Movie Director
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1923
Money, Money, Money
Movie Director
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1922
The Woman Conquers
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1922
Shadows
Movie Director
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1922
White Shoulders
Movie Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother
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1922
If You Believe It, It's So
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1921
A Prince There Was
Movie Director
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1921
Cappy Ricks
Movie Director
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1921
White and Unmarried
Movie Director
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1921
The City of Silent Men
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1921
The Easy Road
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1920
The Sins of Rosanne
Movie Director
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1920
The Round-Up
Movie Jack Payson
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1920
The Ladder of Lies
Movie Director
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1920
The Sea Wolf
Movie Humphrey Van Weyden
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1920
The Tree of Knowledge
Movie Brian
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1919
Told in the Hills
Movie Charles Stuart
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1919
The Heart of Youth
Movie Russ Prendergast
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1919
Louisiana
Movie
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1919
For Better, for Worse
Movie Richard Burton
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1917
The Trouble Buster
Movie Story
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1917
Hashimura Togo
Movie Dr. Garland
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1917
Forbidden Paths
Movie Harry Maxwell
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1917
Her Strange Wedding
Movie Lee Brownell
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1917
The Jaguar's Claws
Movie Harry Knowles
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1917
The Cost of Hatred
Movie Ned Amory
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1917
Those Without Sin
Movie Bob Wallace
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1917
On Record
Movie Rand Calder
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1917
The American Consul
Movie Geoffrey Daniels
