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person_profile-Steve Forrest

Steve Forrest Died at age: 88

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Steve Forrest

Date of Birth:

Sep 29, 1924

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

May 18, 2013

Biography of

Steve Forrest

    A ruggedly handsome action man of the 1960's and 70's, Steve Forrest began his screen career as a small part contract player with MGM. A brother of star Dana Andrews, he was born William Forrest Andrews, the youngest of thirteen children. His father was a Baptist minister in Huntsville, Texas. In 1942, Steve enlisted in the U.S. Army, rose to the rank of sergeant and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge. Following his demobilisation, he visited his brother in Hollywood and came to the conclusion that acting wasn't a bad way to make a living (having already done some work as a movie extra). He went on to study in college at UCLA, eventually graduating in 1950 with a B.A. Honours Degree in theatre arts. He then served a brief apprenticeship as a carpenter, prop boy and set builder at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, where he was discovered by resident actor Gregory Peck and given a small part as a bellboy in the cast of the summer stock production of "Goddbye Again". A subsequent screen test led to a contract with MGM and resulting employment as second leads, brothers of the titular star, toughs and outlaws. His first proper recognition was being awarded 'New Star of the Year' by Golden Globe for his role in So Big (1953), a drama based on a Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Edna Ferber.

    From the mid-1950's, the rangy, 6-foot-3 actor became much in-demand on TV, beginning with classic early anthology and western series, interspersed with occasional appearances on the big screen (notably, in The Longest Day (1962) and as Joan Crawford's lover/attorney Greg Savitt in Mommie Dearest (1981)). In addition to numerous guest roles, he was regularly featured in series like Gunsmoke (1955), Dallas (1978) (as Wes Parmalee, who believes himself to be lost Ewing patriarch Jock) and Murder, She Wrote (1984). Already from the mid-60's, he decided to pick his assignments more carefully. In order to shed his image as the perpetual bad guy, he had relocated his family to England to star as antique-dealer-cum-undercover intelligence agent John Mannering in BBC's The Baron (1966). He followed this by another starring role as the stoic, tough Lieutenant Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson in the short-lived ABC police drama series S.W.A.T. (1975), possibly his best-remembered role. Steve later lampooned his screen personae in the satirical Amazon Women on the Moon (1987).

    In private life, Steve Forrest was known as a skilled golfer, lover of football and (according to 1970's newspaper articles) as a dedicated amateur beekeeper.

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Steve Forrest

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Filmography of

Steve Forrest

Found 48 Movies in total

Miracle at St. Anna

Capt. Harding in The Longest Day (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2008

S.W.A.T.

S.W.A.T. Truck Driver ( Actor )

... 2003

Killer: A Journal of Murder

Warden Charles Casey ( Actor )

... 1996

Storyville

Judge Quentin Murdoch ( Actor )

... 1992

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

Will Mannon ( Actor )

... 1987

Amazon Women on the Moon

Capt. Nelson ( Actor )

... 1987

Spies Like Us

General Sline ( Actor )

... 1985

Sahara

Gordon ( Actor )

... 1983

Malibu

Rich Bradley ( Actor )

... 1983

Hotline

Tom Hunter ( Actor )

... 1982

Mommie Dearest

Greg Savitt ( Actor )

... 1981

Roughnecks

Paul Marshall ( Actor )

... 1980

North Dallas Forty

Conrad Hunter ( Actor )

... 1979

Captain America

Lou Brackett ( Actor )

... 1979

The Deerslayer

Hawkeye ( Actor )

... 1978

Maneaters Are Loose!

David Birk ( Actor )

... 1978

Last of the Mohicans

Hawkeye ( Actor )

... 1977

Wanted: The Sundance Woman

Charlie Siringo ( Actor )

... 1976

The Hatfields and the McCoys

Randall McCoy ( Actor )

... 1975

The Hanged Man

James Devlin ( Actor )

... 1974

... 1973

The Late Liz

Jim Hatch ( Actor )

... 1971

The Wild Country

Jim Tanner ( Actor )

... 1970

Rascal

Willard North ( Actor )

... 1969

The Owl That Didn't Give a Hoot

Jr. Narrator ( Actor )

... 1968

The Yellow Canary

Hubbard "Hub" Wiley ( Actor )

... 1963

The Longest Day

Capt. Harding ( Actor )

... 1962

The Second Time Around

Dan Jones ( Actor )

... 1961

Flaming Star

Clint Burton ( Actor )

... 1960

Five Branded Women

Paul Keller ( Actor )

... 1960

Heller in Pink Tights

Clint Mabry ( Actor )

... 1960

It Happened to Jane

Larry Hall ( Actor )

... 1959

The Living Idol

Terry Matthews ( Actor )

... 1957

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Steve Forrest (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1956

Bedevilled

Gregory Fitzgerald ( Actor )

... 1955

Rogue Cop

Eddie Kelvaney ( Actor )

... 1954

Prisoner of War

Cpl. Joseph Robert Stanton ( Actor )

... 1954

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

Prof. Paul Dupin ( Actor )

... 1954

So Big

Dirk DeJong ( Actor )

... 1953

Take the High Ground!

Lobo Nagalaski ( Actor )

... 1953

The Band Wagon

Passenger on Train (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1953

I Love Melvin

Photographer on Crane (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1953

Last of the Comanches

Lt. Floyd (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1953

The Clown

Young Man ( Actor )

... 1953

The Bad and the Beautiful

Actor in Georgia's Screen Test (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1952

Geisha Girl

Rocky Wilson ( Actor )

... 1952

Sealed Cargo

Holtz ( Actor )

... 1951