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person_profile-Forrest Tucker

Forrest Tucker Died at age: 67

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Forrest Tucker

Date of Birth:

Feb 12, 1919

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Oct 25, 1986

Biography of

Forrest Tucker

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Forrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films.

    Tucker described himself as a farm boy. He was born in Plainfield, Indiana, on February 12, 1919, a son of Forrest A. Tucker and his wife, Doris Heringlake. His mother has been described as an alcoholic. Tucker began his performing career at age 14 at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, pushing the big wicker tourist chairs by day and singing "Throw Money" at night. After his family moved to Washington, D.C., Tucker attracted the attention of Jimmy Lake, the owner of the Old Gaiety Burlesque Theater, by winning its Saturday night amateur contest on consecutive weeks. After his second win, Tucker was hired there at full time as Master of Ceremonies, but left when it was soon discovered that he was underage. He graduated from Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., in 1938, and, joining the United States Cavalry, was stationed at Fort Myer in Arlington County, Virginia, but discharged for, once again, being underage. He returned to work at the Old Gaiety after his 18th birthday.

    When Lake's theatre closed for the summer in 1939, Tucker was helped by a wealthy mentor to travel to California and try to break into film acting. He made a successful screen test, and began auditioning for movie roles. In his own estimation, Tucker was in the mold of large "ugly guys" such as Wallace Beery, Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen, rather than a matinee idol. His debut was as a powerfully built farmer who clashes with the hero in The Westerner (1940), which starred Gary Cooper.

    Like many other movie actors at the time, Tucker enlisted in the United States Army during World War II; he earned a commission as a second lieutenant.

    Tucker married four times:

    Sandra Jolley (1919–1986) in 1940, divorced in 1950, daughter of the character actor I. Stanford Jolley (who also died of emphysema) and the sister of the Academy Award-winning art director Stan Jolley. They had a daughter, Pamela "Brooke" Tucker.

    Marilyn Johnson on March 28, 1950 (died on July 19, 1960).

    Marilyn Fisk on October 23, 1961. They had a daughter, Cindy Tucker, and son, Forrest Sean Tucker.

    Sheila Forbes on April 15, 1986.

    Tucker, who had battled lung cancer for more than a year, as well as having a series of minor illnesses, collapsed and was hospitalized, for the second time in a week, on his way to the ceremony for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 21, 1986. He died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital on October 25, 1986, a few months after the theatrical release of Thunder Run and Outtakes. He was interred in Forest Lawn–Hollywood Hills Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills. CLR

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Forrest Tucker

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Filmography of

Forrest Tucker

Found 90 Movies in total

La Classe américaine

The Fax Man (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1993

Outtakes

Himself ( Actor )

... 1987

Timestalkers

Texas John Cody ( Actor )

... 1987

Thunder Run

Charlie Morrison ( Actor )

... 1985

... 1984

Blood Feud

Lyndon B. Johnson ( Actor )

... 1983

... 1981

The Rebels

Angus Fletcher ( Actor )

... 1979

A Real American Hero

Carl Pusser ( Actor )

... 1978

... 1977

... 1977

The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West

Wagonmaster Callahan ( Actor )

... 1976

The Wild McCullochs

J. J. McCulloch ( Actor )

... 1975

Jarrett

Rev. Vocal Simpson ( Actor )

... 1973

Footsteps

Bradford Emmons ( Actor )

... 1972

Cancel My Reservation

Reese ( Actor )

... 1972

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

Harry McMartin ( Actor )

... 1972

Barquero

Mountain Phil ( Actor )

... 1970

Chisum

Lawrence Murphy ( Actor )

... 1970

The Night They Raided Minsky's

Trim Houlihan ( Actor )

... 1968

A Boy Called Nuthin’

Turkeyneck ( Actor )

... 1967

Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title

Romantic Diner Customer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1966

Counterplot

Brock Miller ( Actor )

... 1959

Gunsmoke in Tucson

John Brazos ( Actor )

... 1958

Auntie Mame

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside ( Actor )

... 1958

The Crawling Eye

Alan Brooks ( Actor )

... 1958

Girl in the Woods

Steve Cory ( Actor )

... 1958

Fort Massacre

McGurney ( Actor )

... 1958

The Strange World of Planet X

Gil Graham ( Actor )

... 1958

The Deerslayer

Harry March ( Actor )

... 1957

The Abominable Snowman

Tom Friend ( Actor )

... 1957

The Quiet Gun

Sheriff Carl Brandon ( Actor )

... 1957

Stagecoach To Fury

Frank Townsend ( Actor )

... 1956

Three Violent People

Deputy Commissioner Cable ( Actor )

... 1956

Paris Follies of 1956

Dan Bradley ( Actor )

... 1955

The Vanishing American

Morgan ( Actor )

... 1955

Night Freight

Mike Peters ( Actor )

... 1955

Finger Man

Dutch Becker ( Actor )

... 1955

Rage at Dawn

Frank Reno ( Actor )

... 1955

Break in the Circle

Baron Keller ( Actor )

... 1955

Trouble in the Glen

Maj. Jim 'Lance' Lansing ( Actor )

... 1954

Jubilee Trail

John Ives ( Actor )

... 1954

Flight Nurse

Capt. Bill Eaton ( Actor )

... 1953

Laughing Anne

Jem Farrell ( Actor )

... 1953

Pony Express

James Butler aka Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1953

San Antone

Lt. Brian Culver, CSA ( Actor )

... 1953

Ride the Man Down

Sam Danfelser ( Actor )

... 1952

Montana Belle

Mac ( Actor )

... 1952

Hurricane Smith

Dan McGuire ( Actor )

... 1952

Hoodlum Empire

Charles A. 'Charley' Pignatalli ( Actor )

... 1952

Bugles in the Afternoon

Donavan ( Actor )

... 1952

Flaming Feather

Lt. Tom Blaine ( Actor )

... 1952

The Wild Blue Yonder

Maj. Tom West ( Actor )

... 1951

Warpath

Sgt. O'Hara ( Actor )

... 1951

Crosswinds

'Jumbo' Johnson ( Actor )

... 1951

Fighting Coast Guard

Bill Rourk ( Actor )

... 1951

Oh! Susanna

Lt. Col. Unger ( Actor )

... 1951

California Passage

Mike Prescott ( Actor )

... 1950

Rock Island Trail

Reed Loomis ( Actor )

... 1950

The Nevadan

Tom Tanner ( Actor )

... 1950

Sands of Iwo Jima

PFC Al J. Thomas ( Actor )

... 1950

Brimstone

Sheriff Henry McIntyre ( Actor )

... 1949

Hellfire

Marshall Bucky McLean ( Actor )

... 1949

The Big Cat

Gil Hawks ( Actor )

... 1949

The Last Bandit

Jim Plummer ( Actor )

... 1949

The Plunderers

Whit Lacey ( Actor )

... 1948

Two Guys from Texas

'Tex' Bennett ( Actor )

... 1948

Coroner Creek

Ernie Combs ( Actor )

... 1948

Adventures in Silverado

Zeke Butler ( Actor )

... 1948

Gunfighters

Ben Orcutt ( Actor )

... 1947

The Yearling

Lem Forrester ( Actor )

... 1946

Never Say Goodbye

Fenwick Lonkowski ( Actor )

... 1946

Dangerous Business

Clayton Russell ( Actor )

... 1946

Renegades

Frank Dembrow ( Actor )

... 1946

The Man Who Dared

Larry James ( Actor )

... 1946

Talk About a Lady

Bart Manners ( Actor )

... 1946

Keeper of the Flame

Geoff Midford ( Actor )

... 1943

... 1942

The Spirit of Stanford

Buzz Costello (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

My Sister Eileen

Sandhog (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

Counter-Espionage

Anton Schugg ( Actor )

... 1942

Parachute Nurse

Lt. Tucker ( Actor )

... 1942

Submarine Raider

Pulaski ( Actor )

... 1942

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

Blond Bomber ( Actor )

... 1942

Canal Zone

Recruit Madigan ( Actor )

... 1942

Shut My Big Mouth

Red ( Actor )

... 1942

Honolulu Lu

Barney ( Actor )

... 1941

New Wine

Moritz ( Actor )

... 1941

Emergency Landing

Jerry Barton ( Actor )

... 1941

The Westerner

Wade Harper ( Actor )

... 1940