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Frederic Forrest
Birthday: December 23, 1936

Birth Place: Waxahachie, Texas, USA
Height: 6' 1"

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Biography

Frederic Forrest, the Oscar-nominated character actor, was born two days before Christmas Day 1936 in Waxahachie, Texas, the same home town as director Robert Benton. Forrest had long wanted to be an actor, but he was so nervous that he ran out of auditions for school plays. Later, at Texas Christian University, he took a minor in theater arts while majoring in radio and television studies. His parents opposed his aspirations as a thespian as it was a precarious existence, but he moved on to New York and studied with renowned acting teacher Sanford Meisner. He eventually became an observer at the Actors Studio, where he was tutored by Lee Strasberg. During this time, he supported himself as a page at the NBC Studios in Rockefeller Plaza.His theatrical debut was in the Off-Broadway production of "Viet-Rock," an anti-war play featuring music. He became part of avant-garde director Tom O'Horgan's stock company at La Mama, appearing in the infamous "Futz," among other productions. He made his uncredited debut in The Filthy Five (1968), a low-budget movie best forgotten, but he racked up his first credit in O'Horgan's very bizarre screen adaptation of Futz! (1969), a satire about a farmer who falls in love with a hog.After starring in the off-Broadway play "Silhouettes," Forrest moved with the production to Los Angeles, intent on breaking into movies. While the production ran for three months and was visited by agents bird-dogging new talent, Forrest got no offers and had to support himself as a pizza-baker after the show closed. Eventually, he began auditing classes at Actors Studio West, and director Stuart Millar saw him in a student showcase production of Clifford Odets' "Watiting for Lefty" and cast him in When the Legends Die (1972). He copped a 1973 Golden Globe nomination as "Most Promising Newcomer - Male" for the role, losing out to Edward Albert Jr. in Butterflies Are Free (1972). For the first time in his film acting career, Frederic Forrest looked like he was poised for stardom.His follow-up picture, the pitiful The Godfather (1972) rip-off The Don Is Dead (1973), did nothing for his career, although a small part in "Godfather" director Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) would later pay dividends. Except for a small role in the disappointing The Missouri Breaks (1976) and his TV turn as Lee Harvey Oswald in CBS' Ruby and Oswald (1978) (TV), Forrest had little to show in the first part of his career. Coppola was about to change that.Playing Chef in Apocalypse Now (1979) garnered Forrest the best notices of his career, and he parlayed that into Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Supporting Actor for The Rose (1979), his second hit that year. He was named Best Supporting Actor by the National Society of Film Critics for both films, and once again he seemed poised on the verge of stardom. Like the first time, stardom did not come.His aspirations were to do quality work and play a romantic lead. "I would like to not have to fit into somebody else's story and have my scenes cut because I'm too strong," he told a journalist circa 1980. "And next time, I'd like to get the girl instead of the horse."He did get the romantic lead he pined for, but it was a case of "Be careful what you wish for, as you might just get it." Coppola, so instrumental in propelling Forrest into the first rank of character actors, cast him as the romantic lead in One from the Heart (1982), a picture that proved to be one of the great financial debacles of all time. It bankrupted Coppola's studio, American Zoetrope, and engendered a fierce backlash against the director and the film in Hollywood.Forrest and co-star Teri Garr were both egregiously miscast in Coppola's re-imagining of the musical due to the simple fact that neither could sing or dance and had no place in any kind of musical, traditional or re-imagined. Coppola reportedly never came out of "Silverfish," the Winnebago-like trailer he had transformed into a control center from which he directed the film via television monitors, a first in the industry. For his masterpieces "The Godfather," The Godfather: Part II (1974) and "Apocalypse Now" he had left the visuals in the very able hands of his cinematographers, Gordon Willis and Vittorio Storaro. Coppola was a first-rate screenwriter with a sure hand, eliciting performances from actors as notoriously difficult as Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, but by locking himself away from the set in a trailer to oversee the visual scope of his picture, there was little he seemingly could do to prevent the floundering of his two leads. More concerned with technology than his actors, he lost his touch. "One From the Heart" turned out to be a disaster, and except for one more lead in a Coppola-produced film, Wim Wenders' underwhelming Hammett (1982), Forrest's career as a leading man was through.In 1983 he played a supporting role in Valley Girl (1983) in an unmemorable performance, a role that could have been played by any actor, something one couldn't say about his Chef in "Apocalypse Now." Chef had been as essential to the success of the film as had Martin Sheen's Willard and Brando's Col. Kurtz. Increasingly, Forrest began appearing on television, and by 1987 was in the cast of the series "21 Jump Street" (1987) on the new Fox TV network, lasting only one season before being ignominiously replaced by Steven Williams. Except for an appearance in the mini-series "Lonesome Dove" (1989) (mini), he has done little of note since and has continually failed to live up to the promise of his talent.

Movie Credits
The Quality of Light (2003)
Path to War (2002)
[ Alec Baldwin ][ Donald Sutherland ][ Michael Gambon ][ Gary Sinise ][ Tom Skerritt ]
The House Next Door (2002)
[ James Russo ]
A Piece of Eden (2000)
[ Tyne Daly ]
Militia (2000)
[ Dean Cain ][ Stacy Keach ]
The Spreading Ground (2000)
[ Dennis Hopper ]
Shadow Hours (2000)
[ Brad Dourif ][ Peter Weller ][ Michael Dorn ][ Balthazar Getty ][ Corin Nemec ]
Sweetwater (1999)
Shadow Lake (1999)
[ Graham Greene ]
Point Blank (1998)
[ Mickey Rourke ][ Danny Trejo ][ Kevin Gage ][ James Gammon ]
The First 9 1/2 Weeks (1998)
[ Malcolm McDowell ]
Black Thunder (1998)
[ Kane Hodder ][ Michael Dudikoff ][ Andrew Stevens ]
Whatever (1998)
[ Iggy Pop ]
Boogie Boy (1998)
[ Mark Dacascos ][ Ben Browder ][ John Hawkes ][ Michael Pena ]
Implicated (1998)
[ Philip Baker Hall ][ Richard Tyson ][ William McNamara ]
Alone (1997)
[ James Earl Jones ][ Chris Cooper ][ Ed Begley Jr. ][ Hume Cronyn ]
One of Our Own (1997)
[ Michael Ironside ][ Richard Riehle ]
Crash Dive (1997)
[ Michael Dudikoff ][ Andrew Stevens ][ Chris Titus ]
The End of Violence (1997)
[ Gabriel Byrne ][ Bill Pullman ][ Tom Waits ][ Wim Wenders ][ Udo Kier ]
The Brave (1997)
[ Johnny Depp ][ Marlon Brando ][ Clarence Williams III ]
Andersonville (1996)
[ William H Macy ][ William H. Macy ][ Thomas F. Wilson ][ Justin Henry ][ William Sanderson ]
Double Jeopardy (1996)
[ Shawn Hatosy ][ Joe Penny ][ Chris Owen ]
One Night Stand (1995)
[ A Martinez ]
Lassie (1994)
[ Tom Guiry ][ Jon Tenney ][ Richard Farnsworth ]
Chasers (1994)
[ Crispin Glover ][ Dennis Hopper ][ Gary Busey ][ Tom Berenger ][ Dean Stockwell ]
Against the Wall (1994)
[ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Kyle MacLachlan ][ Danny Trejo ][ Harry Dean Stanton ][ Steve Harris ]
Double Obsession (1994)
Precious Victims (1993)
[ Robby Benson ][ Noah Emmerich ][ Brion James ][ Glenn Morshower ]
Trauma (1993)
[ Brad Dourif ][ Dario Argento ][ James Russo ]
Falling Down (1993)
[ Michael Douglas ][ Robert Duvall ][ John Diehl ][ James Morrison ]
Hidden Fears (1993)
Rain Without Thunder (1992)
[ Steve Zahn ][ Jeff Daniels ][ Graham Greene ][ Austin Pendleton ][ Ethan Phillips ]
The Habitation of Dragons (1992)
[ Elias Koteas ][ Brad Davis ][ Pat Hingle ][ Brandon Smith ]
Citizen Cohn (1992)
[ James Woods ][ Joe Don Baker ][ Pat Hingle ][ Joseph Bologna ]
'Til Death Do Us Part: Part 2 (1992)
[ Josh Brolin ][ Stephen Baldwin ][ Jamie Walters ]
Twin Sisters (1992)
[ James Brolin ]
The Two Jakes (1990)
[ Jack Nicholson ][ Harvey Keitel ][ Eli Wallach ][ John Cho ][ Richard Farnsworth ]
Music Box (1989)
[ Lukas Haas ][ Michael Rooker ]
Valentino Returns (1989)
[ Miguel Ferrer ][ Barry Tubb ][ David Packer ]
Cat Chaser (1989)
[ Peter Weller ][ Charles Durning ][ Tomas Milian ][ Tony Bolano ]
Margaret Bourke-White (1989)
[ Brandon Smith ]
Gotham (1988)
[ Tommy Lee Jones ][ Tommy Lee ]
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
[ Christian Slater ][ George Lucas ][ Jeff Bridges ][ Elias Koteas ][ Martin Landau ]
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (1988)
[ Brian Cox ][ James Fox ]
Little Girl Lost (1988)
[ Christopher McDonald ]
America, What a Town (1987)
21 Jump Street: Part 1 (1987)
Stacking (1987)
[ Peter Coyote ][ Jason Gedrick ][ James Gammon ]
My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades (1987)
Don't Pet the Teacher (1987)
[ Blair Underwood ]
Where Are the Children? (1986)
[ Eriq La Salle ]
The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
[ Mark Harmon ][ M. Emmet Walsh ][ Willie Garson ][ John Ashton ]
Return (1986)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985)
Right to Kill? (1985)
[ Jason Bateman ][ Terry O'Quinn ][ J.T. Walsh ][ John M Jackson ][ John M. Jackson ]
The Stone Boy (1984)
[ Robert Duvall ][ Dean Cain ][ Wilford Brimley ]
Best Kept Secrets (1984)
[ Peter Coyote ][ Howard Hesseman ]
Calamity Jane (1984)
[ Walter Olkewicz ]
The Parade (1984)
[ Maxwell Caulfield ]
Saigon: Year of the Cat (1983)
[ Wallace Shawn ][ Roger Rees ]
Valley Girl (1983)
[ Nicolas Cage ][ Martha Coolidge ]
Who Will Love My Children? (1983)
[ William Sanderson ][ Allen Payne ]
One from the Heart (1982)
[ Harry Dean Stanton ][ Raul Julia ]
Hammett (1982)
[ Francis Ford Coppola ][ Peter Boyle ][ Wim Wenders ][ David Patrick Kelly ][ Roy Kinnear ]
The Rose (1979)
[ Divine ][ Harry Dean Stanton ][ Alan Bates ][ Jeffrey Weissman ]
Survival of Dana (1979)
[ Robert Carradine ][ Judge Reinhold ]
Apocalypse Now (1979)
[ Harrison Ford ][ Marlon Brando ][ Robert Duvall ][ Laurence Fishburne ][ Martin Sheen ]
It Lives Again (1978)
Ruby and Oswald (1978)
[ Lewis Arquette ][ Michael Lerner ]
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
[ Jack Nicholson ][ Marlon Brando ][ Randy Quaid ][ Harry Dean Stanton ][ John Williams ]
Permission to Kill (1975)
[ Timothy Dalton ][ Bekim Fehmiu ]
Promise Him Anything (1975)
[ Edward Albert ][ Eddie Albert ][ Aldo Ray ]
The Gravy Train (1974)
[ Terrence Malick ][ Stacy Keach ][ Paul Dooley ]
Larry (1974)
[ Tyne Daly ]
The Conversation (1974)
[ Harrison Ford ][ Gene Hackman ][ Robert Duvall ][ Francis Ford Coppola ][ John Cazale ]
The Don Is Dead (1973)
[ Anthony Quinn ][ Abe Vigoda ][ Robert Forster ][ Sid Haig ]
When the Legends Die (1972)
[ Richard Widmark ]
Futz! (1969)
The Filthy Five (1968)

Trivia

  • Played mystery novelist Dashiell Hammett twice; he reprised the role for Citizen Cohn (1992) (TV)

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