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Tom Forman (1893-1926)

Alias:
Thomas Foreman
Thomas Forman
Thomas Powers Forman
Tom P. Foreman
Tom P. Forman
Tom Powers Forman
Tom Powers Forman Sr.

Birthplace:
Mitchell County, Texas, USA

Born:
February 22, 1893

Died:
November 7, 1926

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Production

Director:
1920  The Ladder of Lies
1920  The Sins of Rosanne
1921  A Prince There Was
1921  Cappy Ricks
1921  White and Unmarried
1922  Shadows
1922  The Woman Conquers
1923  April Showers
1923  Are You a Failure?
1923  Money, Money, Money
1923  The Broken Wing
1923  The Virginian
1924  Roaring Rails
1924  The Fighting American
1924  The Flaming Forties
1925  The Midnight Flyer

Story:
1915  The Measure of a Man
1920  The Ladder of Lies
1920  The Sins of Rosanne
1921  A Prince There Was
1921  Cappy Ricks
1921  White and Unmarried
1922  Shadows
1922  The Woman Conquers
1923  April Showers
1923  Are You a Failure?
1923  Money, Money, Money
1923  The Broken Wing
1923  The Virginian
1924  Roaring Rails
1924  The Fighting American
1924  The Flaming Forties
1925  The Midnight Flyer

Writer:
1915  The Measure of a Man
1920  The Ladder of Lies
1920  The Round-Up
1920  The Sins of Rosanne
1921  A Prince There Was
1921  Cappy Ricks
1921  White and Unmarried
1922  Shadows
1922  The Woman Conquers
1923  April Showers
1923  Are You a Failure?
1923  Money, Money, Money
1923  The Broken Wing
1923  The Virginian
1924  Roaring Rails
1924  The Fighting American
1924  The Flaming Forties
1925  The Midnight Flyer

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