Forrest Meredith Tucker was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films.
29 Facts About Forrest Tucker
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Forrest Tucker was a sight reader who needed only one take and his film career started well despite a perception in most Hollywood studios that blond men were not photogenic.
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Forrest Tucker enlisted in the Army during World War II.
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Forrest Tucker struggled with a drinking problem that began to affect his performances in the later years of his career.
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Forrest Tucker returned to work at the Old Gaiety after his 18th birthday.
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Forrest Tucker made a successful screen test, and began auditioning for movie roles.
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Forrest Tucker's debut was as a powerfully built farmer who clashes with the hero in The Westerner, which starred Gary Cooper.
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Forrest Tucker had a support role in The Great Awakening for United Artists.
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At Columbia Forrest Tucker had a support role in one of their Lone Wolf pictures, Counter-Espionage, followed by a Boston Blackie entry, Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood.
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In 1948, Forrest Tucker left Columbia and signed with Republic Pictures.
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Forrest Tucker made Montana Belle for Republic with Jane Russell; it was sold to RKO.
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Forrest Tucker had a role in Republic's Sands of Iwo Jima, as PFC Thomas, a Marine with a score to settle with John Wayne's Sergeant Stryker.
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Forrest Tucker went back to Columbia to support Scott again in The Nevadan.
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Forrest Tucker was promoted to star roles with California Passage.
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Forrest Tucker was back to supporting actor for Hoodlum Empire then over at Paramount he co-starred with Sterling Hayden in Flaming Feather and supported Charlton Heston in Pony Express.
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Forrest Tucker went to England in support of British film star Margaret Lockwood in Laughing Anne, a co-production with Republic.
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Forrest Tucker returned to England to make another with Lockwood, Trouble in the Glen, and stayed on to make Break in the Circle for Hammer Films.
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Forrest Tucker made some films for Allied Artists, Paris Follies of 1956 and Finger Man in support of Frank Lovejoy, and then supported Randolph Scott once more in Rage at Dawn.
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Forrest Tucker had a two-year stint on television playing the well-received role of a charter-boat captain in Bermuda in the series Crunch and Des from 1955 to 1956 with Sandy Kenyon.
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Forrest Tucker was top billed in Fox's The Quiet Gun and supported Charlton Heston in Three Violent People.
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Forrest Tucker stayed on in England for The Strange World of Planet X, and The Trollenberg Terror.
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Forrest Tucker showed a flair for light comedy under the direction of Morton DaCosta that had largely been unexplored in his roles in Westerns and science fiction films.
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Forrest Tucker supported Joel McCrea in Fort Massacre and had the lead in Counterplot.
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Forrest Tucker was cast as Professor Harold Hill in the national touring production of The Music Man in 1958 and played the role 2,008 times over the next five years, including a 56-week run at the Shubert Theatre in Chicago.
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Forrest Tucker turned to television for his most famous role, starring as frontier entrepreneur Sgt.
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Forrest Tucker had the lead in The Wild McCullochs and was a supporting actor in the television movie A Real American Hero.
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Forrest Tucker continued to be active on stage as well, starring in the national productions of Plaza Suite, Show Boat and That Championship Season.
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Forrest Tucker returned to the big screen, after an absence of several years, in the Cannon Films action film Thunder Run, playing the hero, trucker Charlie Morrison.
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Forrest 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.