Gareth Langton Johns Forwood was a British actor.
19 Facts About Gareth Forwood
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Gareth Forwood made his screen debut in 1965 and went on to prosper as a character actor with over 40 credits in film, television and theatre.
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Gareth Forwood's career was marked with recurring roles in several large productions, particularly with the British public broadcast network ITV.
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Gareth Forwood's father lived with actor Sir Dirk Bogarde at Beel House, a Grade II* listed building in Amersham.
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Gareth Forwood was later enrolled at Stowe School in 1959, followed by Chilton Cantelo School, and Millfield School in Street.
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Gareth Forwood followed this with later appearances at the Apollo Theatre in London as Charles Wykeham in Brandon Thomas' Charley's Aunt from 30 August 1971 to 13 February 1972, Bath's Theatre Royal and London's Cambridge Theatre in Marcelle Maurette's Anastasia in October 1976, and the Ashcroft Theatre in London as Jackie Jackson in a Cambridge Theatre Company production of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea from 5 July 1977 to 30 July 1977.
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Gareth Forwood made his professional television debut with the series of one-off plays The Wednesday Play in 1965, in which he appeared three separate times: as Balcar in 1965, Colin in 1966, and Cantfield in 1970.
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Gareth Forwood made a guest appearance in the sitcom The Golden Age in 1967 and made his cinematic debut in Jack Gold's The Bofors Gun the following year.
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Gareth Forwood appeared in the anthology television series Detective, the silent television comedy For Amusement Only and the anthology period piece The Jazz Age, as John, Second Youth, and Tom Kent-Cumberland respectively.
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Gareth Forwood was given the minor role of Alistair in Guy Hamilton's 1969 war film Battle of Britain.
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In Playhouse, Gareth Forwood played Martin Wyld in the episode Public Face and Carr in the episode Refuge for a Hero ; in Sunday Night Theatre, he played Steven Hindle in the episode The Innocent Ceremony, Basil Anthony in the episode Man and Boy, and Desmond in the episode The Piano Player.
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In 1973, Gareth Forwood was cast as Doctor Park in ITV Granada's courtroom drama series Crown Court along with his grandfather, actor Mervyn Johns, who played Arthur Charles Parfitt and Edward Lumsden.
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Gareth Forwood was cast as the Photographer on Aquitania in Christopher Miles' 1981 biographical film Priest of Love, the Secretary in Richard Attenborough's 1982 period biographical film Gandhi, Duke in David S Ward's 1991 comedy film King Ralph, Ian in Pradip Krishen's 1992 Indian film Electric Moon, and Denis Carradine in Sarah Pia Anderson's 1995 crime drama Prime Suspect: Inner Circles.
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In 1989, Gareth Forwood played Derek Preston in the episode Life and Death of Geoff McQueen's police procedural television series The Bill on ITV.
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In later life, Gareth Forwood worked as a guest commentator for the BBC.
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Gareth Forwood married David Foster in 1952, Cecil Henderson in 1960, and Elliott Arnold in 1964.
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In 1973, Gareth Forwood married French set designer Veronique Lecoq, with whom he had one son, Thomas Gareth Forwood, an animator, writer and director based in Paris.
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Gareth Forwood died on 16 October 2007 at his home in London.
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Gareth Forwood was survived by his mother, son and wife.