John Forsythe appeared as a guest on several talk and variety shows and as a panelist on numerous game shows.
34 Facts About John Forsythe
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John Forsythe hosted the series World of Survival, and was the presenter of the 38th Miss Universe Pageant, broadcast on CBS in 1989.
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John Forsythe was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where his father worked as a Wall Street businessman during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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John Forsythe graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn at the age of 16, and began attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Also in 1943, John Forsythe met Julie Warren, initially a theatre companion, but later a successful actress in her own right, landing a role on Broadway in Around the World.
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John Forsythe became Forsythe's second wife, and in the early 1950s they had two daughters.
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In 1947, John Forsythe joined the initial class of the Actors Studio, where he met Marlon Brando and Julie Harris, among others.
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John Forsythe appeared in the "Premonition" episode of the popular anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents, opposite Cloris Leachman.
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John Forsythe played Confederate Lieutenant David Marr who suddenly resigns to return to his wife, only to find that he is scorned by townspeople.
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The John Forsythe Oak remains in place today; it is located on a private estate on the former Upper Iverson.
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On various episodes John Forsythe worked with such up-and-coming actresses as Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara Eden, Donna Douglas, Sally Kellerman, Sue Ane Langdon, and a teenage Linda Evans.
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John Forsythe attempted two new television programs: The John Forsythe Show on NBC with Guy Marks, Elsa Lanchester, Ann B Davis, Peggy Lipton, and Forsythe's two young daughters, Page and Brooke, and To Rome with Love on CBS with co-star Walter Brennan.
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Between 1971 and 1977, John Forsythe served as narrator on the syndicated nature series, World of Survival.
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John Forsythe was the announcer for Michelob beer commercials during the 1970s and 1980s, notably during the "Weekends were made for Michelob" era.
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John Forsythe began a 13-year association with Aaron Spelling in 1976, cast in the role of mysterious unseen millionaire private investigator Charles Townsend in the crime drama Charlie's Angels.
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John Forsythe became the highest-paid actor on television on a per-hour basis: while the show's on-camera stars often worked 15-hour days five days a week, with a couple of hours just for hair and makeup, John Forsythe's lines for an entire episode would be recorded in a sound studio in a matter of minutes, after which he would have lunch in the network's commissary and then leave for the track.
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In 1981, nearing the end of Charlie's Angels, John Forsythe was selected as a last-minute replacement for George Peppard in the role of conniving patriarch Blake Carrington in Dynasty.
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Between 1985 and 1986, John Forsythe appeared as Blake Carrington in the short-lived spinoff series The Colbys.
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John Forsythe was the only actor to appear in all 220 episodes.
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John Forsythe was nominated for Emmy Awards three times between 1982 and 1984 for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" but did not win.
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John Forsythe was nominated six times for Golden Globe Awards, winning twice.
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John Forsythe was nominated five times for the Soap Opera Digest Awards, winning twice.
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In 1983, John Forsythe was presented with the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award at a ceremony in Coronado, California.
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In 1992, after a three-year absence, John Forsythe returned to series television starring in Norman Lear's situation comedy The Powers That Be for NBC, co-starring Holland Taylor, Peter MacNicol, Valerie Mahaffey and David Hyde Pierce.
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John Forsythe had been in a coma following severe breathing difficulties.
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In July 2002, John Forsythe married businesswoman Nicole Carter at Ballard Country Church; they remained married until his death.
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John Forsythe reprised his role as the voice of Charlie for the film version of Charlie's Angels and its sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle ; he then retired from acting.
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In 2005 actor Bartholomew John portrayed Forsythe in Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, a fictionalized television movie based on the creation and behind the scenes production of Dynasty.
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John Forsythe appeared each year to read to children during the annual Christmas program near his home at the rural resort community of Solvang, California.
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John Forsythe was treated for colorectal cancer in the fall of 2006.
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John Forsythe died on April 1,2010, from pneumonia in Santa Ynez, California.
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John Forsythe was interred at Oak Hill Cemetery, Ballard, Santa Barbara County, California.
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John Forsythe owned and bred Thoroughbred racehorses for many years and was a member of the board of directors of Hollywood Park Racetrack.
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John Forsythe was the recipient of the 1988 Eclipse Award of Merit for his contribution in promoting the sport of Thoroughbred racing.