Forrest Tucker

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

107

Movies

Born: February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986
From: Plainfield, Indiana, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Forrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker described himself as a farm boy. He was born in Plainfield, Indiana, on February 12, 1919, a son of Forrest A. Tucker and his wife, Doris Heringlake. His mother has been described as an alcoholic. Tucker began his performing career at age 14 at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, pushing the big wicker tourist chairs by day and singing "Throw Money" at night. After his family moved to Washington, D.C., Tucker attracted the attention of Jimmy Lake, the owner of the Old Gaiety Burlesque Theater, by winning its Saturday night amateur contest on consecutive weeks. After his second win, Tucker was hired there at full time as Master of Ceremonies, but left when it was soon discovered that he was underage. He graduated from Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., in 1938, and, joining the United States Cavalry, was stationed at Fort Myer in Arlington County, Virginia, but discharged for, once again, being underage. He returned to work at the Old Gaiety after his 18th birthday. When Lake's theatre closed for the summer in 1939, Tucker was helped by a wealthy mentor to travel to California and try to break into film acting. He made a successful screen test, and began auditioning for movie roles. In his own estimation, Tucker was in the mold of large "ugly guys" such as Wallace Beery, Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen, rather than a matinee idol. His debut was as a powerfully built farmer who clashes with the hero in The Westerner (1940), which starred Gary Cooper. Like many other movie actors at the time, Tucker enlisted in the United States Army during World War II; he earned a commission as a second lieutenant. Tucker married four times: Sandra Jolley (1919–1986) in 1940, divorced in 1950, daughter of the character actor I. Stanford Jolley (who also died of emphysema) and the sister of the Academy Award-winning art director Stan Jolley. They had a daughter, Pamela "Brooke" Tucker. Marilyn Johnson on March 28, 1950 (died on July 19, 1960). Marilyn Fisk on October 23, 1961. They had a daughter, Cindy Tucker, and son, Forrest Sean Tucker. Sheila Forbes on April 15, 1986. 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. He died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital on October 25, 1986, a few months after the theatrical release of Thunder Run and Outtakes. He was interred in Forest Lawn–Hollywood Hills Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills. CLR

Works

93 films

Chisum

19706.7

My Sister Eileen

19426.8

Auntie Mame

19587.0

Pony Express

19535.8

The Yearling

19466.7

Sands of Iwo Jima

19506.4

The Abominable Snowman

19576.2

Three Violent People

19565.9

The Westerner

19407.1

Fort Massacre

19586.2

The Crawling Eye

19584.8

Timestalkers

19875.4

Fighting Coast Guard

19516.7

Gunfighters

19475.7

La Classe américaine

19937.6

Final Chapter: Walking Tall

19775.4

Barquero

19706.2

Warpath

19516.0

The Night They Raided Minsky's

19685.5

Cancel My Reservation

19726.5

Keeper of the Flame

19436.6

Canal Zone

19426.0

Thunder Run

19854.4

Doc

19698.0

Shut My Big Mouth

19428.3

Bugles in the Afternoon

19525.4

Adventures in Silverado

19487.0

Oh! Susanna

19517.0

A Real American Hero

19784.5

Flaming Feather

19526.2

Hoodlum Empire

19526.5

The Strange World of Planet X

19584.8

Footsteps

19726.5

Rage at Dawn

19556.2

The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race

19776.0

Never Say Goodbye

19466.3

The Big Cat

19494.0

The Nevadan

19505.9

Gunsmoke in Tucson

19585.8

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

19425.6

The Plunderers

19486.1

Coroner Creek

19486.2

Rock Island Trail

19506.3

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

19728.0

California Passage

19506.0

Crosswinds

19515.9

Jubilee Trail

19545.2

Renegades

19465.8

Hurricane Smith

19526.4

The Vanishing American

19556.7

A Boy Called Nuthin’

19676.5

A Rare Breed

19847.0

Trouble in the Glen

19546.2

Honolulu Lu

19415.8

Ride the Man Down

19527.7

Talk About a Lady

19465.0

The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West

19764.5

Brimstone

19497.3

Break in the Circle

19557.0

Flight Nurse

19536.0

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

19817.0

The Quiet Gun

19576.6

The Deerslayer

19576.1

Hellfire

19496.4

Two Guys from Texas

19488.0

Parachute Nurse

19427.0

Montana Belle

19526.3

Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title

19665.3

Laughing Anne

19535.8

Finger Man

19555.4

The Last Bandit

19497.0

The Wild Blue Yonder

19517.0

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

19425.3

Outtakes

19875.0

The Wild McCullochs

19754.5

Dangerous Business

19469.0

Submarine Raider

19425.7

San Antone

19536.7

The Man Who Dared

19463.8

The Big Moment

1954

Stagecoach To Fury

19565.4

The Spirit of Stanford

19426.0

Emergency Landing

19416.3

Blood Feud

1983

Girl in the Woods

195810.0

Counter-Espionage

19426.7

Night Freight

19557.0

Counterplot

19595.4

Cat Ballou

19717.0

New Wine

194110.0

Paris Follies of 1956

19558.0

Jarrett

19734.7

Ringstealer

1984