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

Auntie Mame

19587.0

Pony Express

19535.8

The Abominable Snowman

19576.2

The Yearling

19466.7

Barquero

19706.2

The Westerner

19407.1

Sands of Iwo Jima

19506.4

La Classe américaine

19937.6

Gunfighters

19475.7

The Crawling Eye

19584.8

Three Violent People

19565.9

Thunder Run

19854.4

The Night They Raided Minsky's

19685.5

The Big Cat

19494.0

Cancel My Reservation

19726.5

Bugles in the Afternoon

19525.4

Fort Massacre

19586.2

Warpath

19516.0

Canal Zone

19426.0

Fighting Coast Guard

19516.7

Doc

19698.0

Timestalkers

19875.4

Final Chapter: Walking Tall

19775.4

Renegades

19465.8

Rage at Dawn

19556.2

Adventures in Silverado

19487.0

Footsteps

19726.5

Oh! Susanna

19517.0

Shut My Big Mouth

19428.3

The Strange World of Planet X

19584.8

Break in the Circle

19557.0

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

19425.6

The Deerslayer

19576.1

Talk About a Lady

19465.0

Flaming Feather

19526.2

The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race

19776.0

A Real American Hero

19784.5

Keeper of the Flame

19436.6

Trouble in the Glen

19546.2

Never Say Goodbye

19466.3

The Nevadan

19505.9

A Boy Called Nuthin’

19676.5

Hoodlum Empire

19526.5

Ride the Man Down

19527.7

Honolulu Lu

19415.8

The Wild Blue Yonder

19517.0

Hurricane Smith

19526.4

The Plunderers

19486.1

The Wild McCullochs

19754.5

A Rare Breed

19847.0

Gunsmoke in Tucson

19585.8

Finger Man

19555.4

Rock Island Trail

19506.3

Coroner Creek

19486.2

Laughing Anne

19535.8

My Sister Eileen

19426.8

The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West

19764.5

California Passage

19506.0

Submarine Raider

19425.7

Crosswinds

19515.9

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

19728.0

The Quiet Gun

19576.6

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

19817.0

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

19665.3

Montana Belle

19526.3

Two Guys from Texas

19488.0

Hellfire

19496.4

The Last Bandit

19497.0

Jubilee Trail

19545.2

Stagecoach To Fury

19565.4

Emergency Landing

19416.3

Parachute Nurse

19427.0

Brimstone

19497.3

The Vanishing American

19556.7

Counterplot

19595.4

Girl in the Woods

195810.0

Outtakes

19875.0

Flight Nurse

19536.0

Blood Feud

1983

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

19425.3

The Big Moment

1954

Counter-Espionage

19426.7

The Man Who Dared

19463.8

San Antone

19536.7

Dangerous Business

19469.0

Night Freight

19557.0

Paris Follies of 1956

19558.0

Jarrett

19734.7

Cat Ballou

19717.0

The Spirit of Stanford

19426.0

New Wine

194110.0

Ringstealer

1984