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Steve Forrest

Steve Forrest

Actor · 1925 – 2013 · Huntsville, Texas, USA

A ruggedly handsome action man of the 1960's and 70's, Steve Forrest began his screen career as a small part contract player with MGM. A brother of star Dana Andrews, he was born William Forrest Andrews, the youngest of thirteen children. His father was a Baptist minister in Huntsville, Texas. In 1942, Steve enlisted in the U.S. Army, rose to the rank of sergeant and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge. Following his demobilisation, he visited his brother in Hollywood and came to the conclusion that acting wasn't a bad way to make a living (having already done some work as a movie extra). He went on to study in college at UCLA, eventually graduating in 1950 with a B.A. Honours Degree in theatre arts. He then served a brief apprenticeship as a carpenter, prop boy and set builder at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, where he was discovered by resident actor Gregory Peck and given a small part as a bellboy in the cast of the summer stock production of "Goddbye Again". A subsequent screen test led to a contract with MGM and resulting employment as second leads, brothers of the titular star, toughs and outlaws. His first proper recognition was being awarded 'New Star of the Year' by Golden Globe for his role in So Big (1953), a drama based on a Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Edna Ferber. From the mid-1950's, the rangy, 6-foot-3 actor became much in-demand on TV, beginning with classic early anthology and western series, interspersed with occasional appearances on the big screen (notably, in The Longest Day (1962) and as Joan Crawford's lover/attorney Greg Savitt in Mommie Dearest (1981)). In addition to numerous guest roles, he was regularly featured in series like Gunsmoke (1955), Dallas (1978) (as Wes Parmalee, who believes himself to be lost Ewing patriarch Jock) and Murder, She Wrote (1984). Already from the mid-60's, he decided to pick his assignments more carefully. In order to shed his image as the perpetual bad guy, he had relocated his family to England to star as antique-dealer-cum-undercover intelligence agent John Mannering in BBC's The Baron (1966). He followed this by another starring role as the stoic, tough Lieutenant Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson in the short-lived ABC police drama series S.W.A.T. (1975), possibly his best-remembered role. Steve later lampooned his screen personae in the satirical Amazon Women on the Moon (1987). In private life, Steve Forrest was known as a skilled golfer, lover of football and (according to 1970's newspaper articles) as a dedicated amateur beekeeper.

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  • Movie6.2

    S.W.A.T.

    2003 · 2.8K votes

  • Movie7.6

    The Longest Day

    1962 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie6.2

    Spies Like Us

    1985 · 735 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Mommie Dearest

    1981 · 248 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Sahara

    1983 · 62 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Amazon Women on the Moon

    1987 · 197 votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Band Wagon

    1953 · 249 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Miracle at St. Anna

    2008 · 402 votes

  • Movie7.3

    The Bad and the Beautiful

    1952 · 309 votes

  • Movie4.0

    Captain America

    1979 · 91 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie6.2
  • Movie6.5

    Flaming Star

    1960 · 101 votes

  • Movie6.7

    North Dallas Forty

    1979 · 81 votes

  • Movie6.2

    It Happened to Jane

    1959 · 71 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Last of the Comanches

    1953 · 23 votes

  • Movie4.5

    Meet Me in Las Vegas

    1956 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Second Time Around

    1961 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Take the High Ground!

    1953 · 13 votes

  • Movie5.8
  • Movie4.6

    The Hanged Man

    1974 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Last of the Mohicans

    1977 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Heller in Pink Tights

    1960 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Wild Country

    1970 · 10 votes

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  • TV8.1

    Columbo

    1971 · 857 votes

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV6.9

    Dallas

    1978 · 248 votes

  • TV7.0

    L.A. Law

    1986 · 80 votes

  • TV6.2

    Love, American Style

    1969 · 21 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV7.6

    Mission: Impossible

    1966 · 320 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV6.7

    Cannon

    1971 · 41 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV6.8

    Hotel

    1982 · 26 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV6.3

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV6.2
  • TV6.5

    Fantasy Island

    1978 · 130 votes

  • TV6.4

    Medical Center

    1969 · 14 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV7.0

    Dinah!

    1974 · 4 votes