![]() ![]() In Апокаліпсис наших днів (1979), his character ("Chef") is yelling for the Playboy Playmates from the crowd, one of whom is played by Colleen Camp, who, four years later, would play his hippie wife in the film Valley Girl (1983). Then he was cast as the star in Coppola's "One From The Heart". He was named Best Supporting Actor by the National Society of Film Critics for both films. And Coppola wasn't done with him! Playing "Chef" in Апокаліпсис наших днів (1979) garnered Forrest the best notices of his career, and he parlayed that into Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Supporting Actor for The Rose (1979), his second hit that year. ![]() He and Cindy Williams are the two people having that titular conversation (recorded by Gene Hackman: so Forrest's voice is heard throughout the film). ![]() He copped a 1973 Golden Globe nomination as "Most Promising Newcomer - Male" for the role.įorrest landed a small but very important part in "Godfather" director Francis Ford Coppola's Розмова (1974). Eventually, he began auditing classes at Actors Studio West, and director Stuart Millar saw him in a student showcase production of Clifford Odets' "Watiting for Lefty" and cast him in When the Legends Die (1972). While the production ran for three months and was visited by agents bird-dogging new talent, Forrest got no offers and had to support himself as a pizza-baker after the show closed. After starring in the off-Broadway play "Silhouettes", Forrest moved with the production to Los Angeles, intent on breaking into movies. He became part of avant-garde director Tom O'Horgan's stock company at La Mama, appearing in the infamous "Futz", among other productions. His theatrical debut was in the Off-Broadway production of "Viet-Rock", an anti-war play featuring music. During this time, he supported himself as a page at the NBC Studios in Rockefeller Plaza. He eventually became an observer at the Actors Studio, where he was tutored by Lee Strasberg. His parents opposed his aspirations as a thespian as it was a precarious existence, but he moved on to New York and studied with renowned acting teacher Sanford Meisner. Later, at Texas Christian University, he took a minor in theater arts while majoring in radio and television studies. Forrest had long wanted to be an actor, but he was so nervous that he ran out of auditions for school plays. Distributed by Tri-Star.Frederic Forrest, the Oscar-nominated character actor, was born two days before Christmas Day in 1936 in Waxahachie, Texas, the same home town as director Robert Benton. (a furniture store owner) and Virginia A. born December 23, 1936, in Waxahachie, TX son of Frederic F. Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actorįilmed in Boulder. Full name, Frederic Fennimore Forrest, Jr. (born December 23, 1936) is an American actor.Notable film roles include The Conversation, Valley Girl ,Promise Him Anything (TV), One from the Heart, The Stone Boy, The Missouri Breaks, The Deliberate Stranger (TV), and horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film Trauma. Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (also for Apocalypse Now) National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (also for The Rose) Nominated – Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor Army General Earle Wheeler in 2002's Path to War, the final film of director John Frankenheimer.įilmography List of film credits (born December 23, 1936) is an American actor.Notable film roles include The Conversation, Valley Girl ,Promise Him Anything. McSpadden in the Civil War-themed movie Andersonville and real-life U.S. In 1990, he appeared as private investigator Lomax in the BBC miniseries Die Kinder. Forrest was subsequently replaced by actor Steven Williams, who played Captain Adam Fuller for the remainder of the series. On television, he played Captain Richard Jenko on the first season of the Fox Television series 21 Jump Street, in 1987. He also appeared in Valley Girl, The Two Jakes, The Stone Boy, The Missouri Breaks, The Deliberate Stranger (TV), Promise Him Anything (TV) and horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film, Trauma. He was married to Marilu Henner from 1980 to 1982. He was Academy Award-nominated in the Supporting Actor category for his role in The Rose. He had a role as the Native American bandit Blue Duck in the 1989 miniseries, Lonesome Dove. įorrest is known for his roles as Chef in Apocalypse Now, the neo-Nazi surplus store owner in Falling Down, and Dashiell Hammett in Hammett (1982) and Citizen Cohn (1992). His film debut was in When the Legends Die (1973). In 1966, Forrest began acting on stage in an off-Broadway production of Viet Rock. Forrest was born on December 23, 1936, in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Virginia Allie (née McSpadden) and Frederic Fenimore Forrest, a furniture store owner whose greenhouses provided plants for sale in retail stores.
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