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Thomas Powers Forman
Tom Powers Forman
Tom P. Forman
Tom P. Foreman
Thomas Forman
Tom Forman
Acting
Biography
Tom Forman (February 22, 1893 – November 7, 1926) was an American motion picture actor, director, writer, and producer of the early 1920s.
Texas-born Forman made his first film for Jesse L. Lasky's production company in 1914. With the exception of service at the front during World War I, he had a successful career as both an actor and director. Forman directed Lon Chaney's Shadows (1922), but his biggest achievement was realised directing the second screen version of Owen Wister's The Virginian (1923). After his career faltered, he was reduced to working on cheap Poverty Row melodramas. Forma…
Filmography
Movies
Devil’s Dice
White Shoulders
as Robert Lee Pitman - Virginia's Brother
The Round-Up
as Jack Payson
The Tree of Knowledge
as Brian
The Sea Wolf
as Humphrey Van Weyden
For Better, for Worse
as Richard Burton
Told in the Hills
as Charles Stuart
The Heart of Youth
as Russ Prendergast
Louisiana
The Cost of Hatred
as Ned Amory