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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
Forrest Tucker Biography / Wiki
| Name | Forrest Tucker |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Plainfield, Indiana, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1919-02-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 67 |
| Deathday | 1986-10-25 |
Forrest Tucker Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Crawling Eye | Alan Brooks | 1958-07-07 | An American investigator for the U.N., a German scientist and a British reporter join forces to investigate a series of disappearances and mutilation-… |
| The Abominable Snowman | Tom Friend | 1957-08-26 | A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti…. |
| Thunder Run | Charlie Morrison | 1986-05-30 | A vicious band of nuclear terrorists is threatening America’s atomic weapons research. Truck jockey Charlie Morrison (Forrest Tucker) volunteers for a… |
| The Strange World of Planet X | Gil Graham | 1958-03-04 | Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications b… |
| Emergency Landing | Jerry Barton | 1941-03-07 | A test pilot and his weather observer develop a “robot” control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to s… |
| Counterplot | Brock Miller | 1959-10-01 | Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney…. |
| Stagecoach To Fury | Frank Townsend | 1956-12-13 | A group of stagecoach passengers are held hostage by bandits waiting for a shipment of gold they plan to steal…. |
| Break in the Circle | Baron Keller | 1955-01-01 | An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West…. |
| The Wild McCullochs | J. J. McCulloch | 1975-05-21 | A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children’s misguided blaming him for everything that doesn’t go right…. |
| Rock Island Trail | Reed Loomis | 1950-05-18 | A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area…. |
| California Passage | Mike Prescott | 1950-12-15 | A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure … |
| Night Freight | Mike Peters | 1955-08-28 | Trucker tries to put a railroad man out of business…. |
| The Quiet Gun | Sheriff Carl Brandon | 1957-07-18 | A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town…. |
| Outtakes | Himself | 1987-08-01 | A “Kentucky Fried Movie” / “Groove Tube” kind of sketch comedy featuring skits, parodies and naked women…. |
| Paris Follies of 1956 | Dan Bradley | 1955-11-27 | Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic…. |
| Girl in the Woods | Steve Cory | 1958-06-01 | Lumbering tale of lumbermen challenging the ownership of valuable woodlands…. |
| Doc | Dr. Jason Fillmore | 1969-07-28 | An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor assumes his practice, the older practitioner can’t re… |
| Rage at Dawn | Frank Reno | 1955-03-26 | In this film’s version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A s… |
| Auntie Mame | Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside | 1958-12-04 | Ten-year-old orphan Patrick Dennis has come to live with his marvelously madcap Auntie Mame, who lives life to the hilt. “Life is a banquet,” Mame say… |
| Chisum | Lawrence Murphy | 1970-07-23 | Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war…. |
| Finger Man | Dutch Becker | 1955-06-15 | An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and “finger” the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs…. |
| The Wackiest Wagon Train In The West | Wagonmaster Callahan | 1976-08-01 | This comical western chronicles the silly adventures of a bumbling wagonmaster and his clutzy assistant as they attempt to take seven passengers acros… |
| Fort Massacre | McGurney | 1958-05-14 | New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to rea… |
| A Real American Hero | Carl Pusser | 1978-12-09 | When two boys are killed and two girls are blinded for life in a tragic accident, Buford Pusser, the town sheriff, is determined to get revenge. Thoug… |
| Incredible Rocky Mountain Race | Mike Fink | 1977-01-01 | An old man observes a boy bullying his playmates and treats him to a morality lesson. The man tells the story of the epic cross-country race between a… |
| Flight Nurse | Capt. Bill Eaton | 1953-11-15 | In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines…. |
| Fighting Coast Guard | Bill Rourk | 1951-05-31 | Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II…. |
| Gunsmoke in Tucson | John Brazos | 1958-12-07 | As young boys, two brothers, Jed (AKA: Chip) and John, witness their father being hung by a vigilante gang. Chip, angry and bitter, grows up to be an … |
| Flaming Feather | Lt. Tom Blaine | 1952-02-01 | A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When… |
| Rare Breed | 1984-10-10 | A real-life story of a kidnapped horse in Italy, and a young girl’s quest to retrieve it…. | |
| A Boy Called Nuthin’ | Turkeyneck | 1967-12-10 | A boy doesn’t find the life he expects out West when he leaves Chicago to find his uncle. The West has changed–it is no longer “cowboys and Indi… |
| Cat Ballou | Kid Sheleen | 1971-09-06 | A pretty ranch owner hires an alcoholic gunfighter to protect her ranch and her adopted boy from an outlaw gang’s depredations…. |
| Talk About a Lady | Bart Manners | 1946-03-28 | A country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, manages to restore the optimism of a jaded and disill… |
| Barquero | Mountain Phil | 1970-07-29 | Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river–crossable only … |
| Hoodlum Empire | Charles A. ‘Charley’ Pignatalli | 1952-04-15 | It’s a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain’s top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide ne… |
| The Nevadan | Tom Tanner | 1950-01-11 | A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher…. |
| Crosswinds | ‘Jumbo’ Johnson | 1951-10-01 | A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he’s set up for a crime…. |
| Final Chapter: Walking Tall | Grandpa Pusser | 1977-08-31 | This is the story of Buford Pusser’s final days; not only of his life, but also as Sheriff. It seems that times are changing, and the once adoring peo… |
| The Deerslayer | Harry March | 1957-09-10 | Director Kurt Neumann’s 1957 film version of the James Fenimore Cooper tale set in colonial America stars Lex Barker, Forrest Tucker, Rita Moreno, Ca… |
| Trouble in the Glen | Maj. Jim ‘Lance’ Lansing | 1954-06-15 | Major Jim “Lance” Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he s… |
| Jubilee Trail | John Ives | 1954-05-15 | A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with chi… |
| The Wild Blue Yonder | Maj. Tom West | 1951-12-05 | Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful n… |
| Warpath | Sgt. O’Hara | 1951-11-22 | John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but … |
| The Vanishing American | Morgan | 1955-11-17 | A woman arrives in New Mexico to claim property she’s inherited and receives an education in the greedy exploitation of the local Navajo…. |
| Laughing Anne | Jem Farrell | 1953-09-01 | Story of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story “Because of the dollars” by Joseph Conrad…. |
| The Man Who Dared | Larry James | 1946-05-30 | A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based… |
| Oh! Susanna | Lt. Col. Unger | 1951-03-01 | Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-martial to prevent bloodshed…. |
| San Antone | Lt. Brian Culver, CSA | 1953-02-15 | After the Civil War, a cowboy who’s a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French…… |
| Hellfire | Marshall Bucky McLean | 1949-05-29 | Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher’s missio… |
| The Last Bandit | Jim Plummer | 1949-02-25 | About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are bei… |
| The Night They Raided Minsky’s | Trim Houlihan | 1968-12-22 | Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky’s Burlesque is hardly the place for her Da… |
| Pony Express | James Butler aka Wild Bill Hickok | 1953-01-01 | Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten… |
| Sands of Iwo Jima | PFC Al J. Thomas | 1950-01-01 | The relationship between Sergeant Stryker and a group of rebellious recruits is made difficult by the Sergeant’s tough training tactics. At Tarawa, th… |
| Timestalkers | Texas John Cody | 1987-03-10 | History professor Scott McKenzie makes an anachronistic discovery in a photograph from the Old West and he is soon joined by beautiful time-traveler G… |
| Bugles in the Afternoon | Donavan | 1952-03-04 | Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman…. |
| Montana Belle | Mac | 1952-11-11 | Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloo… |
| Cancel My Reservation | Reese | 1972-09-21 | Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor’s orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the l… |
| The Big Cat | Gil Hawks | 1949-04-01 | A city boy arrives in his late mother’s birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar…. |
| The Plunderers | Whit Lacey | 1948-10-30 | Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden (George Cleveland) at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pi… |
| Brimstone | Sheriff Henry McIntyre | 1949-08-15 | A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted…. |
| Hurricane Smith | Dan McGuire | 1952-10-02 | South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana…. |
| Ride the Man Down | Sam Danfelser | 1952-11-25 | After Celia’s father dies, a war erupts over control of his land…. |
| Adventures in Silverado | Zeke Butler | 1948-03-25 | Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a… |
| Footsteps | Bradford Emmons | 1972-10-03 | A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don’t want the tea… |
| Keeper of the Flame | Geoff Midford | 1943-04-01 | Famed reporter Stephen O’Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero…. |
| The Westerner | Wade Harper | 1940-09-18 | Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by… |
| Never Say Goodbye | Cpl. Fenwick ‘Wicky’ Lonkowski | 1946-11-09 | Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip star… |
| Submarine Raider | Pulaski | 1942-06-04 | On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier “Hiranamu”, orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and s… |
| Two Guys from Texas | ‘Tex’ Bennett | 1948-08-27 | Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys…. |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Duke | 1981-07-09 | Mark Twain’s classic about how Tom Sawyer’s best friend, Huckleberry Finn, runs away from his drunken father and helps the runaway slave Jim to escape… |
| Shut My Big Mouth | Red | 1942-02-19 | A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west…. |
| Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood | Whipper | 1942-11-05 | Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good… |
| Three Violent People | Deputy Commissioner Cable | 1956-12-01 | A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas…. |
| The Big Moment | Uri | 1954-03-07 | Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca, another… |
| Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol | Harry McMartin | 1972-01-30 | An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finall… |
| Renegades | Frank Dembrow | 1946-06-13 | The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw’s son…. |
| Honolulu Lu | Barney | 1941-12-11 | While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen…. |
| Counter-Espionage | Anton Schugg | 1942-09-03 | The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing…. |
| Blueprint for Murder | Bo Williamson | 1974-03-06 | Elliot Markham, a brilliant architect and con-man, murders a Texas millionaire and hides his body in order to keep his visionary construction project … |
| Gunfighters | Ben Orcutt | 1947-07-15 | Gunfighter “Brazos” Kane lays aside his guns “forever” when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as … |
| Blood Feud | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1983-04-25 | Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy’s campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice…. |
| Coroner Creek | Ernie Combs | 1948-07-01 | A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée’s death…. |
| The Yearling | Lem Forrester | 1946-12-18 | Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?… |
| Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! | Blond Bomber | 1942-04-02 | Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy beca… |
| New Wine | Moritz | 1941-09-10 | The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama based on the life of composer Franz Schubert…. |
| Parachute Nurse | Lt. Tucker | 1942-08-06 | Nurses parachuting…. |
| Don’t Worry, We’ll Think of a Title | Romantic Diner Customer (uncredited) | 1966-05-01 | A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture…. |
| My Sister Eileen | Sandhog (uncredited) | 1942-09-24 | Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen … |
| La Classe américaine | The Fax Man (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1993-12-31 | George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of… |
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