Forrest Tucker

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

Known For: Acting

Born: Plainfield, Indiana, USA, 1919-02-12

Died: 1986-10-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1940	The Westerner	Wade Harper	71
2	1941	Emergency Landing	Jerry Barton	58
3	1941	New Wine	Moritz	0
4	1941	Honolulu Lu	Barney	42
5	1942	Shut My Big Mouth	Red	85
6	1942	Canal Zone	Recruit Madigan	55
7	1942	Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!	Blond Bomber	35
8	1942	Submarine Raider	Pulaski	50
9	1942	Parachute Nurse	Lt. Tucker	50
10	1942	Counter-Espionage	Anton Schugg	62
11	1942	My Sister Eileen	Sandhog (uncredited)	67
12	1942	The Spirit of Stanford	Buzz Costello (uncredited)	0
13	1942	Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood	Whipper	50
14	1943	Keeper of the Flame	Geoff Midford	66
15	1946	Talk About a Lady	Bart Manners	30
16	1946	The Man Who Dared	Larry James	37
17	1946	Renegades	Frank Dembrow	58
18	1946	Dangerous Business	Clayton Russell	0
19	1946	Never Say Goodbye	Fenwick Lonkowski	63
20	1946	The Yearling	Lem Forrester	66
21	1947	Gunfighters	Ben Orcutt	55
22	1948	Adventures in Silverado	Zeke Butler	50
23	1948	Coroner Creek	Ernie Combs	61
24	1948	Two Guys from Texas	'Tex' Bennett	60
25	1948	The Plunderers	Whit Lacey	56
26	1949	The Last Bandit	Jim Plummer	60
27	1949	The Big Cat	Gil Hawks	35
28	1949	Hellfire	Marshall Bucky McLean	58
29	1949	Brimstone	Sheriff Henry McIntyre	63
30	1950	Sands of Iwo Jima	PFC Al J. Thomas	64
31	1950	The Nevadan	Tom Tanner	58
32	1950	Rock Island Trail	Reed Loomis	60
33	1950	California Passage	Mike Prescott	40
34	1951	Oh! Susanna	Lt. Col. Unger	50
35	1951	Fighting Coast Guard	Bill Rourk	65
36	1951	Crosswinds	'Jumbo' Johnson	59
37	1951	Warpath	Sgt. O'Hara	58
38	1951	The Wild Blue Yonder	Maj. Tom West	60
39	1952	Flaming Feather	Lt. Tom Blaine	58
40	1952	Bugles in the Afternoon	Donavan	51
41	1952	Hoodlum Empire	Charles A. 'Charley' Pignatalli	61
42	1952	Hurricane Smith	Dan McGuire	62
43	1952	Montana Belle	Mac	59
44	1952	Ride the Man Down	Sam Danfelser	65
45	1953	San Antone	Lt. Brian Culver, CSA	50
46	1953	Pony Express	James Butler aka Wild Bill Hickok	56
47	1953	Laughing Anne	Jem Farrell	43
48	1953	Flight Nurse	Capt. Bill Eaton	55
49	1954	The Big Moment	Uri	0
50	1954	Jubilee Trail	John Ives	48
51	1954	Trouble in the Glen	Maj. Jim 'Lance' Lansing	57
52	1955	Break in the Circle	Baron Keller	50
53	1955	Rage at Dawn	Frank Reno	61
54	1955	Finger Man	Dutch Becker	56
55	1955	Fingerman	Dutch Becker	60
56	1955	Night Freight	Mike Peters	0
57	1955	The Vanishing American	Morgan	40
58	1955	Paris Follies of 1956	Dan Bradley	0
59	1956	Three Violent People	Deputy Commissioner Cable	61
60	1956	Stagecoach To Fury	Frank Townsend	50
61	1957	The Quiet Gun	Sheriff Carl Brandon	64
62	1957	The Abominable Snowman	Tom Friend	62
63	1957	The Deerslayer	Harry March	54
64	1958	The Strange World of Planet X	Gil Graham	42
65	1958	Fort Massacre	McGurney	60
66	1958	Girl in the Woods	Steve Cory	0
67	1958	The Crawling Eye	Alan Brooks	47
68	1958	Auntie Mame	Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside	70
69	1958	Gunsmoke in Tucson	John Brazos	60
70	1959	Counterplot	Brock Miller	47
71	1966	Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title	Romantic Diner Customer (uncredited)	35
72	1967	A Boy Called Nuthin’	Turkeyneck	50
73	1968	The Night They Raided Minsky's	Trim Houlihan	56
74	1969	Doc	Dr. Jason Fillmore	0
75	1970	Chisum	Lawrence Murphy	67
76	1970	Barquero	Mountain Phil	63
77	1971	Cat Ballou	Kid Sheleen	0
78	1972	Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol	Harry McMartin	80
79	1972	Cancel My Reservation	Reese	53
80	1972	Footsteps	Bradford Emmons	0
81	1973	Jarrett	Rev. Vocal Simpson	35
82	1975	The Wild McCullochs	J. J. McCulloch	40
83	1976	The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West	Wagonmaster Callahan	48
84	1977	Final Chapter: Walking Tall	Carl	53
85	1977	The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race	Mike Fink	30
86	1978	A Real American Hero	Carl Pusser	30
87	1979	The Rebels	Angus Fletcher	0
88	1981	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Duke	60
89	1983	Blood Feud	Lyndon B. Johnson	0
90	1984	Rare Breed		0
91	1985	Thunder Run	Charlie Morrison	44
92	1987	Timestalkers	Texas John Cody	53
93	1987	Outtakes	Himself	10
94	1993	La Classe américaine	The Fax Man (archive footage) (uncredited)	76

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Bob Slater	56
3	1950	Lux Video Theatre	William Patterson	63
4	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Ken	63
5	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Steve MacGregor	73
6	1952	The Ford Television Theatre	Red Healey	73
7	1953	General Electric Theater	Frank Marlowe	63
8	1954	Climax!	Chips Murphy	33
9	1955	Gunsmoke	Brad McClain	66
10	1955	Gunsmoke	Adam Benteen	66
11	1955	Gunsmoke	John Charron	66
12	1955	Gunsmoke	Sergeant Holly	66
13	1955	Gunsmoke	Sgt. Emmett Holly	66
14	1955	Gunsmoke	Will Donavan	66
15	1957	Wagon Train	Rex Montana	63
16	1959	Rawhide	Dan Carlock	72
17	1959	Bonanza	Frank Ryan	75
18	1961	Dr. Kildare	Max Beemis	55
19	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
20	1962	The Virginian	Martin Evers	65
21	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
22	1963	Channing	Major Don Landon	70
23	1963	Burke's Law	Cyrus Smuts	60
24	1964	Daniel Boone	Joe Snag	69
25	1965	F Troop	Sergeant. Morgan O'Rourke	62
26	1967	Ironside		68
27	1967	Hondo		65
28	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self	65
29	1969	Medical Center	Ollie Wayne	61
30	1969	Love, American Style	John	61
31	1969	Love, American Style	Horton	61
32	1970	Night Gallery	Dr. Ernest Stringfellow	78
33	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
34	1971	Columbo	Bo Williamson	81
35	1973	Dusty's Trail	Wagonmaster Callahan	50
36	1973	Kojak	Det. Paul Zachary	70
37	1974	Little House on the Prairie		79
38	1974	Police Woman	O'Malley	63
39	1975	S.W.A.T.		70
40	1975	The Ghost Busters		70
41	1975	Ellery Queen	Clint McGraw	74
42	1976	The Bionic Woman		70
43	1976	Alice		71
44	1976	Once an Eagle	Col. Avery	68
45	1977	Grizzly Adams		70
46	1977	The Love Boat	Sam Zachary	63
47	1977	The Love Boat	Tex	63
48	1977	The Love Boat	Tom Preston	63
49	1980	Flo		50
50	1982	Filthy Rich		50
51	1982	Matt Houston	Buck Turley	62
52	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Tom Cassidy	75

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