Great actor with considerable range. OTOH, the vicious killer "Mannon" on a 1969 "Gunsmoke" and at the other, a sensitive Epsicopal clergyman in the best episode I've seen of the 1963 drama "Arrest And Trial". RIP.
Great actor with considerable range. OTOH, the vicious killer "Mannon" on a 1969 "Gunsmoke" and at the other, a sensitive Epsicopal clergyman in the best episode I've seen of the 1963 drama "Arrest And Trial". RIP.
He was so evil as Will Mannon. Always thought it was interesting the producers kept bringing him back to do variations on the character.
Love Steve Forrest. On S.W.A.T., he reminded me a lot of Shatner's Kirk. May seem laughable, but just a very stylized, very solid way of telling the story of his character. I know it's not the greatest show but I have a love for it and definitely for Steve. R.I.P., Hondo.
Didn't Forrest play Jock Ewing returned from the dead on Dallas?
Yes, he did - the Producers of DALLAS were going to to keep his role on the show going, but viewers began to turn their nose up at the storyline, so he was written out of the show.
Anyway, I always enjoyed Steve's work...RIP, Hondo!...:-(
In 1953, Steve Forrest garnered a New Star of the Year award from the Golden Globes for his performance in the Warner Bros. film So Big, playing opposite Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden.
M-G-M rushed 1954's Prisoner of War into production in an effort to beat producer Bryan Foy, who was preparing his own film about American POWs in North Korea. That film, entitled The Bamboo Prison was directed by Lewis Seiler and released by Columbia in January 1955.
Forrest had his first lead role in this 1957 film. He also voiced the narration in the film, which was shot at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City, and on location in Mexico.
Forrest was part of an all-star cast in this tale of Yugoslavian resistance fighters pitted against the Nazis. The production proved so challenging to director Martin Ritt that producer Dino De Laurentiis called in Italian neo-realist director Pietro Germi, who played the "Partisan commander," to assist in the direction. Ritt reportedly hated FIVE BRANDED WOMEN, stating in a 1980 American Film interview that he considered it "the only [film] I'm ashamed of."
HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS marked the first Western film for both director George Cukor and star Sophia Loren. Some sources assert that after Cukor spent five weeks supervising the editing of the film, Paramount re-cut it, to the director’s distaste.
