Forrest Tucker
Forrest Tucker was born in Plainfield, Indiana, United States on February 12th, 1919 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 67, Forrest Tucker biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Forrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both films and television who appeared in over a hundred films.
Tucker was a young boy in the vains of Vainville, Tennessee.
A mentor suggested funds and contacts for a trip to California, where party hostess Wesley Ruggles ordered him to perform a screen test based on his photogenic good looks, thick wavy hair, and height of six foot, five inches.
Despite a belief in most Hollywood studios that blond men were not photogenic, Tucker was a sight reader who needed only one take and his film career flourished.
He was enlisted in WW2 during WWII.
After twenty years of being mostly in westerns and action roles, he returned to his roots, demonstrating versatility as both a comedic and stage musical actor.
He became identified with Cavalry Sgt's character in the television series F Troop.
Morgan O'Rourke (a manipulative character very similar to Phil Silvers' role as MSgt.)
Ernie Bilko, 1979 (Ernie Bilko).
Tucker had a drinking problem that began to influence his performance in the later years of his career.
Early life and education
Tucker referred to himself as a farm boy. He was born in Plainfield, Indiana, on February 12, 1919, the 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. Tucker attracted the attention of Jimmy Lake, the operator of the Old Gaiety Burlesque Theater, by winning the Saturday night amateur competition for the second week in a row. Tucker was hired as Master of Ceremonies at the time, but was forced to leave immediately after it was discovered that he was underage. He graduated from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., in 1938, and then joined the United States Cavalry, but was suspended for, once more, being underage. Since his 18th birthday, he returned to work at the Old Gaiety.
Personal life
Tucker married four times:
Tucker was a Republican.
Career
Tucker was accompanied by a wealthy mentor to travel to California and try to break into film acting when Lake's theatre closed for the summer in 1939. After a fruitful screen test, he started auditioning for film roles. Tucker was more like Wallace Beery, Ward Bond, and Victor McLaglen than a matinee idol in his own estimation, rather than a matinee idol. In The Westerner (1940), which starred Gary Cooper, his debut was as a burgeoning builder battling the hero. In a fight scene with Cooper, Tucker stood out. Tucker was involved in The Great Awakening (1941) for United Artists. He quickly rose to leading man status after being overcome with a feeling that fair hair did not photograph well, appearing in PRC's Emergency Landing (1941). He has signed a Columbia Pictures deal.
Tucker had a support role in one of their Lone Wolf photos, Counter-Espionage (1942), followed by a Boston Blackie entry, Boston Blackie Hollywood (1942). Tracy and Hepburn were loaned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for Keeper of the Flame.
Tucker enlisted in the United States Army during World War II, like many other movie stars of the day; as a second lieutenant, he received a commission.
Tucker began his acting career at the end of the war. The yearling (1946) was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's borrowed him for the classic film The Yearling (1946). In Never Say Goodbye the same year, Warners borrowed Errol Flynn to play his love rival with Eleanor Parker.
He was in Coroner Creek (1948) with Randolph Scott and was back in Columbia Pictures.
Tucker left Columbia in 1948 and signed with Republic Pictures. Hellfire (1949) and The Last Bandit (1949) were two of Bill Elliott's first films for them. With Jane Russell, he created Montana Belle for Republic; it was sold to RKO.
Tucker was active in the Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), as PFC Thomas, a Marine with a score to settle with John Wayne's Sergeant Stryker. In The Nevadan (1950), he returned to Columbia to help Scott again.
Tucker was promoted to lead roles in California Passage (1950). He followed this route with the Rock Island Trail (1950).
Tucker returned to support actor for Hoodlum (1952), then at In Flaming Feather (1952) and assisted Charlton Heston in Pony Express (1953).
In Laughing Anne (1953), a co-production with Republic, Tucker went to England in support of British film actress Margaret Lockwood.
He returned to work for the Republic of San Antone (1953) and Jubilee Trail (1954) with Joan Leslie; Flight Nurse (1953) and Jubilee Trail (1954).
He returned to England to make another with Lockwood, Trouble in the Glen (1954), and then went on to make the Break in the Circle (1955) for Hammer Films.
Tucker made some films for Allied Artists, Paris Follies (1955) and Finger Man (1955), as well as in Rage at Dawn (1956).
In the series Crunch and Des, Tucker spent two years on television in Bermuda portraying the well-received role of a charter-boat captain.
In Three Violent People (1957), he was top billed in Fox's The Quiet Gun (1957), and he aided Charlton Heston (1957). In The Abominable Snowman (1957), Hammer Films in the United Kingdom invited him back to play the lead. He stayed on in England after his book The Strange World of Planet X (1957) and The Trollenberg Terror (1958).
The year 1958 marked a turning point in his career, when he starred in Auntie Mame's first husband, Beaugard Burnside, the highest grossing U.S. film of the year. Tucker developed a flair for light comedy under the direction of Morton DaCosta, who had largely unexplored in his appearances in Westerns and science fiction films.
He aided Joel McCrea in the Fort Massacre (1958) and was the first on Counterplot (1959).
Tucker appeared in The Music Man's national touring production in 1958 and appeared 2,008 times in the next five years, including a 56-week appearance at the Shubert Theatre in Chicago.
Tucker appeared in Fair Game for Lovers (1964), which was his first appearance after his Music Man appearance (1964).
Tucker appeared on NBC in Audie Murphy's short-lived western series Whispering Smith in 1961. In the 1963 episode "Three Minutes to Eternity," the Dalton gang's syndicated Western series "Death Valley Days," Tucker played outlaw Bob Dalton, a dramatization of the Dalton gang's simultaneous bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas. Tucker appeared in CBS's Appointment with Adventure in the 1956 series finale, "Two Falls for Satan"; and ABC's Channing, a story about college life that aired during the 1963–64 season.
Tucker's most well-known role, as Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke in F Troop (1965–67). Despite the fact that F Troop appeared on ABC for only two seasons, the series has been in constant syndication since, reaching three generations of viewers. (Two of his Gunsmoke episodes feature Tucker in his cavalry uniform once more as the eccentric Sergeant Holly (1970), who in one scene "marries" and spends a tumultuous night with Miss Kitty.)
Tucker returned to films in character roles such as The Night They Raided Minsky's (1969), Barquero (1970), Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972), and Cancel My Reservation (1972). He was the lead actor in The Wild McCullochs (1975) and was a supporting actor in the television film A Real American Hero (1978).
Tucker made a regular guest appearance on television, including six on Gunsmoke and the recurring role of Jarvis Castleberry, Flo's former father on the 1976-1985 TV series Alice and its spinoff, Flo.
Tucker appeared on three series after F Troop: Dusty's Trail (1973) with Bob Denver; The Ghost Busters (1975), which reunited him with F Troop co-star Larry Storch; and guest star on The Bionic Woman as J.T. Conners and Filthy Rich plays the second Big Guy Beck in the United Kingdom. (1982–83). He continued to be on stage, appearing in the national productions of Plaza Suite, Show Boat, and That Championship Season.
After an absence of many years in the Cannon Films action film Thunder Run (1986), playing the hero, trucker Charlie Morrison, Tucker returned to the big screen. Outtakes, a low-budget recreation of The Groove Tube, was his final film appearance.