John Forsythe
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John Forsythe (January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010) was an American stage, film/television actor, director, narrator, drama coach, and philanthropist whose career spanned six decades.
He has appeared on various talk and variety shows as a panelist on numerous game shows, as well as as a panelist on several television shows. In 1943, he began his acting career in films.
He was a member of Warner Bros.
He appeared in films like The Captive City (1952) at age 25, but later appeared in films as a minor contract actor.
He co-starred in It Happens Every Thursday (1953), Edmund Gwenn and Shirley MacLaine in The Trouble With Harry (1955), and Olivia De Havilland in The Ambassador's Daughter (1956). Forsythe also had a fruitful television career, appearing in three television series spanning four decades and three genres: as the single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the sitcom Bachelor Father (1967–1982), as the tenacious billionaire Charles Townsend in Charlie's Angels (1976–1989), as patriarch Blake Carrington in Dynasty (1981–1989).
He appeared on the television show World of Survival (1971–1977) and was also the host of the 38th Miss Universe Pageant, which was broadcast on CBS in 1989.
Early life
Forsythe, the eldest of three children, was born John (or Jacob) Lincoln Freund, in Penns Grove, New Jersey, the son of Blanche Forsythe (née Blohm) and Samuel Jeremiah Freund, a stockbroker. Blanche was born in Georgia to David Hyat Blohm, a Russian Jewish immigrant, and Mary S. Materson, who was born in Maryland to Jewish emigrants from Prussia. Forysthe's father was born in New York to Polish Jewish immigrants. Forsythe was raised in the Jewish faith.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, where his father worked as a Wall Street businessman during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn at the age of 16, and then began attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He began working at Ebbets Field in 1936 as the public address announcer for Brooklyn Dodgers games, reciting a childhood love of baseball. He was a lifelong Democrat.
Post-1990s work and life
Julie Warren, Forsythe's wife of 51 years, died of cancer in hospital at the age of 74. Forsythe's decision to remove her life-support system had occurred in hospital. Following acute respiratory difficulties, she had been in a coma for the past three weeks.
Nicole Carter, a businesswoman from Forsythe, married businesswoman Nicole Carter (May 27, 1941 – May 11, 2010) at Ballard Country Church in July 2002; they were married until his death. Nicole Carter Forsythe died five weeks after her husband died.
Forsythe reprised his role as Charlie's voice on Charlie's Angels' (2001) and its sequel Charlie's Angels (2003); he then ceased acting.
He loved owning an art gallery rather than spending time with his family. Forsythe was portrayed in Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, a fictionalized television film based on Dynasty's conception and behind the scenes production.
Forsythe appeared in Dynasty Reunion: Forsythe, Margaret Evans, Joan Collins, Pamela Sue Martin, Al Corley, Gordon Thomson, and Catherine Oxenberg on May 2, 2006. On CBS, the one-hour reunion special of the former ABC series aired. During the annual Christmas program near his house in Solvang, California, Forsythe read to children.
In the fall of 2006, Forsythe was treated for colorectal cancer. According to reports, the surgery went well and his cancer was still in remission at the time of his death.
Movie career and Army service
Despite initially reluctance, Forsythe began an acting career at the suggestion of his father. Parker Worthington McCormick (1918-1939), and the couple married in 1939; Dall (born February 14, 1941) and divorced in 1943. Forsythe was a bit actor for Warner Brothers and appeared in several small parts.
As a result, he was given a small part in Destination Tokyo (1943). He began his career in film as a volunteer in the US Army Air Forces during World War II and then worked with injured soldiers who had suffered with speech difficulties.
Forsythe met Julie Warren, initially a theatre companion but later a good actress in her own right, earning a role on Broadway in Around the World. She was Forsythe's second wife, and they had two children in the early 1950s.
Forsythe was born in 1947 and was one of the first students of the Actors Studio, where he met Marlon Brando and Julie Harris among others. During this time, he appeared on Broadway in Mister Roberts and The Teahouse of the August Moon. Alfred Hitchcock starred him in the film The Trouble with Harry in 1955, with Shirley MacLaine in her first movie appearance for which she received a Golden Globe. Forsythe appeared in another Hitchcock film, Topaz, in 1969.