Steve Forrest
About
Read More
Also Known As
William Forrest Andrews,
William Andrews
Birth Place
Huntsville, Texas, USA
Born
September 29, 1924
Biography
Read More
Steve Forrest has gracefully aged from leading man to character actor in a career that has spanned over six decades. He appeared in a number of films before landing the lead role in "So Big," a 1953 drama in which he played the son of Jane Wyman. For his performance as Dirk DeJong, a farm boy with artistic and intellectual potential who nevertheless struggles with lost love and disillusi...
Biography
Steve Forrest has gracefully aged from leading man to character actor in a career that has spanned over six decades. He appeared in a number of films before landing the lead role in "So Big," a 1953 drama in which he played the son of Jane Wyman. For his performance as Dirk DeJong, a farm boy with artistic and intellectual potential who nevertheless struggles with lost love and disillusionment, he was awarded the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer. Having already appeared in a few military-themed films prior to "So Big," he landed a convincing role as an Airborne Division Captain in "The Longest Day," the '62 ensemble World War II epic. A few years later, after having amassed a respectable number of television credits, he starred in the British television series "The Baron" from '66 to '67, playing John Mannering, an antique dealer and covert British spy. The show did better in the U.K. than in the States, but Forrest was hardly finished with television, playing Lieutenant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson in the '70s action series "S.W.A.T.." He also had a cameo in the 2003 big screen version of the show. Most of his work during the next few decades was for television, but he did co-star in the feature film "North Dallas Forty," which satirized professional football, and the Joan Crawford biopic "Mommie Dearest," in which he portrayed a composite character based on a number of Crawford's husbands.
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
S.W.A.T.
(2003)
Swat Truck Driver
Killer: A Journal of Murder
(1996)
Warden Charles
Columbo: A Bird in the Hand
(1992)
Storyville
(1992)
Gunsmoke: Return To Dodge City
(1987)
Amazon Women On The Moon
(1987)
Spies Like Us
(1985)
Sahara
(1984)
Hotline
(1982)
Mommie Dearest
(1981)
Captain America
(1979)
North Dallas Forty
(1979)
The Deerslayer
(1978)
Hawkeye
Maneaters Are Loose
(1978)
David Birk
Last of the Mohicans
(1977)
Hawkeye
Wanted: The Sundance Woman
(1976)
The Hatfields and the Mccoys
(1975)
The Hanged Man
(1974)
James Devlin
The Late Liz
(1971)
[Dr. James L.] Jim Hatch
Rascal
(1969)
Willard North
The Yellow Canary
(1963)
Hub Wiley
The Longest Day
(1962)
Captain Harding
The Second Time Around
(1961)
Dan Jones
Five Branded Women
(1960)
Sgt. Paul Keller
Heller in Pink Tights
(1960)
Clint Mabry
Flaming Star
(1960)
Clint Burton
It Happened to Jane
(1959)
Larry Hall
The Living Idol
(1957)
Terry [Matthews]
Bedevilled
(1955)
Gregory Fitzgerald
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
(1954)
Professor Paul Dupin
Prisoner of War
(1954)
Cpl. Joseph Robert Stanton
Rogue Cop
(1954)
Eddie Kelvaney
The Bad and the Beautiful
(1953)
Leading man in Georgia's screen test
The Clown
(1953)
Young man
Battle Circus
(1953)
Sergeant
So Big
(1953)
Dirk "So Big" DeJong
Take the High Ground!
(1953)
Lobo Naglaski
Dream Wife
(1953)
Louis
I Love Melvin
(1953)
Photographer on crane
The Band Wagon
(1953)
Cast (Special)
Celebration: The American Spirit
(1976)
Producer (Special)
The MTV Interview
(1995)
Producer
The Dream Is Alive: The 20th Anniversary Celebration of Walt Disney World
(1991)
Producer
Cast (Short)
1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (International)
(1955)
Himself
Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955)
(1955)
Himself
Cast (TV Mini-Series)
Hollywood Wives
(1986)
Malibu
(1983)
Rich Bradley
The Manions of America
(1981)
James Kent
Condominium
(1980)
A Rumor of War
(1980)
Colonel Atherton
Roughnecks
(1980)
Testimony of Two Men
(1977)
Life Events
Photo Collections
8 Photos
Rogue Cop - Lobby Card Set
Here is a set of Lobby Cards from MGM's Rogue Cop (1954), starring Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft, and Anne Francis. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.
1 Photo
Heller in Pink Tights - Movie Poster
Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for Paramount's Heller in Pink Tights (1960), starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn. One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.
Videos
Movie Clip
