1919-02-12 ( 106 years old ) in Plainfield, Indiana, USA
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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
Movies
La Classe américaine
1993-12-31
Outtakes
1987-08-01
Timestalkers
1987-03-10
Thunder Run
1985-10-22
Rare Breed
1984-10-10
Blood Feud
1983-04-25
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1981-07-09
The Rebels
1979-05-14
A Real American Hero
1978-12-09
The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race
1977-12-17
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
1977-08-31
The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
1976-08-01
The Wild McCullochs
1975-05-21
Jarrett
1973-03-17
Footsteps
1972-10-03
Cancel My Reservation
1972-09-21
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972-01-30
Cat Ballou
1971-09-06
Barquero
1970-07-29
Chisum
1970-07-23
Doc
1969-07-28
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968-12-22
A Boy Called Nuthin’
1967-12-10
Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
1966-05-01
Counterplot
1959-10-01
Gunsmoke in Tucson
1958-12-07
Auntie Mame
1958-12-04
The Crawling Eye
1958-07-07
Girl in the Woods
1958-06-01
Fort Massacre
1958-05-14
The Strange World of Planet X
1958-03-04
The Deerslayer
1957-09-10
The Abominable Snowman
1957-08-26
The Quiet Gun
1957-07-18
Stagecoach To Fury
1956-12-13
Three Violent People
1956-12-01
Paris Follies of 1956
1955-11-27
The Vanishing American
1955-11-17
Night Freight
1955-08-28
Finger Man
1955-06-15
Rage at Dawn
1955-03-26
Break in the Circle
1955-01-01
Trouble in the Glen
1954-06-15
Jubilee Trail
1954-05-15
The Big Moment
1954-03-07
Flight Nurse
1953-11-15
Laughing Anne
1953-09-01
Pony Express
1953-06-15
San Antone
1953-02-15
Ride the Man Down
1952-11-25
Montana Belle
1952-11-11
Hurricane Smith
1952-10-02
Hoodlum Empire
1952-04-15
Bugles in the Afternoon
1952-03-04
Flaming Feather
1952-02-01
The Wild Blue Yonder
1951-12-05
Warpath
1951-11-22
Crosswinds
1951-10-01
Fighting Coast Guard
1951-05-31
Oh! Susanna
1951-03-01
California Passage
1950-12-15
Rock Island Trail
1950-05-18
The Nevadan
1950-01-11
Sands of Iwo Jima
1950-01-01
Brimstone
1949-08-15
Hellfire
1949-05-29
The Big Cat
1949-04-01
The Last Bandit
1949-02-25
The Plunderers
1948-10-30
Two Guys from Texas
1948-08-27
Coroner Creek
1948-07-01
Adventures in Silverado
1948-03-25
Gunfighters
1947-07-15
The Yearling
1946-12-18
Never Say Goodbye
1946-11-09
Dangerous Business
1946-06-20
Renegades
1946-06-13
The Man Who Dared
1946-05-30
Talk About a Lady
1946-03-28
Keeper of the Flame
1943-04-01
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
1942-11-05
The Spirit of Stanford
1942-10-08
My Sister Eileen
1942-09-24
Counter-Espionage
1942-09-03
Parachute Nurse
1942-08-06
Submarine Raider
1942-06-04
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942-04-02
Canal Zone
1942-03-19
Shut My Big Mouth
1942-02-19
Honolulu Lu
1941-12-11
New Wine
1941-09-10
Emergency Landing
1941-03-07
The Westerner
1940-09-18
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