John Forsythe

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John Forsythe (1957)

John Forsythe , actually John Lincoln's friend (born January 29, 1918 in Penns Grove, New Jersey , † April 1, 2010 in Santa Ynez , California ) was an American film and television actor.

Life

John Forsythe played his first small film role in 1943 in Determination Tokyo , a war film with Cary Grant in the lead role. Forsythe had a leading role at the side of Edward G. Robinson in Das Glaserne Netz , a crime thriller that is partly set in a television studio; Directed by Jack Arnold .

He played his most demanding roles under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock , on the one hand in the spy film Topaz ( Topaz , 1969), on the other hand in the black comedy Always Trouble with Harry ( The Trouble with Harry , 1955) at the side of Shirley MacLaine and Edmund Gwenn . Forsythe played the painter Sam Marlowe in The Trouble with Harry , which is about the removal of a corpse found in the forest . In Topaz he acted in a supporting role as client of the title hero Frederick Stafford .

In the 1950s, Forsythe turned among others in Paris playing comedy The large and the small world (The Ambassador's Daughter) with Olivia de Havilland and alongside William Holden to the time of the American Civil War playing Western betrayal in Fort Bravo (Escape from Fort Bravo) , in which he played Captain John Marsh of the Southern Army, who breaks out of a prison camp with his men. In 1969, he played in a happy ending for a marriage of Richard Brooks 's husband Jean Simmons , one for her portrayal of Oscar received nomination.

He had supporting roles as a police detective Alvin Dewey in cold blood (In Cold Blood) , a film adaptation of the novel by Truman Capote , as a strict judge ... and justice for all (... And Justice for All) alongside Al Pacino and as a television director in The Ghosts I Called ... (Scrooged) with Bill Murray , a modernized film adaptation of the Christmas story by Charles Dickens .

Since the 1950s, Forsythe, like many of his colleagues, appeared repeatedly on television, including in 1962 in the episode The Last Witness (I Saw the Whole Thing) from the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents . In 1965 he received his own series, the John Forsythe Show.

Between 1976 and 1981 he worked in another series, but invisible: In Charlie's Angels (Charlie's Angels) , he played Charlie Townsend , head of the female detectives who gives his instructions by phone, without his staff he ever face to get. Forsythe repeated this role in the two films based on the series, Charlie's Angels (2000) and Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle (2003).

Forsythe's best-known role was that of the oil tycoon Blake Carrington in the television series The Denver Clan (Dynasty) , of which a total of 219 episodes were created between 1981 and 1989, in which he was consistently involved. He also played the same role in 1991 in the two-part TV movie The decision (The Reunion) , the action of Dynasty complete and should answer for series end remaining questions. In April 2006, Forsythe and other leading actors from Dynasty met for a reunion show ("Dynasty - Catfights and Caviar") in the Filoli -Mansion to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the series. The Filoli Mansion was the Carrington estate for Dynasty .

John Forsythe died on April 1, 2010, at the age of 92, of pneumonia caused by cancer .

Filmography (selection)

John Forsythe's handprints and signature before the Great Movie Ride in the Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park at Walt Disney World .

Feature films

TV Shows

  • 1957–1962: Bachelor Father - 157 episodes
  • 1965–1966: The John Forsythe Show - 29 episodes
  • 1969–1971: To Rome with Love - 48 episodes
  • 1976-1981: Charlie's Angels (Charlie's Angels) - 109 episodes only voice
  • 1981–1989: The Denver Clan (Dynasty) - 217 episodes
  • 1985–1986: The Empire - The Colbys (The Colbys) - 4 episodes
  • 1992–1993: The Powers That Be - 21 episodes

Web links

Commons : John Forsythe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. John Forsythe of film and TV fame dies at 92 at usatoday.com, April 2, 2010; Retrieved April 2, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Forsythe, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friend, john lincoln
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Penns Grove , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2010
Place of death Santa Ynez , California