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Not to be confused with actor Tom B. Forman (1891-1951), Texas-born writer/director Tom Forman reached the pinnacle of his career directing the second screen version of Owen Wister's The Virginian (1924) for producer B.P. Schulberg. Little more than a... MORE

Not to be confused with actor Tom B. Forman (1891-1951), Texas-born writer/director Tom Forman reached the pinnacle of his career directing the second screen version of Owen Wister's The Virginian (1924) for producer B.P. Schulberg. Little more than a year later, however, Forman was washed up and could only obtain work on cheap poverty row action melodramas. The consequences proved dire: on the evening of November 7, 1926, Tom Forman shot himself through the heart at his parents' home in Venice, CA. He was a first cousin of silent screen star Madge Bellamy (1899-1990). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi LESS