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Steve Forrest
29 September 1924
Steve Forrest played in 8 movies in the Crime, Horror, Mystery, Music, Drama, Western, Adventure, Romance, Family, Comedy, Sport, Biography genres.
Steve Forrest got succeed with average imdb rating 6.1.
The younger brother of actor Dana Andrews, Steve Forrest served in World War II while his brother (17 years Steve's older) was starring in such films as The Purple Marrow (1944) and Laura (1944). Upon his proffer to America, Steve went to Hollywood to make a sexually transmitted call on Dana, decided he liked the moving picture colony, and opted to stick hither throughout a while. Albeit he'd time past played bits in such films as Crash Swoop (using his given name of William Andrews),
... Forrest not in any way seriously considered acting as a situation until enrolling at UCLA. He tried regional theatre occupation and scriptwriting then received a passing but gaudy grain part in MGM's The Grotty and the Marvellous (1952). This led to extra integument accomplish in younger leads then various years' worth of faithless roles. When asked why he accepted so numberless bad-geezer assignments, Forrest would cite the view before made to him past Clark Gable: "The hero gets the lover but the esoteric gets the attention". Nearby 1969, however, Forrest felt as still he'd the worse for wear out his welcome as a heavy, and began regularly turning down roles, holding old hat respecting heroic parts.
In 1975, he was stamp as Lieutenant Dan "Hondo" Harrison on the popular TV exercise series S.W.A.T., which mightiness be struck by come up as a replacement for years had it not been axed below pressure from the anti-ferociousness brigades. More recently, Steve Forrest lampooned his unpolished, foggy'n'ready spitting image in the 1987 integument comedy Amazon Women of the Moon.
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