Frederic Forrest

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Frederic Forrest, the Oscar-nominated character actor, was born two days before Christmas Day in 1936 in Waxahachie, Texas, the same home town as director Robert Benton. Forrest had long wanted to be an actor, but he was so nervous that he ran out of auditions for school plays. Later, at Texas Christian University, he took a minor in theater arts while majoring in radio and television studies. His parents opposed his aspirations as a thespian as it was a precarious existence, but he moved on to New York and studied with renowned acting teacher Sanford Meisner. He eventually became an observer at the Actors Studio, where he was tutored by Lee Strasberg. During this time, he supported himself as a page at the NBC Studios in Rockefeller Plaza.His theatrical debut was in the Off-Broadway production of "Viet-Rock", an anti-war play featuring music. He became part of avant-garde director Tom O'Horgan's stock company at La Mama, appearing in the infamous "Futz", among other productions. After starring in the off-Broadway play "Silhouettes", Forrest moved with the production to Los Angeles, intent on breaking into movies. While the production ran for three months and was visited by agents bird-dogging new talent, Forrest got no offers and had to support himself as a pizza-baker after the show closed. Eventually, he began auditing classes at Actors Studio West, and director Stuart Millar saw him in a student showcase production of Clifford Odets' "Watiting for Lefty" and cast him in Quand meurent les légendes (1972). He copped a 1973 Golden Globe nomination as "Most Promising Newcomer - Male" for the role.Forrest landed a small but very important part in "Godfather" director Francis Ford Coppola's Conversation secrète (1974). He and Cindy Williams are the two people having that titular conversation (recorded by Gene Hackman: so Forrest's voice is heard throughout the film). And Coppola wasn't done with him! Playing "Chef" in Apocalypse Now (1979) garnered Forrest the best notices of his career, and he parlayed that into Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Supporting Actor for The Rose (1979), his second hit that year. He was named Best Supporting Actor by the National Society of Film Critics for both films. Then he was cast as the star in Coppola's "One From The Heart". In Apocalypse Now (1979), his character ("Chef") is yelling for the Playboy Playmates from the crowd, one of whom is played by Colleen Camp, who, four years later, would play his hippie wife in the film Valley Girl (1983). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood/Robert Sieger

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Frederic Forrest’s flixes, followed by Apple iTunes compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Frederic Forrest on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1972 to 2003. See the full graphs of the number of Frederic Forrest movies released per year from 1988 till 2003.

Top Genres

Frederic Forrest works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 46% of Frederic Forrest movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Frederic Forrest worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Frederic Forrest has worked on is 6.2.

6.2 / 10

Frederic Forrest's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Adventure,Drama,Western
Lonesome Dove (1989)

Two former Texas Rangers renew their spirit of adventure as they and several other residents of a small Texas town join a cattle drive to the Montana Territory.

8.7/10384 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Drama,Mystery,War
Apocalypse Now (1979)

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

8.5/10147 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Drama,Mystery,Thriller
The Conversation (1974)

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

7.8/10113 min

Available in 13 platform(s).

Drama,History,War
Andersonville (1996)

The story of the most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War.

7.3/10167 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Thriller
Music Box (1989)

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

7.3/10124 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

6.9/10110 min

Available in 14 platform(s).

Action,Drama,History
Against the Wall (1994)

Based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.

6.6/10111 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

A teen faces her impending adulthood in the carefree sex and drug revolution years of the early 80's prior to fears of AIDS. She lives with her bitter, divorced mother and her sadistic kid ...

6.4/10112 min

Available in 6 platform(s).