Steve Forrest
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| Born | William Forrest Andrews September 29, 1924 Huntsville, Texas, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1943 - 2003 | ||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Christine Carilas (m.1949) | ||||||||||
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Steve Forrest (born William Forrest Andrews on September 29, 1924 in Huntsville, Texas) is an American actor and a younger brother of actor Dana Andrews.
Among his notable roles are in the films Prisoner of War, The Longest Day, North Dallas Forty, and Mommie Dearest. Television roles have included the British crime series The Baron (1965-1966), S.W.A.T., Hollywood Wives and Dallas, in which he played an impostor pretending to be Jock Ewing. Gunsmoke fans will remember Forrest as perhaps the only man to ever gun down Matt Dillon in the episode Mannon. Dillon survived to later shoot Mannon.
He has also had cameos in the more recent movies Spies Like Us, and Amazon Women on the Moon and the film version of S.W.A.T..
Forrest has been married to Christine Carilas since 1949; they have three sons.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Rogue Cop (1954)
- The Living Idol (1957)
- It Happened to Jane (1959)
- Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
- Flaming Star (1960)
- The Second Time Around (1961)
- The Longest Day (1962)
- The Yellow Canary (1963)
- Rascal (1969)
- Desperate Passage (1967) TV Episode .... Josh Tanner
- To Stop a War (1969) TV Episode .... Dan Logan
- Bonanza .... (2 episodes, 1967-1969)... aka Ponderosa (USA: rerun title)
- The Wild Country (1971)
- Wanted: The Sundance Woman (1976) (TV)
- Last of the Mohicans (1977) (TV)
- Mommie Dearest (1981)
- Sahara (1983)
- Spies Like Us (1985)
- Dallas (1986) (TV) .... Ben Stivers/Wes Parmalee
