Steve Forrest
Steve Forrest has gracefully aged from leading man to character actor in a career that has spanned over six decades. He appeared in a number of films before landing the lead role in "So Big," a 1953 drama in which he played the son of Jane Wyman. For his performance as Dirk DeJong, a farm boy with artistic and intellectual potential who nevertheless struggles with lost love and disillusionment, he was awarded the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer. Having already appeared in a few military-themed films prior to "So Big," he landed a convincing role as an Airborne Division Captain in "The Longest Day," the '62 ensemble World War II epic. A few years later, after having amassed a respectable number of television credits, he starred in the British television series "The Baron" from '66 to '67, playing John Mannering, an antique dealer and covert British spy. The show did better in the U.K. than in the States, but Forrest was hardly finished with television, playing Lieutenant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson in the '70s action series "S.W.A.T.." He also had a cameo in the 2003 big screen version of the show. Most of his work during the next few decades was for television, but he did co-star in the feature film "North Dallas Forty," which satirized professional football, and the Joan Crawford biopic "Mommie Dearest," in which he portrayed a composite character based on a number of Crawford's husbands.
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Steve Forrest
Filmography
Movies
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Killer: A Journal of Murder | Warden Charles Casey (Character) | $65.7K | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Columbo: A Bird in the Hand | Big Fred (Character) | - | 1992 |
65% |
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Amazon Women on the Moon | Capt. Steve Nelson (Character) | $388.2K | 1987 |
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Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge | Will Mannon (Character) | - | 1987 |
35% |
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Spies Like Us | General Sline (Character) | $56.5M | 1985 |
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Sahara | Gordon (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Malibu | Rich Bradley (Character) | - | 1983 |
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Hotline | Tom Hunter (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Roughnecks | Paul Marshall (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Condominium | Gus Garver (Character) | - | 1980 |
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Captain America | Lou Brackett (Character) | - | 1979 |
86% |
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North Dallas Forty | Conrad Hunter (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | S.W.A.T.: Deadly Tide | Lieutenant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Maneaters Are Loose! | David Birk (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deerslayer | Hawkeye (Character) | - | 1978 |
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The Last of the Mohicans | Hawkeye (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wanted: The Sundance Woman | Detective Charlie Siringo (Character) | - | 1976 |
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The Hatfields and the McCoys | Randall McCoy (Character) | - | 1975 |
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The Hanged Man | James Devlin (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chant of Silence | StatePolice Officer (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Late Liz | Jim Hatch (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wild Country | Jim Tanner (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Bear Died Running | Hank Frazer (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Prisoner Within | Colonel Walter Royce (Character) | - | 1970 |
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Rascal | Willard North (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Time in Havana | Mike Taggart (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mystery Island | John Mannering "The Baron" (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man in a Looking Glass | John Mannering "The Baron" (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Yellow Canary | Hub Wiley (Character) | - | 1963 |
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The Second Time Around | Dan Jones (Character) | - | 1961 |
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Heller in Pink Tights | Clint Mabry (Character) | - | 1960 |
91% |
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Flaming Star | Clint Burton (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Five Branded Women | Sgt. Keller (Character) | - | 1960 |
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It Happened to Jane | Lawrence Clay `'Larry'` Hall (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Clipper Ship | Matt Bowers (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Living Idol | Terry Matthews (Character) | - | 1957 |
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Bedevilled | Gregory Fitzgerald (Character) | - | 1955 |
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Rogue Cop | Eddie Kelvaney (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prisoner of War | Cpl. Joseph Robert Stanton (Character) | - | 1954 |
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Take the High Ground | Lobo Naglaski (Character) | - | 1953 |
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Dream Wife | Louis (Character) | - | 1953 |
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Battle Circus | Sergeant (Character) | - | 1953 |
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So Big | Dirk DeJong (Character) | - | 1953 |
80% |
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The Bad and the Beautiful | Actor in Georgia's Screen Test (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Geisha Girl | Rocky Wilson (Character) | - | 1952 |
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Last of the Comanches | Unknown (Character) | - | 1952 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Sheriff Hank Masters (Guest Star) | 1986 1989 1991-1992 1996 |
25% | No Score Yet | The Client | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Columbo | Big Fred (Guest Star) | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dallas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Wives | Ross Conti (Character) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Finder of Lost Loves | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Testimony of Two Men | Unknown (Character) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | 90% | S.W.A.T. | Lt. Dan Hondo Harrelson (Character) | 1975-1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tattletales | Guest | 1975-1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rookies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Arthur Rogers (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Six Million Dollar Man | Quail (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McMillan and Wife | Mark Erickson (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Cord Wrecken (Guest Star) | 1969-1970 1972-1973 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Night Gallery | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Art Styles (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sixth Sense | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969-1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The High Chaparral | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cimarron Strip | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967-1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Barry Craft (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 12 O'Clock High | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Roger Layton (Guest Star) | 1963-1964 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Major Robert Gaines (Character) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bus Stop | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Joe Rogers (Character) | 1957-1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1956-1957 |