Frederic Forrest

Frederic Forrest
Date of birth:
1936
Mini Bio:
Frederic Fennimore Forrest, Jr. (born December 23, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is probably best known for his roles as Chef in Apocalypse Now, It Lives Again, the military surplus store owner in Falling Down, Right to Kill (1985 TV movie) and for playing the writer Dashiell Hammett twice in film—in Hammett (1982) and in Citizen Cohn (1992 TV movie). He had a role as the renegade half breed, Blue Duck in the 1989 miniseries, Lonesome Dove. He was Oscar-nominated in the Supporting Actor category for his role in The Rose.

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