Frederic Forrest

Frederic Forrest
Frederic Forrest in 1979
Born	Frederic Fenimore Forrest, Jr. (1936-12-23) December 23, 1936 Waxahachie, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1967–2006
Spouses	Nancy Ann Whittaker ​ ​ (m. 1960; div. 1963)​ Marilu Henner ​ ​ (m. 1980; div. 1983)​

Frederic Fenimore Forrest, Jr. (born December 23, 1936) is a retired American actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Huston Dyer in the 1979 musical drama The Rose. He also portrayed Chef in the epic war film Apocalypse Now released the same year.

Life and career

Forrest was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Virginia Allie (née McSpadden) and Frederic Fenimore Forrest, a furniture store owner. He is known for his roles as Chef in Apocalypse Now, When The Legends Die, It Lives Again, the neo-Nazi surplus store owner in Falling Down, Right to Kill? 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 notorious Mexican/Indian bandit Blue Duck in the 1989 miniseries, Lonesome Dove. He was Academy Award-nominated in the Supporting Actor category for his role in The Rose. He was married to Marilu Henner from 1980 to 1982.

Notable roles include four films directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (as Engineman 3rd Class "Chef" Hicks), The Conversation, One from the Heart and Tucker: The Man and His Dream, along with Hammett, produced by Coppola. He also appeared in Valley Girl, The Two Jakes, The Stone Boy, The Missouri Breaks, The Deliberate Stranger (TV), Promise Him Anything (TV) and horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film, Trauma.

On television, he played Captain Richard Jenko on the first season of the Fox Television series 21 Jump Street, in 1987. Forrest was subsequently replaced by actor Steven Williams, who played Captain Adam Fuller for the remainder of the series. In 1990 he appeared as private investigator Lomax in the BBC miniseries Die Kinder. He played Sgt. McSpadden in the Civil War-themed movie Andersonville and real-life U.S. Army General Earle Wheeler in 2002's Path to War, the final film of director John Frankenheimer.

Filmography

List of film credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1967	Dark Shadows	Blue Whale customer	(uncredited)
1968	The Filthy Five	Johnny Longo
1969	Futz!	Sugford
1972	When the Legends Die	Tom Black Bull	Nominated – Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor
1973	The Don Is Dead	Tony Fargo
1974	The Conversation	Mark
1974	Larry	Larry Herman
1974	The Gravy Train	Rut
1975	Promise Him Anything	Paul Hunter
1975	Permission to Kill	Scott Allison
1976	The Missouri Breaks	Cary
1978	Ruby and Oswald	Lee Harvey Oswald
1978	It Lives Again	Eugene Scott
1979	Mrs. Columbo	Martin	Episode: Word Games
1979	Apocalypse Now	Jay "Chef" Hicks	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (also for The Rose)
1979	Survival of Dana	Mr. Davis	(uncredited)
1979	The Rose	Huston Dyer	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (also for Apocalypse Now) Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
1982	One From the Heart	Hank
1982	Hammett	Hammett
1983	Who Will Love My Children?	Ivan Fray
1983	Valley Girl	Steve Richman
1983	Saigon: Year of the Cat	Bob Chesneau
1984	The Parade	Matt Kirby
1984	Calamity Jane	Wild Bill Hickock
1984	Best Kept Secrets	Blaise Dietz
1984	The Stone Boy	Andy Jansen
1985	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Pap Finn
1985	"Quo Vadis?"	Petronius	(TV Mini-Series)
1985	Right to Kill?	Richard Jahnke, Sr.
1985	Return	Brian Stoving
1986	The Deliberate Stranger	Det. Bob Keppel
1986	Where are the Children?	Courtney Parrish
1987	Stacking	Buster McGuire
1987	21 Jump Street	Captain Richard Jenko	6 episodes
1988	Little Girl Lost	Tim Brady
1988	Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun	Raoul Schumacher
1988	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Eddie
1988	Gotham	Father George
1989	Lonesome Dove	Blue Duck	(TV Mini-Series) (3 Episodes)
1989	Margaret Bourke-White	Erskine Caldwell
1989	Valentino Returns	Sonny Gibbs
1989	Cat Chaser	Nolen Tyner
1989	Music Box	Jack Burke
1990	The Two Jakes	Chuck Newty
1990	Die Kinder	Lomax	6 episodes
1992	Twin Sisters	Delvaux
1992	The Young Riders		2 episodes
1992	Citizen Cohn	Dashiell Hammett
1992	The Habitation of Dragons	Leonard Tolliver
1992	Rain Without Thunder	Warden
1993	Hidden Fears	Mike
1993	Falling Down	Nick, Nazi Surplus Store Owner
1993	Trauma	Dr. Judd
1993	Precious Victims	Sheriff Frank Yocom
1994	Double Obsession	Paul Harkness
1994	Against the Wall	Weisbad
1994	Chasers	Duane
1994	Lassie	Sam Garland
1995	One Night Stand	Michael Joslyn
1996	Double Jeopardy	Jack
1996	Andersonville	Sgt. McSpadden
1997	Crash Dive	Adm. Pendleton
1997	The Brave	Lou Sr.
1997	The End of Violence	Ranger MacDermot
1997	One of Our Own	Maj. Ron Bridges
1997	Alone	Carl
1998	Implicated	Det. Luddy
1998	Boogie Boy	Edsel Dundee
1998	Murphy Brown	Kenny	Episode: A Man and a Woman
1998	Point Blank	Mac Bradford
1998	Whatever	Mr. Chaminski
1998	Black Thunder	The Admiral
1998	The First 9½ Weeks	David Millman
1999	Shadow Lake	Roy Harman
1999	Sweetwater	Alex (present day)
2000	Shadow Hours	Sean
2000	The Spreading Ground	Det. Michael McGivern
2000	Militia	William Fain
2000	A Piece of Eden	Paulo Tredici
2002	The House Next Door	Vernon Crank
2002	Path to War	Earle Wheeler
2003	The Quality of Light	David
2006	All the King's Men	Willie's Father

External links

• Frederic Forrest at IMDb