Steve Forrest
Actor
Born September 29, 1925 in Huntsville, Texas, USA
A ruggedly handsome action man of the 1960's and 70's, Steve Forrest began his screen career as a small part contract player with MGM. A brother of star Dana Andrews, he was born William Forrest Andrews, the youngest of thirteen children. His father was a Baptist minister in Huntsville, Texas. In 1942, Steve enlisted in the U.S. Army, rose to the rank of sergeant and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge. Following his demobilisation, he visited his brother in Hollywood and came to the conclusion that acting wasn't a bad way to make a living (having already done some work as a movie extra). He went on to study in college at UCLA, eventually graduating in 1950 with a B.A. Honours Degree in theatre arts. He then served a brief apprenticeship as a carpenter, prop boy and set builder at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, where he was discovered by resident actor Gregory Peck and given a small part as a bellboy in the cast of the summer stock production of "Goddbye Again". A subsequent screen test led to a contract with MGM and resulting employment as second leads, brothers of the titular star, toughs and outlaws. His first proper recognition was being awarded 'New Star of the Year' by Golden Globe for his role in So Big (1953), a drama based on a Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Edna Ferber. From the mid-1950's, the rangy, 6-foot-3 actor became much in-demand on TV, beginning with classic early anthology and western series, interspersed with occasional appearances on the big screen (notably, in The Longest Day (1962) and as Joan Crawford's lover/attorney Greg Savitt in Mommie Dearest (1981)). In addition to numerous guest roles, he was regularly featured in series like Gunsmoke (1955), Dallas (1978) (as Wes Parmalee, who believes himself to be lost Ewing patriarch Jock) and Murder, She Wrote (1984). Already from the mid-60's, he decided to pick his assignments more carefully. In order to shed his image as the perpetual bad guy, he had relocated his family to England to star as antique-dealer-cum-undercover intelligence agent John Mannering in BBC's The Baron (1966). He followed this by another starring role as the stoic, tough Lieutenant Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson in the short-lived ABC police drama series S.W.A.T. (1975), possibly his best-remembered role. Steve later lampooned his screen personae in the satirical Amazon Women on the Moon (1987).
Filmography
Miracle at St. Anna
Capt. Harding in The Longest Day (archive footage) (uncredited)
S.W.A.T.
S.W.A.T. Truck Driver
Killer: A Journal of Murder
Warden Charles Casey
Storyville
Judge Quentin Murdoch
Dream On
Eden Pilott
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
Will Mannon
Amazon Women on the Moon
Captain Nelson (segment "Amazon Women on the Moon")
L.A. Law
Leonard Bey
Spies Like Us
General Sline
Hollywood Wives
Ross Conti
Murder, She Wrote
Rev. Willie John Fargo
Finder of Lost Loves
James Osborne
Sahara
Gordon
Malibu
Rich Bradley
Hotline
Tom Hunter
Hotel
Gil Strider
The Manions of America
James Kent
Mommie Dearest
Greg Savitt
A Rumor of War
Col. Atherton
Roughnecks
Paul Marshall
Condominium
Gus Garver
North Dallas Forty
Conrad Hunter
Captain America
Lou Brackett
The Deerslayer
Hawkeye
Maneaters Are Loose!
David Birk
Dallas
Ben Stivers
Fantasy Island
Jordan Montgomery
Last of the Mohicans
Hawkeye
Testimony of Two Men
Martin Eaton
Wanted: The Sundance Woman
Charlie Siringo
S.W.A.T.
Lt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson
The Hatfields and the McCoys
Randall McCoy
Dinah!
Self
Kodiak
Samson Toey
The Hanged Man
James Devlin
The Six Million Dollar Man
Quail
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self
A Chant of Silence
State Police Officer
The Magic of Walt Disney World
Narrator
The Baron: The Man in a Looking Glass
John Mannering 'The Baron'
The Baron: Mystery Island
John Mannering 'The Baron'
The Streets of San Francisco
Ghost Story
Andrew Alcott
The Rookies
The Sixth Sense
Nichols
Sam Yeager
Columbo
Big Fred McCain
Cannon
The Late Liz
Jim Hatch
Alias Smith and Jones
The Wild Country
Jim Tanner
Night Gallery
Grant Wilson (segment "Hatred Unto Death") (as Stephen Forrest)
Love, American Style
Don Finletter
Medical Center
Wild Geese Calling
Narrator
Rascal
Willard North
The Owl That Didn't Give a Hoot
Jr. Narrator
The Name of the Game
A.J. Ward
The High Chaparral
Johnny Rondo
Cimarron Strip
Ironside
The Baron
John Mannering
Mission: Impossible
The F.B.I.
Lee Barrington
Kraft Suspense Theatre
David Buchanan
Burke's Law
Jocko Creighton
The Fugitive
Barry Craft
Arrest and Trial
The Yellow Canary
Hubbard "Hub" Wiley
The Longest Day
Capt. Harding
The Virginian
Roger Layton
The Second Time Around
Dan Jones
Bus Stop
Target: The Corruptors!
Kraft Mystery Theatre
Flaming Star
Clint Burton
Outlaws
Five Branded Women
Paul Keller
Heller in Pink Tights
Clint Mabry
The Twilight Zone
Robert Gaines
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Major Anderson
Bonanza
Dan Logan
It Happened to Jane
Larry Hall
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Living Idol
Terry Matthews
Clipper Ship
Matt Bowers
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Mike Bagley
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Steve Forrest (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Steve Archer
Gunsmoke
Mannon
Bedevilled
Gregory Fitzgerald
Climax!
Ben
Rogue Cop
Eddie Kelvaney
Prisoner of War
Cpl. Joseph Robert Stanton
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Prof. Paul Dupin
Great Lady Has an Interview
Reporter (uncredited)
So Big
Dirk De Jong
Take the High Ground!
Lobo Nagalaski
Letter to Loretta
Mark Carter
The Band Wagon
Passenger on Train (uncredited)
I Love Melvin
Photographer on Crane (uncredited)
Last of the Comanches
Lt. Floyd (uncredited)
The Clown
Young Man
The Bad and the Beautiful
Actor in Georgia's Screen Test (uncredited)
Geisha Girl
Rocky Wilson (as William Andrews)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Eddie Martin
Sealed Cargo
Holtz