Forrest, with Nastassja Kinski -and Harry Dean Stanton, in the background, left-, in Coppola’s musical “Hunch”. Author:
He played Dashiell Hammett as the protagonist in Wenders’ “Man from Chinatown”
American actor Frederic Forrest (Texas, 1936) died on Friday, June 23 at the age of 86 at his residence in Santa Monica, California, after a “long illness”, it was confirmed by specialized media. The Hollywood Reporter his friend and fellow actor Barry Primus, who, by the way, worked with him Rose (1979), a film directed by Mark Rydell that earned Forest his only Oscar nomination – also a Golden Globe – as a supporting actor. Actress and singer Bette Midler, who starred in that film, confirmed the news of the actor’s death on her social networks: “The great and beloved Frederic Forrest has died. Thank you to all your fans and friends for your support over the past few months. He was an outstanding actor and a brilliant human being and I was lucky to have him in my life. I was calm,” he wrote on his farewell Twitter.
Despite his acting elegance, he had a modest career, and the 70s and 80s were his sweetest days. Francis Ford Coppola counted him among his fetish actors and it was he who gave him the most opportunities to show off. “Freddie was a dear and beloved person, a wonderful actor and a good friend. His loss is heartbreaking for me,” said the legendary director Deadline.
Frederic Forrest, in “Apocalypse Now”, where he played Jay “Chef” Hicks. Author:
He was part of the cast Conversation (1974) and, from there, invited him to Apocalypse today (1979) —where he played Jay Chef Hicks, a sauce expert from New Orleans who was nearly eaten by a tiger when he got off a boat to pick mangoes—and Tucker, the man and his dream (1988), but that was in an extremely imaginative and original musical Hunch (1982), where he played the lead role alongside Nastassja Kinski, Teri Garr, Raul Julia and Harry Dean Stanton, another excellent supporting role he worked with in the said film. Rose and in Arthur Penn’s film Missouri (1976). music box (1989), Costa-Gavras, two strong (1990), Jack Nicholson, i A day of rage (1993), by Joel Schumacher, are some of his most notable titles.
But Wim Wenders offered him his most complete leading role, in a peculiar biopic about the writer and genius of crime novels Dashiell Hammett, which the German director signed in 1982: The man from Chinatown (1982), although the tape did not depart from the cult work.
Forrest was featured as writer Dashiell Hammett in Wim Wenders’ Chinatown Man (1982). Author:
After graduating with a degree in theater arts and a minor in television and radio in Texas, he moved to New York to study with Sanford Meisner and later with Lee Strasberg. In 1966, he began working on the off-Broadway stage to make his film debut in 1972 with Stuart Millar in when legends die with Richard Fleischer the gift is dead (1973). A year later, Coppola hired him for La conversation. His last performance was in all the king’s men (2006), a film by Steve Zaillian — starring Sean Penn, Jude Law and Kate Winslet — which is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren and remake from Politician (1949) by Robert Rossen.
Source: La Vozde Galicia
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