Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Forrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker described himself as a farm boy. He was born in Plainfield, Indiana, on February 12, 1919, a son of Forrest A. Tucker and his wife, Doris Heringlake. His mother has been described as an alcoholic. Tucker began his performing career at age 14 at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, pushing the big wick...
Known For
Complete Filmography
La Classe américaine
1993
as The Fax Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...
Outtakes
1987
as Himself
A "Kentucky Fried Movie" / "Groove Tube" kind of sketch comedy featuring skits, parodies and naked women.
Timestalkers
1987
as Texas John Cody
History professor Scott McKenzie makes an anachronistic discovery in a photograph from the Old West and he is soon joined by beautiful time-traveler G...
Thunder Run
1985
as Charlie Morrison
A vicious band of nuclear terrorists is threatening America's atomic weapons research. Truck jockey Charlie Morrison (Forrest Tucker) volunteers for a...
Rare Breed
1984
A real-life story of a kidnapped horse in Italy, and a young girl's quest to retrieve it.
Blood Feud
1983
as Lyndon B. Johnson
Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy's campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1981
as Duke
The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duk...
The Rebels
1979
as Angus Fletcher
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthrigh...
A Real American Hero
1978
as Carl Pusser
When two boys are killed and two girls are blinded for life in a tragic accident, Buford Pusser, the town sheriff, is determined to get revenge. Thoug...
The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race
1977
as Mike Fink
An old man observes a boy bullying his playmates and treats him to a morality lesson. The man tells the story of the epic cross-country race between a...
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
1977
as Carl
It's the final chapter in this chilling, real-life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a good-hearted lawman set on keeping his town safe. Still distraugh...
The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
1976
as Wagonmaster Callahan
This comical western chronicles the silly adventures of a bumbling wagonmaster and his clutzy assistant as they attempt to take seven passengers acros...
The Wild McCullochs
1975
as J. J. McCulloch
A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blaming him for everything that doesn't go right.
Jarrett
1973
as Rev. Vocal Simpson
A private investigator specializing in fine arts tries to track down some missing rare Biblical scrolls.
Footsteps
1972
as Bradford Emmons
A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the tea...
Cancel My Reservation
1972
as Reese
Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the l...
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972
as Harry McMartin
An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finall...
Cat Ballou
1971
as Kid Sheleen
A pretty ranch owner hires an alcoholic gunfighter to protect her ranch and her adopted boy from an outlaw gang's depredations.
Barquero
1970
as Mountain Phil
Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only ...
Chisum
1970
as Lawrence Murphy
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.
Doc
1969
as Dr. Jason Fillmore
An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor assumes his practice, the older practitioner can't re...
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968
as Trim Houlihan
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Da...
A Boy Called Nuthin’
1967
as Turkeyneck
A boy doesn’t find the life he expects out West when he leaves Chicago to find his uncle. The West has changed–it is no longer “cowboys and Indians.” ...
Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
1966
as Romantic Diner Customer (uncredited)
A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.
Counterplot
1959
as Brock Miller
Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney.
Gunsmoke in Tucson
1958
as John Brazos
As young boys, two brothers, Jed (AKA: Chip) and John, witness their father being hung by a vigilante gang. Chip, angry and bitter, grows up to be an ...
Auntie Mame
1958
as Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues w...
The Crawling Eye
1958
as Alan Brooks
A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been pla...
Girl in the Woods
1958
as Steve Cory
Lumbering tale of lumbermen challenging the ownership of valuable woodlands.
Fort Massacre
1958
as McGurney
New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to rea...
The Strange World of Planet X
1958
as Gil Graham
Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications b...
The Deerslayer
1957
as Harry March
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostil...
The Abominable Snowman
1957
as Tom Friend
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
The Quiet Gun
1957
as Sheriff Carl Brandon
A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.
Stagecoach To Fury
1956
as Frank Townsend
A group of stagecoach passengers are held hostage by bandits waiting for a shipment of gold they plan to steal.
Three Violent People
1956
as Deputy Commissioner Cable
A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
Paris Follies of 1956
1955
as Dan Bradley
Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.
The Vanishing American
1955
as Morgan
A woman arrives in New Mexico to claim property she's inherited and receives an education in the greedy exploitation of the local Navajo.
Night Freight
1955
as Mike Peters
Trucker tries to put a railroad man out of business.
Finger Man
1955
as Dutch Becker
An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and "finger" the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
Fingerman
1955
as Dutch Becker
Treasury agents, desperate to get evidence on syndicate kingpin Dutch Becker, give ex-con hood Casey Martin a choice: life in prison or courting sudde...
Rage at Dawn
1955
as Frank Reno
In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A s...
Break in the Circle
1955
as Baron Keller
An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West.
Trouble in the Glen
1954
as Maj. Jim 'Lance' Lansing
Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he s...
Jubilee Trail
1954
as John Ives
A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with chi...
The Big Moment
1954
as Uri
Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca, another...
Flight Nurse
1953
as Capt. Bill Eaton
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
Laughing Anne
1953
as Jem Farrell
Story of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.
Pony Express
1953
as James Butler aka Wild Bill Hickok
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten...
San Antone
1953
as Lt. Brian Culver, CSA
After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French...
Ride the Man Down
1952
as Sam Danfelser
After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.
Montana Belle
1952
as Mac
Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloo...
Hurricane Smith
1952
as Dan McGuire
South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.
Hoodlum Empire
1952
as Charles A. 'Charley' Pignatalli
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide ne...
Bugles in the Afternoon
1952
as Donavan
Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.
Flaming Feather
1952
as Lt. Tom Blaine
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When...
The Wild Blue Yonder
1951
as Maj. Tom West
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful n...
Warpath
1951
as Sgt. O'Hara
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but ...
Crosswinds
1951
as 'Jumbo' Johnson
A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.
Fighting Coast Guard
1951
as Bill Rourk
Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
Oh! Susanna
1951
as Lt. Col. Unger
Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-martial to prevent bloodshed.
California Passage
1950
as Mike Prescott
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure ...
Rock Island Trail
1950
as Reed Loomis
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
The Nevadan
1950
as Tom Tanner
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
Sands of Iwo Jima
1950
as PFC Al J. Thomas
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit th...
Brimstone
1949
as Sheriff Henry McIntyre
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.
Hellfire
1949
as Marshall Bucky McLean
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's missio...
The Big Cat
1949
as Gil Hawks
A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar.
The Last Bandit
1949
as Jim Plummer
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are bei...
The Plunderers
1948
as Whit Lacey
Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, rel...
Two Guys from Texas
1948
as 'Tex' Bennett
Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
Coroner Creek
1948
as Ernie Combs
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
Adventures in Silverado
1948
as Zeke Butler
Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a...
Gunfighters
1947
as Ben Orcutt
Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as ...
The Yearling
1946
as Lem Forrester
Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
Never Say Goodbye
1946
as Fenwick Lonkowski
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip star...
Dangerous Business
1946
as Clayton Russell
Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims he has been framed. He is kidnapped by a gangster, ...
Renegades
1946
as Frank Dembrow
The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw's son.
The Man Who Dared
1946
as Larry James
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based...
Talk About a Lady
1946
as Bart Manners
A country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, manages to restore the optimism of a jaded and disill...
Keeper of the Flame
1943
as Geoff Midford
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
1942
as Whipper
Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good...
The Spirit of Stanford
1942
as Buzz Costello (uncredited)
Columbia's Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in this instance all-American quarterback Frankie Albe...
My Sister Eileen
1942
as Sandhog (uncredited)
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen ...
Counter-Espionage
1942
as Anton Schugg
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
Parachute Nurse
1942
as Lt. Tucker
Nurses parachuting.
Submarine Raider
1942
as Pulaski
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and s...
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942
as Blond Bomber
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy beca...
Canal Zone
1942
as Recruit Madigan
Shut My Big Mouth
1942
as Red
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Honolulu Lu
1941
as Barney
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
New Wine
1941
as Moritz
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
Emergency Landing
1941
as Jerry Barton
A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to s...
The Westerner
1940
as Wade Harper
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by...