Forrest Tucker

Forrest Meredith Tucker was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker worked as a vaudeville straight man at the age of fifteen. A mentor provided funds and contacts for a trip to California, where party hostess Cobina Wright persuaded guest Wesley Ruggles to give Tucker a screen test because of Tucker's photogenic good looks, thick wavy hair and height of six feet, five inches.

12 February 1919

Born on the same birth day (12 February): Al Cervi • Charles Groves Wright Anderson • Charles Pinot Duclos • Christian Cullen • Emil Lenz • Eugène Atget • Hong Myung-bo • Jacques Herbrand • Jonas Hiller • Kane Richardson • Kujō Yoritsune • Louisa Adams • Maud Adams • Michael Ironside • Paul Anderson (actor) • Ray Manzarek • Raymond Mhlaba

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