Frederic Fenimore Forrest, Jr. (born December 23, 1936) is an American actor.
Forrest was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Virginia Allie (née McSpadden) and Frederic Fenimore Forrest, a furniture store owner. He is probably best known for his roles as Chef in Apocalypse Now,["When The Legends Die"] It Lives Again, the military surplus store owner in Falling Down, Right to Kill? (1985 TV movie) and for playing the writer Dashiell Hammett twi...
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Frederic Fenimore Forrest, Jr. (born December 23, 1936) is an American actor.
Forrest was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Virginia Allie (née McSpadden) and Frederic Fenimore Forrest, a furniture store owner. He is probably best known for his roles as Chef in Apocalypse Now,["When The Legends Die"] It Lives Again, the military surplus store owner in Falling Down, Right to Kill? (1985 TV movie) 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 renegade Mexican-Indian, Blue Duck in the 1989 miniseries, Lonesome Dove. He was Academy Award-nominated in the Supporting Actor category for his role in The Rose.
His other notable film roles include The Conversation, Promise Him Anything (TV), One from the Heart, The Stone Boy, The Missouri Breaks, The Deliberate Stranger (TV), and horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film Trauma, along with the director's daughter Asia Argento.
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