Forrest Tucker

Birthday: February 12, 2019

After leaving George Washington University, Forrest Tucker made his stage bow in Burlesque. He spent two years in the Army, then returned to performing. After appearing in his first film, 1940's The Westerner, Tucker signed with Columbia, then spent another two year hitch in uniform. Most of his postwar films cast Tucker as a bully or outlaw, but his roles took a heroic turn after a good ...more