Frederic Forrest Movies and Career Information

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 known for his roles as Chef in Apocalypse Now, When The Legends Die, It Lives Again, the neo-Nazi surplus store owner in Falling Down, Right to Kill? 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. He was married to Marilu Henner from 1980 to 1982. 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. On television, he played Captain Richard Jenko on the first season of the Fox Television series 21 Jump Street, in 1987. Forrest was subsequently replaced by actor Steven Williams, who played Captain Adam Fuller for the remainder of the series.