Where Are They Now - Friday, December 19, 2014

Hello fans,

This week we are catching up with actor Frederic Forrest, who is known for his portrayal of Huston Dyer in the 1979 musical drama The Rose and "Chef" in the epic war classic Apocalypse Now. Let's find out where he is now...

Take care,
Melissa

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Brian Wilson: Member of the Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations", "California Girls", "Surfin' USA"

Sparky Anderson: Baseball manager, he skippered the Cincinnati Reds to World Series wins in 1975 and 1976 and won the World Series with the Detroit Tigers in 1984

Marty Feldman: Comic actor in many movies, "Young Frankenstein", "Silent Movie"

(Answer at the bottom)
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Frederic Forrest
Learn More About Frederic Forrest on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: December 23, 1936, Waxahachie, Texas

CLAIM TO FAME: He is known for his portrayal of Huston Dyer in the 1979 musical drama The Rose and "Chef" in the epic war classic Apocalypse Now.

FAMILY LIFE: He was married to Marilu Henner from 1980-1983. Their marriage ended in divorce. His second marriage was to Nancy Ann Whittaker from 1960-1963. They are also divorced.

INFO: Forrest began his acting career with an uncredited role in a 1967 episode of the soap opera Dark Shadows.

Some of his major film credits include Apocalypse Now, When The Legends Die, It Lives Again, Falling Down, and The Rose. He had a role as the notorious Mexican/Indian bandit Blue Duck in the 1989 miniseries, Lonesome Dove.

In 1987, he played Captain Richard Jenko on the first season of the Fox Television series 21 Jump Street. He also played Sgt. McSpadden in the Civil War-themed movie Andersonville and real-life U.S. Army General Earle Wheeler in 2002's Path to War.

TRIVIA: Played mystery novelist Dashiell Hammett twice; first as the lead in Hammett (1982), then as a supporting role in Citizen Cohn (1992).

Has a collection of James Dean memorabilia and 200+ hats.

Was Academy Award-nominated in the Supporting Actor category for his role in The Rose.

WHERE IS HE NOW: Forrest is now in his 70s and retired from acting. His last acting role was in the 2006 film All the King's Men as Willie's father.

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CREDITS:

2006 All the King's Men...Willie's Father (as Frederic F. Forrest)

2003 The Quality of Light...David

2002 Path to War (TV Movie)...General Earle G. Wheeler

2002 The House Next Door...Vernon Crank

2000 A Piece of Eden...Paulo Tredici

2000 Militia...William Fain

2000 The Spreading Ground...Det. Michael McGivern

2000 Shadow Hours...Sean

1999 Shadow Lake (TV Movie)...Lt. Roy Harman

1999 Sweetwater (TV Movie)...Alex (present day)

1999 Implicated...Det. Luddy

1998 The First 9 1/2 Weeks...David Millman

1998/II Black Thunder...The Admiral

1998 Whatever...Mr. Chaminski

1998 Point Blank...Mac Bradford

1998 Murphy Brown (TV Series)...Kenny
- A Man and a Woman (1998)

1998 Boogie Boy...Edsel Dundee

1997 Alone (TV Movie)...Carl

1997 One of Our Own...Maj. Ron Bridges

1997 The End of Violence...Ranger MacDermot

1997 The Brave...Lou Sr.

1997 Crash Dive (Video)...Adm. Pendleton

1996 Andersonville (TV Movie)...Sgt. McSpadden

1996 Double Jeopardy (TV Movie)...Jack

1995 One Night Stand...Michael Joslyn

1994 Lassie...Sam Garland

1994 Chasers...Duane, Mechanic

1994 Against the Wall (TV Movie)...Weisbad

1994 Double Obsession...Paul Harkness

1993 Hidden Fears...Mike

1993 Precious Victims (TV Movie)...Sheriff Frank Yocom

1993 Trauma...Dr. Judd

1993 Falling Down...Nick, The Nazi Surplus Store Owner

1992 Rain Without Thunder...Walker Point Warden

1992 The Habitation of Dragons (TV Movie)...Leonard Tolliver

1992 Citizen Cohn (TV Movie)...Dashiell Hammett

1992 The Young Riders (TV Series)
- 'Til Death Do Us Part: Part 2 (1992)
- 'Til Death Do Us Part: Part 1 (1992)

1992 Twin Sisters (Video)...Delvaux

1990 Die Kinder (TV Series)...Lomax

1990 The Two Jakes...Chuck Newty

1989 Music Box...Jack Burke

1989 Cat Chaser...Nolen Tyner

1989 Valentino Returns...Sonny Gibbs

1989 Margaret Bourke-White (TV Movie)...Erskine Caldwell

1989 Lonesome Dove (TV Mini-Series)...Blue Duck

1988 Gotham (TV Movie)...Father George

1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream...Eddie

1988 Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (TV Movie)...Raoul Schumacher

1988 Little Girl Lost (TV Movie)...Tim Brady

1987 21 Jump Street (TV Series)...Captain Richard Jenko

1986-1987 American Playhouse (TV Series)...Buster McGuire / Pap Finn
- Stacking (1987)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part I (1986)

1986 Where Are the Children?...Courtney Parrish

1986 The Deliberate Stranger (TV Movie)...Det. Bob Keppel

1985/I Return...Brian Stoving

1985 Right to Kill? (TV Movie)...Richard Jahnke Sr.

1985 Quo Vadis? (TV Mini-Series)...Petronius

1984 The Stone Boy...Andy Jansen

1984 Best Kept Secrets (TV Movie)...Blaise Dietz

1984 Calamity Jane (TV Movie)...Wild Bill Hickok

1984 The Parade (TV Movie)...Matt Kirby

1983 Saigon: Year of the Cat (TV Movie)...Bob Chesneau

1983 Valley Girl...Steve Richman

1983 Who Will Love My Children? (TV Movie)...Ivan Fray

1982 Hammett...Hammett

1982 One from the Heart...Hank

1979 The Rose...Huston Dyer

1979 Survival of Dana (TV Movie)...Mr. Davis (uncredited)

1979 Apocalypse Now...Jay 'Chef' Hicks

1979 Mrs. Columbo (TV Series)...Martin
- Word Games (1979)

1979 $weepstake$ (TV Series)
- Episode #1.5 (1979)

1978 It Lives Again...Eugene Scott

1978 Ruby and Oswald (TV Movie)...Lee Harvey Oswald

1976 The Missouri Breaks...Cary

1975 The Executioner...Scott Allison

1975 Promise Him Anything (TV Movie)...Paul Hunter

1974 The Gravy Train...Rut

1974 Larry (TV Movie)...Larry Herman

1974 The Conversation...Mark

1973 The Don Is Dead...Tony Fargo

1972 When the Legends Die...Tom Black Bull

1969 Futz...Sugford (as Fred Forrest)

1968 The Filthy Five...Johnny Longo (as Matt Garth)

1967 Dark Shadows (TV Series)...Blue Whale customer
- Episode #1.137 (1967)

To see Then & Now pictures of Frederic Forrest, visit: Celebrity Nooz

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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--

Brian Wilson - ALIVE
Born: 06/20/1942

Sparky Anderson - DEAD (Alzheimer's disease)
Born: 02/22/1934 Died: 11/04/2010

Marty Feldman - DEAD (Heart attack)
Born: 07/08/1933 Died: 12/02/1982

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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
12/17
Chan Kwok-Hung, 51, Chinese cinematographer (Fly Me to Polaris, Skiptrace), drowned.
Dieter Grau, 101, German-born American rocket scientist.
Richard C. Hottelet, 97, American broadcast journalist (Murrow's Boys).
Oleh Lysheha, 65, Ukrainian poet, playwright and translator.
Jarle Ofstad, 87, Norwegian physician.

12/16
Phillip Archuleta, 65, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (since 2013), pneumonia.
Boris Belyavsky (ru), 90, Soviet-era Russian military officer, Hero of the Soviet Union.
Martin Brasier, 67, English palaeobiologist and astrobiologist, traffic collision.
Abdulmari Asia Imao (tl), 78, Filipino sculptor.
Man Haron Monis, 50, Iranian self-styled Muslim cleric and hostage taker, shot.
Wendy Rene, 67, American soul singer, complications from stroke.
Rock Scully, 73, American band manager (Grateful Dead), lung cancer.
Sultan Singh, 91, Indian politician, Governor of Tripura (1989-1990).
Ernie Terrell, 75, American boxer.

12/15
Khaled Al-Junaidi, 42, Yemeni political activist, shot.
Chakri, 40, Indian film composer and playback singer, heart attack.
Booth Colman, 91, American actor (Planet of the Apes, Norma Rae, Intolerable Cruelty).
David Garth, 84, American political consultant.
Mustapha Maarof, 79, Malaysian actor.
Nicolae Manea, 60, Romanian football player and manager, liver cancer.
Janis Martin, 75, American opera singer.
Ross McDonald, 68, Australian horse trainer.
Donald Metcalf, 85, Australian medical researcher, pancreatic cancer.
Ray Steadman-Allen, 92, British composer and Salvation Army officer.
Fausto Zapata (es), 73, Mexican journalist, politician and diplomat, Governor of San Luis Potosí (1991), cancer.

12/14
Angalifu, 44, Sudanese-born American rhinoceros, one of two remaining male northern white rhinoceros.
Fatima Bint Rashid Al Nuaimi, Emirati Ajman royal.
Anoushirvan Arjmand, 73, Iranian actor, heart attack.
Sy Berger, 91, American baseball promoter.
Joe Carr, 63, American bluegrass musician, stroke.
Theo Colborn, 87, American environmentalist and academic.
Irene Dalis, 89, American opera singer and impresario.
Millie Kirkham, 91, American singer.
Louis Alphonse Koyagialo, 67, Congolese politician, Acting Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2012).
Doug Martin, 78, American college basketball coach (South Dakota Coyotes)
Anthony Edward Pevec, 89, American Roman Catholic bishop.
P. J. Sarma, 70, Indian actor and dubbing artist, heart attack.
Fred Thurston, 80, American football player (Green Bay Packers), Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
Johnny Treadwell, 73, American football player (Texas Longhorns).

12/13
Ernst Albrecht, 84, German politician, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (1976-1990).
Joan Barril, 62, Spanish writer and journalist, pneumonia.
Ina Bauer, 73, German figure skater.
Bill Bonds, 82, American television news anchor (WXYZ-TV), heart attack.
William E. May, 86, American theologian.
Andreas Schockenhoff, 57, German politician, MP (since 1990).
Martha Sigall, 97, American animator.
Phil Stern, 95, American photographer, emphysema and heart failure.
Taitetsu Unno, 85, Japanese Shin Buddhist scholar and author.

12/12
John Baxter, 78, Scottish footballer (Hibernian).
Norman Bridwell, 86, American author and cartoonist (Clifford the Big Red Dog).
John Hampton, 61, American music engineer and producer, complications of cancer.
José María Lorant (es), 59, Argentine football player and coach.
Billy Milligan, 59, American criminal defendant diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, cancer.
Herb Plews, 86, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
Yury Shutov, 68, Russian politician.
Dave West, 70, British businessman, stabbed.

12/11
Tom Adams, 76, English actor (The Great Escape, Licensed to Kill, Doctor Who), cancer.
Tim Black, 77, English family planning pioneer, founder of Marie Stopes International.
Benigno De Grandi, 90, Italian footballer (Palermo, AC Milan).
Dominic Di-Natale, 43, British journalist (Fox News Channel), suicide.
John D. Driggs, 87, American politician, Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona (1970-1974), established the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, pancreatitis.
Michel duCille, 58, American photojournalist (The Washington Post), heart attack.
Sergio Fiorentini, 80, Italian actor.
Philip Knights, Baron Knights, 94, English police officer and peer, Chief Constable of the West Midlands (1975-1985).
Georges Lagrange, 85, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gap (1988-2003).
Mel Richardson, 86, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives and Senate, cancer.
Dawn Sears, 53, American country musician (Nothin' but Good), lung cancer.
Robert Taylor, 70, American animator, film director and screenwriter (The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Hans Wallat, 85, German conductor and music director.

12/10
Ziad Abu Ein, 55, Palestinian politician, coronary blockage from heart hemorrhage.
Ralph Giordano, 91, German writer and publicist, complications from hip fracture.
Donald Moffitt, 83, American science fiction author.
Raúl Gomez Ramírez, 50, Mexican politician, MP for Guanajuato (since 2012), injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
Robert B. Oakley, 83, American diplomat, Ambassador to Zaire (1979-1982), Somalia (1982-1984) and Pakistan (1988-1991), Parkinson's disease.
Bob Solinger, 88, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs).
Judy Baar Topinka, 70, American politician, Illinois Treasurer (1995-2007) and Comptroller (since 2011), complications related to a stroke.
Gerard Vianen, 70, Dutch racing cyclist, leukemia.