Most Recent Role: Jake Kong on Ghostbusters
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Plainfield, Indiana, USA
Birthday: 2-12-1919
Birth Name: Forrest Meredith Tucker
Date of Death: 10-25-1986
Cause of Death: Details of death and place of death Woodland Hills, California, USA (lung cancer)
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Plainfield, Indiana, USA
Birthday: 2-12-1919
Birth Name: Forrest Meredith Tucker
Date of Death: 10-25-1986
Cause of Death: Details of death and place of death Woodland Hills, California, USA (lung cancer)
Tall, rugged looking actor who enjoyed a long career in both television and movies. Most of his leading roles in movies were in B-level pictures but he did appear in a few quality A-list films such as Sands of Iwo Jima, Auntie Mame , and The Yearling . Tucker's TV work was prolific especially in the Western genre with his most remembered role being that of conniving Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke in...
Most Recent Appearance
Father Knows Beast
Sunday 7 December 1986 on Syndicated
A young boy accidentally frees the king of the trolls, but the Ghostbusters aren't able to stop him. Their fathers, who busted the troll the first time, join forces to bust him again.
Tucker graduated from Washington-Lee HS in Arlington, VA in 1938. This high school is also the alma mater of Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, and Sandra Bullock.
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Tucker is buried in the Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetary in Los Angeles.
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Tucker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6835 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Once played the murder victim in an episode of Columbo entitled Blueprint for Murder.
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Co-starred with Bob Denver in the 1973-74 syndicated series Dusty's Trail. The show was basically Gilligan's Island set on the prairie.
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Other Appearances
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Dusty's Trail
Mr. Callahan |
Filthy Rich
Big Guy Beck (II) |
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F Troop
Sergeant Morgan O'Rourke |
The Ghost Busters
Jake Kong |
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Gunsmoke
Adam Benteen |
| Guest Star | |
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Alias Smith and Jones
Alias Smith and Jones (90 min.) Deputy Harker |
Alice
Flo Finds Her Father Edsel Jarvis Castleberry |
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Appointment with Adventure
Two Falls for Satan |
Bonanza
Warbonnet Frank Ryan |
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Bracken's World
Love it or Leave it, Change it or Lose it Jim Grange |
Burke's Law
Who Killed Don Pablo? Cyrus Smuts |
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Dusty's Trail
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F Troop
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The Ghost Busters
A live-action Saturday-morning show about two men (Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker) and Tracy The Gorilla (Bob Burns), their side-kick; who are "ghost busters" that fight the ghosts of historical... more
In 1964 Sherwood Schwartz created one of televisions best loved shows Gilligan's Island. In 1967 it ended abruptly after three years on CBS. Then in 1973 six years after the end of Gilligan's... more Filthy Rich
"Now, Big Guy Beck left a whole lot of cash, but he said in his video will, his money-hungry family could never collect if they didn't love his illigitimate son, Wild Bill. He said they had to be... more
F TroopF Troop was a classic comedy set in the Old West. Fort Courage was the home of the US Army's sorriest band of misfits, led by the well-meaning Captain Parmenter, scion of a distinguished line of... more
The Ghost BustersA live-action Saturday-morning show about two men (Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker) and Tracy The Gorilla (Bob Burns), their side-kick; who are "ghost busters" that fight the ghosts of historical... more
