2023-06-24 17:05:44
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The actor died at his home in Santa Monica, California after a long illness. The memory of Bette Midler: “Lucky to have him in my life”
Frederic Forrest, the resilient character actor best remembered for his portrayal of Jay “Chef” Hicks in “Apocalypse Now” (the aspiring New Orleans chef who decides to accompany Willard, played by Martin Sheen, on his mission to kill Kurtz, has died) : victim of a nighttime ambush, he is beheaded and his severed head thrown into Willard’s knees as he is tortured by Kurtz) and for his Oscar-nominated role as Huston Dyer, the Army sergeant who captures the heart by Bette Midler in Mark Rydell’s The Rose (1979). He was 86 years old. Forrest passed away yesterday, Friday June 23, at his home in Santa Monica after a long illness. This is what his friend, actor Barry Primus, told the Hollywood Reporter magazine. On Twitter, Midler called Forrest “an amazing actor and a brilliant person, I’ve been lucky to have him in my life. He was at peace.”
The great and beloved Frederic Forrest has died. Thank you to all of his fans and friends for all their support these last few months. He was a remarkable actor, and a brilliant human being, and I was lucky to have him in my life. He was at peace.?
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) June 24, 2023
Though rarely cast as the lead, Forrest enjoyed a long career that included such films as “The Conversation” (1974) which won the Palme d’Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, “The Long Dream” and “Tucker”. his dream” (1988), all directed by Francis Ford Coppola, “Missouri” (1976), “It Lives Again” (1978), “Valley Girl” (1983), “The Stone Boy” (1984), “The grand deception» (1990), «The blonde under guard» (1994), «Lassie» (1994), «Point Blank – Countdown» (1998) and «The Quality of Light» (2003). His last screen appearance was in the 2006 remake of All the King’s Men, opposite Sean Penn and Jude Law.
Forrest received critical acclaim for his portrayals of Petronius in “Quo Vadis?” (1985), the outlaw Blue Duck in the 1989 mini-series “Lonesome Dove” and private investigator Lomax in the 1990 BBC mini-series “Die Kinder”. He also played Captain Richard Jenkins in 1987 in the first five episodes of “The Police Academy Four”. Journalist and writer Aljean Harmetz, now 93, wrote in a 1979 New York Times profile of the actor: “He was told his film debut as an 18-year-old Indian boy in ‘When Legends Die’ in 1973 it would make him a star; praised him as Cindy Williams’ enigmatic and deceitful lover in “The Conversation”; they assured him that he would get an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Larry, a normal kid locked up in a mental hospital as a retard, on the CBS TV series “Larry.” Forrest will be 43 this month and he has stopped believing in promises like these.
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