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All All. Sign In. Steve Forrest Actor Soundtrack. Play trailer Mommie Dearest His brother was actor Dana Andrews. Forrest began his screen career as a small part contract player with MGM. In , Steve enlisted in the U. Army, rose to the rank of sergeant and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge. Following his demobilization, he visited his brother in Hollywood and came to the conclusion that acting wasn't a bad way to make a living having already done some work as a movie extra.

Honours Degree in theatre arts.

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He then served a brief apprenticeship as a carpenter, prop boy and set builder at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, where he was discovered by resident actor Gregory Peck and given a small part as a bellboy in the cast of the summer stock production of "Goddbye Again". A subsequent screen test led to a contract with MGM and resulting employment as second leads, brothers of the titular star, toughs and outlaws.

In addition to numerous guest roles, he was regularly featured in series like Gunsmoke , Dallas as Wes Parmalee, who believes himself to be lost Ewing patriarch Jock and Murder, She Wrote Already from the mid's, he decided to pick his assignments more carefully. In order to shed his image as the perpetual bad guy, he had relocated his family to England to star as antique-dealer-cum-undercover intelligence agent John Mannering in BBC's The Baron