Scott Forbes

Trivia

• In his later years, he shunned public life, pursuing his interests in writing and classical music.
• Forbes remained active as a screenwriter and television actor into the 1970s.
• Pinter encouraged him to pursue his interest in writing, and in 1964 Forbes's own play, "The Meter Man", was produced. It was later made into the movie called "The Penthouse."
• In 1956 Forbes starred in the title role of The Adventures of Jim Bowie.
• Forbes appeared in two plays with Cedric Hardwicke, one of them directed by Hardwicke.
• In the 1955-1956 season, he guest starred in NBC's western anthology series Frontier.
• One of his best known roles was on The Deep Six, which was a 1953 installment of NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents.
• He also played the Duke of Cornwall in Peter Brook's 1953 television adaptation of King Lear with Orson Welles as Lear.
• He was Maxim de Winter in "Rebecca" in a live performance for the Broadway Television Theatre in 1952.
• Following his few British productions, he moved to the U.S. and he quickly found film work. Consigned mainly to action roles in Warner Bros. films such as Rocky Mountain and Operation Pacific, Forbes played more in-depth characters on TV.