Forrest Compton

Forrest Compton was born on Sep 15, 1925 in USA. Forrest Compton's big-screen debut came with The Outsider directed by Delbert Mann in 1961, strarring John Bradley. Forrest Compton is known for Hogan's Heroes directed by Gene Reynolds, Bob Crane stars as Col. Hogan and Werner Klemperer as Col. Klink. The upcoming new movie Forrest Compton plays is McBain which will be released on Sep 20, 1991.

American supporting actor, on screen from 1954. A chemist's son, he was raised in Pennsylvania and saw action in France during World War II with the 103rd Infantry Division. After demobilisation, he studied acting at Swarthmore College and then spent three years at Yale Drama School (graduating with a Master of Fine Arts) where his classmates included future star Paul Newman. Compton's first screen work consisted of TV commercials for cheese crackers. In 1957, he moved to Los Angeles and began acting in serial television, usually typecast as uniformed army types. He had a recurring role as Lt. Col. Edward Gray, the base commander in Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964), appearing in some 41 episodes. He also played Capt. Chester Albertson in the season two opener of Les envahisseurs (1967) and essayed assorted German officers in the spoof Stalag 13 (1965). In 1971, Compton found a regular niche on daytime television as the central protagonist in the long-running soap The Edge of Night (1956). For thirteen years and spanning 430 episodes he became the third actor to portray crime fighting district attorney Mike Karr.Compton retired in 2002 and moved to Shelter Island, New York, where he died on April 4 2020 at the age of 94.