Ernest Lytton Forwood (3 October 1915 – 18 May 1988), known professionally as Anthony Forwood, was an English actor.
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Born | Ernest Lytton Forwood (1915-10-03)3 October 1915 |
Died | 18 May 1988(1988-05-18) (aged 72) London, England |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1935–1956 |
Spouse | Glynis Johns
(m. 1942; div. 1948) |
Partner | Dirk Bogarde (1949–1988) |
Children | Gareth Forwood |
After years of theatre, including the revue This World of Ours in 1935; Forwood gained his first film acting role in 1949, when he starred in Ralph Thomas' Traveller's Joy.[1][2][3] That same year he appeared in the thriller The Man in Black with Sid James.
In 1952, he received a number of roles including Appointment in London with Dirk Bogarde; he eventually became his longtime partner and manager.[4] Ralph Thomas, who had directed Forwood in his first film role, directed Bogarde in Doctor in the House and several of its sequels.[5]
Forwood appeared with Boris Karloff in the mystery Colonel March Investigates and played Will Scarlet in The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952).[3] One year later he acted in the Oscar-nominated Knights of the Round Table, a film starring such high-profile actors as Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner and Stanley Baker, and in Terence Fisher’s Mantrap (1953).[6][7] His last role came in 1956 in Colonel March of Scotland Yard.[5]
In 1942, Forwood married actress Glynis Johns but they divorced in 1948. Their only child was actor Gareth Forwood (1945–2007).[8]
Anthony Forwood later lived with his long-term partner[9] actor Dirk Bogarde in Amersham, England and then in France until shortly before his death in London in 1988.[10]
By 1987, Forwood was dying of liver cancer and Parkinson's disease. At this time Bogarde, a heavy smoker, had a minor stroke. On 18 May 1988, Forwood died aged 72 in Kensington and Chelsea, London. His body was cremated.[citation needed]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1949 | Meet Simon Cherry | Alan Colville | |
1949 | The Man in Black | Victor Harrington | |
1950 | Traveller's Joy | Nick Rafferty | |
1951 | Captain Horatio Hornblower | Lt. Woodford | Uncredited |
1951 | The Black Widow | Paul Kenton | |
1952 | The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men | Will Scarlet | |
1952 | The Gambler and the Lady | Lord Peter Willens | |
1953 | Appointment in London | Navigation Officer | |
1953 | Mantrap | Rex | |
1953 | Knights of the Round Table | Gareth | |
1954 | Five Days | Peter Glanville | |
1975 | Permission to Kill | Englishman | (final film role) |