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John Lincoln Freund was born on 29th January 1918, in Penns Grove, New Jersey USA, of Russian and Prussian-Jewish (mother) and Polish-Jewish (father) immigrants descent. As John Forsythe, he was a Golden Globe Award-winning actor, producer, drama teacher, as well as a philanthropist, best known for his role as Blake Carrington in the cult series “Dynasty” (1981-1989). Forsythe also played in “Bachelor Father” from 1957 to 1962, “Charlie’s Angels” (1976-1981), and “Scrooged” (1988). His career started in 194 and ended in 2006. He passed away in 2010.

Have you ever wondered how rich John Forsythe was at the time of his death? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Forsythe’s net worth was as high as $5 million, earned largely through his successful acting career.

John Forsythe was the eldest of three children of Blanche Materson and Samuel Jeremiah Freund, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he went to Abraham Lincoln High School. Then he studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and before serving in the US Army Air Corps, he started his acting career in Delmer Daves’ Oscar-nominated movie “Destination Tokyo” (1943) starring Cary Grant and John Garfield.

From 1949 to 1955, Forsythe played in ten episodes of “Studio One in Hollywood”, and then in such movies as “The Captive City” (1952) and “Escape from Fort Bravo” (1953) alongside William Holden and Eleanor Parker. In 1955, John starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Golden Globe Award-winning “The Trouble with Harry” with Shirley MacLaine, while from 1957 to 1962, he played Bentley Gregg in 157 episodes of “Bachelor Father”, which increased his net worth significantly. From 1965 to 1966 Forsythe worked in “The John Forsythe Show”, and then had roles in such movies as “Madame X” (1966), and in Richard Brooks’ Oscar-nominated “In Cold Blood” (1967) with Robert Blake and Scott Wilson. In 1969, John teamed up with Brooks again in his Oscar-nominated film “The Happy Ending” starring Jean Simmons and Shirley Jones, and played Michael Endicott in 48 episodes of “To Rome with Love” (1969-1971). His net worth was rising steadily.

From the early ‘70s, Forsythe mostly worked on television and had roles in such TV movies as George Schaefer’s Golden Globe Award-nominated “Amelia Earhart” (1976) and Jud Taylor’s Primetime Emmy Award-winning “Tail Gunner Joe” (1977) with Peter Boyle. From 1976 to 1981, he played Charles Townsend in 109 episodes of Golden Globe Award-nominated series “Charlie’s Angels”, and then in 1979 John appeared alongside Al Pacino in Norman Jewison’s Oscar-nominated “…and justice for all.” In 1980, Forsythe had a part in Michael O’Herlihy’s Primetime Emmy Award-nominated “A Time for Miracles” starring Kate Mulgrew, while from 1981 to 1989, John played Blake Carrington in 217 episodes of a Golden Globe Award-winning series “Dynasty”, for which he personally received two Golden Globes as well. The show’s international popularity and success helped him to increase his net worth significantly.

Forsythe ended the ‘80s with a role in Richard Donner’s Oscar-nominated “Scrooged” (1988) starring Bill Murray, while from 1992 to 1993, he played Sen. William Franklin Powers in 21 episodes of “The Powers That Be”. John’s later parts were in “Charlie’s Angels” (2000) alongside Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, and Cameron Diaz, and in “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” (2003), for which he received $5 million.

Regarding his personal life, John Forsythe was married to Parker McCormick from 1939 to 1943 and had one child with her. From 1943 John was married to Julie Warren until she died in 1994, and had two children with her, while in 2002, he married Nicole Carter and was with her until his death. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006, and died from pneumonia on the 1st April 2010, in Santa Ynez, California, USA

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John Forsythe Quick Info

John Forsythe Trademarks

1. Silver hair.
2. Rich mellifluous voice with Brooklyn accent.
3. Often played handsomely father-figure roles

John Forsythe Quotes

• [In 1987, about his television movie On Fire (1987)] Like a lot of writers, some actors have hidden away in desks and things ideas and pieces of ideas and this is kind of a labor of love for me that I have had tucked away for a long time. My father died two years after he had to retire — mandatory retirement — in his early 60s, and it was a terrible blow obviously to him and also to the family. He was a vital, top-of-his-form man. He was an executive on Wall Street. But because of some ridiculous regulations, he had to go. As a result, our family began to disintegrate along with him. It was a bad time in our lives.
• [in 1987, about the relationship between fathers and sons] I think it was mandatory then for fathers, particularly with sons; they never embraced, I never saw my father cry until the end of his life, they never threw their arms around you and said they loved you. It was supposed to be tacit: you knew they loved you. My father and I had a better relationship toward the end of his life, not unlike my son in On Fire (1987), who feels close to his dad. As his father goes down, he gets more and more involved with his father.
• [In 1977] I’ve played a lot of reporters and have learned that a kind of intellectualism goes with being a newsman.
• I’m from the east and tend to be conservative. So I don’t believe an actor has to get himself up to look like the “Son of the Sheik”, nor does a young man need to dress like a beat-up beatnik to show his independence.
• [on champagne] Once you drink one glass, you went another.
• [In 1984] I’ve had a good time but if I had been willing to starve so that I could play Hamlet, I might have been a better actor than I am today.
• [on Dynasty (1981)’s Moldavia storyline] Moldavia — we’re still living that down. That was one of our less ineffective storylines.
• [In 1981] I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier, who have been touched by the hand of God. I’m in the next bunch.
• Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift and all those were in torn T-shirts, and I had my button-down collars. They called me the Brooks Bros. bohemian.
• I’m a vastly usable, not wildly talented actor.
• [on his popularity while playing the 60-something Blake Carrington on Dynasty (1981)] It’s rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
• [In 1994] I remember one Friday night I called to tell Julie [wife Julie Warren] I would be home late, I was shooting a scene with Joan Collins that we finished around one in the morning. When I finally got home, I was exhausted, but Julie was waiting up for me. “It was quite a night”, I told her, and hopped into bed. The next morning, I looked in the mirror and saw there was lipstick on my mouth. And on my shirt. Joan Collins used a lot of lipstick, a tremendous amount of lipstick. At breakfast, I asked Julie, “Didn’t you notice anything funny last night?” “Funny? In what way?” she asked slyly. “Just a little lipstick on your collar.” “You want to know how I got it? Joan Collins.”.
• [About being cast on Dynasty (1981)] My Carrington is much more human than he had been conceived by the authors and by the producer, at the beginning.
• [When he was asked by Aaron Spelling to voice Charlie Townsend in Charlie’s Angels (1976)] So, in my pajamas with my raincoat on, I went down to the bowels of 20th Century-Fox, ooh, nothing but a microphone and two people standing, one being Aaron, the other being the writer. So from 12:30 P.M. or 12:45 P.M. until about 3:00 P.M., we did it!
• [When asked if he ever spanked his real-life children] Well, I never hit my kids. That’s a bully thing to do. My own father believed in “spare the rod and spoil the child”. Consequently, I feared him and we had a cold and distant relationship until he was quite old. My mother was just the other way. But I do remember, when I was 11 years old, my father said something that stayed with me: “I don’t worry about you, John. You will always take care of yourself, you’ll be all right.”.
• I have been a very lucky fella, because I never considered myself a Marlon Brando or a Laurence Olivier. I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I’m so happy I did.
• [In 1984, about his deciding to become an actor] I was 22 years old at the time and had done some announcing for the Dodgers, but no real acting. Yet it interested me. I said to my father, “Acting really is very appealing, you know.” There was a long silence, which seemed endless, though it was probably only ten minutes or less; and then he looked at me and said, “I’m worried about your sister. And I’ve worried about your brother, but until now, I never worried about you. I’ve always thought that whatever happened, you would wind up okay.”.
• [In 2009, on the passing of Charlie’s Angels (1976) co-star Farrah Fawcett] Though I did not know her well, Farrah left an indelible mark on me and the public during her one-year reign on Charlie’s Angels. She put up a gallant fight against her unforgiving disease and I send my deepest sympathy and prayers to her family and friends.
• [In 1970 about being the more mature man he was trying to be] I was a loose-jointed young man about many things, I had no sense of responsibility. I wasn’t a very serious fellow. Now I have a better sense of proportion about work and hard discipline.
• [In 1981 about being himself as an actor] When I was down in Atlanta, about 3 or 4 weeks ago, a little lady walked up to me and she circled me, 3 to 4 times, and she looked at me and she said, “Didn’t you used to be John Forsythe?”. And I freely confessed you used to be. But that meant, too, that not enough people really began to know me as an actor; they never know me as a voice and thought I’d do something about it.
• [on his long-running marriage to second wife Julie Warren] And it turned out to be a marriage that lasted 50-some-odd years. Not bad!
• [His father’s reaction when John told him he wanted to be an actor] His idea of an actor was John Barrymore. He could never understand why I wanted to act. “You’re a good boy, a fine boy”, he told me. “But I don’t see anything about you that could make an actor. No flamboyance.”.
• I like to be what I am, a reasonably simple happy kind of fellow.
• I am an amiable fellow with no mind of my own.

John Forsythe Important Facts

• $50,000 per episode (season 5)
• $40,000 (per episode)
• He was most widely known to be a social butterfly.
• Knew Linda Evans when she was only 18.
• On Dynasty (1981), his character was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in real-life, he was born near Philadelphia, in a New Jersey borough of Penns Grove.
• His first wife, Parker McCormick, died in 1980, at age 62.
• Longtime friends of: Barbara Stanwyck, Dick Van Patten, Richard Anderson, Jane Wyatt and Vito Scotti.
• At least nine actors named him as their favorite actor: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Hatch, Rock Hudson, John Saxon, Pat Crowley, Carole Cook, Barbara Stanwyck, Charlton Heston and Kerry Armstrong, all nine worked with him on Dynasty (1981).
• He was an avid fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• He was a movie buff.
• Had a knee replacement (2000).
• Was a very popular student at Abraham Lincoln High School. He was occasionally at the top of his class.
• When he was younger, he favorite president was Warren Harding.
• Met Cloris Leachman on an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), where the two became lifelong friends, for 55 years, from 1955 until Forsythe’s own death in 2010.
• His first stage role was in New York.
• When he was younger, he was interested in sports.
• In 1962, Forsythe was one of the actors to have ruled the ranks of other sitcom male lead stars, such as Andy Griffith, Danny Thomas, Alan Young, Robert Young, Fred MacMurray, Buddy Ebsen and Ernest Borgnine.
• Marla Gibbs’s daughter, Angela Elayne Gibbs, was going to work with him.
• When John was young, he wanted to become a sportswriter.
• It was Ronald Reagan’s (who used to be married to Jane Wyman) idea for Noreen Corcoran, to play Forsythe’s niece on Bachelor Father (1957). Forsythe liked her, and she got the role.
• Long lives ran in his family.
• He was involved in the writing of the scripts of Dynasty (1981).
• As a Board of Director of the Hollywood Race Track, he was also responsible for washing cars.
• When Forsythe wanted to become an actor, he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, New York, where the school had acting classes, free of charge.
• Moved from New York City, New York to Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, in 1957.
• His character on Bachelor Father (1957), was based on two well-known Beverly Hills bachelors at the time. Forsythe combined their names and used it for his own in the program.
• John’s father, Samuel Jeremiah Freund, was born in New York, to Polish Jewish immigrants. John’s mother, Mary Materson (Blohm), was born in Pennsylvania, to David Hyat Blohm, a Russian Jewish immigrant, and to Mary S. Materson, who was born in Maryland, to Jewish immigrants from Prussia.
• His second wife, Julie Warren, was born in Detroit, Michigan.
• Attended Elizabeth Taylor’s 60th birthday on February 27, 1992.
• Began his television series Dynasty (1981) at age 63.
• Acting ran in his family.
• He was a devoted environmentalist.
• Had played tennis with Steve Kanaly.
• His first wife, Parker McCormick, and his second wife, Julie Warren, were both actresses.
• Had appeared on the front cover of TV Guide six times.
• Acting mentor and friends with Noreen Corcoran, Heather Locklear and Linda Evans.
• Created the character of Blake Carrington on Dynasty (1981). Occasionally written as an underhanded J.R. Ewing-esque cad, but Forsythe saw his character as a good guy, and would occasionally encouraged the writers that he was playing the lead, not the villain.
• Forsythe’s lines for an entire episode of Charlie’s Angels (1976) would be recorded in a sound studio in a matter of minutes, after which he would have lunch in the network’s commissary and then head for the track.
• Moved from Penn’s Grove, New Jersey to Brooklyn, New York City in 1929 with his family, when young John was only 11, prior to the Great Depression.
• Had played Cloris Leachman’s son in The Powers That Be (1992), in real-life, Forsythe was 8 years Leachman’s senior.
• After being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, he underwent surgery. His surgery was so successful that he was discharged from the hospital, whose cancer was considered to be in remission [2006].
• Following his death, he was interred at Oak Hill Cemetary in Santa Barbara, California.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6549 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
• After he provided his voice in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003), he retired from acting at age 85.
• Immediately following the death of his second wife, Julie Warren, in 1994, ex-Dynasty (1981) co-star, Linda Evans lived in Forsythe’s guest house for a couple of days.
• He and Aaron Spelling were close friends from 1976.
• Was also friends with Jane Wyman. Coincidentally, Forsythe starred on Dynasty (1981), before Wyman starred on Falcon Crest (1981), in the same year.
• Had met future Dynasty (1981) co-star, Linda Evans, and her family, when she was only 15 years old. At the time, she guest-starred alongside Forsythe on an episode of Bachelor Father (1957).
• Was raised in the same city as Leona Helmsley, who in turn attended the same high school as Forsythe.
• John Forsythe was deceased on April 1, 2010. His third wife, Nicole Carter, died on May 11, 2010, just five weeks after he died.
• His ex-Charlie’s Angels (1976) co-star, Cheryl Ladd, was also his next-door neighbor and longtime friend.
• He died only six days before his Dynasty (1981) co-star Christopher Cazenove.
• Attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, but left after three years to be an announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
• He was an original member of the Actors Studio in New York City.
• Based his Dynasty (1981) character Blake Carrington on MCA Chairman Lew Wasserman.
• Survived by six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
• Had starred in the original 1953 hit Broadway production of “The Teahouse of the August Moon”.
• Had appeared in a stage production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons”, directed by Elia Kazan.
• Had played baseball in both high school and college. He dropped out of college in his junior year and took parts on radio soap operas.
• Spokesman/sponsor of the World Wildlife Fund, supported the American Cancer Society and the United Nations Association.
• Although his greatest success came on television and his film credits are comparatively skimpy, he nonetheless appeared in two films each by major directors: Alfred Hitchcock in The Trouble with Harry (1955) and Topaz (1969) and Richard Brooks in In Cold Blood (1967) and The Happy Ending (1969).
• He loved sports, since he was a child. As a child, he was a baseball fanatic.
• When he starred in Bachelor Father (1957), he moved his family from New York to California.
• Was a celebrity spokesperson for Michelob Beer in the late 1970s.
• Buck Jones and Ken Maynard were said to be his idols.
• His father worked as a ditch digger in a cemetery during the Great Depression.
• As a little boy, he was a huge fan of the radio series “Amos and Andy”, and would listen to the show avidly.
• Became an actor against the wishes of his father. Did not become an actor until he was 30.
• His father worked with the Dupont Company and was a New York City stockbroker. His mother was a housewife.
• As an acting teacher, he taught up-and-coming actors Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Julie Harris and Patricia Neal at the same school. He even taught his future Dynasty (1981) co-star Joan Collins acting when she was just a teenager.
• Attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a part-scholarship, where he majored in English Literature. His minor was history.
• Had successfully underwent quadruple bypass surgery, after developing heart problems [1979].
• His daughters, Page Forsythe and Brooke Forsythe, were both huge fans of The Beatles and Blood Sweat & Tears.
• Before he was a successful actor, he once worked as a waiter in the same restaurant with Kirk Douglas.
• Is a national officer of the American Cancer Society since the early 1970s.
• Turned down the lead role on Trapper John, M.D. (1979), which went to Pernell Roberts.
• His two siblings smoked a lot, which eventually led to the cancer that took over their lives.
• After starring in the movie The Trouble with Harry (1955), he went through a lot of trouble finding starring roles in high-budget box office films, hence, he worked in television.
• His third wife, Nicole Carter, is 22 years his junior.
• Met third wife, Nicole Carter, at the Breeders’ Cup races.
• Sold his costly stable of thoroughbreds in 2004.
• Though he was not part of the Charlie’s Angels (1976) cast, he was the only actor to have a voice role in every episode of the series.
• Was the only actor to appear in all 220 episodes of Dynasty (1981).
• Is the oldest of three children of Samuel Jeremiah and Blanche Materson Freund.
• Before he was a successful actor, he worked as a baseball announcer and a drama teacher.
• His Dynasty (1981), co-star, Linda Evans, would also guest-star alongside him on the same episode of The Love Boat (1977), in 1983.
• Long before Joan Collins would co-star opposite him on Dynasty (1981), she was one of his drama students. They met in the 1940s.
• Had 12 hobbies: traveling, flying, golfing, collects art, thoroughbred racing, playing tennis, riding horses, playing baseball, swimming, dining out, spending time with family and gardening.
• Was very good friends with: Jane Wyman, Barbara Stanwyck, Gavin MacLeod, Angie Dickinson, Shirley MacLaine, Charlton Heston, Sammee Tong, Jane Wyatt, David Lowell Rich, Peter Mark Richman, Joan Collins, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Cary Grant, Richard Brooks, J. Michael Riva, Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Cheryl Ladd, Kate Jackson, Abby Dalton, Ruta Lee, Cloris Leachman, Dick Van Patten, Aaron Spelling, Drew Barrymore, Beverly Garland, Brian Keith, Alfred Hitchcock, Vito Scotti, Robert Conrad, Mickey Rooney and Richard Anderson.
• Began his contract career as a bit player for Warner Bros. in 1943.
• At age 11, he and his family moved to Brooklyn, New York City.
• Underwent quadruple bypass surgery. His operation was so successful that he was able to return to Charlie’s Angels (1976) in 1979.
• Remained friends with Linda Evans during and after Dynasty (1981).
• Has not smoked since 1982, when he quit following his doctor’s advice as he was at strong risk of developing emphysema.
• Served on the Board of Directors of Hollywood Race Track, from 1972, and was still part of the committee.
• Met second wife, Julie Warren, who was a theater companion and a successful actress.
• (August 15, 1994) Second wife of 51 years, Julie Warren, died in hospital, after he made the difficult decision to turn off her life-support machine, several weeks after she went into a coma.
• Left his movie career for service in World War II. He worked to recover injured soldiers who had developed speech problems. His military service finished before the war ended.
• Originally met Kate Jackson at a race track. She would later star in Charlie’s Angels (1976).
• Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Blake Carrington on Dynasty (1981).
• As a teenager, Linda Evans guest-starred in Bachelor Father: A Crush on Bentley (1960) as a girl who develops a crush on his character. Some twenty years later, Linda Evans co-starred with Forsythe on the television series Dynasty (1981) as his wife.
• Father of daughters Page Forsythe and Brooke Forsythe with Julie Warren. He also has a son named Dall Forsythe with Parker McCormick.
• (October 11, 2006) Diagnosed with colon cancer.
• Was not the first choice for the role of Blake Carrington on Dynasty (1981). George Peppard was initially cast as Carrington. However, he quit one week into filming the series premiere due to creative differences with the writers. Forsythe auditioned for and was subsequently cast in the role.
• (October 31, 1974) Had appeared in the episode titled “The Golden Blood of the Sun” for “The CBS Radio Mystery Theater”.
• Signed a $5,000,000 contract deal with the director of Charlie’s Angels (2000) and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) to voice the famous voice of Charlie Townsend.
• Attended and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1934.

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