Ralph Forbes
Ralph Forbes was an English film and stage actor active in Britain and the United States.
Early life
Forbes was born in Wandsworth, London, the son of Ernest John "E.J." and Ethel Louise Taylor. His mother would become known as Mary Forbes, a stage and film actress. His younger sister was actress Brenda Forbes. Born on 30 September 1904, Forbes was baptized on 6 November and his birth was legally registered with the authorities during the last quarter of 1904.
Forbes met with an accident while playing football at Denstone College in Staffordshire which resulted in a scar on his cheek. He came to the United States as a member of a British troupe that performed Havoc, a war play. He started off in films, then went on stage.
In the United States he appeared onstage opposite actress Ruth Chatterton, whom he wed on 20 December 1924 in New York City. He was 20 years old and she was four days shy of her 32nd birthday. The couple divorced in 1932. He married actress Heather Angel in Yuma, Arizona, on 29 August 1934; that marriage ended in divorce on 18 July 1941. His last wife, whom he married in 1946, was actress Dora Sayers.
Later years
Following a film career that spanned from 1926 to 1944, Forbes’s latter years were given to working on the Broadway stage. One of his last stage appearances was in a revival of Shaw's You Never Can Tell in 1948. He died at Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx, New York, in 1951, aged 46.
Filmography
The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's as Oliver Greenfield A Lowland Cinderella as Master of DarrockThe Glorious Adventure as Courtier Comin' Thro the Rye as George TempestReveille as The KidOwd Bob as Davie McAdamCharley's Aunt as Jack ChesneyBeau Geste as John GesteMr. Wu as Basil GregoryThe Enemy as Carl BehrendThe Latest from Paris as Joe AdamsThe Trail of '98 as LarryUnder the Black Eagle as Karl von ZornThe Actress as Arthur GowerThe Whip as Lord BrancasterThe Masks of the Devil as ManfredRestless Youth as Bruce NeilLilies of the Field as Ted WillingThe Green Goddess as Dr. TraherneMamba as Karl von ReidenThe Lady of Scandal as JohnInside the Lines as Eric WoodhouseHer Wedding Night as Larry ChartersThe Bachelor Father - John AshleyBeau Ideal as John GesteThunder Below as DavisSmilin'Through as Willie AinleyChristopher Strong as Harry RawlinsonThe Phantom Broadcast as Norman WilderPleasure Cruise as Richard Orloff aka TavershamThe Avenger as Norman CraigThe Solitaire Man as Robert BascomBombay Mail as William Luke-PatsonThe Mystery of Mr. X as Sir Christopher MarcheRiptide as FenwickTwentieth Century as George SmithShock as Derek MarburyThe Fountain as BallaterThe Barretts of Wimpole Street as Captain Surtees CookOutcast Lady as Boy FenwickStrange Wives as PaulEnchanted April as Peppo BriggsRescue Squad as DeWitt PorterStreamline Express as Fred ArnoldThe Goose and the Gander as Ralph SummersThe Three Musketeers as Duke of BuckinghamLa Fiesta de Santa Barbara I'll Name the Murderer as Tommy TiltonMary of Scotland as RandolphPiccadilly Jim as Lord Frederick 'Freddie' PrioryRomeo and Juliet as Paris - Young Nobleman Kinsman to the PrinceDaniel Boone as Stephen MarloweLove Letters of a Star as Meredith LandersRich Relations as Dave WaltonThe Last of Mrs. Cheyney as Cousin JohnThe Thirteenth Chair as Lionel TrentThe Legion of Missing Men as Bob CarterMake a Wish as Walter MaysWoman Against the World as Larry SteeleStage Door as Cast of Stage PlayWomen Are Like That as Martin BrushKidnapped as JamesIf I Were King as Oliver Le DainAnnabel Takes a Tour as Viscount Ronald River-ClydeConvicts at Large as David BrentThe Hound of the Baskervilles as Sir Hugo BaskervilleThe Magnificent Fraud as Harrison ToddThe Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex as Lord KnollysTower of London as Henry TudorCalling Philo Vance as Tom McDonaldAdventure in Diamonds as Mr. PerrinsCurtain Call as Leslie BarrivaleFrenchman's Creek as Harry St. Columb