With his sharp face features, attractive deep voice, silvery hair and noble style, John Forsythe was constantly, during his career, attracting the attention of movie and TV houses, demonstrating his huge talent of acting. Unique and charismatic by many things, never too much pretentious, John Forsythe built his actor’s career patiently, working on the radio, in the theatre, on numerous well or less known film and television projects, waiting for the right moment to demonstrate his abilities.
John Forsythe cooperated with the renowned names from the world of film, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Delmer Daves, Robert Wise, John Sturges, Richard Brooks, Norman Jewison, William Holden, Maureen O’Hara, Lana Turner, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Simmons, Shirley McLane and many others. But still, it was the role of the rich and powerful oil businessman Blake Carrington in one of the most popular TV series of all times – the Dynasty that brought the highest rise in the career and an incredible popularity to John. At that time, Mr. Forsythe was, like the Patriarch of the series, dedicated to the Dynasty almost for an entire decade, together with his partners, now already the small-screen icons, Linda Evans and Joan Collins. His work on the Dynasty has yielded to him, among other things, three nominations for the Emmy awards, and he has been granted two Golden Globe Awards and two Soap Opera Digest Awards.
Without any affairs or scandals, without being too much exposed even at the time of his highest popularity in the 1980’s but, on the other hand, showing for years his great acting capabilities both on silver and TV screen, Mr. Forsythe has maintained the status of a real actor-star and, from the time distance of these days, he can be considered a superior actor and a respected personality in the world of show business.
There is a limited number of biography and filmography data about this actor available on the Internet, an additional reason for that being his rare appearances in public and the specific discrete style of living, which can only result in respect and admiration. Still, the goal of this site, with the due respect for privacy of John Forsythe and his family, is to present this extraordinary gentleman on the internet from the aspect of his interesting movie and TV career, which does not encompass the Dynasty period only, with the aim to inform, in the best way, the new generations of movie and TV admirers with his work as an actor.