John Forsythe
Gender: Male
Born: 29th January 1918
Died: 1st April 2010
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Powers That Be, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, Dynasty: The Reunion, Bachelor Father, To Rome With Love, The John Forsythe Show
Movies: A Time for Miracles, In Cold Blood, Scrooged, The Captive City, The Trouble with Harry, Topaz, Kitten with a Whip, Destination Tokyo, ...And Justice for All, The Happy Ending, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Charlie's Angels, Tail Gunner Joe, See How They Run, Madame X, Portrait in Black, Escape from Fort Bravo, The Ambassador's Daughter, The Users, What Makes Sammy Run?, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Glass Web, Goodbye & Amen - L'uomo della CIA
John Forsythe (born Jacob Lincoln Freund; January 29, 1918 - April 1, 2010) was an American stage, television, and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres: as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the sitcom Bachelor Father (1957–1962); as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the crime drama Charlie's Angels (1976–1981), and as patriarch Blake Carrington on the soap opera Dynasty (1981–1989). He hosted World of Survival (1971–1977).
The eldest of three children, Forsythe was born as Jacob Lincoln Freund in Penns Grove, New Jersey, to Blanche Materson (née Blohm) and Samuel Jeremiah Freund, a stockbroker. He was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where his father worked as a Wall Street businessman during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn at the age of 16, and began attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1936 at the age of eighteen, he took a job as the public address announcer for Brooklyn Dodgers games at Ebbets Field, confirming a childhood love of baseball.
Despite showing initial reluctance, Forsythe began an acting career at the suggestion
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