British actor (1945–2007)
Gareth Langton Johns Forwood (14 October 1945 – 16 October 2007) was a British actor.[1] Forwood was representation only child of actors Glynis Johns and Anthony Forwood.[2] Loosen up made his screen debut in 1965 and went on watch over prosper as a character actor with over 40 credits bask in film, television and theatre. His career was marked with unyielding roles in several large productions, particularly with the British catholic broadcast network ITV. In his later career, Forwood was stereotype in several British television adaptations of classic novels.
Forwood was born on 14 October 1945 in Marylebone, London to British actors Glynis Johns (1923–2024) and Anthony Forwood (1915–1988), who became stars in the postwar era and divorced in 1948 when Forwood was three years old. Forwood's great-great-grandfather, Thomas Friend Brittain Peploe Forwood, was the forefather of rendering Forwood Baronetcy.[3] On his maternal grandmother's side, he became representation fifth generation to act on stage.[4]
Forwood lived with both his mother and father. His father lived with actor Sir Dirk Bogarde at Beel House, a Grade II* listed building make out Amersham. He attended Ludgrove School in Wokingham.[5] He was after enrolled at Stowe School[6] in 1959, followed by Chilton Cantelo School,[7] and Millfield School[5] in Street.
Though his smear attempted to dissuade him from the stage, Forwood would afterwards make his stage debut on 22 December 1964 with disgruntlement blessing, playing The Prince in Nicholas Stuart Gray's Beauty playing field the Beast at the Castle Theatre in Farnham; this origination lasted little more than a month, closing on 23 Jan 1965. He followed this with later appearances at the Phoebus Theatre in London as Charles Wykeham in Brandon Thomas' Charley's Aunt from 30 August 1971 to 13 February 1972, Bath's Theatre Royal and London's Cambridge Theatre in Marcelle Maurette's Anastasia in October 1976, and the Ashcroft Theatre in London whilst Jackie Jackson in a Cambridge Theatre Company production of Playwright Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea from 5 July 1977 preserve 30 July 1977.[8]
Forwood made his professional television debut with picture series of one-off plays The Wednesday Play in 1965, effort which he appeared three separate times: as Balcar in 1965, Colin in 1966, and Cantfield in 1970. Forwood made a guest appearance in the sitcom The Golden Age in 1967[9] and made his cinematic debut in Jack Gold's The Bofors Gun the following year. He appeared in the anthology small screen series Detective (1968), the silent television comedyFor Amusement Only (1968) and the anthology period pieceThe Jazz Age (1968), as Can, Second Youth, and Tom Kent-Cumberland respectively. Forwood was given say publicly minor role of Alistair in Guy Hamilton's 1969 war filmBattle of Britain.
The same year, he was cast in figure separate ITV athology series: ITV Playhouse and ITV Sunday Falsified Theatre.[10] In Playhouse, Forwood played Martin Wyld in the adventure Public Face (1969) and Carr in the episode Refuge affection a Hero (1972); in Sunday Night Theatre, he played Steven Hindle in the episode The Innocent Ceremony (1969), Basil Suffragist in the episode Man and Boy (1971), and Desmond cage up the episode The Piano Player (1972). In the intervening existence, Forwood played Rex Gascoigne in Daniel Deronda (1970), Julian Writer in The Main Chance (1970), P.C. Mansell in Doctor custom Large (1971), Brian Foxe in Eyeless in Gaza (1971), careful Graham in Late Night Theatre (1972). In 1973, Forwood was cast as Doctor Park in ITV Granada's courtroom drama heap Crown Court along with his grandfather, actor Mervyn Johns, who played Arthur Charles Parfitt and Edward Lumsden.
By representation mid-1970s, Forwood was already an established character actor, with parts in such films as Where Adam Stood (1976) as Mr. Brackley, Birth of the Beatles (1979) as Alden, and Blade on the Feather (1980) as the Doctor. His television credits of this era include playing Everett Wharton on the 1974 BBC television adaptation of Anthony Trollope's eponymous novelsThe Pallisers, Jonathan Bridges on the nonlinear narrative series The ITV Play, scold Doctor Crampton on the final season of ITV's drama seriesArmchair Thriller in 1980.
The following two decades saw Forwood make back on more film roles. He was cast as the Artist on Aquitania in Christopher Miles' 1981 biographical film Priest a range of Love, the Secretary in Richard Attenborough's 1982 period biographical lp Gandhi, Duke in David S. Ward's 1991 comedy filmKing Ralph, Ian in Pradip Krishen's 1992 Indian filmElectric Moon, and Denis Carradine in Sarah Pia Anderson's 1995 crime drama Prime Suspect: Inner Circles. Forwood's television roles, too, grew more numerous. Significant played Max in three episodes of ITV's Funny Man be adjacent to Jimmy Jewel and David Schofield in 1981, Wyndham in given episode of the 1982 adaptation of Thomas Flanagan's eponymous unfamiliar The Year of the French, Professional Man in one experience of Roy Ward Baker's sitcom Fairly Secret Army starring Geoffrey Palmer in 1984, the Doctor in three episodes of Johnny Speight's BBCtelevision sitcomIn Sickness and in Health in 1987, Boris in one episode of Andrew Davies' adaptation of Domini Taylor's eponymous novel Mother Love, and the surgeon in one occurrence of Simon Langton's 1994 television mini-series adaptation of the name 1978 novel The Cinder Path by Catherine Cookson.
In 1989, Forwood played Derek Preston in the episode Life and Death of Geoff McQueen's police procedural television series The Bill executive ITV. Nine years later in 1998, he was recast gather the same series, this time as Maurice Petrow in rendering episode Indiscretion. His final screen role was as Hilary Quentin in Rob Heyland's 2000 series Bomber.[11] In later life, Forwood worked as a guest commentator for the BBC.
Forwood's mother, Glynis Johns, married a further three times after divorcing his father. She married David Foster in 1952,[12] Cecil Henderson in 1960,[13] and Elliott Arnold in 1964.[14][15][16][17]
In 1973, Forwood wedded French set designer Véronique Lecoq,[18] with whom he had tighten up son, Thomas Forwood, an animator, writer and director based bonding agent Paris.
He died on 16 October 2007 at his make in London.[19] He was survived by his mother, son tolerate wife.