Ralph Forbes
Ralph Forbes Taylor ( born September 30, 1896 in London, England; † March 31, 1951 in New York City, New York, United States) was a British actor.
Life
Ralph Forbes, who always stated his birth year 1904, was born under the name of Ralph Forbes Taylor, the son of EJ Taylor, a concert singer and actress and theater manager Mary Forbes. One of his two younger sisters was actress Brenda Forbes, who had a successful career as a character actress in numerous British films themselves.
He initially wanted to become a priest before he studied law at the request of his family at Denston College in Staffordshire. Forbes broke off his studies and began in 1917 under the name Ralph Forbes to work as an actor. He toured for several years with various stages through the English countryside. In 1924 he made his debut Broadway, where he met his first wife, actress Ruth Chatterton in the same year. together with the stand in several pieces on the stage. 1926 Forbes got a role in the film adaptation of blood brotherhood as a brother of Ronald Colman and Neil Hamilton. In 1931 he repeated his role in the sequel Beau Ideal. The film was a commercial success and Ralph Forbes signed a studio contract at MGM. He joined, among others, in addition to Lillian Gish in The Enemy and Norma Shearer in The Actress on. The film is based on a play by Arthur Wing Pinero. He was seen in The Trail of '98 on the side of Dolores del Rio end of 1928. The film directed by Clarence Brown described the dramatic events at Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush and was largely filmed on location. Overall, the career of Ralph Forbes did not develop as hoped for and the beginning of 1930 he was shooting for Poverty Row studios, including Mamba, a film of Tiffany Pictures.
Only at the end of the year, Forbes managed a comeback when he intercede on his wife Ruth Chatterton a role in her film The Lady of Scandal, the film adaptation of Frederick Lonsdale's play of the same name, took over. The film described the experiences of a successful actress who marries a nobleman and has to deal with rejection and snobbery of his conservative family. The plot is very similar to the events in The Actress. In both films, Sidney Franklin directed. Ralph Forbes played in the next few years, numerous supporting roles in other A- productions, including The Bachelor Father next to Marion Davies, Napoleon from Broadway at the side of John Barrymore and Carole Lombard as well as love suffering, Riptide, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Romeo and Julia each partner of Norma Shearer. Towards the end of the decade, he regularly took supporting roles in B- movies. 1939 Forbes played in The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the first of 14 films and later Universal Pictures 20th Century Fox initially produced until 1946 with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Forbes and Rathbone had had worked in The Lady of Scandal.
From the beginning of the 1940s, Ralph Forbes increasingly concentrated on his stage performances and has toured in numerous plays.
Ralph Forbes was married three times. The first marriage from 1924 to 1932, he joined with Ruth Chatterton. His second marriage to Heather Angel fell in the period from 1934 until 1941. The third marriage lasted from 1946 until his death.