FAREWELL, FREDERIC FORREST...

You were refined, ferocious and compassionate, sharing intrinsic portrayals that left haunting impressions.

The indubitable evidence exists in Apocalypse Now; The Conversation; One From the Heart; The Two Jakes; The Missouri Breaks; Lonesome Dove; When Legends Die; The Deliberate Stranger; Falling Down; Permission to Kill; Right to Kill?; The Don is Dead; Die Kinder; The Gravy Train; Saigon: Year of the Cat; Cat Chaser; Chasers; Point Blank '98; Quo Vadis? '85;  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn '86; Gotham '88; Lassie '94; All the King's Men '06; The Spreading Ground; Return; Militia; Alone; Little Girl Lost; Valley Girl; The Stone Boy; Boogie Boy; Music Box; Precious Victims; Double Obsession; Against the Wall; Black Thunder; Rain Without Thunder; One Night Stand; The First 91/2 Weeks; Shadow Lake; Sweetwater; A Piece of Eden; Double Jeopardy; One of Our Own; The End of Violence; Hidden Fears; $weep$takes; Whatever; Valentino Returns; The Quality of Light; The Rose; The Filthy Five; Futz!; 21 Jump Street (the original); Path to War; Hammett; Citizen Cohn; Ruby and Oswald; Tucker: A Man and His Dream; and perhaps your crowning achievement, the touching and tender, Larry.  

Fright fans appreciate you above all for your roles in Larry Cohen's It's Alive II (aka It Lives Again), one of those rare sequels that rivals the original, and Dario Argento's gruesome and vengeful Trauma. (And for those in the macabre know, you even secured an uncredited stint as a Blue Whale patron in Dan Curtis' perennial Dark Shadows.)

You were often applauded, but too often unsung, Mr. Forrest. Even so, with each varied role, whether traveling a dusty trail, investigating in a smoky room, immersed in a nail-biting escapade or heightening a carefree jaunt, you made it all work: the perpetual personification of a pinnacle performer.