Forrest Tucker, best known to the Baby Boom generation as Sergeant O'Rourke on the classic TV sitcom _"F Troop" . His comeback to features was short-lived, however, as he died on October 25, 1986, in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, of complications from lung cancer and emphysema. He was 67 years old. Tucker was buried in Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Played semi-pro football in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Tucker was a 1938 graduate of Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, VA. Other alumni include Shirley MacLaine , Warren Beatty and Sandra Bullock.
Left acting to join the army during World War II, and eventually became a 2nd Lt. After the war he resumed his acting career.
Father of Brooke Tucker.
Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Sgt. Morgan ORourke on the western spoof "F Troop" .
In the mid-1970s, Tucker toured with the Roy Radin Vaudeville Revue, a variety show in which he was featured telling Irish tales and singing Irish folk songs. Theatrical producer Roy Radin was later the victim in the so-called "Cotton Club Murder." Movie producer Robert Evans , who was producing The Cotton Club at the time of his brutal killing, had been in contact with Radin as a potential investor in the film.
Played a Cavalry Sergeant twice on TV - Morgan ORourke (from 1965 to 1967) in the TV series F-Troop and later in two episodes of Gunsmoke as a character named Emmett Holly.
Supported Ronald Reagan s campaign for Governor of California in 1966.
I am, by the messages my body sends me, an old man. The way I have,abused my body, 66 comes out to about the age of Methuselah - roughly,969 years.
When we folded up "The Music Man" after touring it for four years, I,thought I would never have such fun again. I figured it was all,downhill the rest of my life. I was wrong.
When you put down your money at the box office, I want you to leave,happy. .
