From Wikipedia
Tom Forman (February 22, 1893 – November 7, 1926) was a
motion picture actor, writer, and producer of the early 1920s.
Texas-born Forman made his first film for Jesse L. Lasky's
production company in 1914. With the exception of service at the front during
World War I, he had a successful career as both an actor and director. Forman
directed Lon Chaney's Shadows (1922), but his biggest achievement was realised
directing the second screen version of Owen Wister's The Virginian (1923).
After which his career faltered, he was reduced to working on cheap poverty row
melodramas. Forman is also known for his work with Edith Taliaferro in Young
Romance.
Forman was set to direct the Columbia film The Wreck, which
was to start shooting on November 8, 1926, however on the evening of November
7, Forman committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart at his
parents' home in Venice, California.
Adela Rogers St. Johns based the character of Maximillan
Carey in her original story for What Price Hollywood? (1932) on Forman.
He was a cousin of silent screen star Madge Bellamy.