Frederic Forrest, the unforgettable Chef of “Apocalypse Now” dies – Corriere.it

died Frederic Forrestthe resilient character actor best remembered for his portrayal of Jay Chef Hicks in Apocalypse Now (the aspiring chef from New Orleans who decides to accompany Willard, played by Martin Sheen, on his mission to kill Kurtz: victim of a night ambush, he is beheaded and his severed head thrown into Willard’s lap as he is being tortured by Kurtz) and for his Academy Award-nominated role as Huston Dyer, the Army sergeant who captures Bette Midler’s heart in The Rose (1979) by Mark Rydell. She was 86 years old. Forrest passed away yesterday, Friday June 23, at his home in Santa Monica after a long illness. what his friend, actor Barry Primus, told the Hollywood Reporter magazine. On Twitter, Midler called out Forrest an amazing actor and a brilliant person, I was lucky to have him in my life. He was at peace.

The great and beloved Frederic Forrest has died. Thank you to all of his fans and friends for all their support these past few months. He was a remarkable actor, and a brilliant human being, and I was lucky to have him in my life. He was at peace.?

— bettemidler (@bettemidler) June 24, 2023

Although it has rarely been cast as heroForrest enjoyed a long career which includes films such as The Conversation (1974) Palme d’Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, A Long Dream and Tucker (1988), all directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Missouri (1976), It Lives Again (1978), Valley Girl (1983), The Stone Boy (1984), The Big Deception (1990), Blonde Under Guard (1994), Lassie (1994), Point Blank (1998) and The Quality of Light (2003). His last appearance on screen was in the 2006 remake of All the King’s Menwith Sean Penn and Jude Law.

Forrest received the critical acclaim for his portraits of Petronius in Quo Vadis? (1985), the outlaw Blue Duck in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove and private eye Lomax in the 1990 BBC miniseries Die Kinder. He also played Captain Richard Jenkins in 1987 in the first five episodes of The four of the police academy. Journalist and writer Aljean Harmetz, now 93, wrote in a 1979 New York Times profile of the actor: He was told that his film debut as an 18-year-old Indian boy in “When Legends Die” in 1973 it would make him a star; praised him as Cindy Williams’ enigmatic and deceitful lover “The conversation”; assured him that he would get an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Larry, a normal boy locked up in a mental hospital as a retard, on the CBS TV series “Larry”. Forrest will be 43 this month and he has stopped believing in promises like these.