Shelter Island man, 94, has died from the
COVID-19 cornonavirus.
Shelter Island Reporter
By Ambrose Clancy
4/2/2020
Forrest Compton is confirmed dead at the age of 94.
Forrest was best known as a American actor (The Edge of
Night).
Forrest Compton (September 15, 1925 – April 4, 2020) was an
American actor. He was known for portraying attorney Mike Karr, the central
character on the long-running soap opera The Edge of Night, on which he
appeared from 1970–1984, and stern but fair battalion commander Lieutenant
Colonel Edward Gray on the 1960s sitcom Gomer Pyle, USMC. He had a recurring
role in 1959–1960 in the NBC series The Troubleshooters with Keenan Wynn, Bob
Mathias, and Chet Allen. His other television credits include The Twilight
Zone, 77 Sunset Strip, My Three Sons, Mayberry RFD, Mannix, Hogan's Heroes,
That Girl, Another World, Loving, One Life to Live, As the World Turns and Ed.
He also portrayed President Flynn in the 1991 Christopher Walken film McBain.
Compton
married Jeanne Sementini on September 28, 1975. His last acting role was in
2002 and he latterly lived on Shelter
Island, New York. He
died there in April 2020 at the age of 94 from COVID-19.
COMPTON, Forrest
Born: 9/15/1925, Reading, Pennsylvania,
U.S.A.
Died: 4/2/2020, Shelter Island, New
York, U.S.A.
Forrest Compton’s
westerns – actor:
The Gray Ghost (TV) – 1957 (Bowie)
Black Saddle (TV) – 1959 (Charles Beacroft)
Death Valley Days (TV) –
1959 (Lt. Rierdon)
Fury (TV) – 1959 (Ed Martin)
Johnny Ringo (TV) – 1959 (Silas)
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