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Dick Foran
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Actor Born: June 18, 1910 in Flemington, NJ Death: August 10, 1979 in Panorama City, CA Biography:Affable "good guy" singer/actor Dick Foran was the son of a U.S. senator. After a tentative stab at a career as a geologist, Foran achieved prominence as a band and radio singer. Billed as Nick Foran, he made his screen debut as a "Paul Revere" type in a surrealistic production number in Fox's "Stand Up and Cheer" (1934). Signed by Warner Bros., Foran was utilized as that studio's "answer" to Gene Autry in a series of "B" musical westerns; ironically, he also played a devastatingly parodied cowboy star in 1938's "Boy Meets Girl". After enjoying nominal stardom in Warners' second-feature product--and incidentally picking up an Oscar nomination for his supporting work in "The Petrified Forest" (1936)--Foran moved to Universal, where he worked in everything from serials to horror films to Abbott and Costello comedies. In one A&C romp, "Ride 'Em Cowboy" (1942), Foran introduced what would become his... Full Biography
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