Don Forbes

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography12 Titles

#1Lost in Space

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as TV Commentator

7.2 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyComedy

The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The voyage is sabotaged time and again by an inept stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith. The family's spaceship, Jupiter II, also carries a friendly robot who endures an endless stream of abuse from Dr. Smith, but is a trusted companion of young Will Robinson

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#2The Damned Don't Cry

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Radio Commentator (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

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#3The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.

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#4Public Deb No. 1

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Announcer

4.9 / 10
Comedy

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.

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#5A Girl in Every Port

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Assistant Announcer

5.2 / 10
Comedy

After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.

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#6Free, Blonde and 21

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Announcer

7.3 / 10
RomanceDrama

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

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#7The Great Jewel Robber

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Radio Announcer (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
CrimeDrama

Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.

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#8Yesterday's Heroes

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Announcer 2

10.0 / 10

A doctor looks at his scrapbook and reflects on college days: how success at football took him from his studies, his flirtation with a widow and his true love. How his roommate helped him put things right.

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#9Model School

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Narrator

8.8 / 10

Behind the scenes at a local model school.

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#10The Sea Around Us

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Commentator (voice)

6.1 / 10
Documentary

Irwin Allen explores the mysteries of the deep blue sea in this Technicolor documentary. Based on Rachel L. Carson's famous study, this Oscar winning project investigates everything under the sea, from sharks, whales and octopuses to microscopical creatures and their coexistence in this vast underwater world.

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#11Lost in Space - No Place to Hide

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as TV Commentator

8.8 / 10
Sci-Fi

The Robinsons, Earth's first family of outer space, head to colonize Alpha Centauri in their flying saucer, the Gemini 12, but crash land on an uncharted planet where they deal with its challenges and dangers.

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#12The Miracle of Stereophonic Sound

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Self - Mr. Saunders, the Host (uncredited)

9.0 / 10
Documentary

This CinemaScope short explains all the wonders of full, four-track high fidelity magnetic stereophonic sound. The system is compared to regular optical sound, and then is demonstrated in a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers." Alfred Newman leads the Twentieth Century-Fox Symphony Orchestra.

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