RIP Forrest Compton

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)