Frederic Forrest, a character actor who had a memorable role in 1979’s “Apocalypse Now,” has died.
Frederic Forrest, a character actor who had a memorable role in 1979’s “Apocalypse Now” and earned an Oscar nomination for “The Rose” in the same year, died Friday, June 23 in Santa Monica. He was 86.by his “Rose” co-star Bette Midler, who paid tribute to the actor on Twitter.
As Jay “Chef” Hicks in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” Forrestt played the tightly-wound former New Orleans chef on the river patrol boat who raves “I didn’t come here for this, I don’t fucking need this, all I wanted to do is fucking cook” before later getting beheaded. “Freddie Forrest was a sweet, much beloved person, a wonderful actor and a good friend,” Coppola wrote in a statement regarding Forrest’s death. “His loss is heartbreaking to me.”
In television, he appeared in miniseries “Lonesome Dove” and “Quo Vadis” and in the “21 Jump Street” series.
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