page_title: John Forsythe
section_title: Television work
hierarchical_section_title: John Forsythe / Television work
caption_attribution_description: English: Publicity photo of Noreen Corcoran and John Forsythe from Bachelor Father.
context_page_description: John Forsythe was an American stage, film/television actor, producer, narrator, drama teacher and philanthropist whose career spanned six decades. He also appeared as a guest on several talk and variety shows and as a panelist on numerous game shows.
  His 60-year acting career began in films in 1943. He signed up with Warner Bros. at age 25 as a minor contract player, but he starred in The Captive City and co-starred opposite Loretta Young in It Happens Every Thursday, Edmund Gwenn and Shirley MacLaine in The Trouble With Harry, and Olivia De Havilland in The Ambassador's Daughter.
  Forsythe also enjoyed a long successful television career, starring in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres: as the single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the sitcom Bachelor Father, as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend in the crime drama Charlie's Angels —a role he would reprise in the 2000 and 2003 film adaptations—and as patriarch Blake Carrington in Dynasty. He hosted the series World of Survival, and was also the presenter of the 38th Miss Universe Pageant, broadcast on CBS in 1989.
context_section_description: Throughout the 1950s, Forsythe successfully appeared in the new medium and worked regularly on all the networks, especially as a guest star. For example, during this period, he appeared on the popular anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents in an episode titled "Premonition" opposite Cloris Leachman. 
  Forsythe was cast in a 1957 episode, "Decision at Wilson's Creek," on the CBS anthology series Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre. He played Confederate Lieutenant David Marr who suddenly resigns to return to his wife, only to find that he is scorned by townspeople.
  Outdoor location sequences for the episode were shot on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, where a number of scenes took place in a group of oak trees  that later came to be known as the Midway Oaks. One of those oak trees, a distinctive multi-trunked tree with a characteristic lean, became known as the Forsythe Oak, commemorating John Forsythe's appearance at the fabled movie ranch, considered the most widely filmed outdoor location in movie and television history. The Forsythe Oak remains in place today; it is located on a private estate on the former Upper Iverson.
caption: With Noreen Corcoran in Bachelor Father (1957–1962)
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