William Forsythe

• Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
• Birthday: July 7, 1955

Burly, intense character actor William Forsythe played his share of tough guys in features ranging from big-budget pictures like Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” (1984) and Michael Bay’s “The Rock” (1997), to gritty independent and drive-in fare like “Out for Justice” (1991) with Steven Seagal and Rob Zombie’s blood-soaked “The Devil’s Rejects” (2005). But like Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oates and Lee Marvin before him, Forsythe had also given exceptional turns in dramatic films like “The Waterdance” (1992, …more