His gift as an actor was that he never made it seem like acting–just like being the handsome, reassuring exemplar of something akin to American royalty. As the genial Bachelor Father in his early ...

John Forsythe (born Jacob Lincoln Freund; January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010) was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning four decades and ...