Overview
- Forest’s death was announced on social media by his friend James A. Brown, and he died while living in an assisted‑living facility in Sparks, Nevada on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026.
- He is best known to fans for playing the Greek god Apollo in the 1967 Star Trek episode “Who Mourns for Adonais?” and for reprising the role in the 2013 fan series Star Trek Continues.
- Forest broke into film after meeting director Roger Corman in an acting class and appeared in 1950s–60s drive‑in and sword‑and‑sandal pictures such as The Saga of the Viking Women, Beast From Haunted Cave, Ski Troop Attack and Atlas.
- From 1968 to 1978 he lived in Rome and dubbed more than 500 films into English, then later shifted toward voice acting for animation, anime and video games across the 1990s and 2000s.
- Born Gerald Michael Charlebois on April 17, 1929, he sustained a long career of stage, screen and television work and was married to actress Diana Hale for 52 years until her death in 2022, leaving a wide‑ranging legacy celebrated in current obituaries.