5 I served in Vietnam and lost both of my legs. Who played me?

Gary Sinise

Sinise, born on March 17th, 1955, in Blue Island, Illinois, was cast as Lt. Dan Taylor. We met Lt. Taylor when Forrest Gump joined the Army and went off to Vietnam. While in Vietnam, Lt. Taylor (Forrest referred to him as "Lt. Dan") lost both of his legs and Forrest saved him during an air strike. At the hospital where Lt. Dan was, he blasted Forrest and told him he should have let him die since it was horrible not being able to have any legs. Years after Vietnam, Forrest ran into Lt. Dan and they went out on Forrest's shrimp boat a couple of times. Lt. Dan was last seen when he went to Forrest and Jenny's wedding and he revealed that he got artificial legs. Sinise starred in the movies, "Ransom", "The Forgotten" and "The Green Mile". In 1995, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role of Lt. Dan Taylor in "Forrest Gump" but lost to Martin Landau of "Ed Wood". Other Oscar nominees for Best Supporting Actor that year were Chazz Palminteri for "Bullets Over Broadway", Samuel L. Jackson for "Pulp Fiction" and Paul Scofield for "Quiz Show".

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