Education
He attended Atherton Primary School, far north Queensland.
He attended Atherton Primary School, far north Queensland.
He has appeared on film, stage, and television, as well as in satirical sketch comedy television programs. The title roles of the heroic Tonino and the foolish Zanetto in the Nick Enright/Terence Clarke musical, The Venetian Twins, were written for Forsythe. He originated these dual roles for Nimrod Theatre Company in the first Sydney Theatre Company season in 1979, and subsequently in two revivals.
His television appearances include The Miraculous Mellops, The Dingo Principle, and Three Men and a Baby Grand, satirical sketch television comedy programs for which he was a writer/performer with Phillip Scott and Jonathan Biggins.
The "Three Men" team started in revue at the Tilbury Hotel, and much of the thematic material from these revues has been revisited and developed in the Sydney Theatre Company"s "Wharf Revue" series. Forsythe provided the anonymous, uncredited voice of David Tench, a computer-animated host on Network Ten"s short-lived comedy talk show David Tench Tonight.
He also voiced several characters on the Australian award-winning animated series I Got a Rocket. Forsythe is credited with writing and singing the theme song for the American Broadcasting Company’s long-running Sunday morning radio program, Australia All Over, hosted by Ian McNamara.
Foreign more than thirty years when over 2 million listeners spanning every corner of Australia tune in from 5.30 am on Sunday mornings to listen to "Macca" they are greeted by Forsythe"s song - "Macca on a Sunday Morning".