Fabian Anthony Forte, professionally known as Fabian, is an American singer and actor.
Forte rose to national prominence after performing several times on American Bandstand. He became a teen idol of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Eleven of his songs reached the Billboard Hot 100.
Fabian was able to parlay his pop success into an acting career in the early 60s; he was trained by Sanford Meisner. Among his more notable films were North to Alaska with John Wayne, High Time with Bing Crosby and the all-star war epic The Longest Day. Most of his other films, however, were geared toward the young, and he found himself trapped in cheap beach or biker films.
The invasion of The Beatles in the mid-60s left Fabian and many of his contemporaries by the musical wayside.
