Doctor Clayton Forrester (The War of the Worlds) on life, only to suffer a fatal heart attack. However, Dr. Blackwood later states in the early episode "Thy Kingdom Come" that Sylvia's mental collapse transpired after Forrester's death, indicating that he had died quite some time before the TV series began. Doctor Clayton Forrester (The War of the Worlds) Doctor Clayton Forrester is a fictional character in George Pal's 1953 science fiction film "The War of the Worlds", the first film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel of the same name. The Forrester character is played by actor Gene Barry. The film takes several liberties with the novel's
The War of the Worlds Pacific islands. While Invasion Literature had provided an imaginative foundation for the idea of the heart of the British Empire being conquered by foreign forces, it was not until "The War of the Worlds" that the reading public was presented with an adversary completely superior to themselves. A significant motivating force behind the success of the British Empire was its use of sophisticated technology; the Martians, also attempting to establish an empire on Earth, have technology superior to their British adversaries. In "The War of the Worlds", Wells depicted an imperial power as the victim of imperial aggression, and thus