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Oct 12, 2019 · He was born Robert Wallace Foster Jr. on July 13, 1941, in Rochester, N.Y. Ms. Berlin said he changed his surname to Forster because there was another actor named Robert Foster. He received a...
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Oct 12, 2019 · Born in Rochester, New York in 1941—his father was an elephant trainer for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus—Forster attended college at the University of Rochester as a history and psychology major with plans of going on to eventually become a lawyer. In the hopes of impressing a fellow student that he wanted to talk to, he ...
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Jackie Brown director Quentin Tarantino remembered the late Robert Foster as a "good man" and called casting Forster in the film one of the best decisions he ever made. Tarantino revived Forster's career by casting him as the bail bondsman Max Cherry, who fell in love with Pam Grier's title character. Forster died Friday at age 78.
Oct 12, 2019 · Forster made his breakthrough in the late 1960s, in Haskell Wexler’s vérité-style 1969 movie Medium Cool, playing the cool, detached TV news reporter and cameraman John Cassellis, a job which ...
So, yes, it would seem that Robert Forster owed his late career renaissance (at least in part) to the fact that he once had the courage to play up the very thing about himself that every imagemaker in Hollywood would have advised him to play down.
Oct 14, 2019 · Mon 14 Oct 2019 08.28 EDT. Last modified on Mon 14 Oct 2019 12.50 EDT. With his kind, watchful eyes, rumpled face and personable manner, the actor Robert Forster, who has died aged 78 from brain ...
Robert Wallace Foster Jr., known professionally as Robert Forster, was an American actor, known for his roles as John Cassellis in Medium Cool (1969), Captain Dan Holland in The Black Hole (1979), Abdul Rafai in The Delta Force (1986), and Max Cherry in Jackie Brown (1997), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
