Robert Forster Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Executive producer
Nationality American
Birth July 13, 1941 (Rochester, New York, USA)
Death October 11, 2019
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Rochester, New York, Robert Forster discovered a passion for comedy in high school. Although he graduated with a master’s degree in psychology in 1963, he turned to the stage and became an apprentice at the East Rochester Theater . He began a career as an actor in regional theaters before taking to the stage in New York, notably playing in Mrs. Dally Has a Lover (1965). As success was slow, Forster returned to live in his hometown before an agent from 20th Century Fox contacted him.

His film career began alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando in the drama Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967). He then played small roles in feature films like The Wild Man , Medium Cool and Justine . In the years that followed, Forster moved from TV series, with Banyon , Nakia and Medical Story , to B films like Parallel Police (1974) and The City (1977). During the first half of the 1980s, he starred in several action films including The Delta Force , with Chuck Norris , where he played a terrorist. Despite around thirty films on the clock, at the end of the 80s, his career ran out of steam and he began giving courses in film schools in Hollywood.

In the mid-90s, it was Quentin Tarantino , a particularly fan of Forster’s first films, who relaunched his career. After a seven-hour audition, the actor finally got the role of Max Cherry , a legit bail bondsman in Jackie Brown , alongside Pam Grier , Samuel L. Jackson and Robert De Niro . The film earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. This success allowed him to play larger roles, such as the following year in Gus Van Sant ‘s Psycho , a remake of Hitchcock ‘s classic Psycho .

More popular and more recognized, Forster appears in Fous D’Irène by brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly , Human Nature by Michel Gondry and Mulholland Drive by David Lynch . He continues to alternate between cinema, television films and series, where he obtains some relatively important roles in Karen Sisco , Heroes or Alcatraz . The actor, who stars alongside George Clooney in The Descendants (2012), reunites with David Lynch for the return of Twin Peaks , where he plays Sheriff Truman, and rubs shoulders with Bryan Cranston in the cult series Breaking Bad , where he plays the character of Ed, a man capable of providing new identities. His last appearance on screen is in the sequel to Breaking Bad, the film El Camino , available on the Netflix platform.