Robert Forster

Known for: Acting
Born: July 13, 1941, Rochester, New York, USA
Died: October 11, 2019
Movies: 148

Robert Forster (born Robert Wallace Foster Jr.; July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019) was an American actor, known for his roles as John Cassellis in Medium Cool (1969) and as Max Cherry in Jackie Brown (1997), the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Best-Known Movies

7.8

Mulholland Drive

2001

6.4

Olympus Has Fallen

2013

7.4

Jackie Brown

1997

7.1

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

2019

6.2

London Has Fallen

2016

7.5

Lucky Number Slevin

2006

6.6

Me, Myself & Irene

2000

5.5

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

2003

6.8

The Descendants

2011

6.0

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

2009

Filmography

2022	American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective	Self
2021	Grave Intentions	Don Whalen (segment "The Bridge Partner")
2020	The Wolf of Snow Hollow	Sheriff Hadley Marshall
2019	The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie	Self
2019	QT8: The First Eight	Self
2019	El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie	Ed
2019	Phil	Bing Fisk
2018	What They Had	Burt
2018	Bigger	Joe Weider (2008)
2018	The Big Take	Detective Aborn
2018	King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen	Self
2018	Damsel	Old Preacher
2018	Small Town Crime	Steve Yendel
2017	The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair	Self
2017	Behind the Red Curtain	Self
2017	Bad Binoculars	Self
2017	A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks	Self
2017	Acts of Vengeance	Chuck
2017	Small Crimes	Joe Denton Sr.
2017	The Case for Christ	Walter Strobel
2016	Bus Driver	General Sorbin
2016	The American Side	Sterling Whitmore
2016	Too Late	Gordy Lyons
2016	The Confirmation	Otto
2016	London Has Fallen	General Edward Clegg
2015	Home	Man
2015	The Program	Michael
2015	The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster	'James Burke' as Lt. Frank Murphy
2015	Art of the Prank
2015	Survivor	Bill Talbot
2015	The Bridge Partner	Don Whalen
2014	Automata	Robert Bold
2014	Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films	Self - Actor
2014	That Guy Dick Miller	Self
2013	No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad	Self
2013	La última película de Jess Franco	Self
2013	Coffee, Kill Boss	Walt Ford
2013	Olympus Has Fallen	General Edward Clegg
2013	Somewhere Slow	Chris McConville
2013	Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking	Self
2012	Grimm Fairy Tales Animated	Franlin / Death
2012	Hotel Noir	Jim
2011	The Descendants	Scott Thorson
2011	Girl Walks Into a Bar	Dodge
2011	American Grindhouse	Himself - Narrator
2010	Kalamity	Tom Klepack
2010	The Trial	Ray
2010	The Bannen Way	Mr. B
2009	Middle Men	Louie LA LA
2009	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	Sergeant Volkom
2009	Thick as Thieves	Lt. Weber
2008	Would Be Kings
2008	Touching Home	Jim "Perk" Perkins
2008	Jack and Jill vs. The World	Norman / Narrator (uncredited)
2008	Expecting Love	George Patten
2007	Grampa's Cabin	Grampa
2007	Cleaner	Arlo Grange
2007	Dragon Wars: D-War	Jack
2007	Rise: Blood Hunter	Lloyd
2006	13 Graves	Tom Ferris
2006	Lucky Number Slevin	Murphy
2006	Firewall	Harry
2006	Wild Seven	Wilson
2005	The Hunt for the BTK Killer	Detective Jason Magida
2005	The Spaghetti West	Narrator
2004	Grand Theft Parsons	Stanley Parsons
2003	Undefeated	Scott Green
2003	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	Roger Wixon
2003	Confidence	Morgan Price
2002	Murder in Greenwich	Steve Carroll
2002	Strange Hearts	Jack Waters
2002	Jackie Brown: How It Went Down	Self
2002	Like Mike	Coach Wagner
2002	Lone Hero	Gus
2002	Due East	Jesse Rapple
2001	Human Nature	Nathan's Father
2001	The Joe Spinell Story	Self
2001	Finder's Fee	Campbell
2001	Mulholland Drive	Detective McKnight
2001	Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes	Ken "Pappa" Kimes
2000	The Magic of Marciano	Henry
2000	Diamond Men	Eddie Miller
2000	It's the Rage	Tyler
2000	Me, Myself & Irene	Colonel Partington
2000	Lakeboat	Joe
2000	Supernova	A.J. Marley
1999	Kiss Toledo Goodbye	Sal Fortuna
1999	Family Tree	Henry Musser
1998	Outside Ozona	Odell Parks
1998	Psycho	Dr. Simon
1998	Rear Window	Detective Moore
1998	Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs	Self
1997	Jackie Brown	Max Cherry
1997	Demolition University	Gentry
1997	American Perfekt	Jake
1997	Night Vision	Teak Taylor
1996	Uncle Sam	Congressman Alvin Cummings
1996	Original Gangstas	Detective Slatten
1996	The Method	Christian's father
1996	Hindsight	Michael Donahue
1995	Guns & Lipstick	Captain Dimaggio
1995	Scanner Cop II	Captain Jack Bitters
1994	Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III	Bob Sibley
1993	American Yakuza	Littman
1993	Cover Story	Therapist
1993	South Beach	Det. Ted Coleman
1993	Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash	Sid (uncredited)
1992	Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence	Dr. Powell
1992	In the Shadow of a Killer	Charles Galbis
1991	29th Street	Sgt. Tartaglia
1991	Diplomatic Immunity	Stonebridge
1991	Committed	Dr. Desmond Moore
1991	In Between	Vinnie
1990	Checkered Flag	Jack Cotton
1990	Peacemaker	Yates
1990	The Banker	Dan
1989	Satan's Princess	Lou Cherney
1989	Esmeralda Bay	Madero
1989	Crossbow: The Movie	Aymong
1988	John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988	Counterforce	The Dictator
1987	Once a Hero	Gumshoe
1986	Hollywood Harry	Harold "Harry" Petry
1986	The Delta Force	Abdul
1985	Walking the Edge	Jason Walk
1983	Vigilante	Eddie Marino
1981	The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats	Coach Alan Arnoldi
1980	Alligator	David
1979	The Black Hole	Captain Dan Holland
1979	The Lady in Red	Turk (uncredited)
1979	The Darker Side of Terror	Prof. Paul Corwin / The Clone
1978	Avalanche	Nick Thorne
1978	Standing Tall	Luke Shasta
1977	Stunts	Glen Wilson
1977	The City	Lt. Matt Lewis
1976	Royce	Royce
1974	Nakia	Deputy Nakia Parker
1974	The Death Squad	Eric Benoit
1973	The Don Is Dead	Frank Regalbuto
1972	Journey Through Rosebud	Frank
1971	Banyon	Miles C. Banyon
1970	Cover Me Babe	Tony Hill
1970	Pieces of Dreams	Gregory Lind
1969	Medium Cool	John
1969	Justine	Narouz
1968	The Stalking Moon	Nick Tana
1967	Reflections in a Golden Eye	Pvt. L.G. Williams

Directing, Writing & Producing

1986

Hollywood Harry

Producer, Director

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