Robert Forster

American actor (1941–2019)

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Lived 1941–2019, aged 78United States

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44 languages
Cross-language footprint
Era
1941–2019
Aged 78
Known for
Mulholland Drive
2001

Summary

Updated 2026-06-08

He spent decades as a working actor before Tarantino handed him the role that earned an Oscar nomination at fifty-six — then kept working, turning up in everything from Disney space films to a Breaking Bad cameo that became one of the most quietly celebrated guest turns in prestige TV.

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Robert Forster made his debut in John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye in 1967 and landed a lead the next year in Medium Cool, the landmark New Hollywood film that should have made him a star. Instead he spent the next three decades grinding through over a hundred roles — Captain Dan Holland in The Black Hole, a detective hunting an alligator, a colonel in The Delta Force — always solid, rarely centered. Then Quentin Tarantino cast him as Max Cherry, the weary bail bondsman in Jackie Brown, and in 1997 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The recognition didn't…

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