Jul 13, 1941 - Rochester, New York, USA
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.
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| Movie | 1997 | Jackie Brown | Max Cherry | |
| Movie | 2006 | Lucky Number Slevin | Murphy | |
| Movie | 2001 | Human Nature | Nathan's Father | |
| Movie | 2001 | Mulholland Drive | Detective McKnight | |
| Movie | 2006 | Wild Seven | Wilson | |
| Movie | 1988 | John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2007 | Dragon Wars: D-War | Jack | |
| Movie | 2007 | Rise: Blood Hunter | Lloyd | |
| Movie | 1967 | Reflections in a Golden Eye | Pvt. L.G. Williams | |
| Movie | 2000 | Supernova | A.J. Marley | |
| Movie | 2003 | Confidence | Morgan Price | |
| Movie | 2021 | Grave Intentions | Don Whalen (segment "The Bridge Partner") | |
| Movie | 2001 | Finder's Fee | Campbell | |
| Movie | 2002 | Like Mike | Coach Wagner | |
| Movie | 1998 | Rear Window | Detective Moore | |
| Movie | 1982 | Vigilante | Eddie Marino | |
| Movie | 1999 | It's the Rage | Tyler | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Hunt For the BTK Killer | Detective Jason Magida | |
| Movie | 2009 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Sergeant Volkom | |
| Movie | 2006 | Firewall | Harry | |
| Movie | 1979 | The Black Hole | Captain Dan Holland | |
| Movie | 2007 | Cleaner | Arlo Grange | |
| Movie | 2015 | The Program | Michael | |
| Movie | 1989 | The Banker | Dan | |
| Movie | 1993 | Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash | Sid (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2000 | Diamond Men | Eddie Miller | |
| Movie | 1969 | Medium Cool | John | |
| Movie | 1969 | Justine | Narouz | |
| Movie | 1968 | The Stalking Moon | Nick Tana | |
| Movie | 1991 | 29th Street | Sgt. Tartaglia | |
| Movie | 2009 | Thick as Thieves | Lt. Weber | |
| Movie | 1986 | The Delta Force | Abdul | |
| Movie | 2002 | Strange Hearts | Jack Waters | |
| Movie | 2004 | Grand Theft Parsons | Stanley Parsons | |
| Movie | 2011 | The Descendants | Scott Thorson | |
| Movie | 1992 | Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence | Dr. Powell | |
| Movie | 1979 | The Lady in Red | Turk (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2011 | American Grindhouse | Himself - Narrator | |
| Movie | 1977 | Stunts | Glen Wilson | |
| Movie | 2008 | Touching Home | Jim "Perk" Perkins | |
| Movie | 1997 | American Perfekt | Jake | |
| Movie | 2019 | The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Self | |
| Movie | 2002 | Murder in Greenwich | Steve Carroll | |
| Movie | 2013 | No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad | Self | |
| Movie | 1970 | Pieces of Dreams | Gregory Lind | |
| Movie | 1973 | The Don Is Dead | Frank Regalbuto | |
| Movie | 2011 | Girl Walks Into a Bar | Dodge | |
| Movie | 2002 | Lone Hero | Gus | |
| Movie | 2010 | Kalamity | Tom Klepack | |
| Movie | 2003 | Undefeated | Scott Green | |
| Movie | 1981 | The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats | Coach Alan Arnoldi | |
| Movie | 1989 | Satan's Princess | Lou Cherney | |
| Movie | 1985 | Walking the Edge | Jason Walk | |
| Movie | 1998 | Outside Ozona | Odell Parks | |
| Movie | 2013 | Olympus Has Fallen | General Edward Clegg | |
| Movie | 1999 | Kiss Toledo Goodbye | Sal Fortuna | |
| Movie | 2012 | Hotel Noir | Jim | |
| Movie | 1991 | Committed | Dr. Desmond Moore | |
| Movie | 1993 | South Beach | Det. Ted Coleman | |
| Movie | 1995 | Guns & Lipstick | Captain Dimaggio | |
| Movie | 1978 | Avalanche | Nick Thorne | |
| Movie | 2013 | Somewhere Slow | Chris McConville | |
| Movie | 2000 | Lakeboat | Joe | |
| Movie | 2013 | Coffee, Kill Boss | Walt Ford | |
| Movie | 1979 | The Darker Side of Terror | Prof. Paul Corwin / The Clone | |
| Movie | 1998 | Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs | Self | |
| Movie | 1977 | The City | Lt. Matt Lewis | |
| Movie | 2014 | That Guy Dick Miller | Self | |
| Movie | 1990 | Checkered Flag | Jack Cotton | |
| Movie | 1974 | Nakia | Deputy Nakia Parker | |
| Movie | 1997 | Night Vision | Teak Taylor | |
| Movie | 2013 | La última película de Jess Franco | Self | |
| Movie | 2000 | The Magic of Marciano | Henry | |
| Movie | 2002 | Due East | Jesse Rapple | |
| Movie | 1988 | Counterforce | The Dictator | |
| Movie | 1991 | In Between | Vinnie | |
| Movie | 2009 | Middle Men | Louie LA LA | |
| Movie | 2015 | Home | Man | |
| Movie | 1989 | Esmeralda Bay | Madero | |
| Movie | 2000 | Me, Myself & Irene | Colonel Partington | |
| Movie | 1996 | Uncle Sam | Congressman Alvin Cummings | |
| Movie | 2022 | American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective | Self | |
| Movie | 1998 | Psycho | Dr. Simon | |
| Movie | 2014 | Automata | Robert Bold | |
| Movie | 1996 | Original Gangstas | Detective Slatten | |
| Movie | 1970 | Cover Me Babe | Tony Hill | |
| Movie | 1995 | Scanner Cop II | Captain Jack Bitters | |
| Movie | 2014 | Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Self - Actor | |
| Movie | 2016 | London Has Fallen | General Edward Clegg | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Trial | Ray | |
| Movie | 1978 | Standing Tall | Luke Shasta | |
| Movie | 2006 | 13 Graves | Tom Ferris | |
| Movie | 2015 | Survivor | Bill Talbot | |
| Movie | 2007 | Grampa's Cabin | Grampa | |
| Movie | 2016 | Too Late | Gordy Lyons | |
| Movie | 2016 | The American Side | Sterling Whitmore | |
| Movie | 2018 | The Big Take | Detective Aborn | |
| Movie | 1972 | Journey Through Rosebud | Frank | |
| Movie | 2015 | Art of the Prank | ||
| Movie | 1999 | Mulholland Dr. | Detective McKnight | |
| Movie | 1986 | Hollywood Harry | Harold "Harry" Petry | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Method | Christian's father | |
| Movie | 2016 | The Confirmation | Otto | |
| Movie | 2003 | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | Roger Wixon | |
| Movie | 1990 | Peacemaker | Yates | |
| Movie | 2017 | Small Crimes | Joe Denton Sr. | |
| Movie | 1989 | Crossbow: The Movie | Aymong | |
| Movie | 2018 | Small Town Crime | Steve Yendel | |
| Movie | 2015 | The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster | 'James Burke' as Lt. Frank Murphy | |
| Movie | 1994 | Body Chemistry III: Point of Seduction | Bob Sibley | |
| Movie | 2016 | Bus Driver | General Sorbin | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Case for Christ | Walter Strobel | |
| Movie | 2008 | Expecting Love | George Patten | |
| Movie | 2008 | Would Be Kings | ||
| Movie | 2017 | Acts of Vengeance | Chuck | |
| Movie | 1996 | Hindsight | Michael Donahue | |
| Movie | 1997 | Demolition University | Gentry | |
| Movie | 2018 | King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen | Self | |
| Movie | 2001 | Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes | Ken "Pappa" Kimes | |
| Movie | 1974 | The Death Squad | Eric Benoit | |
| Movie | 2018 | What They Had | Burt | |
| Movie | 1991 | Diplomatic Immunity | Stonebridge | |
| Movie | 2013 | Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking | Self | |
| Movie | 1987 | Once a Hero | Gumshoe | |
| Movie | 2018 | Bigger | Joe Weider (2008) | |
| Movie | 2018 | Damsel | Old Preacher | |
| Movie | 1992 | In the Shadow of a Killer | Charles Galbis | |
| Movie | 2002 | Jackie Brown: How It Went Down | Self | |
| Movie | 1999 | Family Tree | Henry Musser | |
| Movie | 1993 | American Yakuza | Littman | |
| Movie | 1976 | Royce | Royce | |
| Movie | 2019 | Phil | Bing Fisk | |
| Movie | 2015 | The Bridge Partner | Don Whalen | |
| Movie | 2012 | Grimm Fairy Tales Animated | Franlin/Death | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Spaghetti West | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2019 | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Ed | |
| Movie | 2008 | Jack and Jill vs. The World | Norman / Narrator (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1971 | Banyon | Miles C. Banyon | |
| Movie | 1980 | Alligator | David | |
| Movie | 2020 | The Wolf of Snow Hollow | Sheriff Hadley Marshall | |
| Movie | 1993 | Cover Story | Therapist | |
| Movie | 2001 | The Joe Spinell Story | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | QT8: The First Eight | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | Behind the Red Curtain | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | Bad Binoculars | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Bannen Way | Mr. B | |
| Movie | 2025 | I Know Catherine, the Log Lady | Sheriff Truman (archival footage) | |
| TV Show | 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Gilbert Gaston | 1 |
| TV Show | 1980 | Magnum, P.I. | Tyler Peabody McKinney | 2 |
| TV Show | 1989 | The Simpsons | Lucky Jim (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Numb3rs | Agent Thomas Larson | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Karen Sisco | Marshall Sisco | 10 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Desperate Housewives | Nick Delfino | 1 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Fastlane | Ray-Ray | 2 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Ricky Ricketts | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Hotel | Steve Cameron | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | Jake and the Fatman | Ed Delaney | 2 |
| TV Show | 1973 | Police Story | 5 | |
| TV Show | 1972 | Banyon | Miles C. Banyon | 15 |
| TV Show | 1991 | P.S. I Luv U | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1967 | Judd for the Defense | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1975 | Medical Story | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2002 | Street Time | Tony DeAngelo | 1 |
| TV Show | 1961 | Kraft Mystery Theatre | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1974 | Nakia | 14 | |
| TV Show | 1989 | Jesse Hawkes | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2012 | Alcatraz | Ray Archer | 13 |
| TV Show | 2010 | The Bannen Way | Mr. B | 16 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Last Man Standing | Bud Baxter | 10 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Breaking Bad | Ed | 1 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Justice League Unlimited | The President (voice) | 2 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Heroes | Arthur Petrelli | 10 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Frank Roussel | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | Once a Hero | Gumshoe | 7 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Clubhouse | Burt Austin | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Tales from the Darkside | Garry Cooley | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | One West Waikiki | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2010 | Transformers: Prime | General Bryce (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Tilt | Jimmy 'Gentleman Jim' Towne | 2 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Childrens Hospital | Donald | 1 |
| TV Show | 1981 | Goliath Awaits | Comdr. Jeff Selkirk | 2 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Twin Peaks | Frank Truman | 10 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Lane Tillman | 1 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Kurtzman (voice) | 2 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Ironside | Michael Burke | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Better Call Saul | Ed | 1 |
| TV Show | 2020 | Amazing Stories | Joe Harris | 1 |
| TV Show | 2016 | Divorce | Donald | 2 |
| TV Show | 1976 | Gibbsville | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2012 | The Soul Man | Father James Ignatius | 1 |
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| Movie | 1986 | Hollywood Harry | Producer | Production |
| Movie | 2000 | Diamond Men | Executive Producer | Production |
| Movie | 1986 | Hollywood Harry | Director | Directing |
| TV Show | 1982 | Knight Rider | Executive Producer | Production |
