Robert Forster

Robert Forster
Forster in 2009
Born	Robert Wallace Foster Jr. (1941-07-13)July 13, 1941 Rochester, New York, U.S.
Died	October 11, 2019(2019-10-11) (aged 78) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Rochester (B.A.)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1967–2019
Spouses	June Provenzano ​ ​ (m. 1966; div. 1975)​ Zivia Forster ​ ​ (m. 1978; div. 1980)​
Partner	Denise Grayson (2004–2019)
Children	4

Robert Wallace Foster Jr.^[1][2] (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019), 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.

Forster's varied filmography includes: Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Alligator (1980), Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Mulholland Drive (2001), The Descendants (2011), Olympus Has Fallen (2013), London Has Fallen (2016), What They Had (2018), and The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020).

He also had prominent roles in television series such as Banyon (1971–1973), Heroes (2007–2008), Twin Peaks (2017) and the Breaking Bad episode "Granite State" as Ed Galbraith, for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on Television. He reprised the role in the film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) and Better Call Saul.