Robert Forster
geb. 13.07.1941
Rochester, New York, USA
gest. 11.10.2019
(78 Jahre)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Biografie
Academy Award nominee Robert Forster is known for his outstanding work in films and television. His Oscar-nominated portrayal of Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown marked the start of what he calls "the third act" of a career now spanning over five decades.
He shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, with his fellow actors from the ensemble of Alexander Payne's The Descendants, for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Mr. Forster originated the role of General Edward Clegg in Olympus Has Fallen, directed by Antoine Fuqua, and now reprises the character for London Has Fallen.
He has appeared in over 100 films. Those from the 1960s into the 1980s include Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool; John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye, which was his feature debut, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando; Robert Mulligan's The Stalking Moon; Mark L. Lester's Stunts; Gary Nelson's The Black Hole; Mark L. Lester's Stunts; Lewis Teague's Alligator; and William Lustig's Vigilante. He has been dubbed the "Grindhouse Giant."
Mr. Forster then played a slew of villains, from Menahem Golan's The Delta Force through Paul Chart's American Perfekt; the latter is one of the actor's personal favorites.
Since Jackie Brown, he has enjoyed playing a wealth of roles, spanning the comedy (including in Mark Waters' Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and the Farrelly Brothers' Me, Myself & Irene), drama (Daniel M. Cohen's Diamond Men, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive), and thriller (Richard Loncraine's Firewall, James McTeigue's Survivor) genres.
Longtime television viewers know Mr. Forster from his starring in the title roles of the classic 1970s detective dramas Banyon and Nakia; and, more recently, from recurring roles on such series as Heroes, Alcatraz, Karen Sisco, and Last Man Standing.
He has recorded a host of audiobooks; these have included the best seller Hit Man and Elmore Leonard's Mr. Paradise. A veteran stage actor, he delivers his speaking program, Interacting, to a variety of groups: from acting classes to graduating classes, from baggage handlers to CEOs, and once to a group of white-collar criminals in a detention facility. Mr. Forster developed this program to share positive stories, and a few jokes, about the lessons of his life and to outline guiding principles: respect, responsibility, parenting (even without children), excellence, and raising any job to the level of an art form.
Focus Features
Schauspieler
Dokumentationen | |
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2019 |
Tarantino - The Bloody Genius |
2017 |
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen |
2016 |
Bowery Rhapsody: The Rise and Redemption of Hollywood's Original 'Brat Pack' |
2015 |
Art of the Prank |
Bad IQ |
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2014 |
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films |
That Guy Dick Miller |
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2013 |
Le Dernier Film de Jess Franco |
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad |
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2010 |
American Grindhouse |
2007 |
Alligator Author - Arch. |
2002 |
Jackie Brown: How It Went Down |
2001 |
Look Out Haskell, It's Real: The Making of Medium Cool (Fernsehfilm) |
The Joe Spinell Story |
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2000 |
Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (Fernsehfilm) - Arch. |
Musikvideos | |
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2015 |
The Soft Moon: Wasting |
Kurzfilme | |
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2018 |
Nasty |
2015 |
The Bridge Partner |
2002 |
Where's Angelo? |
2001 |
The A-List |
2000 |
It's a Shame About Ray |
Regisseur
Filme | |
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1986 |
Hollywood Harry |
Serien | |
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2012 |
Alcatraz |
Mitwirkende
Sendungen | |
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2013 |
Ok! TV |
2009 |
Red Carpet Report |
2001 |
The John Kerwin Show |
1998 |
4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards |
The 70th Annual Academy Awards |
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1996 |
Mundo VIP |
1979 |
SAG Foundation Conversations |
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