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.

Filmography

• 2021Grave Intentions — Don Whalen (segment "The Bridge Partner")
• Amazing Stories — Joe Harris
• 2020The Wolf of Snow Hollow — Sheriff Hadley Marshall
• 2019El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie — Ed
• 2019Phil — Bing Fisk
• 2018Bigger — Joe Weider (2008)
• 2018Damsel — Old Preacher
• 2018Small Town Crime — Steve Yendel
• 2018The Big Take — Detective Aborn
• 2018What They Had — Burt
• 2017Acts of Vengeance — Chuck
• 2017Small Crimes — Joe Denton Sr.
• 2017The Case for Christ — Walter Strobel
• 2016Bus Driver — General Sorbin
• Divorce — Donald
• 2016London Has Fallen — General Edward Clegg
• 2016The American Side — Sterling Whitmore
• 2016The Confirmation — Otto
• 2016Too Late — Gordy Lyons
• 2015Art of the Prank
• Better Call Saul — Ed, In Memory Of
• 2015Home — Man
• 2015Survivor — Bill Talbot
• 2015The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster — 'James Burke' as Lt. Frank Murphy
• 2015The Bridge Partner — Don Whalen
• 2015The Program — Michael
• 2014Automata — Robert Bold
• 2013Coffee, Kill Boss — Walt Ford
• Ironside — Michael Burke
• 2013Olympus Has Fallen — General Edward Clegg
• 2013Somewhere Slow — Chris McConville
• 2012Grimm Fairy Tales Animated — Franlin/Death
• 2012Hotel Noir — Jim
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Kurtzman (voice)
• The Soul Man — Father James Ignatius
• 2011Girl Walks Into a Bar — Dodge
• Last Man Standing — Bud Baxter
• NTSF:SD:SUV:: — Booth Whitman
• 2011The Descendants — Scott Thorson
• 2010Kalamity — Tom Klepack
• 2010The Bannen Way — Mr. B
• The Bannen Way — Mr. B
• 2010The Trial — Ray
• Transformers: Prime — General Bryce (voice)
• 2009Ghosts of Girlfriends Past — Sergeant Volkom
• 2009Middle Men — Louie LA LA
• 2009Thick as Thieves — Lt. Weber
• Breaking Bad — Ed
• Childrens Hospital — Donald
• 2008Expecting Love — George Patten
• 2008Jack and Jill vs. The World — Norman / Narrator (uncredited)
• 2008Touching Home — Jim "Perk" Perkins
• 2008Would Be Kings
• Army Wives — General Grayson
• 2007Cleaner — Arlo Grange
• 2007Dragon Wars: D-War — Jack
• 2007Grampa's Cabin — Grampa
• 2007Rise: Blood Hunter — Lloyd
• 200613 Graves — Tom Ferris
• 2006Firewall — Harry
• Heroes — Arthur Petrelli
• 2006Lucky Number Slevin — Murphy
• 2006Wild Seven — Wilson
• Numb3rs — Agent Thomas Larson
• 2005The Hunt for the BTK Killer — Detective Jason Magida
• 2005The Spaghetti West — Narrator
• Tilt — Jimmy 'Gentleman Jim' Towne
• Clubhouse — Burt Austin
• Desperate Housewives — Nick Delfino
• 2004Grand Theft Parsons — Stanley Parsons
• Justice League Unlimited — The President (voice)
• 2003Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle — Roger Wixon
• 2003Confidence — Morgan Price
• Karen Sisco — Marshall Sisco
• 2003Undefeated — Scott Green
• 2002Due East — Jesse Rapple
• Fastlane — Ray-Ray
• 2002Like Mike — Coach Wagner
• 2002Lone Hero — Gus
• 2002Murder in Greenwich — Steve Carroll
• 2002Strange Hearts — Jack Waters
• Street Time — Tony DeAngelo
• 2001Finder's Fee — Campbell
• 2001Human Nature — Nathan's Father
• 2001Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes — Ken "Pappa" Kimes
• 2001Mulholland Drive — Detective McKnight
• 2000Diamond Men — Eddie Miller, Executive Producer
• 2000It's the Rage — Tyler
• 2000Lakeboat — Joe
• 2000Me, Myself & Irene — Colonel Partington
• 2000Supernova — A.J. Marley
• 2000The Magic of Marciano — Henry
• 1999Family Tree — Henry Musser
• 1999Kiss Toledo Goodbye — Sal Fortuna
• 1998Outside Ozona — Odell Parks
• 1998Psycho — Dr. Simon
• 1998Rear Window — Detective Moore
• 1997American Perfekt — Jake
• 1997Demolition University — Gentry
• 1997Jackie Brown — Max Cherry
• 1997Night Vision — Teak Taylor
• 1996Hindsight — Michael Donahue
• 1996Original Gangstas — Detective Slatten
• 1996The Method — Christian's father
• 1996Uncle Sam — Congressman Alvin Cummings
• 1995Guns & Lipstick — Captain Dimaggio
• 1995Scanner Cop II — Captain Jack Bitters
• One West Waikiki
• 1994Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III — Bob Sibley
• 1993American Yakuza — Littman
• 1993Cover Story — Therapist
• 1993Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash — Sid (uncredited)
• 1993South Beach — Det. Ted Coleman
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Ricky Ricketts, Lane Tillman
• 1992In the Shadow of a Killer — Charles Galbis
• 1992Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence — Dr. Powell
• 199129th Street — Sgt. Tartaglia
• 1991Committed — Dr. Desmond Moore
• 1991Diplomatic Immunity — Stonebridge
• 1991In Between — Vinnie
• P.S. I Luv U
• 1990Checkered Flag — Jack Cotton
• 1990Peacemaker — Yates
• 1990The Banker — Dan
• Twin Peaks — Frank Truman
• 1989Crossbow: The Movie — Aymong
• 1989Esmeralda Bay — Madero
• Jesse Hawkes
• 1989Satan's Princess — Lou Cherney
• The Simpsons — Lucky Jim (voice)
• 1988Counterforce — The Dictator
• Crossbow — Aymong
• Jake and the Fatman — Ed Delaney
• 1987Once a Hero — Gumshoe
• Once a Hero — Gumshoe
• 1986Hollywood Harry — Harold "Harry" Petry, Producer, Director
• 1986The Delta Force — Abdul
• 1985Walking the Edge — Jason Walk
• Murder, She Wrote — Gilbert Gaston, Frank Roussel
• Tales from the Darkside — Garry Cooley
• 1983Vigilante — Eddie Marino
• Hotel — Steve Cameron
• Knight Rider — Executive Producer
• Goliath Awaits — Comdr. Jeff Selkirk
• 1981The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats — Coach Alan Arnoldi
• 1980Alligator — David
• Magnum, P.I. — Tyler Peabody McKinney
• 1979The Black Hole — Captain Dan Holland
• 1979The Darker Side of Terror — Prof. Paul Corwin / The Clone
• 1979The Lady in Red — Turk (uncredited)
• 1978Avalanche — Nick Thorne
• 1978Standing Tall — Luke Shasta
• 1977Stunts — Glen Wilson
• 1977The City — Lt. Matt Lewis
• Gibbsville
• 1976Royce — Royce
• Medical Story — David Corbin
• 1974Nakia — Deputy Nakia Parker
• Nakia
• 1974The Death Squad — Eric Benoit
• Police Story
• 1973The Don Is Dead — Frank Regalbuto
• Banyon — Miles C. Banyon
• 1972Journey Through Rosebud — Frank
• 1971Banyon — Miles C. Banyon
• 1970Cover Me Babe — Tony Hill
• 1970Pieces of Dreams — Gregory Lind
• 1969Justine — Narouz
• 1969Medium Cool — John
• 1968The Stalking Moon — Nick Tana
• Judd, for the Defense
• 1967Reflections in a Golden Eye — Pvt. L.G. Williams
• Kraft Mystery Theatre

Appearances as themselves (18)

• 2022American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective — Self
• 2019QT8: The First Eight — Self
• 2019The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie — Self
• 2018King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen — Self
• 2017A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks — Self
• 2017Bad Binoculars — Self
• 2017Behind the Red Curtain — Self
• 2017The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair — Self
• 2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films — Self - Actor
• 2014That Guy Dick Miller — Self
• 2013La última película de Jess Franco — Self
• 2013No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad — Self
• 2013Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking — Self
• 2011American Grindhouse — Himself - Narrator
• 2002Jackie Brown: How It Went Down — Self
• 2001The Joe Spinell Story — Self
• 1998Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs — Self
• 1988John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)