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Forster was born and raised in Rochester, New York. [4] His mother was Italian American, while his father was of English and Irish descent. [5] He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of Rochester. He performed in a number of plays in college, and decided to become an actor. [citation needed]
Oct 12, 2019 · Banyon. Bettmann. Prolific character actor Robert Forster, who died Oct. 11, belied F. Scott Fitzgerald’s observation that “there are no second acts in American lives.” After working steadily in...
- Donald Liebenson
Robert Forster. Actor: Jackie Brown. Robert Forster was born Robert Wallace Foster, Jr. in Rochester, New York, to Grace Dorothy (Montanarella) and Robert Wallace Foster, Sr., who worked as an elephant trainer and baking supply company executive. He was of English, Irish, and Italian descent.
- July 13, 1941
- October 11, 2019
Forster returned to Rochester, where he worked as a substitute teacher and construction worker until an agent from 20th Century-Fox offered him a five-picture deal. His movie debut was a small part in the drama Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), which starred Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando.
- January 1, 1
- Rochester, New York, USA
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Robert Forster was a brooding, ruggedly handsome Hollywood actor who was featured alongside Marlon Brando and Gregory Peck in the late 1960s, became a B-movie action star playing lawmen and...
Oct 12, 2019 · He was born Robert Wallace Foster Jr. on July 13, 1941, in Rochester, N.Y. Ms. Berlin said he changed his surname to Forster because there was another actor named Robert Foster. He...
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So, yes, it would seem that Robert Forster owed his late career renaissance (at least in part) to the fact that he once had the courage to play up the very thing about himself that every imagemaker in Hollywood would have advised him to play down.
