Robert Forster, Resurgent Oscar Nominee From 'Jackie Brown,' Dies at 78

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Source: Hollywood Reporter

Robert Forster, the stalwart leading man whose Oscar-nominated performance as a nefarious bail bondsman in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown made for one of Hollywood's most heartwarming comeback stories, has died. He was 78.

Forster died on Friday at his Los Angeles home from brain cancer, his publicist told The Hollywood Reporter.

With his chiseled good looks, steely chin and earnest gaze, Forster exuded a raw truthfulness. He made his film debut opposite Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor in John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), then sparkled as an ethically challenged cameraman in Haskell Wexler's ultra-realistic Medium Cool (1969).

Forster then took on no-nonsense, heroic title characters on television to build on his stardom, portraying a dogged 1930s detective on NBC's Banyon, which premiered in 1971, and a Native American police deputy in New Mexico on ABC's Nakia, which bowed in 1974. However, the shows lasted just 15 and 14 episodes, respectively, before being canceled.

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A quiet master who always enhanced anything he was in. RIP.

[Skittles]

1. I watched him in El Camino last night

excellent actor

[yaesu]

3. Oh, I need to see that & yes, he was amazing in Breaking Bad. nt

[Cirque du So-What]

7. So did I

It was an excellent performance.

[Skittles]

8. absolute perfection

yes indeed

[yaesu]

2. Oh, I am so sorry to hear about his passing, such a fine actor and Gentleman, he will be missed. nt

[RestoreAmerica2020]

4. Just watched Jackie Brown on Bounce Network: has got to be one of my favorite Tarantino movies..

Robert Forster was perfect as Max Cherry, though never liked how it ended...wanted him to drive off into the sunset with the fearless, georgous Jackie Brown aka Pam Grier. Became a fan of both when movie came out in 1997 [Was it that long ago? Damn I'm getting old.]

Ps Thanks for post! Paz

[Quemado]

9. Jackie Brown is my favorite Tarantino movie.

Robert Forster was great in that movie.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

11. It's also my favorite Tarantino movie.

Pam Grier shows that she was really wasted in those Blaxploitation movies she made. And Robert Forster was great as Max Cherry. The scene in the van where Samuel L Jackson is figuring out who took is money is good -- Tarantino gives him enough time to actually think it through, and after a minute or two, he comes up with the right answer, "It's Jackie Brown."

I agree that the ending is not what one would expect, but I suspect that Max is asking himself, "What would I do in Spain? I've got a perfectly good life here."

[HoosierDebbie]

5. How weird is this?

I read this OP, then tuned into Netflix to watch something, but hadn't picked anything yet. I saw that "El Camino", the Breaking Bad Movie was up...chose to watch it. Then kinda freaked out when I heard Robert Forster's voice, without seeing him yet. How weird is this that I knew him by his voice and strange to choose the last movie he was in, on the day he died, on the day it premiered, and didn't know he was in it? I stopped the movie to make this note. Going back in. May he Rest in Peace.

[Upthevibe]

6. I know! I just got back from watching the BB movie in the theatre

and logged into my computer and saw he had passed....

[FakeNoose]

10. Robert Forster has had so many great roles in TV and movies over the years

... but for me he'll always be Max Cherry in "Jackie Brown."

RIP Robert Forster and thanks!

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. He's got a bit of Kyle Chandler in that pic...

I first saw him in Jackie Brown, then immediately started looking for his other works.l

He did not look well in El Camino which I watched just last night, I was wondering why.

There's a place in Heaven for the really stellar actors, it's nice to know he will be among them.

[packman]

12. I believe he was last in "Last Man Standing"

as Tim Allen's father who ran a pot store. They wrote him out as being dead - guess it was his health that prevented him from continuing that role.