Robert Forster is an American actor, best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, and as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He has recently appeared as George Clooney's father-in-law in Alexander Payne's The Descendants. Forster was born Robert Wallace Foster, Jr. in Rochester, New York, the son of Grace Dorothy and Robert Wallace Foster, Sr., who worked as an elephant trainer for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and later as an executive for a... baking supply company. His mother was Italian American and his father was of English and Irish ancestry. The two divorced in 1949. As a tribute to his father, Forster hung one of his father's Barnum & Bailey Circus posters in the office of his character "Max Cherry" in the Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown.
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| Birthdate: | July 13, 1941 |
| Birthplace: | Rochester, New York |
| Age: | 70 |
| Height: | 5' 9" |
| Education: | University of Rochester, Madison High School |
| Also known as: | Robert Wallace Foster, Robert Foster, Robert Wallace Foster, Jr. |