Robert De Niro, Pam Grier, and Robert Forster in Jackie Brown (Miramax, 1997)Ī native of Rochester, New York, Forster quite literally stumbled into acting when in college, intending to be a lawyer, he followed a fellow female student he was trying to talk to into an auditorium where “Bye Bye Birdie” auditions were being held. Jackson tweeted that Forster was “truly a class act/Actor!!” “I never forgot how kind and generous he was to a young kid just starting out in Hollywood,” Cranston wrote. The two met on the 1980 film “Alligator” and then worked together again on the television show “Breaking Bad” and its spinoff film, “El Camino,” which launched Friday on Netflix. He was at home in Los Angeles, surrounded by family, including his four children and partner Denise Grayson.Ĭondolences poured in Friday night on social media.īryan Cranston called Forster a “lovely man and a consummate actor” in a tweet. Publicist Kathie Berlin said Forster died of brain cancer following a brief illness.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Robert Forster, the handsome and omnipresent character actor who got a career resurgence and Oscar nomination for playing bail bondsman Max Cherry in “Jackie Brown,” died Friday.

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