1. Robert Forster had prominent roles in television series such as Banyon, Nakia, Karen Sisco, Heroes, Twin Peaks: The Return and the Breaking Bad episode "Granite State" as Ed "The Disappearer" Galbraith, for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on Television.
Robert Forster reprised the role in the film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie and Better Call Saul.
Robert Forster's mother was Italian American, while his father was of English and Irish descent.
Robert Forster earned a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of Rochester.
Robert Forster performed in a number of plays in college, and decided to become an actor.
Robert Forster made his Broadway debut in 1965 in Mrs Dally Had a Lover, opposite Arlene Francis and Ralph Meeker.
Robert Forster starred in productions of Come Blow Your Horn, The Big Knife, and The Glass Menagerie.
Robert Forster's movie career began strongly, when John Huston cast him in the important role of Private Williams in Reflections in a Golden Eye, opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando; there was a scene where Robert Forster rode naked on a horse which became famous.
Robert Forster had a key support role in Justine, directed by George Cukor and starring Dirk Bogarde, which was a huge flop.
Robert Forster starred in the critically acclaimed film Medium Cool, which was a big hit commercially.
Robert Forster played a tormented priest in Pieces of Dreams and a student filmmaker in Cover Me Babe, which was a box office flop.
Robert Forster was cast in the pilot for a TV series Banyon, playing a private eye in late 1930s in Los Angeles.
Robert Forster played Juror No 3 in the first New York stage production of Twelve Angry Men at the Queens Playhouse.
Robert Forster guest starred on shows such as Medical Story, Gibbsville and Police Story and played the lead in the TV movies Royce, The City, Standing Tall and The Darker Side of Terror.
Robert Forster toured in a stage production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and appeared in The Sea Horse on stage in Louisville.
Also for New World, Robert Forster had an unbilled cameo in The Lady in Red.
Robert Forster played a key support role in Disney's The Black Hole.
Robert Forster was in the comedy Heartbreak High, and the action films Vigilante, Walking the Edge, The Delta Force, and Counterforce.
Robert Forster wrote, starred in, produced and directed Hollywood Harry, in which he invested all his savings.
Robert Forster was in the TV movie Mick and Frankie.
Robert Forster appeared in Jackie Brown as bail bondsman Max Cherry, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997.
Robert Forster has appeared in lower budgeted productions like Night Vision along with the remakes of Rear Window and Psycho.
Robert Forster appeared in the made-for-television movie The Hunt for the BTK Killer, as the detective intent on capturing serial killer Dennis Rader.
Robert Forster played the father of Van on the short-lived Fox series Fastlane.
Robert Forster recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's Hip-Hop Literacy campaign, encouraging reading of books by Elmore Leonard, whose book Rum Punch was adapted as Jackie Brown.
Robert Forster appeared in the hit NBC series Heroes as Arthur Petrelli, the father of Nathan and Peter Petrelli, as well as the Emmy Award-winning AMC crime drama Breaking Bad as Walter White's new-identity specialist Ed Galbraith.
Robert Forster played Bud Baxter, father to Tim Allen's Mike Baxter, on the ABC hit comedy Last Man Standing.
Robert Forster was the first choice to play Sheriff Harry S Truman in David Lynch's Twin Peaks, but had to turn it down due to a prior commitment to a different television pilot, and was replaced by Michael Ontkean.
Robert Forster appeared in Lynch's Mulholland Drive, a pilot for a TV series that was not picked up but was later turned into a critically acclaimed movie, and finally appeared in Twin Peaks, playing the brother of Sheriff Harry S Truman, Sheriff Frank Truman, in Twin Peaks: The Return, when Ontkean was not available to reprise his role.
Robert Forster wanted to hire me for the original, 25 years ago, for a part, and I was committed to another guy for a pilot that never went.
Robert Forster died on the day the movie was released.
Four months later, Robert Forster again appeared posthumously as Ed in episode "Magic Man" of the fifth season of Better Call Saul.
Robert Forster was married to June Robert Forster from 1966 to 1975.
Robert Forster was a member of the high-IQ Triple Nine Society.
In June 2019, Robert Forster was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and he died from the disease at his home in Los Angeles on October 11,2019, at the age of 78, on the day El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie was released.