- Source of Wealth: Film and Television
- Age: 78
- Birth Place: Rochester, New York
- Height: 5′ 9½” (1.77 m)
- Marital Status: Divorced
- Full Name: Robert Wallace Foster Jr.
- Nationality: United States
- Date of Birth: July 13, 1941
- Ethnicity: Itialian-American and English-Irish
- Occupation: Actor
- Education: University of Rochester
- Children: three children
Robert Forster is an American actor and he has an estimated net worth of $12 million. He is widely recognized as John Cassellis in Medium Cool and Max Cherry in Jackie Brown.
Forster played supporting roles in two major Hollywood films, Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Stalking Moon. He then had a starring role in the 1969 film Medium Cool, as well in cult movies like Alligator, Vigilante, The Delta Force and The Banker. He then had supporting roles in a number of horror and action films, such as The Black Hole.
Robert Forster had a critically acclaimed performance in the 1997 film Jackie Brown, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From then, he had a number of film projects, including Like Mike; Mulholland Drive; Me, Myself and Irene; Lucky Number Slevin and Firewall. His recent projects included The Descendants where he appeared as George Clooney’s father-in-law and Olympus Has Fallen as an Army general.