Washington D.C: Actor Robert Forster breathed his last on Friday at the age of 78 due to brain cancer.
Director Quentin Tarantino created the bail bondsman character Max Cherry with Forster in mind, and the role in Jackie Brown netted him his first Academy Award nomination, reported Variety.
Most recently Forster recreated his role as Ed in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which was released last Friday and appeared in Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and in Werewolf.
"I've done a lot of genre pictures in my career...I've always liked them," Forster told the Bleecker Street blog upon the release of 2018's indie drama What They Had.
Forster played Tim Allen's father in Last Man Standing, a rare comedy appearance and played the father of a comatose mom in Alexander Payne's The Descendants, which was nominated for ensemble acting prizes by SAG and the Gotham Awards.
Born in Rochester, N.Y., Forster started his career on Broadway in Mrs. Dally Has a Lover.
Forster made his first impression on Hollywood audiences in back-to-back movies set in the Army, the first being in 1967 playing the free-spirited, birthday-suit-loving Army private Ellgee Williams in John Huston’s Reflections in a Golden Eye.
Forster is survived by his wife Evie, his children Elizabeth, Kathrine and Maeghen and Robert, and his grandchildren Tess, Liam, Jack and Olivia.
With inputs from ANI
