Robert Forster: ‘Jackie Brown,’ ‘Medium Cool,’ ‘Banyon’
‘Jackie Brown’
Robert Forster earned a supporting actor Oscar nomination for his memorable turn as the world-weary bail bondsman Max Cherry who finds love in Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 thriller based on an Elmore Leonard novel.
‘Medium Cool’
Forster received acclaim for his performance as John Cassellis, a TV news cameraman who falls for a widow in Haskell Wexler’s unconventional 1969 drama that intersperses documentary footage into the narrative.
Banyon
Forster made his first foray into series TV with this 1972-73 NBC detective show, produced by Quinn Martin, in which he played 1930s L.A. gumshoe Miles C. Banyon. Veteran Joan Blondell played a secretarial school operator who was in the same building as Banyon.
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