Robert Forster
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith…
- Adaptation of Carson McCuller's novel. Taking place on a peacetime army base, a career officer finds his personal and professional life compromised…
- Don is Dead, The (1973)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster
- A botched drug deal is at the centre of this competent mafioso film, one of many spawned in the wake of THE GODFATHER's success.
- Avalanche (1978)
- Dir. Corey Allen
Feat. Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster…
- It's Rock (Hudson) against mountain in this Roger Corman–produced cash–in on the Disaster Movie craze of the 1970s about winter…
- Black Hole, The (1979)
- Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster…
- Maniacal scientist Maximilian Schell plans to dive into a vast ‘black hole’ in space – this is the compelling idea of one of…
- Alligator (1980)
- Dir. Lewis Teague
Feat. Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo
- Post–Jaws monster thriller, with giant alligator lurking in Chicago sewers. John Sayles script.
- Vigilante (1983)
- Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Joe Spinell…
- Gritty, solid Reagan–era variation on DIRTY HARRY, featuring strong performances by Willamson and Forster amid typical Lustig violence.
- Delta Force, The (1986)
- Dir. Menahem Golan
Feat. Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam…
- Typically explosive Cannon Films production that marked the last box office hit for the martial–artist–turned–film–star Chuck…
- American Perfekt (1997)
- Dir. Paul Chart
Feat. Robert Forster, Amanda Plummer, David Thewlis
- The most familiar of premises, an American desert road–trip entangling three motorists with a series of mysterious killings is elevated by an…
- Uncle Sam (1997)
- Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Leslie Neale, David "Shark" Fralick, Isaac Hayes…
- Solid cast of exploitation 'character actors' lifts this quasi–satirical slasherfest about a Gulf War casualty who rises from his resting place…
- Jackie Brown (1998)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Pam Grier…
- Quentin Tarantino follows–up the fireworks of PULP FICTION with a laidback ode to lowlife dreamers and schemers that reclines comfortably into…
- Supernova (1999)
- Dir. Thomas Lee
Feat. Troy Larsen, Robert Forster, James Spader…
- Aboard the hospital spaceship 'Nightingale', psycho–patient Troy Larsen is on the loose after gaining super–powers from an alien…
- Me, Myself and Irene (2000)
- Dir. Pete Farrelly, Bob Farrelly
Feat. Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger, Chris Cooper…
- Jim Carrey gears back into comic cruise control as a meek Highway Patrolman who manifests an obnoxious alter–ego to settle his scores.
The…
- Diamond Men (2000)
- Dir. Dan Cohen
Feat. Robert Forster, Donnie Wahlberg
- An impressive drama–thriller in which a veteran diamond salesman (Forster), being forced into retirement, gets to train his brash young…
- Like Mike (2002)
- Dir. John Schultz
Feat. Lil' Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki…
- Diminuitive rapper Lil’ Bow Wow plays a basketball–loving orphan who finds a pair of Michael Jordan’s discarded sneakers which magically…
- Grand Theft Parsons (2003)
- Dir. David Caffrey
Feat. Johnny Knoxville, Christina Applegate, Robert Forster…
- A blackly comic account of the wordly departure of country–folk–rock pioneer Gram Parsons, who after perishing of a drug overdose, had…
- Grid, The (Mini-series) (2004)
- Dir. Mikael Salomon
Feat. Dylan McDermott, Julianne Margulies, Bernard Hill…
- Solid and swiftly moving mini–series in which members of multiple security and intelligence agencies (CIA, FBI, M16, M15, NSC...) attempt to…
- Firewall (2005)
- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen…
- Bank security expert Harrison Ford is forced into a tight corner when his family home is invaded by gun–toting criminals, led by a…
- Rise - Blood Hunter (2007)
- Dir. Sebastian Guitierrez
Feat. Lucy Liu, James D'Arcy, Michael Chiklis…
- Lucy Liu seeks revenge using a trusty silver crossbow against those who transformed her into a bloodlusty creature of the undead in this stylish…
- Dragon Wars (D-War) (2007)
- Dir. Hyung-rae Shim
Feat. Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster
- Schlocky and ungainly monster movie makes good fist of its Korean legend, about giant dragons resurrected and dispatched upon Los Angeles, served…
- Code, The (2009)
- Dir. Mimi Leder
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Tom Hardy…
- Routine heist film with Freeman playing a veteran thief who recruits a younger crook to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to…
- Middle Men (2009)
- Dir. George Gallo
Feat. Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht…
- Darkly funny drama looks at the unsavoury mix of characters who kicked off the internet porn revolution in the mid–nineties. Stylishly done in…
- Girl Walks Into a Bar (2011)
- Dir. Sebastian Guitierrez
Feat. Danny De Vito, Carla Gugino, Josh Hartnett…
- The third of dir. Guitierrez's female–centric ensemble comedies, here springing an episodic structure from a noir–ish plot hatched by a…
- Hotel Noir (2012)
- Dir. Sebastian Guitierrez
Feat. Malin Akerman, Rosario Dawson, Danny De Vito…
- Cult dir. Guitierrez tries his hand at film noir pastiche with this luscious ensemble piece about a detective whose encounters with various…
- Automata (2014)
- Dir. Gabe Ibanez
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Dylan McDermott…
- Antonio Banderas plays an insurance agent at a robotics corporation. He must investigate a series of violent incidents involving robots violating…
- London Has Fallen (2016)
- Dir. Babak Najafi
Feat. Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman…
- Riotously stupid sequel to OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN has Gerard Butler's special agent running frantically around trying to prevent the death of various…
- Confirmation, The (2016)
- Dir. Bob Nelson
Feat. Clive Owen, Maria Bello, Patton Oswalt…
- A divorced father and his eight–year–old son, spend a rather predictable weekend together, but when a valuable toolbox gets stolen, the…
- Twin Peaks (TV Series) (Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series, Twin Peaks: The Return) (2017)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Catherine E. Coulson, Madchen Amick…
- Revival of the cult TV series with most of the same cast (plus many, many more), which rivals and occasionally surpasses the terrifying brilliance of…