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Robert Forster

Robert Wallace Foster Jr. (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019), known professionally as Robert Forster, was an American actor. He made his screen debut as Private L.G. Williams in John Huston's ''Reflections in a Golden Eye'' (1967), followed by a starring role as news reporter John Casellis in the landmark New Hollywood film ''Medium Cool'' (1969). For his portrayal of bail bondsman Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's ''Jackie Brown'' (1997), he was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Forster played a variety of both leading and supporting roles in over 100 films, including Captain Dan Holland in ''The Black Hole'' (1979), Detective David Madison in ''Alligator'' (1980), Abdul Rafai in ''The Delta Force'' (1986), Colonel Partington in ''Me, Myself & Irene'' (2000), Scott Thorson in ''The Descendants'' (2011), General Edward Clegg in ''Olympus Has Fallen'' (2013) and its sequel ''London Has Fallen'' (2016), Norbert Everhardt in ''What They Had'' (2018), and Sheriff Hadley in ''The Wolf of Snow Hollow'' (2020).

He also had prominent roles in television series such as ''Banyon'' (1971–73), ''Nakia'' (1974), ''Karen Sisco'' (2003–04), ''Heroes'' (2007–08), ''Twin Peaks: The Return'' (2017) 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. He reprised the role in the film ''El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie'' (2019) and ''Better Call Saul'' (2020). Provided by Wikipedia