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Robert Forster, Oscar Nominee for 'Jackie Brown,' Dies at 78

Associated Press

   LOS ANGELES - Robert Forster, the handsome and omnipresent character
   actor who got a career resurgence and Oscar-nomination for playing bail
   bondsman Max Cherry in "Jackie Brown," has died. He was 78.

   Forster's publicist Kathie Berlin said he died Friday at home in Los
   Angeles of brain cancer following a brief illness. He was surrounded by
   family, including his four children and partner Denise Grayson.

   Condolences poured in Friday night on social media. Bryan Cranston
   wrote on Twitter that Forster was a "lovely man and a consummate
   actor." The two met on the 1980 film "Alligator" and then worked
   together again on "Breaking Bad" and the spinoff film "El Camino,"
   which launched on Netflix Friday.

   "I never forgot how kind and generous he was to a young kid just
   starting out in Hollywood," Cranston wrote.

   His "Jackie Brown" co-star Samuel L. Jackson tweeted that he was,
   "truly a class act/Actor!!"

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