Robert Forster

• Birthplace: Rochester, New York
• Birthday: July 13, 1941

Dark and rugged Robert Forster's look has enabled him to play ethnic parts, but more often than not he has found himself cast throughout the years as a detective. The Rochester native made his Broadway debut in 1965 as the much younger paramour of Arlene Francis in "Mrs. Dally Has a Lover". His performance as Stanley Kowalski opposite Julie Harris in a stock production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" led to his feature debut in John Huston's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1967), playing a young officer who is caught between a repressed homosexual…more