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Robert Forster

1941 - 2019

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Robert Wallace Forster 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Forster has received more than 7,842,875 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Robert Forster is the 127th most popular actor (up from 192nd in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from United States (up from 353rd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Actor.

Robert Forster is most famous for his role as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Robert Forster ranks 127 out of 13,578. Before him are Jean Gabin, Diane Keaton, Audie Murphy, Charlton Heston, Simone Signoret, and Klaus Kinski. After him are Joe Pesci, Lee Van Cleef, Judi Dench, Dianne Wiest, Salman Khan, and Bruno Ganz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Robert Forster ranks 13. Before him are Joan Baez, Sergio Mattarella, Bernardo Bertolucci, Cesária Évora, Václav Klaus, and Krzysztof Kieślowski. After him are Plácido Domingo, Bruno Ganz, Richard Dawkins, Lee Myung-bak, Martha Argerich, and Fethullah Gülen. Among people deceased in 2019, Robert Forster ranks 9. Before him are Karl Lagerfeld, Niki Lauda, Agnès Varda, Robert Mugabe, Jeffrey Epstein, and Rutger Hauer. After him are Bruno Ganz, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Mohamed Morsi, Nuon Chea, Peter Fonda, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Forster ranks 252 out of 20,380. Before him are Philip K. Dick (1928), David Lynch (1946), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Jay Leno (1950), Barbra Streisand (1942), and Emily Dickinson (1830). After him are Joe Pesci (1943), Pearl S. Buck (1892), George Gershwin (1898), Lee Van Cleef (1925), John Howard Northrop (1891), and Dianne Wiest (1946).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Robert Forster ranks 62. Before him are Gwyneth Paltrow (1972), Peter Falk (1927), Kevin Costner (1955), Diane Keaton (1946), Audie Murphy (1925), and Charlton Heston (1923). After him are Joe Pesci (1943), Lee Van Cleef (1925), Dianne Wiest (1946), Gary Cooper (1901), Gene Hackman (1930), and Robert Duvall (1931).

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