I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

He has since had consistent work in the film industry appearing in Like Mike; Mulholland Drive; Me Myself & Irene; Lucky Number Slevin and Firewall to name a few. His eldest child Kate Forster (born 1969) has worked as an actress also appearing in Mulholland Drive. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997 for Jackie Brown which he credits with reviving his career.

He has recently appeared as George Clooney's father-in-law in Alexander Payne's The Descendants. Robert Forster (born July 13 1941) is an American actor best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool and as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.