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Robert Forster was an Australian male singer-songwriter whose career spanned from 1967 to 2019. He was born in 1941 and died on October 11, 2019. His musical output was associated with genres including classic pop and rock, indie rock, and pop rock. He had four children during his lifetime.
Forster’s work has been cataloged across various platforms, with a playcount of 623,958 and 37,915 listeners. He is tagged with descriptors such as "australian," "pop," "indie," and "Brisbane." Additionally, he is referenced by 426 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1926
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Manual completo de ejercicios hidrodinámicos
- European diet from pre-industrial to modern times
- Medicine and society in France
- Preconditions of revolution in early modern Europe
- Deviants and abandoned in French society
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Australia
- Active from
- 1957-06-29
Discography
- Danger in the Past1990
- Baby Stones1990
- Calling From a Country Phone1993
- Drop1993
- I Had a New York Girlfriend1994
- Warm Nights1996
- The Evangelist2008
- Songs to Play2015
- Inferno2019
- The Candle and the Flame2023
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 37,915
- Total plays
- 623,958
Tags
Robert Forster (born 29 June 1957 in Brisbane, Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriter, best known for his work with songwriting partner Grant McLennan with whom he co-founded The Go-Betweens. Forster met McLennan during drama classes at the University of Queensland and, inspired by a mutual love of Bob Dylan and the New York music scene, they formed the Go-Betweens in 1977. In addition to his work with the Go-Betweens, Forster has released several solo albums <a href="https://www.last.fm
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,740x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,517x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,786x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,754x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,451x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Robert Wallace Foster Jr. , ( 1941-07-13 ) July 13, 1941, Rochester, New York , U.S.
- Died
- October 11, 2019 (2019-10-11) (aged 78), Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of Rochester
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1965–2019
- Spouses
- June Forster ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1966 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1975 ) Zivia Forster ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1978 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1980 )
- Partner
- Denise Grayson (2004–his death)
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Encyclopedic overview
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 Cassellis 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 the 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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert Forster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.