FrameThrower · Actors · Robert Forster
Robert Forster
11 films · 750 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1969–2020
Born 13 July 1941 · Rochester, New York, USA · died 11 October 2019
Robert Forster was an American actor, known for his roles as John Cassellis in Medium Cool (1969) and as Max Cherry in Jackie Brown (1997), the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 750 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1969–2020
- Saturn Awards2014
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor1997
How their films are shot
Measured across 750 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Robert takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Robert takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Wolf of Snow Hollow
2020 · Sheriff Hadley Marshall
Small Crimes
2017 · Joe Denton Sr.
Medium Cool
1969 · John
Damsel
2018 · Old Preacher
The Case for Christ
2017 · Walter Strobel
Girl Walks Into a Bar
2011 · Dodge
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009 · Sergeant Volkom
Breaking Bad
2008 · Ed
Mulholland Drive
2001 · Detective McKnight
American Yakuza
1993 · Littman
Jackie Brown
· Max Cherry
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 750 frames from Robert Forster's 11 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.