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- Birth nameRobert Anthony Foster
- Robert Foster was born on September 23, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Fright Night (1976), Keaton's Cop (1990) and CBS Library (1979).
- SpousesSusan L Gackenheimer(January 8, 1977 - October 6, 1980) (divorced, 1 child)Stephanie Payne
- For about two years in late 1970s, he played "Grimsley", a ghoul-like figure who hosted Saturday night horror movies on Channel 9 (then KHJ-TV) in Los Angeles. During commercial breaks, Grimsley would make fun of the movies. This was easy, since most of the movies were low-budget. He became popular enough to make appearances at local sci-fi/horror conventions and Magic Mountain, a theme park north of Los Angeles. A line of Grimsley T-shirts also appeared. A few years later "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark", aka Cassandra Peterson, came on the air and did the same thing.
- Son of director Norman Foster and actress Sally Blane.
- From 1975 to 1978, played the role of Grimsley, the vampire-mortician horror host of Fright Night (1970) on Channels 9 (then KHJ-TV) and 5 (KTLA) in Southern California.
- Nephew of Loretta Young.
- Married to musician Stephanie Payne of the bands Dark Arts and Puppetina. His son Chuck Foster (from a previous marriage) is a musician and journalist living in New York.
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