IMDb says Forster has English, Irish and Italian heritage.
The Huston film you referenced, “Reflections in a Golden Eye” was a strange one. He initially had it photographed to make it look like the film stock was soaked in a vat of urine, which didn’t go over too well (I think the studio had it corrected to normal). Forster’s first film roll was just a minor one, but he played a soldier that Marlon Brando was obsessed with (Brando playing a closet-job Army officer). Elizabeth Taylor did a good job playing Brando’s “grotesque” wife, one that topped even her shrewish role in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.”
Francis Coppola used a lot of photographs/stills from this movie of Brando for the dossier of Col. Kurtz in “Apocalypse Now.”
Thanks. I didn’t know the background for ‘Golden Eye’.
Actually, I always thought Frank Sinatra was in it. Both Brando and Sinatra were very famous at that time.
Both were somewhat short in stature too.