Preston Foster Overview:

Actor, Preston Foster, was born on Aug 24, 1900 in Pitman, NJ. Foster died at the age of 69 on Jul 14, 1970 in La Jolla, CA and was laid to rest in El Camino Memorial Park Cemetery in San Diego, CA.

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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On DVD: as a Suave Gentleman Thief in Double Danger (1938)

By KC on Sep 24, 2019 From Classic Movies

I’ve been a big fan of actor and singer ever since I saw his brooding performance opposite Belita in the ice skating noir The Hunted (1948). He’s got an unusually low-key presence: charming, lightly flirtatious, always in control, but never raising his voice and rarely thr... Read full article


Inside Job (1946) with

By Orson De Welles on Nov 26, 2015 From Classic Film Freak

Share This! At a mere 65 minutes, you’d think it would be challenging for a film to be overly bad. Even a modicum of plot should be able to sustain a single hour’s worth of celluloid, right? Usually, yes. But not always. Which brings us to 1946’s Inside Job, which in spite of the a... Read full article


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Preston Foster Quotes:

Tim Foster: What's everybody so gloomy about?
Tomaso: The weather, Senor, she's so uncertain!
Tim Foster: Up in the States they're having blizzards!
Tomaso: Ah, if something like that would only happen here, but nothing but sunshine and people catching fish. If just once a fish would catch a man!
Tim Foster: That's possible, Tomaso. It all depends on the bait.


Tim Foster: That was a sucker move, burning down your boss. You had him all wrong. He never crossed you.


Cleon, the Slave Dealer: I don't think you should look down on me, my friend. Aren't we in the same business? We both furnish amusement for the people.
Marcus: I risk my life with the man I'm fighting. You buy and sell wretches to be slaughtered as a spectacle. I'm not proud of myself, but, by Jupiter, compared to you I'm a holy man.
Cleon, the Slave Dealer: You will never be an old one. It isn't bravery that survives; it's brains.
Marcus: Yes, it is well known that the rat lives longer than the lion, but who wants to be a rat? I wouldn't do your dirty work - not to save my life!


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Preston Foster Facts
His favorite hobby was marlin-fishing off the coast of southern California.

After he retired from the film industry, he became the executive director of the El Camino Playhouse in California, in which capacity he wrote, acted in and directed plays.

Member of the Pennsylvania Grand Opera Company.

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