he appeared in the hit nbc series "heroes" as arthur petrelli, the father of nathan and peter petrelli, as well as the emmy award-winning amc crime drama "breaking bad" as walter white's new identity specialist ed galbraith (a role he later reprised in ""). he played bud baxter, father to tim allen's mike baxter, on the abc (later fox) hit comedy "last man standing". forster was also a motivational speaker.