Robin French, a talent agent who worked with legends including Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor and later headed production at Paramount Pictures in the late 1970s, has died. His family said he h…
in the late 1970s, has died. His family said he had been in declining health for the past few months and died September 6 in Palm Desert, CA.
“Dad left knowing that we love him so much, and that we are all safe and secure thanks in large part to his fierce devotion to us,” his children said in a statement. “He was so smart, funny, loyal, friendly, grumpy, opinionated and just a one-of-a-kind guy. We will all miss him forever, but feel so lucky that he was our Dad.”
French began his career as an agent at Chartwell, working with his father, Hugh French — a former actor who become an agent whose clients in the 1950s and ’60s included Brando, Taylor and Richard Burton — and Jerry Perenchio.During his agenting days, the younger French worked with such screen legends as Brando, Taylor, Burton, Montgomery Clift, Jane Fonda, Gene Hackman, Gene Wilder, Ingrid Bergman and Bob Newhart, along with iconic singers Elton John and Johnny Mathis.
French moved to Paramount in 1974 and worked behind the scenes on some of the era’s most iconic examples of cinema including
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