Bill Robinson Dies: Rep For Carol Burnett, Robert Duvall, Maggie Smith & More Was 92
deadline.comBill Robinson, a talent agent and manager who represented stars like Carol Burnett, Robert Duvall, Maggie Smith, and Audrey Hepburn, has died.
He was 92.His family shared he died on August 6 in his Malibu home after a long illness.Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery“I knew Bill for many, many years…since 1959.
We met while I was doing the Gary Moore Show. Later on, he became my manager when I was doing my show. But not just my manager.
He was one of my closest friends in the world. I loved him very much… and I will miss him,” Burnett said in a statement.Throughout his career, Robinson also represented the likes of Judith Anderson, Alan Arkin, Tony Bill, Peter Falk, James Garner, Glenda Jackson, Waylon Jennings, and Jayne Mansfield, among many more.It was Robinson that gave Mike Medavoy his first job as an agent and the current Chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures and former Chairman of Tri-Star Pictures remembered what their initial meeting was like.“‘You’re gonna have a hard time in this business as a Morris,’ Bill Robinson told me when he hired me to be an agent at his agency,” Medavoy wrote in his book You’re Only as Good as Your Next One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 forWhich I Should Be Shot. “‘You got a middle name?’ ‘Mike,’ I told him.
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