Martha Luttrell Dies: Longtime ICM Agent Who Repped Susan Sarandon & Sam Shepard, Worked With Mike Nichols & Bill Robinson Was 80
deadline.comMartha Luttrell, a veteran talent agent whose clients ranged from Susan Sarandon and Martin Campbell to Julie Taymor, Sam Shepard and Waylon Jennings and also worked with Mike Nichols and Bill Robinson, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer in Calabasas, CA.
She was 80. Her friend Holly Goldberg Sloan confirmed the news to Deadline. Born on October 31, 1944, in Vancouver, Luttrell knew at an early age that she wanted to be in show business and moved with her cousin to Los Angeles right out of high school.
Among her first jobs was answering phones at Capitol Records. Luttrell relocated to New York City in the early 1970s and became the assistant to comedian-turned-Oscar-winning The Graduate filmmaker Mike Nichols.
After working with him on 1973’s The Day of the Dolphin, she moved back to Los Angeles and got a job assisting Robinson at The Robinson Agency, where she learn the craft of agenting. RELATED: Bill Robinson Dies: Rep For Carol Burnett, Robert Duvall, Maggie Smith & More Was 92 Robinson — who repped the likes of Carol Burnett, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Duvall and Peter Falk during his career –eventually made her a partner in his agency, and Robinson/Luttrell and Associates was sold to ICM in 1983.
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