Robin French Dies: Former Paramount Production Chief & Talent Agent Was 84

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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 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