Just a bit ago, I learned that Robert Douglas Dalton—best known as Roman Polanski’s long-time lawyer—had died.It wasn’t a surprise.
Doug, as most called him, was by my reckoning almost 93 years old, and had been ill for a while. His son Bart confirmed the death.
The cause, ultimately, appears to have been heart failure. But, in truth, time simply caught up with him.Still, I felt a jolt when documentarian Marina Zenovich, who made the much-viewed Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired, called to say that Doug was gone.
If you’d dealt with Doug, even a little, you knew that an amazing, old-school uprightness died with him. He had it, and never lost it.
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