The Dec. 23 obituary of actor and dialect coach Robert Easton from the Los Angeles Times incorrectly identified Heather Woodruff Perry as his daughter. She said she had not been legally adopted by ...

When actor Robert Duvall signed on to play Confederate commander Robert E. Lee in the movie “Gods and Generals” several years ago, he wanted Easton to help him sound authentically Virginian ...

Although he clocked up dozens of screen appearances over more than half a century, the American actor Robert Easton's greatest claim to fame was as dialect coach to some of film's biggest stars.

Character actor and Hollywood dialect coach Robert Easton, whose successes include teaching Forest Whitaker to speak like Idi Amin in the 2006 movie “The Last King of Scotland,” died of ...

LOS ANGELES — Robert Easton, a character actor turned accent coach to the stars, who transformed Drew Barrymore into Amy Fisher, Ben Kingsley into Meyer Lansky and Gregory Peck first into Josef ...

Born in Canada and building an acclaimed, six-decade Broadway career beginning in the 1950s, Easton won the Tony for leading actor for his performance as A.E. Housman in the Stoppard play (Robert ...

LOS ANGELES - Character actor and Hollywood dialect coach Robert Easton, whose successes include teaching Forest Whitaker to speak like Idi Amin in the 2006 movie “The Last King of Scotland ...

Character actor and Hollywood dialect coach Robert Easton, whose successes include teaching Forest Whitaker to speak like Idi Amin in the 2006 movie "The Last King of Scotland," has died in Los ...

Actor Robert Duvall remembered him as "a wonderful man, a very unique personality and a master at his craft". Easton's many credits include Paint Your Wagon, Pete's Dragon, Good Will Hunting and ...