Robert Easton

Robert Easton was the actor who played the albino Klingon judge in . He was also a dialect coach who came to be known as the " of Hollywood" (a reference to the phoneticist from Pygmalion and My Fair Lady) due to his mastery of foreign and American regional dialects.
Easton also appeared in the films The Red Badge of Courage (1951, with Whit Bissell and William Schallert), The High and the Mighty (1954, with David Brian, William Campbell, Paul Fix, and William Schallert), Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956, directed by Robert Wise and featuring Stanley Adams and Roy Jenson), (1961, with Michael Ansara, Benjie Bancroft, Charles Dierkop, and Robert Strong), One of Our Spies is Missing (1966, with James Doohan and Yvonne Craig), Paint Your Wagon (1969, with Harve Presnell, Ray Walston, William O'Connell, Karl Bruck, and Roy Jenson), Johnny Got His Gun (1971, with David Soul, Peter Brocco and Byron Morrow), The Giant Spider Invasion (1975, with Leslie Parrish), Pete's Dragon (1977), Pet Sematary II (1992, with Clancy Brown), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993, with Diedrich Bader), Needful Things (1993, with W. Morgan Sheppard), (1998, with John Vargas), and Gods and Generals (2003, with Kevin Conway, William O. Campbell, James Horan, W. Morgan Sheppard, and Andrew Prine).
In 1970, Easton appeared in the 1970 made-for-television movie The Andersonville Trial. This movie also featured William Shatner, , Whit Bissell, Dick Miller, Kenneth Tobey, and Ian Wolfe. Another TV movie Easton appeared in was 1981's The Oklahoma City Dolls, with Robert Hooks and David Huddleston. Easton also had a role in (1978, with Michael Ansara, Henry Darrow, Cliff DeYoung, Robert DoQui, Brian Keith, Sally Kellerman, Stephen McHattie, Nick Ramus, Clive Revill, James Sloyan, Morgan Woodward, and Anthony Zerbe.
He also made guest appearances on such TV shows as , , The Beverly Hillbillies, , , Get Smart, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker, the last of which co-starred John Fiedler. Easton also had a recurring role as Brian McAffee on the The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.
Easton's credits as a dialect or dialogue coach include (1983), (1984), (1992), (1997), and The Last King of Scotland (2006). On the last, he was the personal dialogue coach for lead actor , who went on to win an Academy Award for his performance in the film as Ugandan military leader . Easton also served as a dialect coach on several television programs, notably the 1986 miniseries North and South, starring Kirstie Alley, Jonathan Frakes, Jim Metzler, Jean Simmons, and David Ogden Stiers.
Easton died of natural causes at his home in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California, on 16 December 2011. He was 81. 
== Filmography ==
* Merchants of Venus (aka A Dirty Little Business; 1998, with Michael Pollard, Charles Dierkop and Helen Cates)
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