Robert Easton taught Forest Whitaker his Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, NAACP, & SAG Award-winning Ugandan dialect for The Last King of Scotland, and is now coaching Whitaker for his old-time Texas preacher role in The Great Debaters.
-Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters
When movie stars need help mastering a new accent for a film role, who they gonna call? Robert Easton! The man of 100 accents.
-National Examiner
Easton's inventory of accents and talent for teaching are increasingly in demand as audiences become more sophisticated and expect greater accuracy in dialects than ever before.
-The Chicago Tribune
The legendary Robert Easton is the film industry's busiest dialect coach.
-Premiere Magazine
Robert Easton tutored more than 2,000 actors, including many of the top names in the business He taught two 1998 Oscar Winners: Helen Hunt for As Good As It Gets, (a subtle New York Irish accent) and Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting, (a very specific South Boston Irish).
-Biography Magazine
The man behind today's movie stars flawless accents The Henry Higgins of modern Hollywood, Robert Easton.
-The Financial Times of London
Robert Easton ought to be called The Robert Easton Repertory Company. Carrying on a conversation with Mr. Easton is like talking with a troupe of actors, all from different corners of the globe. Easton is a Hollywood institution The premier dialect coach in the business.
-The New York Times
Robert Easton is known in Hollywood as The Dialect Doctor and as The Mr. Fix-it of phonemes.
-Fast Company Magazine
On several Tonight Show appearances with Johnny Carson, the master dialectician rippled off a Scottish brogue, and spoke a Russian tongue with impressive command. His professional services (The Henry Higgins of Hollywood, Inc.) are continually sought.
-The Abbott and Costello Story, by Stephen Cox and John Lofflin
Bob Easton, the accent guru of gurus as literally hundreds of actors and directors will tell you, he can teach any diligent and attentive performer to do just about any accent in the world.
-In the Arena, An Autobiography by Charlton Heston
The accent expert, Robert Easton, Hollywoods most famous dialect coach, sees to it that actors sound the part.
-The Los Angeles Times
Robert Easton, The Henry Higgins of Hollywood, Inc. is called upon several times a day to be just that.
-San Francisco Chronicle
Dialect ace, Bob Easton, had honed his [Pacinos] Cuban accent for Scarface.
-Life on the Wire, the Life and Art of Al Pacino, by Andrew Yule
Robert Easton, the Dialect Doctor Charlton Heston has nothing but praise and respect for the noted teacher, We really should clone him. He is unique.
-Emmy, the Magazine of Television Arts and Sciences
Robert Easton is the Dialect Doctor to the stars.
-New York Newsday
The Henry Higgins of Hollywood, Easton, has performed linguistic transformations that would make Eliza Doolittle's mentor speechless with envy.
-People Magazine
The Dialect Doctor, Easton is called on by actors and studios who ask him to get rid of one accent or develop another.
-LA Daily News
Robert Easton can make you believe he hails from pretty well anywhere in the world.
-The Week-end Australian
Robert Easton displays his chameleon-like talents by switching accents by the minute, conversing as comfortably in Chaucerian English as in Appalachian.
-The South China Morning Post
Jane Fonda says, I had a great coach, Bob Easton, who has worked with all the stars.
-The New York Times
Easton can instantly do at least 100 different dialects.
-The London Daily Mail
Robert Easton had the recurring role of Brian McAfee on the Burns and Allen show. Today, Robert Easton is the worlds foremost dialect coach.
-Say Goodnight, Gracie, The Story of Burns and Allen, by Cheryl Blythe and Susan Sackett
Easton's fascination with dialects led him to master hundreds of accents. This is an indispensable service in an industry where a performer can be called upon overnight to become another nationality.
-Working in Hollywood, by Alexandra Brouwer and Thomas Lee Wright
Robert Easton has coached virtually every media star from A (Ann-Margret) to Z (Daphne Zuniga).
-Playboy Magazine
Robert Easton is a dialect doctor. Many of the patients he has worked with have earned Emmys and Oscars.
-The Saturday Evening Post
Robert Easton, the Dialect Doctor, can conversationally switch from one dialect to another like an organist on o keyboard.
-The Los Angeles Times
Robert Easton, Hollywood's top dialect coach.
-LIFE Magazine
Robert Easton, an actor who later became the best dialect teacher and coach in the world.
-The Diary of a Professional Experience by Eric Morris