Robin Dalton

Robin Ann Dalton AM ( Eakin; 22 December 1920 – 8 July 2022) was an Australian literary agent, film producer, and memoirist who lived in London for most of her adult life. She was also a journalist, television performer, and intelligence agent.

Life and career Robin Ann Eakin was born in 1920 in Sydney, an only child, and grew up in Kings Cross, New South Wales. Her father was a doctor whose clientele included elements of the Sydney underworld as well as more respectable members of society. She was frequently in the social pages of Sydney newspapers in her late teens. A 1940 marriage to a barrister named John Spencer although he married divorcee Romaine Simpson in 1950. She entered high society and met numerous international celebrities, which led to her doing espionage work for the Thai Government. She sold her agency, Robin Dalton Associates, to American businessman Marvin Josephson's International Famous Agency, in 1971.

She produced such films as Emma's War (1987), Madame Sousatzka (1988), Country Life (1994) and Oscar and Lucinda (1997).