Robert Snow, veteran secret service agent who served as technical advisor for films Fire line, The President of the United States and Air Force 1His family, who passed away on March 22nd, announced. He was 93 years old.
When asked for his expertise during the production of Wolfgang Petersen, Yuki retired after spending 33 years at the Secret Service. Fire line (1993) stars Clint Eastwood as a CIA agent plagued by the assassination of JFK.
“in Taxi driver And other films, we were portrayed as monosyllable idiots who can’t complete the perfect sentence [only] Standing at the corner at the corner,” Snow said. Chicago Tribune An interview from 1997. “Until then Fire linethere was nothing to show what the Secret Service actually did. ”
He worked with Petersen and Eastwood again in the 1997 film Air Force 1 and Absolute powerand two each X-Men Movie, 2000 Brian Singer’s franchise kickoff and Brett Ratner’s kick the last stand (2006).
Advising Michael Douglas’ starring role The President of the United States (1995) Snow said that he “was so knowledgeable and familiar with the presidency” led him to praise director Rob Reiner. He also said he is known as the “Token Republican of Set.”
Snow worked for 17 Hollywood films among them First child (1996), Murder of 1600 (1997), Robert Zemeckis ‘ contact (1997), Mimi Leder’s Deep shock (1998), Andrew Fleming Dick (1999), Roger Donaldson 13 days (2000), Chase freedom (2004) and Donald Petries Welcome to MoosePort (2004).
He noted that he wasn’t always listening.
“The technical advisors will explain how it really is, and the director will do it because he is so happy,” he said. “You have to accept it and do your business. They’re not making documentaries.”
Born in Rochester, New York on March 3, 1932, Yuki joined the US Anti-Intellect Corps in 1950 during the Korean War, and later graduated from Michigan State University in 1957.
He began his stint with the Secret Service in Buffalo, New York in 1959, where he worked at the White House during Ford and Carter’s administrations, and moved to Washington before working at the White House while traveling abroad with Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He retired in 1993 at the age of 60.
In an interview with thrRyan Gajewski in July, Fire line Producer Jeff Apple said he was inspired to do a Secret Service film based on his in-person meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson in Miami in 1965.
He reached out to Snow and then he was assistant director of the Secret Service. After he retired and spent nine months in California in films, Yuki stayed on the project. He could even draw the singer’s secret service agent X-Men.
Snow, who lived in Ashburn, Virginia, volunteered as director of law enforcement liaisons for 24 years at the National Center for the National Center for the National Center for Missing and Exploitation.
Survivors include his children, Tom, Dan, Karen, Barbie and Cathy. His 14 grandchildren. and his 11 great grandchildren. His high school boyfriend and 67-year-old wife, Marilyn, passed away in 2021 at the age of 87 of ALS.
Rhett Bartlett contributed to this report.
