Eric Weissmann, the veteran entertainment attorney who repped Rita Hayworth, Robert Altman, Elizabeth Taylor and Gene Wilder in a career that lasted more than five decades, has died. He was 94.

Weissmann died Dec. 15 in Denver of natural causes, his granddaughter Sara McCrea told The Hollywood Reporter.

His clients also included David Carradine and Keith Carradine, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Aldrich, Paul Mazursky and Mark Rydell.

In 2012, Weissmann founded his own practice after spending many years as a senior partner with the Beverly Hills firm Weissmann Wolff Bergman Coleman Grodin. I look forward to enjoying the freedom of being on my own and devoting full time to my clients, he said then. That move came in the wake of Weissmann Wolff merging with Sacramento-based Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Tobin Tobin, effectively bringing to an end an entertainment law firm that had been a player in Hollywood since the early 1980s.

Born in Zurich in 1930, Weissmann and his family fled Europe in 1940 by way of Mexico City before coming to Los Angeles.

Weissmann also served as the head of worldwide business affairs at Warner Bros. and as a partner at Kaplan Livingston Goodwin Berkowitz Selvin before launching Weissmann Wolff.

He was selected Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by the Beverly Hills Bar Association in 2010 and received the Distinguished Entertainment Leadership Award from the Anti-Defamation League, among many other accolades.

Weissmann also lectured at Harvard, Yale and the AFI and taught at USC and Sherwood Oaks Experimental College.

In addition to his granddaughter, survivors include his wife, Mary Louise Weissmann, and his daughters, Jessica McCrea and Tiffany Wind.