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Robert Woodruff Anderson (April 28, 1917 – February 9, 2009) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer. He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium , for the drama films The Nun's Story (1959) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970), the latter based on his ...
Feb 10, 2009 · Robert Anderson, a playwright whose intimate emotional dramas like “Tea and Sympathy” and “I Never Sang for My Father” attracted big names to the Broadway stage if not always substantial...
Robert Anderson, the American playwright and screenwriter whose popular plays explored relationships between men and women and children and parents — in Tea and Sympathy, I Never Sang for My ...
For those not familiar with his name, Robert Anderson wrote Tea and Sympathy, one of the most famous and popular plays of the 1950's -- a play remembered eternally for its final line delivered by Deborah Kerr, "Years from now when you talk about this -- and you will -- be kind."
His ability to dramatize the human need for worth and understanding made Robert Woodruff Anderson one of the most popular American playwrights of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Like most of his...
Feb 10, 2009 · Playwright Robert Anderson, author of such Broadway hits as “Tea and Sympathy” and “You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water’s Running,” died Monday. He was 91. His stepdaughter,...
Robert Anderson (1917-2009), who has been described as the "dramatist of loneliness," was one of America’s major playwrights to chronicle mid-century American life.
