Robert Anderson(1917-2009)

Robert Anderson was born on 28 April 1917 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for I Never Sang for My Father (1970), The Sand Pebbles (1966) and The Nun's Story (1959). He was married to Teresa Wright and Phyllis Stohl. He died on 9 February 2009 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

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TV Series

Tea and Sympathy
Short
- play
- 2013
Getting Up and Going Home
6.1
TV Movie
- book
- 1992
Tè e simpatia
TV Movie
- play
- 1992
TV teatar
7.0
TV Series
- by
- 1992
Absolute Strangers
6.0
TV Movie
- written by
- 1991
The General Motors Playwrights Theater
6.7
TV Series
- written by
- 1991
American Playhouse
7.3
TV Series
- play
- 1988
The Patricia Neal Story
7.0
TV Movie
- teleplay
- 1981
To theatro tis Defteras
8.1
TV Series
- Writer
- play
- 1973–1976
Double Solitaire
6.8
TV Movie
- play
- 1974
I Never Sang for My Father
7.4
- written by
- based on "I Never Sang For My Father" by
- 1970
Silent Night, Lonely Night
7.0
TV Movie
- play
- 1969
Tee und etwas Sympathie
TV Movie
- play
- 1967
The Sand Pebbles
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- screenplay
- 1966
Festival
5.2
TV Series
- Writer
- 1965

Born
- April 28, 1917
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Died
- February 9, 2009
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(complications from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease)
Spouses
Other works
Stage: Wrote "Tea and Sympathy", produced on Broadway. NOTE: Filmed as Tea and Sympathy (1956).
Publicity listings
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Trivia
He was a U.S. Navy lieutenant in the Pacific during WWII. He adapted several stories about the Pacific region, including the screenplays for James A. Michener's Until They Sail (1957) and Richard McKenna's The Sand Pebbles (1966).