Trivia

Was married to Betty Lou Holland. They had two children together.

James Baldwin is the godfather of his daughter Cecilia Cordier.

He and his daughter Cecilia Cordier would often attend the legendary Sunday dinners hosted by Jim Haynes in Paris.

The disc jockey Murray the 'K' proposes to Cordier to "remake with rock what he did for medicine at EXPO 67 ". This project will come to life in 1967 Murray the K in New York, the first 'Rock Spectacular' filmed for ABC New York. With Jim Morrison, The Doors, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, The Association, Spanky and Our Gang, Sam & Dave, Richie Havens. The project will be sponsored by New York Mayor John Lindsay and Hollywood star Joan Crawford. (1967)

(January 23, 1961) He hosted the famous "Funeral for the Beat Generation" in his West Village apartment (85 Christopher Street) in New York City where guests gathered to discuss 'The Funeral Of The Beat Generation'. Among the guests were De Hirsch Margolis, Shel Silverstein, Sylvia Topp, Bill Godden, Gloria Schoffel, James Baldwin, Howard Hart, Norman Mailer, Ted Joans, William Styron, Susan Sontag and Lester Blackiston.

(December 31st, 2002) At a New Year's Eve party on the Upper West Side in a New York City brownstone, Robert spontaneously introduced his daughter Cecilia and future son-in-law Christopher C. James to Reverend Douglas Grandgeorge. With Robert making the arrangements, in autumn of 2003, the Reverend married Cecilia and Chris at the Central Presbyterian Church on Park Avenue in New York City.

"Le grand masturbateur", He created this happening, with Ava Gardner, Salvador Dalí, Robert Rauschenberg and Mia Farrow. In the salons of the St. Régis in New York City. (1965)

Founder of the school Acting International in Paris, France (1980 - 2012).