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Anderson, Robert, 1917-2009

LC control no.n 50021955
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingAnderson, Robert, 1917-2009
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Variant(s)Anderson, Robert Woodruff, 1917-2009
Biography/History noteRobert Anderson (1917-2009) was an American screenwriter and playwright.
Birth date1917-04-28
Death date2009-02-09
Place of birthNew York, N.Y.
Place of deathManhattan, New York, N.Y.
Profession or occupationscreenwriter
dramatist
Special noteM.A.
Found inHis Tea and sympathy, 1953.
Getting up and going home, c1978: t.p. (Robert Anderson)
Internet movie database, July 23, 2003 (Robert Anderson, b. Robert Woodruff Anderson, Apr. 28, 1917; writer)
New York times WWW site, Feb. 10, 2009 (Robert Anderson; b. Robert Woodruff Anderson, Apr. 28, 1917, New York; d. Monday [Feb. 9, 2009], Manhattan, aged 91; 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 audiences to Broadway theaters)
LC database, Feb. 10, 2009 (hdg.: Anderson, Robert Woodruff, 1917- ; usage: Robert Anderson)
Associated languageeng