1. Robert Patrick Mulligan was an American director and producer.
24 Facts About Robert Mulligan
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Robert Mulligan is best known for his sensitive dramas, including To Kill a Mockingbird, Summer of '42, The Other, Same Time, Next Year, and The Man in the Moon.
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Robert Mulligan was known for his extensive collaborations with producer Alan J Pakula in the 1960s.
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Robert Mulligan began his television career as a messenger boy for CBS television.
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Robert Mulligan worked diligently, and by 1948 was directing major dramatic television shows.
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Robert Mulligan followed this directing for The Philco Television Playhouse, Armstrong Circle Theatre, The Alcoa Hour, The United States Steel Hour, Studio One in Hollywood, Goodyear Playhouse and The Seven Lively Arts.
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In 1957 Robert Mulligan directed his first motion picture, Fear Strikes Out, starring Anthony Perkins as tormented baseball player Jimmy Piersall.
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Robert Mulligan returned to feature films to make two Tony Curtis vehicles, The Rat Race and The Great Imposter.
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Robert Mulligan was going to make a third, The Wine of Youth but it was not made.
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Robert Mulligan began the 1970s with The Pursuit of Happiness, based on the 1968 novel by Thomas Rogers, which had been a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Robert Mulligan then contemplates breaking out of prison and fleeing the country with his girlfriend, since neither feels their lives have made any significant difference in America.
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Also in 1971, Robert Mulligan released Summer of '42, which was based on the coming-of-age novel by Herman Raucher and starred Gary Grimes as a teenage stand-in for Raucher who spends a summer vacation in 1942 on Nantucket Island lusting after a young woman whose husband has shipped off to fight in the war.
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In 1973, Robert Mulligan was slated to direct the adaptations of both The Drowning Pool and That Championship Season, before the jobs went to other directors.
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Robert Mulligan proceeded by rounding out the 1970s with three films dominated by performances from A-list Hollywood actors: Jason Miller as a Los Angeles locksmith threatened by hitmen in The Nickel Ride ; Richard Gere as an Italian-American youth trying to break from his working-class family in Bloodbrothers ; and Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn portraying George and Doris, a pair of long-term adulterers, in Same Time Next Year, based on the play by Bernard Slade.
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Robert Mulligan had started directing Rich and Famous for MGM but asked to be replaced after a week of shooting; George Cukor replaced him.
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Fancher states that the deal with Robert Mulligan fell apart because of "ego" and because the studio at the time, Universal, wanted a happier ending.
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Robert Mulligan was briefly attached to direct Cutter's Way; his version would have starred Dustin Hoffman.
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Later in March 1992, Robert Mulligan made headlines when he angrily took his name off of airline cuts of The Man in the Moon, after he had learned that the film would be heavily censored by American and Delta flights.
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Robert Mulligan was the elder brother of actor Richard Mulligan, whom he cast in Love with the Proper Stranger.
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Decades later, Robert Mulligan confirmed this story during a conversation with producer Bill Borden.
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Robert Mulligan died of heart disease at his home in Lyme, Connecticut, on December 20,2008, at the age of 83.
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Robert Mulligan was survived by his second wife, Sandy; three children; and two grandchildren.
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One of Robert Mulligan's surviving grandchildren is Los Angeles music producer Quentin Robert Mulligan, known as frumhere.
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Robert Mulligan was an avid fan of the novels of Charles Dickens, whose work he had devoured in his youth:.