Robert Anderson, Tea and Sympathy Playwright, Dead at 91

Playbill ^ | February 9, 2009 | Kenneth Jones

[EveningStar]

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 Father and You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running — died Feb. 9 at his Manhattan home...

In addition to the Broadway plays Solitaire / Double Solitaire (1971), Silent Night, Lonely Night (1959), All Summer Long (1954), Mr. Anderson wrote the screenplays for "Until They Sail" (1957), "The Nun's Story" (1959) and "The Sand Pebbles" (1966). He was Academy Award-nominated for "The Nun's Story" and for the 1970 screen adaptation of I Never Sang for My Father. He also wrote the novels "After" (1973) and "Getting Up and Going Home" (1978)...

[EveningStar]

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[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.