Robert Mulligan

Robert Mulligan (August 23, 1925 – December 20, 2008) was an American film and television director.

Early life and career

Mulligan studied at Fordham University before serving with the United States Marine Corps during World War II. At war's end, he obtained work in the editorial department of the New York Times, but left to pursue a career in television.

Employed by the CBS network, Mulligan began his television career at the bottom of the ladder as a messenger boy. He worked his way up, learned the business and by 1948 he was directing important dramatic series. In 1959 he won an Emmy Award for directing The Moon and Sixpence, a made-for-television production that marked the American small-screen debut of Laurence Olivier.

Film career

In 1957 Robert Mulligan directed his first motion picture (Fear Strikes Out) and five years later received wide acclaim and Academy Award and Directors Guild of America nominations for To Kill a Mockingbird. In the same year, he also directed a film with stars Rock Hudson and Burl Ives, called The Spiral Road, based on the book by Jan de Hartog.

In 1972, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director and another Directors Guild Award for the highly successful Summer of '42.

His final film was 1991's The Man in the Moon.

Personal life

He was the brother of actor Richard Mulligan who is best remembered for his television roles of Burt Campbell in the sitcom Soap and of Dr. Harry Weston in Empty Nest.

Mulligan died on December 20, 2008 from heart disease at the age of 83.^[1]

Filmography

• Fear Strikes Out (1957)
• The Rat Race (1960)
• Come September (1961)
• The Great Impostor (1961)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• The Spiral Road (1962)
• Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
• Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
• Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
• Up the Down Staircase (1967)
• The Stalking Moon (1969)
• Summer of '42 (1971)
• The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
• The Other (1972)
• The Nickel Ride (1974)
• Bloodbrothers (1978)
• Same Time, Next Year (1978)
• Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
• Clara's Heart (1988)
• The Man in the Moon (1991)

References

External links

• Robert Mulligan at the Internet Movie Database