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Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson or Andersen may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
edit- Robert Anderson (editor and biographer) (1750–1830), Scottish literary scholar and editor
- Robert Anderson (poet) (1770–1833), English poet
- Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921), Scottish architect
- Robert Anderson (silent film actor) (1890–1963), Danish-born American actor
- Robert Alexander Anderson (composer) (1894–1995), American composer
- Robert Anderson (filmmaker) (1913–1997), Canadian filmmaker
- Robert Anderson (playwright) (1917–2009), American playwright and screenwriter
- Robert Anderson (singer) (1919–1995), African-American gospel singer and composer
- Robert Theodore Anderson (1934–2009), American organist, composer, and pedagogue
- Robert G. W. Anderson (born 1944), historian, former director of the British Museum
- Robert Anderson (artist) (born 1946), American portrait artist
- Robert Mailer Anderson (born 1968), American novelist
Law and politics
edit- Robert Anderson (mayor) (fl. 1810s–1820s), mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia
- Robert Stirling Hore Anderson (1821–1883), I
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Robert Anderson (playwright)
American playwright, screenwriter, and theater producer
Robert Anderson
Born Robert Woodruff Anderson
(1917-04-28)April 28, 1917
Manhattan, New York, U.S.Died February 9, 2009(2009-02-09) (aged 91)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.Resting place Roxbury Center Cemetery, Roxbury, Connecticut, U.S. Occupation playwright
screenwriter
theatrical producerEducation Harvard University Years active 1948–1992 Spouse Phyllis Stohl
(m. 1940; died 1956)Teresa Wright
(m. 1959; div. 1978)Robert Woodruff Anderson (April 28, 1917 – February 9, 2009)[1] was an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer. He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, for the drama films The Nun's Story (1959) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970), the latter based on his play.[2]
Life and career
Anderson was
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Major Robert Anderson, a Kentuckian, famously commanded the US Army garrison of Fort Sumter at the outbreak of the American Civil War. A graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, Anderson served as a colonel of Illinois volunteers in the 1832 Black Hawk War and as an assistant adjutant general on the staff of General Winfield Scott during the Second Seminole War. Anderson, like many experienced officers of the Civil War, fought in the Mexican-American War. He suffered a wound at the Battle of Molino del Rey in September 1847.
In November 1860, Major Anderson took command of the Federal forces in Charleston Harbor, which totaled about eighty men. They were primarily garrisoned in Fort Moultrie as Fort Sumter was still under construction. Fort Moultrie, an 1809 brick fort on Sullivan’s Island, housed the First US Artillery. Fort Sumter, begun in 1829, still stood unfinished but commanded the center of Charleston Harbor. Castle Pinckney was manned by a lieutenant and a single ordnance sergeant with his family. Anderson had been selected for this difficult command, given the
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