Robert Mulligan Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Career Achievement Award at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
• Got his start in show business as an entry-level position at CBS, and then worked his way up
• Directed notable humanistic, American coming-of-age dramas in the 1960s and 1970s
• Collaborated frequently with producer Alan J․ Pakula until the latter broke off to pursue his own directing career
• Chain-smoked so much during the making of "To Kill A Mockingbird" that it got under collaborator Alan J․ Pakula's skin
• During World War II, he served in the U․S․ Marine Corps as a radio operator