Robert Calhoun

Born November 24, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, Robert Calhoun graduated from the University of Maryland then went on to serve three years in the US Navy. His early work in the theater included a stint as production supervisor for Eva Le Gallienne's National Repertory Theater, during productions of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," where he met his lifelong partner, the actor Farley Granger, in 1963. Calhoun subsequently moved to Southern California, where he worked on early productions at the Mark Taper Forum. In 1970, Calhoun moved to Italy with Granger, and spent several years living in Rome where he translated Italian film scripts into English. He went back in the mid-1970s to Southern California and the Mark Taper, where he directed plays for the New Theater for Now program. In the late 1970s Calhoun took a new route in his career by shifting to television and garnering great recognition at the soap operas of Procter&Gamble Productions. Starting off