Robert E. Sherwood
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1896-04-04 (59 years old)
Deathday
1955-11-14
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
Robert Emmet Sherwood
Robert Sherwood
Robert E. Sherwood
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Emmet Sherwood (April 4, 1896 – November 14, 1955) was an American playwright, editor, and screenwriter. Born in 1896 in New Rochelle, New York, Robert was a son of Arthur Murray Sherwood, a rich stockbroker, and his wife, the former Rosina Emmet, a highly accomplished illustrator and portrait painter known as Rosina E. Sherwood. Sherwood's first Broadway play, The Road to Rome (1927), a comedy concerning Hannibal's botched invasion of Rome, introduced one of his favorite themes: the futility of war. Many of his later dramatic works employed variations of that motif, including Idiot's Delight (1...
Acting
1939
as Dispatcher
1987
as Himself (archive footage)
Production
1940
as Screenplay
1946
as Screenplay
1955
as Theatre Play
1934
as Writer
1964
as Theatre Play
1939
as Theatre Play
1939
as Screenplay
1940
as Screenplay
1940
as Theatre Play
1936
as Theatre Play
1947
as Screenplay
1931
as Theatre Play
1938
as Screenplay
1933
as Theatre Play
1931
as Dialogue
1927
as Editor
1927
as Editor
1937
as Theatre Play
1953
as Writer
1933
as Story
1926
as Writer
1945
as Theatre Play
1927
as Title Graphics
1940
as Theatre Play
1939
as Story
1926
as Writer
1937
as Screenplay
1938
as Writer
1935
as Screenplay
1941
as Producer
1956
as Theatre Play
1953
as Writer
1953
as Writer
1931
as Dialogue
1932
as Writer
1955
as Theatre Play
1926
as Writer
1996
as Original Film Writer
1946
as Writer
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