 Robert Mulligan: Passed away
Robert Mulligan, the Academy Award-nominated director of the film titled "To Kill a Mockingbird" who later helped launch the career of Reese Witherspoon, has passed away at an age of eighty three.
Details about Robert Mulligan’s news have been inferred from quite a number of sources. On Monday his wife Sandy said that he died early on Saturday at his home in Lyme, Conn., after a battling hard with heart disease.
According to wife funeral arrangements of Robert Mulligan were pending.
Robert Mulligan got the nomination for Oscar award for the film "Mockingbird," that is the adaptation of Harper Lee's best-selling novel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning look at a child's world shaken by the racism of a Southern town.
The 1962 film starred Gregory Peck, who won the best-actor Oscar award for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the small town lawyer who defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
The story unfolds largely from the point of view of Atticus' young daughter, Scout, memorably played by Mary Badham. Phillip Alford played his son, Jem.
The New York Times wrote that the opening segment of the film "achieves a bewitching indication of the excitement and thrill of being a child."
Robert Mulligan was also known as the director of Witherspoon's first film, "The Man in the Moon." The 1991 family drama, Mulligan's last movie, brought Witherspoon notice as the younger of two teenage daughters grappling with her first love in 1950s Louisiana.
Among other film credits of Robert Mulligan were "Fear Strikes Out," the 1957 drama that stars Anthony Perkins as troubled ballplayer Jim Piersall; "Summer of '42," the 1971 wartime coming-of-age story starring Gary Grimes and Jennifer O'Neill; and the 1972 horror hit "The Other."
Robert Mulligan also carved out a solid career as a TV director before shifting his career to film. In fact he also worked on such drama series namely "The Philco Television Playhouse" and "The Alcoa Hour."
However Robert would be remembered for his film “Mockingbird”, his most famous work. In the year 2003, an American Film Institute listing of the top heroes in film history ranked Peck's Atticus Finch as No. 1.
While briefing the reporters of a famous news magazine of United States, Robert said, "The big danger in making a movie of `To Kill a Mockingbird' is in thinking of this as a chance to jump on the segregation-integration soapbox." "The book does not make speeches. It is not melodramatic." |
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