- Theater producer who presented some of the 20th century's most important playwrights on Broadway.
- World War II veteran
- Hume Cronyn was a cousin on his mother's side. She was Mary Selena LaBatt, an opera singer.
- During WW II, enlisted in American Field Service serving as ambulance driver in North Africa and Italy.
- Father William owned textile mills and his mother, Lena Mary LaBatt was an opera singer, who came from family that owned huge LaBatt brewery.
- Sons Charles and Sam.
- Weeks before his death, received special Tony Award in June 2002 honoring his lifetime contributions to the theater.
- Attended Montreal's Trinity College School.
- Won five Tony Awards: in 1962, with collaborator Roger L. Stevens as Best Producer (Dramatic) and as producer of Best Play winner "A Man for All Seasons;" in 1984, as producer, again with Stevens, of Best Reproduction winner "Death of a Salesman;" in 1996, as one of the producers of Best Play winner "Master Class;" and in 2002, a Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. He was also Tony-nominated seven other times: in 1956, with collaborator Stevens, as producer of Best Play nominee "Bus Stop;" in 1957, as producer, with The Producers Theatre, of Best Play nominee "The Waltz of the Toreadors;" in 1959, as producer with Stevens and The Producers Theatre, of Best Play nominee "A Touch of the Poet," in 1965, as Best Producer (Dramatic) for "Tartuffe;" in 1968, as producer of Best Play nominee "The Price;" in 1979, as one of the producers of Best Play nominee "Bedroom Farce;" and in 1994, as one of the producers for Best Play nominee "Broken Glass."
- Robert Whitehead and wife Zoe Caldwell are one of several sets of spouses to both win Tony Awards. Robert was nominated 11 times, winning 4: 1962 for "A Man for All Seasons"(Producer of a Play and Best Play); 1984 for "Death of a Salesman"(Revival of a Play); and 1996 for "Master Class". Zoe won all 4 of her nominations, all for Lead Actress in a Play: 1966 for "Slapstick Tragedy"; 1968 for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"; 1982 for "Medea"; and 1996 for "Master Class".
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