ROBERT CALHOUN, was an Emmy Award-winning producer who died on this date (b: 1931). Calhoun was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1931. He attended University of Maryland and later served in the United States Navy. He met his lifelong partner, Farley Granger while serving as the production supervisor for The Seagull in 1963. 

Calhoun was the executive producer of “As the World Turns” when the show was named the outstanding drama series for 1987 at the Daytime Emmy Awards. The show was also nominated in 1986, 1988 and 1989. Calhoun’s from helped to launch the Mark Taper Forum. in Los Angeles to translating Italian film scripts into English while working in Italy in the early 1970s.

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 film scripts from Iatlian to 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. 

After a few years, he returned to New York to work in daytime television. Calhoun was co-author of Granger’s memoir, “Include Me Out,” which was published in 2007. He died of lung cancer.