Pitkin, Robert G.

Robert Graham Pitkin (21 Oct 1880 – June 1970) was an actor and illustrator.

Pitkin was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He had two years of high school education before becoming an actor.

His first Broadway credit was in 1908 in Lonesome Town at the Circle Theatre. He worked sporadically for the next 20 years, culminating in the flop The Silver Swan (1929) at the Martin Beck Theatre. Theatre credits here.

Concurrently to acting, Pitkin was drawing. The Lambs is filled with numerous Pitkin pieces of theatre art, from programs to posters. There is an envelope he illustrated and sent through the U.S. Mail to the shepherd in 1963.

By WWI he was residing in the Reisenweber Hotel on 58th Street and 8th Avenue with his wife, Edna. Pitkin was working for Klaw & Erlanger in 1917-1919 when he was elected to The Lambs in 1919.

Pitkin died in June 1970 in East Islip, Long Island. He was 79.