Robert B. Sherman was born just before Christmas in 1925 in New York City. Parents, Rosa & 'Al Sherman respectively.
Works together with his younger brother Richard M. Sherman.
Son of Al Sherman and Rosa Dancis Sherman.
The classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was adapted into a London West End Musical in 2002 and performed at the London Palladium. It was also nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for the Hilton Award for Best New Musical of 2002.
During World War II, inadvertently led a half squad of men into Dachau Concentration Camp making them the first Allied troops to enter the camp after it had been evacuated by the fleeing German military only hours earlier.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 9, 2005 in New York City alongside his brother, Richard M. Sherman , Bill Withers , Steve Cropper , John Fogerty , Isaac Hayes and David Porter.
Father of Laurie Shane, born April 16, 1955; Jeffrey Craig, born June 24, 1957; Andrea Tracy, called Tracy, born June 17, 1960; and Robert Jason Sherman.
The Sherman Brothers were awarded the 2008 American National Medal of the Arts by President George W. Bush for their services to music.
Along with his brother, he had three of films play consecutively at New Yorks prestigious Radio City Music Hall in 1973 with "Charlottes Web," "Tom Sawyer," and "Mary Poppins.".
(July 2002) Moved from Beverly Hills, California to London, England.
(June 2005) Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 9, 2005 in New York City alongside his brother, Richard M. Sherman , Bill Withers , Steve Cropper , John Fogerty , Isaac Hayes and David Porter.
"Moose: Chapters From My Life" (which is Robert B. Shermans autobiography) was released posthumously by AuthorHouse publishers. It was edited by Shermans youngest son, Robert J. Sherman. The book and author and book are cited as source material in the end credits of Saving Mr. Banks .
Richard M. Sherman and his musical, "Mary Poppins," at the Paramount Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2015 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Large Musical Production.
"Disneys Mary Poppins" at the Mercury Theater Chicago was nominated for a 2017 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Midsize Musical Production.
I was writing the Great American Novel. Dick was composing the Great,American Symphony. Together we were digging the Great American Hole In,the Ground.
If God placed my mission in this world as writing, I would have written,for the benefit of my fellow man, and for his pleasure and observance,of himself and his actions, (his injustices. ) I would have spent my,life devoted to showing man to himself in all his truth. .
