Death of a Salesman is a play by Arthur Miller. It tells the story of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, who is losing his job, has lost the love of his sons, and has discovered that he has never known his wife.
The play has been made into several movie and televison versions:
... and lecturer at Yale University (one of his students was Thornton Wilder) who began acting on Broadway in 1936.
He was typecast as the wasp-tongued, supercilliou ...