Robert F. Simon Studio, through which he became an understudy to Lee J. Cobb for the lead in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman". Simon had two daughters, Barbara Ann Simon Callet (born 1941) and Susan Simon Thompson, and two sons, Robert Louis Simon (born 1950) and James A. Simon (born 1951). Simon's webpage does not include the name of his spouse(s). Simon appeared on Broadway in Clifford Odets's play, "Clash by Night". In 1949, he succeeded Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman". His first film appearances were as Inspector Foley in "Where the Sidewalk Ends" (1950) and
Dustin Hoffman and my brother, a high-school varsity football player, was Biff." Author Marie Brenner notes that Hoffman "has been obsessed with the play" throughout his career: "For years he has wanted to be Willy Loman; when he discovered that Arthur Miller was his neighbor in Connecticut, they began to talk about it in earnest." For Hoffman, the story also left a deep emotional impact from the time he first read it: Hoffman rehearsed for three weeks with the play's original star, Lee J. Cobb, and remembers seeing his stage performance: "I'll never forget that period in my life. It was so