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
Arthur Miller suicide results from the tremendous guilt and self-awareness that arises during the play. Christopher Bigsby wrote "Arthur Miller: The Definitive Biography" based on boxes of papers Miller made available to him before his death in 2005. The book was published in November 2008, and is reported to reveal unpublished works in which Miller "bitterly attack[ed] the injustices of American racism long before it was taken up by the civil rights movement". In his book "Trinity of Passion", author Alan M. Wald conjectures that Miller was "a member of a writer's unit of the Communist Party around 1946," using the pseudonym