- His microbiologist father invented SEGO, the 1960s diet drink whose TV commercial featured Melanie Griffith's mother Tippi Hedren causing her to be discovered by Alfred Hitchcock in what became Hitchcock's masterpiece, the most important horror movie of all time.
- Represented in a first-degree murder trial in Hollywood in 1984 by Jan Lawrence Handzlik (himself a child actor in Auntie Mame) who as a US attorney had prosecuted "The Falcon and the Snowman" (portrayed in the movie by that name by Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton). In his self-defense trial Graham dismissed Handzlik and accepted representation by Los Angeles Public Defender James Bisnow, who was forced to temporarily abandon the defendant -- leaving him without representation while facing a possible sentence of 26 years to a life in prison -- in order to testify as a witness for the prosecution, regarding the mysterious disappearance of exculpatory notes. Graham was eventually found not guilty by reason of self-defense. Closing arguments were delivered to the jury on Valentine's Day in 1985.
- Teaching English and doctoring screenplays in Cologne, Germany
- On 22 February 1991 Robert D. Graham wrote a short letter to Mr. John E. Ferraro, Vice President, Acquisitions, Paramount Pictures Corporation, requesting the producers of the John Milius war film "Flight of the Intruder" to send a copy out to sea, to USS Ranger (CV-61) in the Persian Gulf. The director himself arrived on board 16 March 1991 with film in hand, and presented the movie personally. After leaving to publish his Navy biography, Military Secret (listed at Harvard and US Naval Academy and Naval War College libraries), he got invited to meet Milius at the Tara mansion office of the Oscar winning writer of Apocalypse Now, saw a picture of Milius and his Navy ship Captain on the wall behind the door, and completely forgot to tell Milius he had written the letter that caused that photo op to happen. To this day Milius still does not know.
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