caption death_date death_place birth_place image_size name birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
portrait of robert f. six 06 october 1986 los angeles , california stockton , california 108px robert six 25 june 1907 ethel merman 1953 1960 audrey meadows 1961 1986 corfsix.jpg robert six
 robert forman six ceo , continental airlines , 1936-1981
robert six

robert forman six -lrb- june 25 , 1907 -- october 6 , 1986 -rrb- was the ceo of continental airlines from 1936 to 1981 .
six 's career began in the earliest days of u.s. commercial aviation .
his determined , scrappy , risk-taking nature paid off for continental airlines , the company that would for forty-five years be forged in his image .
owing in large part to the foundation laid by six , continental became one of the largest and most profitable legacy airlines in the world .
six died in his sleep at his home in beverly hills , california in 1986 .
