Robert Kinoshita
| Robert Kinoshita | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 24, 1914 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Died | December 9, 2014 (aged 100) Torrance, California, United States |
| Occupation | Art director, Set designer, Production designer |
Robert Kinoshita (February 24, 1914 – December 9, 2014) was an artist, art director, and set and production designer who worked in the American film and television industries from the 1950s through the early 1980s.
Kinoshita was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Boyle Heights neighborhood. After graduating from Roosevelt High School, he went to the University of Southern California to study architecture. Kinoshita graduated from USC in 1940 with a bachelor's degree in architecture and design. During World War II, Kinoshita and his wife Lillian Matsuyama were interned at the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona. His career as a screenwriter started with Hundred Men and a Girl in 1937, while it took several years post war before he returned to the big screen in 1956 for the special effects tasks and built the famous Robby the Robot in forbidden Planet, although without credit.
Kinoshita is best known as the designer of three of the most famous robots in science fiction: Tobor from the 1954 film Tobor the Great as well as the 1957 television pilot Here Comes Tobor; Robby the Robot from the films Forbidden Planet in 1956 and The Invisible Boy in 1957; and "B9 Environmental Control" robot from the 1960s TV series Lost in Space, which was called "Robot".
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