Robert Arthur (film producer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert Arthur (film producer)

American screenwriter and producer

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1909

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 28-Oct-1986

Profession: screenwriter, film producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Robert Arthur (film producer)

  • Robert Arthur (November 1, 1909 – October 28, 1986) was an American screenwriter and producer.Born in New York as Robert Arthur Feder, he attended Southwestern University and the University of Southern California before going to work in the oil industry in 1929.He began working as a screenwriter and joined MGM in 1937, where he wrote the screenplay for New Moon (1940) and the story for Chip Off the Old Block (1944).During World War II he served under Pare Lorentz in the Army's Air Transport Command and produced 600 short training films.After the war, he joined Universal Pictures and his first production was the successful Buck Privates Come Home (1947) starring Abbott and Costello.
  • He produced five further films for Abbott and Costello - The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Mexican Hayride (1948), Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) and Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950).He produced the first of the popular Francis the Talking Mule film series in 1950 as well as the last, Francis in the Haunted House (1956).
  • He also wrote the story for Francis Goes to the Races.He left Universal and made Starlift (1951) and The Story of Will Rogers (1952) for Warner Bros.
  • and The Big Heat (1953) and The Long Gray Line for Columbia Pictures before returning back to Universal.He signed Stanley Shapiro who wrote several commercially successful comedies for Arthur including The Perfect Furlough (1958), Operation Petticoat (1959), Lover Come Back (1961) and That Touch of Mink (1962).
  • The first two films were directed by Blake Edwards which helped launch his career.
  • He also produced Bobby Darrin's debut film Come September (1961).In 1965, he signed a "lifetime" contract with Universal.
  • At that time, 5 of Universal's top 10 highest-grossing films had been produced by Arthur - Operation Petticoat, That Touch of Mink, Come September, Lover Come Back and Shenandoah (1965).
  • A Man Could Get Killed (1966) was his 50th production.His last film as producer was One More Train to Rob (1971).Arthur died in 1986 at the age of seventy-six and was interred in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

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