Robert Bentley

Personal Info

Know For

Visual Effects

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-03-11 (93 years old)

Deathday

2000-11-28

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Robert Bentley

Biography

Robert Bentley (11 March 1907 – 28 November 2000) was an American animator. Bentley started his animation career in 1929 as an assistant animator at the Van Beuren cartoon studio in New York City, later working for Les Elton's independent studio on his 1931 cartoon "Simon the Monk". He moved to the West Coast in 1935 to work briefly at Walt Disney's studio, then spent the next few years as a full-fledged animator in Frank Tashlin's unit at Leon Schlesinger's cartoon studio for Warner Bros. In 1939, Bentley, along with other Tashlin animators like Joe D'Igalo and Nelson Demorest, moved to Miami to work for Fleischer Studios, as they were hirin...

Production

1953

Little Johnny Jet

as Animation

1939

Gulliver's Travels

as Animation

1938

1947

Slap Happy Lion

as Animation

1947

Uncle Tom's Cabana

as Animation

1957

1958

Salmon Yeggs

as Animation

1959

Kiddie League

as Animation

1957

Fodder and Son

as Animation

1957

Box Car Bandit

as Animation

1957

1957

Round Trip to Mars

as Animation

1957

Red Riding Hoodlum

as Animation

1960

Ozark Lark

as Animation

1959

Bee Bopped

as Animation

1955

1955

Bedtime Bedlam

as Animation

1955

Private Eye Pooch

as Animation

1955

Helter Shelter

as Animation

1955

Witch Crafty

as Animation

1955

Bunco Busters

as Animation

1954

Paw's Night Out

as Animation

1959

Tomcat Combat

as Animation

1959

Romp in a Swamp

as Animation

1959

Log Jammed

as Animation

1959

The Tee Bird

as Animation

1958

Tree's a Crowd

as Animation

1958

Half Empty Saddles

as Animation

1958

His Better Elf

as Animation

1958

Misguided Missile

as Animation

1958

Jittery Jester

as Animation

1958

Everglade Raid

as Animation

1960

Heap Big Hepcat

as Animation

1954

Pig in a Pickle

as Animation

1953

Maw and Paw

as Animation

1953

Plywood Panic

as Animation

1959

Truant Student

as Animation

1954

1956

Niagara Fools

as Animation

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