Robert Maxwell (producer)
| Name | Robert Maxwell |
| Birth Name | Robert Maxwell Joffe |
| Birth Date | 1908-1-31 |
| Birth Place | Brooklyn, New York |
| Death Place | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Othername | Robert Joffe Maxwell Robert J. Maxwell Robert Maxwell Bob Maxwell Richard Fielding Claire Kennedy |
| Occupation | Radio and television producer, screenwriter |
Robert Maxwell Joffe (January 31, 1908 – February 3, 1971) was an American radio and television producer, screenwriter, and entertainment executive. He was one of the producers (and a writer and director) of The Adventures of Superman radio show and a producer of several TV series, including the early episodes of both Adventures of Superman (1951–1954) and Lassie (1954–1957; executive producer 1957-1958). Maxwell acquired the rights to Lassie in 1953 for $2,000 and sold the popular television program starring the collie to Jack Wrather in 1956 for a reported $3.5 million.
He also was the producer of Creeps by Night (1944) on the Blue Network.
He also wrote episodes of the Superman radio and TV series as Richard Fielding (a pseudonym that he shared with fellow producers Whitney Ellsworth and Maxwell's then wife, Jessica Fielding Maxwell).
Many early episodes of Lassie, as well as episodes of National Velvet, were written by Robert Maxwell under the pseudonym Claire Kennedy.
At the time of his death in Toronto, Canada, he was married to Barbara Maxwell and had two sons.
References
- Robert Maxwell of 'Lassie' Series, NY Times, February 5, 1971, May 12, 2019
- Dunning, John, John Dunning (detective fiction author), On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, 1998, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, Revised, 2019-09-08
- January–June 1954, Catalog of Copyright Entries, The Library of Congress, Third Series, 8, Part 2, Number 1
- 2012, Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate, Richard Bowers, National Geographic Society
- 2013, Flights of Fantasy: The Unauthorized but True Story of Radio & TV's Adventures of Superman, Michael J. Hayde, BearManor Media
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