Robert Bentley

Age: N/A | From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Aliases: Bob Bentley , Bob Bently , Robert Jarvis Bentley , Robert J. Bentley , Robt. Bentley

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Movie Involvements: 43

TV Involvements: 0

Most Famous Work

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 hiring experienced West Coast animators to tool up for their first animated feature, Gulliver's Travels. In the early 40s, Bentley returned to California to animate for the Walter Lantz studio on Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker cartoons, and by the mid-40s was a top animator of both Tex Avery's and Dick Lundy's animation units at MGM's cartoon studio. Bentley spent the majority of the 50s animating back at Lantz's studio, before being hired by Hanna-Barbera to work primarily on TV animation. From then on, he bounced between stints at numerous television animation studios like DePatie-Freleng and Filmation, where he contributed to such animated productions as Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1974), Spider-Man (1967), and others. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Visual Effects

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1960	Animation	Ozark Lark 1960-10-05 Movie
	Animation	Heap Big Hepcat 1960-03-02 Movie
1959	Animation	Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy) 1959-12-27 Movie
	Animation	Kiddie League 1959-11-02 Movie
	Animation	Romp in a Swamp 1959-10-04 Movie
	Animation	The Tee Bird 1959-08-10 Movie
	Animation	Bee Bopped 1959-06-14 Movie
	Animation	Log Jammed 1959-04-19 Movie
	Animation	Tomcat Combat 1959-01-01 Movie
1958	Animation	Jittery Jester 1958-11-02 Movie
	Animation	Tree's a Crowd 1958-09-07 Movie
	Animation	Everglade Raid 1958-07-24 Movie
	Animation	Half Empty Saddles 1958-06-15 Movie
	Animation	Salmon Yeggs 1958-03-24 Movie
	Animation	Misguided Missile 1958-01-26 Movie
	Animation	His Better Elf 1958-01-01 Movie
1957	Animation	Dopey Dick, the Pink Whale 1957-11-14 Movie
	Animation	Fodder and Son 1957-11-03 Movie
	Animation	Round Trip to Mars 1957-09-22 Movie
	Animation	International Woodpecker 1957-07-01 Movie
	Animation	The Unbearable Salesman 1957-06-02 Movie
	Animation	Box Car Bandit 1957-04-07 Movie
	Animation	Red Riding Hoodlum 1957-02-10 Movie
1956	Animation	Niagara Fools 1956-10-22 Movie
1955	Animation	Bunco Busters 1955-11-20 Movie
	Animation	Square Shootin' Square 1955-09-25 Movie
	Animation	Bedtime Bedlam 1955-07-03 Movie
	Animation	Private Eye Pooch 1955-05-08 Movie
	Animation	Witch Crafty 1955-03-13 Movie
	Animation	Helter Shelter 1955-01-16 Movie
1954	Animation	Pig in a Pickle 1954-08-30 Movie
	Animation	Paw's Night Out 1954-08-01 Movie
	Animation	Sleepy-Time Squirrel 1954-06-19 Movie
1953	Animation	Hot Noon or 12 O'Clock for Sure 1953-11-14 Movie
	Animation	Plywood Panic 1953-10-14 Movie
	Animation	Maw and Paw 1953-08-09 Movie
	Animation	Little Johnny Jet 1953-04-18 Movie
1947	Animation	Slap Happy Lion 1947-09-20 Movie
	Animation	Uncle Tom's Cabaña 1947-07-19 Movie
1942	Animation	Under the Spreading Blacksmith Shop 1942-01-11 Movie
1939	Animation	Gulliver's Travels 1939-11-10 Movie
1938	Animation	Now That Summer Is Gone 1938-05-14 Movie
1937	Animation	The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos 1937-12-03 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv