Robert Youngson
Robert G. Youngson ( born November 27, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, † April 8, 1974 in New York City, New York) was an American screenwriter, director and film producer.
Life
Youngson studied at New York University and made after the Master's degree at Harvard University. For the film studio Warner Brothers, he turned from 1948 short documentaries on sporting events such as car racing, American football and baseball. In 1951 he was for a short film about the work of the fire department under the name Blaze Busters his first Oscar nomination. The following year he was awarded for the short film World of Kids with the Oscar. He received his second Oscar in 1955, in the following years, he was nominated for another Oscar, respectively. In the 1960s, he put together from silent film slapstick classics by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy and other multiple -length feature films.
Youngson was married and had no children.