Robert Burns Mantle (December 23, 1873 – February 9, 1948) was an American theater critic and screenwriter.

By the late 1890s, Mantle was working as a drama critic for the Denver Times.

[1] He was at the New York Evening Mail until 1922, and then the Daily News until his retirement in 1943.

Mantle was succeeded as the drama critic at the Daily News by his assistant John Arthur Chapman.

[1][5] His wife was the former Lydia (Lillie) Sears; her sister Clara Sears Taylor was a journalist and government official who assisted Mantle with compiling his Best Plays publications.