Robert Kinoshita

[2] His career as a screenwriter started with Hundred Men and a Girl in 1937,[3] while it took several years post war before he returned to the big screen in 1956 for the special effects tasks and built the famous Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet,[1] although without credit.

[5][6] Measuring around 7 feet (213 cm) tall, Robby was the result of the efforts of a number of individuals, although the final design as it appeared in Forbidden Planet is usually attributed to Kinoshita, who was head draftsman of the art department, and who produced the working drawings and blueprints for Robby's construction under the supervision of art director A. Arnold "Buddy" Gillespie at MGM.

Around April 1965, Irwin Allen hired Kinoshita as the art director for the Lost in Space series.

Two of Kinoshita's tasks were to design a robot (which he nicknamed "Blinky") and to redesign the pilot film's Gemini XII space ship into what would become the Jupiter 2.

Among his credits are art direction on four other well-known TV shows: Highway Patrol (1955–1959), Bat Masterson (1960–1961), Hawaii Five-O (1970–1971), and Kojak (1973–1974).