Robert Anthony Sklar (December 3, 1936 – July 2, 2011) was an American historian and author specializing in the history of cinema.
[3] Later, at Princeton University, Sklar served as chairman of the editorial board of The Daily Princetonian.
After receiving his bachelor's degree in 1958, he worked on the rewrite desk in the Associated Press bureau in Newark and as a writer and reporter for the Los Angeles Times before doing graduate study at the University of Bonn on a Fulbright Scholarship from 1959 to 1960.
[2] He had an older brother, Marty Sklar, who was the former creative head of Walt Disney Imagineering.
On July 2, 2011, Sklar died while on vacation in Barcelona, aged 74, from a brain injury sustained in a bicycle accident.