Robert Beneke Usher (February 27, 1901 – July 23, 1990) was an American art director.
[1] Usher was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.
His first film was the popular She Done Him Wrong starring Mae West and Cary Grant.
A number of his set design sketches are in the Robert Usher Collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution.
Usher spent the last twenty years of his life as a religious brother at the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina, California, where he designed some of the monastery's buildings and the cemetery gardens.