Robert Dillon
actor, director, writer
- Born:
- 1889-02-13, New York, USA
- Died:
- 1944-11-28, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
Born on a snow-dusted Valentine’s Eve in 1889 New York, Robert Dillon grew up amid the flicker of nickelodeons and the clatter of newsboys, feeding on both to fashion stories that moved. By 1925 he had traded pavement for back-lot dust, writing and directing *The Flame Fighter*, a five-alarm serial that sent audiences leaping from their seats. He followed it a year later with *Scotty of the Scouts*, unleashing a troop of tireless kids on a treasure hunt that ricocheted from cliff to cliff. A decade of silence passed before he resurfaced with 1935’s twelve-chapter science-fiction fever dream *The Lost City*, pitting jungle drums against ray guns in a mash-up that Saturday-matinee kids still imitate with cardboard swords and flashlights. Dillon’s last fade-out came in Los Angeles on 28 November 1944, but the serials he spliced together keep looping through cult screens and restless imaginations.
